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Journal articles on the topic "College Meal Plan"
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van Woerden, Irene, Daniel Hruschka, Sonia Vega-Lόpez, David R. Schaefer, Marc Adams, and Meg Bruening. "Food Insecure College Students and Objective Measurements of Their Unused Meal Plans." Nutrients 11, no. 4 (2019): 904. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu11040904.
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Some researchers have proposed the prevalence of food insecurity among college students is high due to students’ meal plans providing insufficient meals. The association between college students’ food security status and their meal plans have not yet been examined. In this study, United States (US) first year college students (N = 534) self-reported their food security status in the Fall 2015 and/or Spring 2016 semester(s). Objective measures of students’ meal plans were obtained from the university. Logistic generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to determine if students’ meal plan, and meal plan use, predicted food insecurity. Linear GEEs were used to examine several potential reasons for lower meal plan use. We found that students did not use all of their available meals. Compared to students on the most expensive (unlimited) meal plan, students on the cheapest (8 meals/week) meal plan were the most likely to report food insecurity (OR = 2.2, 95% CI = 1.2, 4.1). However, in the Fall semester, 26% of students on unlimited meal plans also reported food insecurity. For students on the 180 meals/semester meal plan, food insecurity was associated with using fewer meals (OR = 0.9, 95% CI = 0.8, 1.0). Students who worked tended to use their meal plan less (β = −1.3, 95% CI = −2.3, −0.3). Students are reporting food insecurity while having meals left in their meal plan.
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Witt, K. A. "Meal Plan Influences Meal Frequency but Not Food Intake in College Athletes." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 108, no. 9 (2008): A107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2008.06.318.
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Brown, Lora Beth, Rachel K. Dresen, and Dennis L. Eggett. "College students can benefit by participating in a prepaid meal plan." Journal of the American Dietetic Association 105, no. 3 (2005): 445–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jada.2004.12.030.
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Dingman, Deirdre A., Mark R. Schulz, David L. Wyrick, Daniel L. Bibeau, and Sat N. Gupta. "Factors Related to the Number of Fast Food Meals Obtained by College Meal Plan Students." Journal of American College Health 62, no. 8 (2014): 562–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2014.945456.
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Pope, Lizzy, Mattie Alpaugh, Amy Trubek, Joan Skelly, and Jean Harvey. "Beyond Ramen: Investigating Methods to Improve Food Agency among College Students." Nutrients 13, no. 5 (2021): 1674. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13051674.
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Many college students struggle to cook frequently, which has implications for their diet quality and health. Students’ ability to plan, procure, and prepare food (food agency) may be an important target for shifting the college student diet away from instant and inexpensive staples like packaged ramen. The randomized intervention study included two sequential cooking interventions: (1) six weeks of cooking classes based in food agency pedagogy held once per week, and (2) six weekly home delivered meal kits (3 meals per kit) to improve food agency, diet quality, and at home cooking frequency of college students. Based on availability and subsequent randomization, participants were assigned to one of four conditions that included active cooking classes, meal kit provision, or no intervention. Participants who took part in the cooking intervention had significant improvement in food agency immediately following the intervention period. Participants who did not participate in cooking classes and only received meal kits experienced significant, though less pronounced, improvement in food agency scores following the meal kit provision. Neither intervention improved diet quality or routinely improved cooking frequency. Active cooking classes may improve food agency of college students, though further research is needed to determine how this may translate into improved diet quality and increased cooking frequency.
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Gonzales, Robyn, Jennifer S. Laurent, and Rachel K. Johnson. "Relationship Between Meal Plan, Dietary Intake, Body Mass Index, and Appetitive Responsiveness in College Students." Journal of Pediatric Health Care 31, no. 3 (2017): 320–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pedhc.2016.10.002.
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Elzein, A., S. Colby, K. Shelnutt, et al. "Dietary Intake and Obesity by Meal Plan Enrollment in Food Insecure and Secure College Students." Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 120, no. 10 (2020): A133. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jand.2020.08.064.
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Rollings, Kimberly A., and Nancy M. Wells. "Effects of Floor Plan Openness on Eating Behaviors." Environment and Behavior 49, no. 6 (2016): 663–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013916516661822.
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A repeated-measures study, conducted with 57 college students in a research kitchen-dining area, examined effects of floor plan openness on eating behaviors. Openness was manipulated via folding screens placed in an open plan kitchen-dining area to simulate separate, enclosed kitchen and dining spaces. Effects of the open floor plan, characterized by greater visibility and convenience of food access when compared with the closed floor plan, on three eating behaviors were examined during a buffet-style meal. Eating behaviors included number of serving trips to the buffet, amount served, and amount consumed. Regression analyses indicated that openness significantly, directly influenced the number of serving trips. Food serving trips and amount served also serially mediated the relation between floor plan openness and amount consumed, suggesting that floor plan openness may indirectly affect consumption. Results have implications for floor plan design and creating healthier interior eating environments.
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Frith, Amy, Elizabeth Rice, and Aaron Francis. "What College Athletes Want for Nutrition Information: Developing a Nutrition App." Current Developments in Nutrition 4, Supplement_2 (2020): 1752. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzaa066_007.
