New Releases by Lisa Griffin

The Willie the Kitten Series consists of "How Willie the Kitten Found a New Home", "How Willie the Kitten Found a New Friend", and "How Willie the Kitten Becomes a Big Brother". Each heartwarming story has wonderful illustrations and morals. Children will be curious to find out what happens next in the story, and by the end, they will have been exposed to lessons that help build character and good morals.

"In this third story, Willie learns another lesson. He realizes that you shouldn''t judge others. Willie learns to accept and love others based on their actions. Because of this, Willie found a new friend."--publisher''s description.

Willie the kitten is getting bigger and bigger every day. He loves playing with his brother and sisters and living on the farm. One day, Willie meets new friends and soon realizes that he may have a bigger purpose as he grows up. As his new friendship grows, Willie learns a lesson that changes his life.

Willie the kitten has a problem. He discovers one day that he isn''t like his mom, brother, and sisters—he couldn''t purr. And he really wants to be able to purr. Willie sets off on an adventure to find his purr, and along the way he meets three new friends that will hopefully guide him to finding an answer to his question.

Boone is a gosling, who feels safe and comfortable in his small corner of the pond, so why would he ever leave? But when he sees his family having fun across the pond, he wonders what he''s missing. Boone''s curiosity soon grows bigger than his fears. He slowly paddles away from his safe space, taking readers on a journey that reveals why leaving your comfort zone can lead to exciting and unexpected places.

A children''s book about the parable of God''s endless love and forgiveness---as you''ve never heard it before!

During contractions elicited by electrical stimulation before and after a voluntary fatigue task, significantly more force is lost at high versus low frequencies. This phenomenon has been termed ''low frequency fatigue''. The purpose of this study was to determine if progressively increasing the stimulation frequency during contraction would increase overall force output and reduce the rate of fatigue. This technique artificially generated neural activity in order to overcome lost functions of paralyzed, incontinent or sensory impaired persons. The study compared force and EMG parameters during a constant frequency train of 20Hz for 3 minutes to a train that increased linearly from 20Hz to 40Hz over the same time period. Ten subjects participated in this study and performed the two fatigue tests on different days. Six of the subjects returned for a third experiment to determine changes in the force frequency relation after a 3 minute voluntary sustained isometric fatiguing contraction of 45% maximum voluntary contraction (MVC). The force-frequency relationship shifted to the right with fatigue and significantly more force was lost at the low frequency than at the high frequencies. During the fatigue task experiments, average maximal voluntary contraction force (20 Hz: 47.8 ± 5.0N, 20-40 Hz: 53.2 ± 5.2 N) and the starting force at 20 Hz (20 Hz: 22.9 ± 3.1 N, 20-40 Hz: 23.3 ± 2.4 N) did not differ between experiment days. Surprisingly, there was no significant difference in the overall force time integral (20Hz: 3.25 ± 0.04 KNs, 20-40Hz: 3.40 ± 0.05 KNs) for the two stimulation protocols or the peak force at the end of the 3 min evoked contraction (20 Hz: 8.2 ± 1.8 N, 20-40 Hz: 7.6 ± 1.1 N). These data indicate that the force output is highly dependent on the starting frequency and minimally affected by the number of stimulation pulses delivered (20 Hz: 3600 pulses, 20-40 Hz: 5400 pulses) when stimulating within the physiological range.