What will you learn? |
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1. How a computer works, it's component parts, viruses |
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2. How to use University library resources (particularly the OVID database) |
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3. How to use e-mail |
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4. How the Internet works, and how to retrieve relevant information in the exercise sciences |
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5.The basics about word processing (creating documents, formatting documents, integrating tabular, graphic, and spreadsheet information) |
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6. The basics about spreadsheets (creating worksheets, transforming input data into graphs, creating new variables from existing variables, statistical evaluation) |
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7. The basics about graphics/presentations (creating a presentation, integrating tabular and graphic output, creating a slide show) |
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8. How to create your own homepage on the Internet |
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9. How exercise science labs use computers in research |
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10. How to manipulate data using statistical software |
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11. Software availability in the exercise sciences (fitness, nutrition, anatomy, biomechanics, motor control, biochemistry) |
DID YOU KNOW . . .
Left. Drs. Jonas Bergstrom and Eric Hultman, two Swedish physicians, pioneered the needle biopsy technique. Famous exercise physiologist Bengt Saltin of the Copenhagen Muscle Research Laboratory takes a muscle biopsy of the gastrocnemius muscle in a long distance runner. Photo courtesy of Dr. Edward Coyle. From: McArdle, W.D. et al. Exercise Physiology. 4th edition. Williams & Wilkins Publishers. Baltimore, 1996. |
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