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Abstract Objectives To determine the desirability and content of a nutrition and healthy living app for Division 3 college athletes at Ithaca College. Methods We conducted five focus groups with 36 athlete leaders representing 7 sports teams (i.e., volleyball, softball, football, and men's and women's soccer and track) to determine if and what general nutrition and health information college athletes would athletes need in an app to support their performance and health. From focus group responses, a 16 item survey regarding scheduling and type of nutrition and healthy living questions with responses ranging from 1 to 5 (Extremely interested to not interested at all) was sent to and answered by 130 student athletes. A prototype app was designed. Results Athletes expressed interest in an app. The themes athletes identified were barriers to healthy eating and living including lack of free time to plan meals, limited dining hall options, and stress of academics in season. From the survey, 75% of athletes were extremely or very interested in the following: individual nutritional goals, meal plan and preparation ideas, and high protein and carbohydrate snacks recipes. About 50% of athletes were interested in sleep tracking and hydration reminders. Most athletes were only moderately to not interested in the following features: promotionals (i.e., deals at restaurants) and personalized minimum calories. Conclusions There is a need and desire for easily accessible nutrition and healthy living information and management tools. A prototype will be shown. Funding Sources None.
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K., Devi Meenakshi, Narayana Babu R., and Srinivasan Padmanaban. "Morbidity profile of infants of mothers with gestational diabetes admitted to a tertiary care centre." International Journal of Contemporary Pediatrics 4, no. 3 (2017): 960. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2349-3291.ijcp20171707.
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Background: Infants born to mothers with gestational diabetes are at increased risk of neonatal morbidities like birth trauma, hyperbilirubinemia, hypoglycemia, birth asphyxia etc., Maternal glycemic control has been one of the parameters that determines the occurrence of these problems.Methods: A retrospective study done by analysing the case records of babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes and admitted to the NICU of Govt Kilpauk Medical college from January 2015 to December 2015. The morbidity profile of infants born to mothers with gestational diabetes was analysed and comparison was made between the two groups namely mothers who were managed by meal plan and those who were managed by insulin.Results: About 198 babies were analysed majority were delivered by caesarean section (83%). Only 2 babies (1%) weighed more than 4000gms. The commonest morbidity observed was hyperbilirubinemia (24.2%) which was 27.7% in the insulin group as against 19% in the group on meal plan. The next common morbidity was sepsis (15.2%). This was also common in insulin group 18.5% as against 10.1% in the meal group. Others were hypoglycemia (4%), congenital heart disease (2.5 %) and respiratory distress syndrome (1.5 %).Conclusions: Babies born to mothers with gestational diabetes were found to have morbidities like hyperbilirubinemia and sepsis. Less commonly found morbidities were hypoglycemia, birth asphyxia, respiratory distress syndrome etc., Though the morbidities were more common among insulin group as compared to the group on meal plan this difference was not statistically significant.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "College Meal Plan"
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Pham, Matthew Van. "Three Essays on Food Choice Decisions." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1397492614.
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Merkle, Ellen Denise. "The relationship between meal plans and nutritional intake of college students." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1299069537.
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"First Year Students’ Meal Plans and Dining Hall Use: Differences by Food Insecurity, and Similarities among Roommates." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.53510.
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abstract: Background In the United States (US), first-year university students typically live on campus and purchase a meal plan. In general, meal plans allow the student a set number of meals per week or semester, or unlimited meals. Understanding how students’ use their meal plan, and barriers and facilitators to meal plan use, may help decrease nutrition-related issues.
Methods First-year students’ meal plan and residence information was provided by a large, public, southwestern university for the 2015-2016 academic year. A subset of students (n=619) self-reported their food security status. Logistic generalized estimating equations (GEEs) were used to determine if meal plan purchase and use were associated with food insecurity. Linear GEEs were used to examine several potential reasons for lower meal plan use. Logistic and Linear GEEs were used to determine similarities in meal plan purchase and use for a total of 599 roommate pairs (n=1186 students), and 557 floormates.
Results Students did not use all of the meals available to them; 7% of students did not use their meal plan for an entire month. After controlling for socioeconomic factors, compared to students on unlimited meal plans, students on the cheapest meal plan were more likely to report food insecurity (OR=2.2, 95% CI=1.2, 4.1). In Fall, 26% of students on unlimited meal plans reported food insecurity. Students on the 180 meals/semester meal plan who used fewer meals were more likely to report food insecurity (OR=0.9, 95% CI=0.8, 1.0); after gender stratification this was only evident for males. Students’ meal plan use was lower if the student worked a job (β=-1.3, 95% CI=-2.3, -0.3) and higher when their roommate used their meal plan frequently (β=0.09, 99% CI=0.04, 0.14). Roommates on the same meal plan (OR=1.56, 99% CI=1.28, 1.89) were more likely to use their meals together.
Discussion This study suggests that determining why students are not using their meal plan may be key to minimizing the prevalence of food insecurity on college campuses, and that strategic roommate assignments may result in students’ using their meal plan more frequently. Students’ meal plan information provides objective insights into students’ university transition.<br>Dissertation/Thesis<br>Doctoral Dissertation Exercise and Nutritional Sciences 2019
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Dennis, Brittany T. "Perceptions of meat and dairy foods and plant-based alternatives among college students." 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/39142.
