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To address this gap, a qualitative study was conducted with adaptive athletes of the Devils Adapt Class III Program at Arizona State University (n=6). Each athlete was given a pre-program survey to address their specific physical goals for the program. Athletes then created a vision board using numerous magazines, and these boards reflected their goal. The vision boards were taped on the back of their trainer's clipboard, so they were reminded of their goal each workout. During the last week of the program, a post-program survey was distributed to see how the vision boards affected the athletes' ability to achieve their goal.
It was found that 50% of the athletes were able to achieve their goal, and 66.66% of the athletes felt that their vision board was an integral component to goal achievement. Future efforts will focus on the effectiveness of other mental training skills such as self-talk, mindfulness, and relaxation techniques, on goal achievement in adaptive populations.
Leonard Hayflick studied the processes by which cells age during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. In 1961 at the Wistar Institute in the US, Hayflick researched a phenomenon later called the Hayflick Limit, or the claim that normal human cells can only divide forty to sixty times before they cannot divide any further. Researchers later found that the cause of the Hayflick Limit is the shortening of telomeres, or portions of DNA at the ends of chromosomes that slowly degrade as cells replicate. Hayflick used his research on normal embryonic cells to develop a vaccine for polio, and from HayflickÕs published directions, scientists developed vaccines for rubella, rabies, adenovirus, measles, chickenpox and shingles.
Although best known for his work with the fruit fly, for which he earned a Nobel Prize and the title "The Father of Genetics," Thomas Hunt Morgan's contributions to biology reach far beyond genetics. His research explored questions in embryology, regeneration, evolution, and heredity, using a variety of approaches.
