(KINE 310): The term for the type of motivation an individual naturally possesses for an activity because they enjoy doing it.
What is: Intrinsic Motivation?
(HEAL 222): The term that means the expected, persistent occurrence of a disease in a population
What is: Endemic?
What is: The Psychological Refractory Period?
(HEAL 222): What is the largest national health agency in the U.S.?
What is: The Department of Health and Human Services?
The ktru Outdoor Show featured this headlining band this year
Who is: Laundry Day?
(KINE 321): The method that is considered the “gold standard” for measuring body composition
What is: Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry (DEXA)?
(HEAL 407): The name for the type of study that measures exposure and outcome at the same point in time
What is: Cross-sectional Study?
(KINE 319): The name of the research phenomenon that describes when participants either consciously or unconsciously act differently because they know they are being studied
What is: The Hawthorne Effect?
(HEAL 460): Impact evaluation measures which effects?
What are: the Immediate Effects of a program?
What is the date that marks the recently-christened annual "Rice Day" in Texas?
What is: April 14th?
(KINE 302): The name for the mechanism that leads to a tightening of the plantar fascia as the body's center of mass progresses forward.
What is: The Windlass Mechanism?
(HEAL 103): These are the fat-soluble vitamins.
What are: Vitamins A, D, E, and K?
(KINE 311): The type of performance curve that describes the rate at which most people learn most types of skills.
What is: Negatively Accelerating Performance Curve?
(HEAL 460): In PRECEDE, this is the type of factors which include knowledge, motivation, and beliefs
What are: Predisposing factors?
This Rice Chemistry professor participated in a heated debate about the origin of life with YouTube tutor Dave Farina (“Professor Dave Explains”):
Who is: Dr. James Tour?
(KINE 300): The name of the substance that Chief cells secrete
What is: Pepsinogen?
(partial credit for pepsin)
(HEAL 407): This phase of clinical trials tests whether a treatment is safe
What is: Phase I?
(KINE 301): The gland that leads to bone breakdown and increases circulating Ca2+ in the blood.
What is: The Parathyroid Gland?
(HEAL 460): The full form of the acronym MAP-IT
What is: Mobilize, Assess, Plan, Implement, Track
The name of the newly-announced student center which will be built near the RMC.
What is: the Moody Center Complex for Student Life?
(credit for just "Moody Center Complex")
(KINE 319): The name for a "thinner"-than-normal Normal Distribution
What is: Leptokurtic?
(HEAL 407): This is a major bias which can limit ecologic studies
What is: Ecologic fallacy
(KINE 302): This specifically-named angle is used a lot to monitor patellar tracking and provide information that might help explain patellofemoral pain.
What is: The Q Angle?
(HEAL 103): The deficiency that might be seen in a person with cracked skin, keratinization of epithelial cells, and poor vision
What is: Vitamin A deficiency?
The name of the person OR the profession of the person who murdered William Marsh Rice.
Who was: Charles F. Jones (His Valet)