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Master of Science<br>Department of Food, Nutrition, Dietetics and Health<br>Mark D. Haub<br>Linda K. Yarrow<br>Interest and participation in plant-based lifestyle patterns in North America has increased significantly due to perceived health benefits and concerns about the environment, ethics, and safety of the food supply. The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics suggests that vegetarian diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate. There is growing evidence that plant-based dietary patterns are more sustainable than animal-based diets because they use fewer natural resources and are less environmentally taxing. With the projected world population growth and declining resources, sustainable diets and environmental sustainability are a must.
As the need and interest in plant-based dietary patterns increases, it becomes important to evaluate public perception. There is currently little research focusing on attitudes and perceptions of the broader plant-based dietary pattern, particularly in the college-aged population. This exploratory study investigated individual perceptions of meat, dairy foods, and plant-based alternatives.
Study results indicated taste preferences for meat and dairy foods were high. Additionally, students in the College of Agriculture and students who had a rural background were more likely to have a positive perception of meat and dairy foods than plant-based foods. These findings suggest the implementation of interventions such as education and the development of plant-based meat and dairy food alternatives matching their flavor profile as closely as possible may best assist in the shift from an animal-based to a plant-based dietary pattern.
Books on the topic "College Meal Plan"
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Harrington, Geri. The College cookbook: An alternative to the meal plan. Story Books, 1988.
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Harrington, Geri. The college cookbook: An alternative to the meal plan. Storey Communications, 1988.
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Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. University Center Food Service. Optional meal plan. [Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, University Center Food Service], 1985.
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Gordon, Lauren D. How to Stay Fit on the College Meal Plan and Avoid the Freshman Fifteen. PublishAmerica, 2004.
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Krishna, Priya. Ultimate Dining Hall Hacks: Create Extraordinary Dishes from the Ordinary Ingredients in Your College Meal Plan. Storey Publishing, LLC, 2014.
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illustrator, Buffum Jude, ed. Ultimate dining hall hacks: Create extraordinary dishes from the ordinary ingredients in your college meal plan. 2014.
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Methews, Nigel. Weight Loss Recipes : Most Delicious The 5-Ingredient College Cookbook: Easy, Cheap, & Healthy Recipes to Lose Fat . 10 Day Meal Plan. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
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Farnham, Nicholas H., and Adam Yarmolinsky, eds. Rethinking Liberal Education. Oxford University Press, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195097726.001.0001.
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Liberal education has always had its share of theorists, believers, and detractors, both inside and outside the academy. The best of these have been responsible for the development of the concept, and of its changing tradition. Drawn from a symposium jointly sponsored by the Educational Leadership program and the American Council of Learned Societies, this work looks at the requirements of liberal education for the next century and the strategies for getting there. With contributions from Leon Botstein, Ernest Boyer, Howard Gardner, Stanley Katz, Bruce Kimball, Peter Lyman, Susan Resneck Pierce, Adam Yarmolinsky and Frank Wong, Rethinking Liberal Education proposes better ways of connecting the curriculum and organization of liberal arts colleges with today's challenging economic and social realities. The authors push for greater flexibility in the organizational structure of academic departments, and argue that faculty should play a greater role in the hard discussions that shape their institutions. Through the implementation of interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches to learning, along with better integration of the curriculum with the professional and vocational aspects of the institution, this work proposes to restore vitality to the curriculum. The concept of rethinking liberal education does not mean the same thing to every educator. To one, it may mean a strategic shift in requirements, to another the reformulation of the underlying philosophy to meet changing times. Any significant reform in education needs careful thought and discussion. Rethinking Liberal Education makes a substantial contribution to such debates. It will be of interest to scholars and students, administrators, and anyone concerned with the issues of modern education.
Book chapters on the topic "College Meal Plan"
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Scott-Baumann, Alison, Mathew Guest, Shuruq Naguib, Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, and Aisha Phoenix. "Introduction." In Islam on Campus. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846789.003.0001.
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This book focuses on four main questions: · How do university staff and students view Islam and Muslims? · How do Muslim staff and students experience their faith identities in different ways on campus?· Where do they get their information from? · What role do different kinds of campus context play in shaping such perceptions? · What does this mean for our understanding of how universities function, particularly their capacity to foster critical thinking and cultural inclusivity? It is based on new research undertaken within a wide range of UK universities, including a national, sector-wide survey of over 2,000 students attending 132 universities and in-depth case studies of six very different campuses, including two Islamic colleges of higher education (the first study to include such institutions). The qualitative research has included conversations involving 253 staff and students across these six institutions, focus groups with Muslims and non-Muslims, analysis of teaching materials, observation of classes, and a variety of events pertinent to understanding how Islam is presented on campus.
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Chattaraj, Arnab, and Arpita Das. "A Novel Kernel-Based Fuzzy Clustering Approach to Identify Masses in Mammograms." In Expert System Techniques in Biomedical Science Practice. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5149-2.ch003.
