Erfle, Stephen E.

Background: The Pennsylvania Department of Health (PADoH) launched the Active Schools Program (ASP) to encourage daily physical activity. ASP schools instituted a minimum of 30 minutes of daily physical education (PE)....

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Fratantuono, Michael J., House, Sarah, and Weisman, Sam

In the autumn of 2017, two professors and 13 undergraduate students from Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania, US) engaged in 3 weeks of field research in Nepal. The students were assigned to one of four teams. Each was...

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Crowder, Todd A. and Erfle, Stephen E.

Background: (Erfle & Gelbaugh, 2013) and (Erfle, 2014) examined a regular irregularity in physical activity performance histograms for curl-ups and push-ups from a sample of more than 9,000 middle-school students. These...

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Maggio, Mark E., Jin, Dengjian, and Stough, Roger R.

The last decade or so has witnessed the increasing application of computer and information technology to transportation infrastructure and vehicles. The resultant technical transport systems are called Intelligent...

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Wang, Xiaolu and Sobel, Michael E.

Xiaolu Wang is a professor of International Business and Management at Dickinson College. , Social and behavioral scientists have long used path analysis and related linear structural equation models (SEMs) to decompose...

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Erfle, Stephen E.

Objectives: To determine whether an association exists between performance on various physical fitness activities (PFs) and body mass index (BMI) in a sample of U. S. middle school students. Are there sex based differences in...

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Erfle, Stephen E.

Histograms of push-up and curl-up performances of middle school students show that students stop at multiples of five more often than random processes suggest. The natural question arises: do students who stop at these focal...

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