This has been a whirlwind of a semester. Lackluster students and very apathetic under-achievers are very discouraging. I am looking forward to the end of the semester, now just 3 weeks and 2 days until the week of final exams. We get 3 days off next week for Thanksgiving. I'm preparing a turkey dinner with all the trimmings.
I am in the slow process of cleaning, down-sizing, and decluttering. I found the old floppy disks from my college days that still had readable documents. Some were lab reports I had written. I must say, I did a pretty good job with them.
Here's the abstract to one of them:
ABSTRACT
In this experiment, respiration patterns during and after various activities were investigated. As the subject remained at rest, after open hyperventilation, after closed hyperventilation, after rebreathing, during speech, after breath holding, during obstruction of respiratory passageways, and after exercise, inspiration and expiration cycles were recorded and analyzed. The rates of respiration increased significantly after open hyperventilation, closed hyperventilation, rebreathing, breath holding, and exercise. Slight increases were observed during reading aloud and obstruction of the nasal pathways. Chemoreceptors detecting changes in gas concentrations and baroreceptors detecting changes in gas pressures, among other factors, could have stimulatory effects on the rates of respiration. Respiratory volumes and capacities were determined along with forced expiratory volume within the first second (FEV1.0) in two subjects. There were clear differences in these volumes and capacities between the male subject who exercised regularly and the female subject who did not. Since FEV was measured incorrectly, the extremely low FEV1.0 could have no significance in clinical diagnosis of diseases of the pulmonary system.
Unfortunately, I didn't keep the title of the report. But, it was for Animal Physiology that I had taken in the spring semester of 1994.