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Detection of breast cancer in form of masses at initial stage becomes difficult because of obscured nature of mammograms by surrounding tissues. This poor visibility of masses addresses to the necessity of accurate contrast enhancement method. This study introduces a novel kernel-based fuzzy clustering approach to enhance the contrast of masses. Novelty of the proposed technique is incorporation of two important features of mammograms that convey the properties of masses. Local entropy and intensity mean of each kernel position play the key role to enhance masses. A kernel is moved across the mammograms to collect all possible values of those features, and hence, they are exploited as the input data of fuzzy clustering technique. Performance of the proposed approach is compared with two other conventional contrast enhancement techniques. Both subjective and objective evaluations of the proposed technique show an evidence of improvement in compare to other methods. Moreover, unwanted enhancement of obscured tissues is also suppressed in the proposed approach.
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Daly, Blánaid, Paul Batchelor, Elizabeth Treasure, and Richard Watt. "Public health approaches to prevention." In Essential Dental Public Health. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199679379.003.0008.
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Oral diseases are largely preventable but are still highly prevalent. What is going wrong? Why have oral diseases not been eradicated? The answer to these questions is not straightforward. As highlighted in Chapter 2, a complex array of factors influence the health status of individuals and populations. Many of these factors are outside the control of health professionals and the health service. If oral diseases are to be prevented, it is necessary to have a strategy or a plan to tackle the determinants. This chapter discusses the principles of strategy design with reference to prevention. First, it considers the basic principles that need to be addressed when preparing any strategy. Second, it examines the various approaches that can be taken when considering prevention and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each. It looks at issues concerning selection of population groups and individuals through screening, and considerations involved in designing a strategy to tackle a major oral health problem. The existence of a strategy implies that there is an organized plan to reach a goal. In this sense, designing preventive strategies is similar to other health care planning. The same essential elements must be present (Box 4.1). It is important to have a clear vision of what you are trying to achieve and how it is planned to get there, otherwise it is unlikely that the goal will ever be realized. The first stage is to identify the aim of the project. What is to be achieved? The second stage is to identify the objectives of the project. What are the various steps that will eventually mean that the aim is reached? To formulate the aims and objectives of a programme it is necessary to collect data to provide information. Asking a series of questions can facilitate this. These data will include the following. What is the problem that is to be addressed? Is it, for example, caries in pre-school children or early identification of oral cancer? What is the natural history of the disease? What are its aetiology, risk factors, and predisposing factors? What is its epidemiology? Is the incidence increasing, decreasing, or stable? How important is the disease within the population? It may be important in two ways: it may affect many people within the population or it may affect few people but be of major impact.
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Thomson, Peter. "Songs and Whispers." In Sacred Sea. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195170511.003.0009.
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Acrumpled and broken strand of asphalt rises at the northern edge of Ulan-Ude, wanders through the dark woods of the Khamar-Daban Mountains, and finally settles into a band of fertile bottom land in a narrow stretch of coastal plain approaching the eastern shore of Lake Baikal. A rattly old Toyota van skitters along the road, passing lonely farms and tiny villages that gather up out of nowhere and disappear just as quickly, domed churches that seem miles from any worshipers, and an occasional solitary babushka by the side of the road selling whatever she’s been able to squeeze from the earth or gather in the woods. There are seven of us riding this highway on this raw morning in October of 2000, crammed into the van and bobbing like buoys to its irregular rhythms—James and me from Boston, our guide Andrei Suknev, his colleague Igor and our driver Kim, all from the city of Ulan-Ude, and two young women who have also signed on with Andrei for a few days—Elisa, from France, and Chanda, from Canada. We’re all eating pine nuts that we bought from one of those women at a wide spot in the road—they’re called orekhi here—and washing them down with lemon soda from a huge plastic bottle. Andrei is showing us how to crack open the nuts’ hard shells with our front teeth and excavate their soft and pungent meat with our tongues. At an austere restaurant in a tiny village that Andrei tells us is called “Noisy Place,” we eat a lunch of rice and some sort of meat, dry bread, and a peculiar variation on borshch, and we pee in an outhouse across the road. We get back in the van and rumble on. We’re heading for a remote national park on Baikal’s eastern shore, but at the moment I’m not quite sure where we’re going. I’d asked Andrei to take us hiking and camping on the lakeshore, to introduce us to local residents, communities, and culture. He’s promised to do that, but he hasn’t provided much beyond the barest details, and none of us has been asking for more.
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Leopold, Estella B. "The Continuing Process of Restoration, 1948–Present." In Stories From the Leopold Shack. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190463229.003.0013.
