The authors provide examples of sports-based youth development programs and offer information about program mission and vision, program design and content, evaluation results, and program sustainability. The four sports-based youth development programs presented are Harlem RBI, Tenacity, Snowsports Outreach Society, and Hoops & Leaders Basketball Camp. These programs serve diverse audiences wit...

Personality can play a large role in dispersal decisions, influencing how each individual estimates and values expected costs versus benefits of venturing out to explore the unknown. We contrast the impact of persistence on fitness using decision theory models to examine the relative success of prospecting movement (which is a widespread behavior used by animals to explore available breeding ha...

Decisions on the conservation and display of a textile, including prioritisation for treatment, should be informed by objective knowledge of its current physical state. Measuring the tenacity and elasticity of yarns and fabric, however, generally requires sampling and is necessarily destructive. Bearing in mind the need to maintain the integrity of the artifact, an indirect approach requiring a...

Implementation intentions (if-then plans) help people to automatically perform goaldirected behaviors when they encounter goal-relevant critical situations. Besides the intended beneficial effects on goal attainment, however, goal-directed behaviors might entail various costs. Successful goal striving then requires flexible tenacity: tenaciously holding on to behaviors that inflict bearable cos...

Curdlan was acetylated with a low degree of substitution (DS), and the reaction solution subjected to wet spinning. The curdlan acetate fibres showed changes in crystalline structure wet-to-dry tenacity at DS exceeding 0.8.

In this study, the effects of yarn parameters, on the bursting strength of the plain knitted fabrics were examined with the help of artificial neural networks. In order to obtain yarns having different properties such as tenacity, elongation, unevenness, the yarns were produced from six different types of cotton. In addition to cotton type, yarns were produced in four different counts having th...