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The process of restoration of the Shack lands did not end with Dad’s passing. Quite the contrary. It was picked up by several of his children and by some key neighbors and Wisconsin-based foundations, and ultimately by the Leopold Foundation staff, which continued by expanding the prairies. In this regard, some special recognition is due my sister Nina and her second husband, Charles Bradley, for their initial work developing new prairie areas in Sauk County. Their methods in building a prairie were novel additions to the work/technology that Aldo Leopold and John Curtis had started at the UW Arboretum in Madison. During the years 1940–1948, Dad continued to purchase more acres, so that by 1948 our holdings were about 350 acres in Fairfield Township, Sauk County. These acres were all contiguous with the original Shack lands. Nearby, Mother and Dad’s friends the Thomas Coleman family had over the years enjoyed the log cabin they had built on their land high above Lake Chapman overlooking the great marsh and floodplain. Reed Coleman, the younger son of Tom Coleman, with conservation in mind, in time wanted to expand the land holdings his father had purchased on the south side of the river road across from Lake Chapman. Reed and his colleague and friend Howard Mead laid a plan for the L. R. Head Foundation to gradually purchase nearby parcels of land as they became available from retiring farmers. The Head Foundation was able to compile a huge protected reserve surrounding the 350 or so acres that Dad had bought. It was a creative effort to protect the land of the region from being degraded by home developers and the like. Over the years from 1950 to the 1970s the Head Foundation succeeded in building what is now called the Aldo Leopold Memorial Reserve. This expansive project served indeed to stave off local development. Reed said that his effort was inspired by witnessing the subdividing of the old Gilbert farm along the river into slices of land for summer homes, and he did not want this to happen around either the Shack or the original Coleman land area.
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Astor, Ron, and Rami Benbenishty. "Observations." In Mapping and Monitoring Bullying and Violence. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190847067.003.0014.
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Observations occur in school every day but are often not planned, systematic, or recorded for the purpose of improving school climate. Observations, however, can be a valuable source of information about what students are experiencing in school and where those experiences are taking place, especially when used in combination with other monitoring tools (see Box 10.1 for tips on conducting observations). For instance, mapping (which will be described in the next section) and focus groups may point out a troubling “hot spot” on the school campus where fights or other problems among students are taking place. Observations of that location can help school leaders understand what is happening in order to plan a solution. Studies and anecdotal reports have shown that bullying, school violence, or incidents involving drugs are more likely to occur in the common areas of the school campus or in the hidden- away spots that might not get a lot of traffic. Here is a list of areas that may be the subject of an observation when trying to collect information on where problems might take place: . . . Common areas, such as cafeterias, hallways. and courtyards Playgrounds, the gym (if it’s open to students outside of PE), athletic fields, or stadiums Routes to and from school School buses Nearby parks. . . Just because students leave campus doesn’t mean that adults should no longer be concerned with their behavior. Conflicts that take place in areas off campus often lead to violence, victimization, or other incidents at school. The observation process should be thought of as a continuum. At one end are unstructured observations in which the observer is looking to take away a general sense of the activity in that area. This less- structured approach provides opportunities to see behaviors that perhaps were not expected— both good and bad. At the other end of the spectrum are very structured observation schedules that employ detailed procedures and checklists. More structured observations conducted by multiple observers can lead to more agreement on what actually was observed. These are especially useful if the observation is focusing on a particular topic.
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Kohler, Timothy A. "Putting Social Sciences Together Again; An Introduction to the Volume." In Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies. Oxford University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195131673.003.0006.
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We accept many definitions for games, most not so grandiose as those of Napoleon treated by Byron. Often when I demonstrate the simulation of Anasazi settlement discussed in chapter 7 of this volume someone will say, "This is just a game isn't it?" I'm happy to admit that it is, so long as our definition of games encompasses child's play—which teaches about and prepares for reality—and not just those frivolous pastimes of adults, which release them from it. This volume is based on and made possible by recent developments in the field of agent-based simulation. More than some dry computer science technology or another corporate software gambit, this technology is in fact provoking great interest in the possibilities of simulating social, spatial, and evolutionary dynamics in human and primate societies in ways that have not previously been possible. What is agent-based modeling? Models of this sort are sometimes also called individual-oriented, or distributed artificial intelligence- based. Action in such models takes place through agents, which are processes, however simple, that collect information about their environment, make decisions about actions based on that information, and act (Doran et al. 1994:200). Artificial societies composed of interacting collections of such agents allow controlled experiments (of the sort impossible in traditional social research) on the effects of tuning one behavioral or environmental parameter at a time (Epstein and Axtell 1996:1-20). Research using these models emphasizes dynamics rather than equilibria, distributed processes rather than systems-level phenomena, and patterns of relationships among agents rather than relationships among variables. As a result visualization is an important part of analysis, affording these approaches a sometimes gamelike and often immediately engaging quality. OK, I admit it—they're fun. Despite our emphasis on agent-based modeling, we do not mean to imply that it should displace, or is always superior to, systems-level models based on, for example, differential equations. On the contrary: te Boekhorst and Hemelrijk nicely demonstrate how these approaches may be complementary. Even more strongly, we do not argue that these activities should become, ahead of empirical research, the principal tool of social science.
Conference papers on the topic "College Meal Plan"
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Gonzalez-Cuevas, Gustavo, Maria Victoria Tabera, Margarita Rubio, Maria Asuncion Hernando, and Maria Jose Alvarez. "Action research plan to boost participation in college students." In Third International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Universitat Politècnica València, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head17.2017.5582.
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Tackling difficulties related to student participation in the college classroom is central on the learning process. In this action-research study, we designed and implemented an action plan to boost participation on the grounds of (1) explaining the objectives and procedures for each activity to students; (2) requesting student participation by name; (3) giving them time to reflect before participating; and (4) requesting that students who are not paying attention participate. A survey was used in order to assess students' perceptions of the action plan. The survey included 10 items (1-4 Likert scale). A total of 103 students completed the survey. The scores’ mean was 3.19, demonstrating a positive student perception of the action plan. The statements with the highest average scores were: “Teacher allows time for reflection after posing a question” and “Teacher addresses specific students by name.” The instructors recorded their perceptions into writing, providing opinions on the development of the action plan. These teachers' comments were summarized into categories. In conclusion, we considered that the action plan helped to improve student participation, and we believe that in order to obtain sufficient participation we have to attain a classroom environment that favors motivation, confidence and respect for students.
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Suprock, Christopher A., Barry K. Fussell, Raed Z. Hassan, and Robert B. Jerard. "A Low Cost Wireless Tool Tip Vibration Sensor for Milling." In ASME 2008 International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference collocated with the 3rd JSME/ASME International Conference on Materials and Processing. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/msec_icmp2008-72492.
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A low cost, wireless vibration sensor system has been developed for noninvasive integration into commercial end milling tool holders. Electret based accelerometers are used as the sensors and a Bluetooth compatible digital transmitter is used as the sensor interface. The use of mass market consumer electronic components is low cost and plug and play with modern PC hardware. Two prototypes were built and, in both cases, were able to collect good quality data at high sampling rates. The objective of the research is to enable accurate observation of NC metal cutting system dynamics. Initial results indicate the system can be used to estimate tool runout and detect the onset of regenerative chatter, prior to workpiece damage.
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Westwood, Stephen, and Phil Hopkins. "Smart Pig Defect Tolerances: Quantifying the Benefits of Standard and High Resolution Pigs." In 2004 International Pipeline Conference. ASMEDC, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ipc2004-0514.
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Smart pigs are used as part of an integrity management plan for oil and gas pipelines to detect metal loss defects. The pigs do not measure the defects: they collect signals from on board equipment and these signals are later analysed. Signal analysis is complex; consequently, defect sizing tolerances and confidence levels can be difficult to determine and apply in practice. They have a major effect when assessing the significance of the defect, and when calculating corrosion growth rates from the results of multiple inspections over time. This paper describes how defect sizing tolerances and confidence levels are obtained by pigging companies, and compares standard and high resolution pigs. Probability theory is used by the authors to estimate the likelihood that a defect is smaller or deeper than the reported (by the pig) value for both standard and high resolution tools. The paper also shows how these tolerances can be included in defect failure assessment and the results of multiple pig runs.
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Kharoua, N., L. Khezzar, and Z. Nemouchi. "Large Eddy Simulation of Multiple Round Impinging Jets." In ASME 2011 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2011-65824.
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Large eddy simulation of flow and heat transfer of multiple turbulent round jets in an in-line array impinging on a flat plate is conducted. The full geometry is used in the simulation of the 9 jets. To capture the interactions between the jets the full geometry is meshed in this work. The Reynolds number based on the nozzle diameter of 13 mm, jet initial average velocity of 23.88 m/s and properties of air at room temperature was equal to 20,000. The computations of the mean vertical and horizontal component of the velocity vector in selected planes show very good agreement with experiments. The flow behavior of the jets agrees with experimental findings in terms of vortices surrounding the jets and the appearance of the asymmetry on and close to the flat impingement plane. The predicted mean surface Nusselt number on the flat heated plate shows also excellent agreement with experiments and a relative maximum between the jets in the region of the upwash fountain flow where the wall jets collide, not seen in the experiments, is captured by the numerics.
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Miu, Lucretia, Rodica Roxana Constantinescu, Alpaslan Durmus Kaya, et al. "Aspects regarding the effectiveness of volatile oils of the Tanacetum vulgare kind in the conservation of heritage objects." In The 8th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Systems. INCDTP - Leather and Footwear Research Institute (ICPI), Bucharest, Romania, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.24264/icams-2020.v.5.
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The paper refers to a composition with antifungal and antibacterial effect in order to test new materials for preserving heritage objects on collagen support with bactericidal/antifungal role, essential oils-based from Vetrice (Tanacetum vulgare, Compositae family), having antifungal and antibacterial properties. The biocidal effect of plant extracts is due to the presence of constituent agents, such as alcohols, ethers, phenols, aldehydes, ketones, which makes them extremely effective against a wide range of microbial strains. The essential oil was obtained by boiling the plants through continuous hydrodistillation with Clevenger refrigerant. The testing of the antimicrobial efficiency of the plant extracts was performed on two strains of pathogenic fungi, respectively Trichophyton interdigitale and Epidermophyton floccosum. The microbial inoculum was mixed with the plant extract from various sources (leaves, flowers and mixed flower-leaves). All extracts were tested in duplicate according to the specific test standards, and the results were expressed as a mean percentage and logarithmic reduction between the readings on the two Petri plates corresponding to each sample. To quantify the antimicrobial efficacy, the degree of microbial and logarithmic reduction of each sample was calculated, relative to the initial cell concentration. The results of antimicrobial tests showed a high antifungal character of the extracts obtained from flowers, leaves and mixed flower-leaves.
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Colombo, Simone, Davide Manca, Sara Brambilla, Roberto Totaro, and Remo Galvagni. "Towards the Automatic Measurement of Human Performance in Virtual Environments for Industrial Safety." In ASME 2011 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/winvr2011-5564.
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Human errors during operations, probably more clearly referred to as human or action failures, play an important role in causing industrial accidents. The assessment of human performance, through the identification and measurement of human failures, is a complicated, but essential, task to accomplish in real process plants. Virtual Reality (VR) provides a suitable mean to identify human failures, measure human performance and train field operators to risky situations. Nevertheless, not all the aspects relevant to Human Factors (HF) can be easily identified, assessed and reproduced in Virtual Environments (VE). Indeed, VR seems to be better suited to measure cognitive capabilities, such as Command, Control, and Communication capabilities (commonly referred to as C3 capabilities), rather than anthropometric ones like physical coordination, precision in manipulating and ability to reach. Actually, this is certainly not due to the intrinsic nature of VR but, rather, to its current state of development. Industrial environments, if properly recreated in VR, can allow anticipating people behavior, thus enabling to identify whether critical actions have been identified and to measure human performance. Further, by changing in real-time those experiment parameters, such as weather conditions (e.g., wind speed, direction, intensity) and process variables (e.g., pressure, flow rate, heat duties), the strength of environmental stressors, singularly or in a combined fashion, on cognitive capabilities such as recognition, anticipation, prioritization, and planning, can be suitably measured and assessed. The consequences of actions performed by operators can even be experienced instantly, thus allowing for an incisive and persistent training effect. The manuscript presents an integrated approach to step towards the use of VR to (a) verify whether the identified human failure types are all of those that might occur in reality, (b) identify additional human failure types that might affect plant safety, (c) measure the influence of environmental stressors on human performance. Further, the approach presents a way to collect automatically HF data to be used and manipulated for giving rise to Human Performance Indexes (HPI). Eventually, HPI can then be of real help in supporting decision-making processes for industrial safety.
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Cheah, S. C., H. Iacovides, D. C. Jackson, H. Ji, and B. E. Launder. "LDA Investigation of the Flow Development Through Rotating U-DUCTS." In ASME 1994 International Gas Turbine and Aeroengine Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/94-gt-226.
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This paper reports results from the use of laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) to measure the mean and the fluctuating flow field in a U-bend of strong curvature, Rc/D = 0.65, that is either stationary or rotating in orthogonal mode (the axis of rotation being parallel to the axis of curvature). The data acquisition system enables a stationary optical fibre probe to collect flow data from a rotating U-bend sweeping past it. Three cases have been examined all concerning a flow Reynolds number of 100,000; a stationary case, a case of positive rotation (the pressure side of the duct coincides with the outer side of the U-bend) at a Rotational number (ΩD/Um) of 0.2 and a case of negative rotation at a Rotational number of −0.2. Measurements have been obtained along the symmetry plane of the duct and also along a plane near top wall. The most important influence on the development of the mean and the turbulence flow fields is exerted by the streamwise pressure gradients that occur over the entry and exit regions of the U-bend. In the stationary case a 3-dimensional separation bubble is formed along the inner wall at the 90° location and it extends to about 2 diameters downstream of the bend causing the generation of high turbulence levels. Along the outer side, opposite the separation bubble, turbulence levels are suppressed due to streamwise flow acceleration. For the Rotation numbers examined, the Coriolis force also has a significant effect on the flow development. Positive rotation doubles the length of the separation bubble and generally suppresses turbulence levels. Negative rotation causes an extra separation bubble at the bend entry, raises turbulence levels within and downstream of the bend, increases velocity fluctuations in the cross-duct direction within the bend and generates strong secondary motion after the bend exit. It is hoped that the detailed information produced in this study will assist in the development of turbulence models suitable for the numerical computation of flow and heat transfer inside blade-cooling passages.
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Dues, Joseph Francis. "Connecting With Industry." In ASME 2007 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2007-42489.
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In an era of tight budgets, Universities must plan their capital spending on lab equipment carefully. This process is even more critical for smaller colleges and satellite locations. To address the problem of a limited budget for lab equipment but a strong need for expanded labs to meet minimum course requirements, faculty contacted local industry to ask for help. The Mechanical Engineering Technology department includes a metallography lab as one of its core learning objectives in the freshman level Materials I course. The metallography lab consists of mounting, grinding, polishing and etching a metallographic specimen to identify features of the specimen’s microstructure. Unfortunately, lab equipment was not available for these tasks at one of the University’s satellite locations. However, through contacts with the school’s Industrial Advisory Board, a local company offered to host the laboratory and allow students to use its metallography facility. Conforma Clad, in New Albany, IN, applies very hard coatings to protect metal surfaces subject to wear and abrasion. For quality control purposes, they perform metallographic examinations of the applied coatings. Conforma Clad engineers demonstrated the preparation of the metallographic specimens and the analysis of their microstructure and then let students prepare and view their own specimens. This experiment showed the students the procedures and equipment needed to create pictures of a metal’s microstructure. By preparing the samples themselves, they gained an appreciation of the skill and technique required to successfully view the microstructure. This paper describes the collaboration the MET faculty used to add laboratory experiments without capital expenditures by connecting with local industry. Students benefited by gaining access to the operations and facilities of a local company as well as the knowledge gained by performing the metallography lab. The paper concludes with an evaluation of the experience and the improvements planned for the coming year.
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Lewcock, Andrew, Colette Grundy, Catherine Shaw, Paddy Copeland, and Duncan Jackson. "Managing the Removal of Radioactive Materials Found in Public Locations." In ASME 2009 12th International Conference on Environmental Remediation and Radioactive Waste Management. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icem2009-16032.
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Managing the removal of Radioactive Materials found in public locations. In January 2006 the Environment Agency for England and Wales requested assistance in preparing a project to plan, collect and safely dispose of radium painted aluminium aircraft hatches, discovered in 3 separate business premises in the UK. These World-War Two aircraft hatches had been marked with radium “luminous” paint, to guide crew in the dark to the escape exits if they needed to bale out. The hatches had been stored since the early 1960s in one location, with some of the inventory being moved two other locations in 2003/2004. The North West Region of the Environment Agency appointed a consortium of Enviros, Safeguard International and Aurora Health Physics to undertake the work, and they funded it from the sealed sources disposal budget. The paper will set out how the project was complicated by an assortment of “real world” problems; preliminary estimates of both the activity per hatch and the number of hatches established the potential for a significant quantity of radium to be disposed of safely. The total number of hatches was not known for sure at the start of the work. Access to retrieve the majority of the frames was hazardous due to the poor structural condition of the building roof. Other difficulties included constrained access under a railway line, and bird-related biohazards. The sites involved in the collections were not intended to house radioactive materials, so physical security was another important issue. Some of the hatches were known to be in poor condition, with a very high probability of radium contamination being spread to the surrounding areas. The hatches had to be removed from the sites before the full extent of contamination of other materials could be established. As it was difficult to identify a disposal route in the UK at the time for the estimated inventory, a novel metal recycling option, using a facility in the USA, was proposed as a solution. This was a new approach for dealing with such radioactive materials in the UK. The hatches were successfully recovered, sectioned appropriately and packaged for transport by road and air to the USA for metal recycling in June 2007. Subsequently approximately 0.75 tonnes of other contaminated materials were finally removed from the premises later in the year for authorised waste disposal in the UK.
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Ortner, Susan, and Milan Brumovsky. "Age 60+ — Applicability of Ageing Related Data Bases and Methodologies for Ensuring Safe Operation of LWR Beyond 60 Years." In ASME 2017 Pressure Vessels and Piping Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/pvp2017-65283.
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The AGE60+ project aimed towards the application of ageing related data bases and methodologies to ensuring the safe operation of Light Water Reactors beyond 60 years, and the longer-term safe storage of waste. It acted by encouraging European researchers to share data in order to maximize its utility. As an initial step, the AGE60+ consortium considered the development and utilization of a number of databases set up to collate data and derive information relevant to the management of nuclear power plant. This review was used to identify the factors which lead to a database successfully making a useful contribution. The AGE60+ project has been a very fruitful collaboration. It has: • Raised the concept of sharing data and setting up databases related to the ageing of concrete in waste disposal, and received a generally positive response to this first step. • Identified an area in which a new database would provide the opportunity to advance predictive modeling of the degradation of internals. • Collated and reviewed data on the thermal ageing of low alloy steels. • Identified information gaps in the area of internals degradation and the thermal ageing of low alloy steel components. • Produced an up-to-date database on WWER-440 RPV steel embrittlement. • Produced a new embrittlement trend curve (ETC), relating the fracture toughness transition temperature to fluence and composition for WWER-440 weld and base metal. • Expanded and utilized a database on MnMoNi steel embrittlement. This AGE 60+ project was realized as a part of the NUGENIA+ Call and lasted 18 months with participating organizations: UJV Rez a.s., Czech Republic, AREVA GmbH, Germany, CIEMAT, Spain, MTA EK, Hungary and NNL, UK as a leading organization.
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Bustelo, Monserrat, Suzanne Duryea, Claudia Piras, Breno Sampaio, Giuseppe Trevisan, and Mariana Viollaz. The Gender Pay Gap in Brazil: It Starts with College Students' Choice of Major. Inter-American Development Bank, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003011.
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We herein discuss how college major choice affects gender wage gaps by highlighting the role that STEM majors play in explaining the gender wage gap in a developing country. We focus on a Latin American country where a systematic analysis of the interaction between students choice of college major and the gender wage gap is currently lacking. We take advantage of a very unique dataset of college students from the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, to decompose the raw gender gap in hourly wages into one component that can be explained by differences in endowments between men and women as well as a second or residual component that reflects gender differences in the prices of market skills. We implement the commonly applied decomposition approach at the wage distributions mean and a decomposition procedure that considers variations across the wage distribution. Our results reveal that the majors that women and men select explain 50% of the gender wage gap at the mean, and STEM majors contribute to 30% of this difference. When examining different percentiles of the wage distribution, we find that the selection of a major is more important at the middle of the distribution than at the bottom or top.