Enhancing Health and Wellness in Female University Students: A Study on the Impact of Self-Monitoring, Goal Setting, and Feedback

Incorporating exercise into daily routines helps female university students navigate the challenges of university life, promotes long-term health, and fosters a balanced and productive lifestyle (Kohl, 2013). This study aims to expand the research on applied behavior analysis by examining the effectiveness of self-monitoring, goal setting, and feedback in helping female students achieve daily goals related to step count, exercise, distance walked, etc.. Using a changing criterion design, participants recorded data via an Apple Watch, with the intervention\u27s effectiveness evaluated weekly over a six-week period

Using Blockchain, Non-Fungible Tokens, and Smart Contracts to Track and Report Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Global markets are moving toward requiring firms to track and report greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain. This includes self-generated emissions (i.e., Scope 1), emissions from power providers (i.e., Scope 2), and emissions from upstream suppliers and downstream parties (i.e., Scope 3). Yet, obtaining reliable emissions data is a complex task that often relies on cumbersome legacy processes and becomes especially challenging with upstream and downstream emissions. Using the Design Science Research Methodology, we propose and prototype (early-stage) a technological solution that uses blockchain, non-fungible tokens, and smart contracts to track and report greenhouse gas emissions across a firm’s value chain. The proposed model demonstrates how these tools can create a reliable classification and provenance of emissions that all value chain members can access for reporting purposes. Experts in the field evaluate the proposed model, find it technologically feasible, and call attention to some of its challenges

Runner locating with multiple probes

In the runner locating variation of cops and robbers on a graph, a chaser attempts to locate an invisible runner by probing a single vertex v each turn, from which the chaser learns the runner’s distance. The runner is then permitted to stay at his current vertex or move to an adjacent vertex other than v. A graph is locatable if the chaser is able to locate the runner in a finite number of turns, and the location number of a graph is the minimum number of turns necessary to determine the runner’s location regardless of the runner’s evasion strategy. In this paper, we allow the chaser to use multiple probes per turn; this is related to the metric dimension of a graph, which is equivalent to the number of chaser probes needed to locate the runner in one turn. We explore the number of turns required for the chaser to locate the runner when the number of probes ranges from the minimum needed to locate the runner, up to the graph’s metric dimension

Case Studies in Forensic Physics

This book applies basic principles of physics to conduct forensics-style re-examinations of several historical events. The authors familarize readers with introductory-level physics while demonstrating how physics concepts can be utilized to resolve historical debates about unsolved mysteries and controversial events. Each chapter introduces a new physics concept, then applies that concept to case studies in detail. The authors also identify the advantages of using case studies as a pedagogical approach to understanding physics. This second edition expands the number of physics principles and case studies covered. The book provides readers with the tools of a good forensic physicist and the ability to utilize them for real-world applications

Power, Interpersonal Trauma, and the Counseling Relationship: A Grounded Theory Analysis

The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory analysis was to explore how adult women with histories of interpersonal trauma experience power within the counseling relationship. Using semi‐structured interviews with 29 clients in counseling, concurrent data analysis and collection resulted in a process theory composed of seven categories and one core category. Categories included Sociocultural Mental Health Factors, Past Experiences of Power, Choosing Counseling, Assessing for Safety and Fit, Advocating for Needs, Reliving Disempowerment, and Reclaiming Power. Participants’ experience of power was summarized by the core category, Practicing Personal Power in Connection with Others, which represented the model\u27s central concepts. The constructed process theory informs counseling practice with clients who have experienced interpersonal trauma by presenting a model for how clients enact their power. Implications include strategies for addressing power within the counseling relationship

A Broken Pipeline: Women Running for Public Office in Ohio

In Ohio, where are women more – or less – likely to serve in public office? The pipeline theory suggests that we should see a pyramid shape in women’s representation, with more women at lower levels of the political career ladder, particularly in local and county-level offices, and fewer women as we move up the hierarchy. With original data for over 6500 seats, we explore the presence of women serving in legislative office at the local, state, and federal level in Ohio. Our analysis suggests that the pipeline theory does not help us understand the presence of women in elected office in Ohio: while there are, as expected, very few women at the top of the political career ladder, there are also very few women at the bottom. If anything, the “pyramid shape” predicted by the pipeline theory is oddly inverted. But the presence of so few women serving at the local level means that there is no “farm team” where women with political experience can be recruited to run for higher levels of office. Ultimately, our analysis shows that women are substantially underrepresented at all levels of Ohio’s political hierarchy

Learning through Service: Migration in the Spanish-Language Classroom

People migrate to seek opportunities, to unite with family, and to escape war, persecution, poverty, and environmental disasters. A phenomenon that has real, lived effects on individuals and communities, migration also carries symbolic, ideological significance. Its depiction in literature, film, and other media powerfully shapes worldviews, identities, attitudes toward migrants, and a political landscape that is both local and global. It is imperative, then, to connect the disciplinary and theoretical tools we have for understanding migration and to put them in conversation with students’ experiences. Featuring a wide range of classroom approaches, this volume brings together topics that are often taught separately, including tourism, slavery, drug cartels, race, whiteness, settler colonialism, the Arab Spring, assimilation, and disability. Readers are introduced to terminology and legal frameworks and to theories of migration in relation to Black studies, ethnic studies, Asian American studies, Latinx studies, border studies, postcolonial studies, and Indigenous studies

Simplified Classical Mechanics, (Second Edition): Foundations of Motion

Simplified Classical Mechanics, Volume 1 (Second Edition): Foundations of motion, explores the kinematics and dynamics of motion. The hallmark of the volume is its treatment of Newton’s laws of motion, the principles set forth by Sir Isaac Newton in the seventeenth century to describe the motion of an object under the influence of forces; thus, classical mechanics is often referred to as Newtonian mechanics. This volume examines how an object moves (i.e., gives a description of the path of an object in motion) then examines the underlying reasons why an object moves the way it does. Problem-solving strategies are built-up in each chapter

Bretzke, James T. Moral Debates in Contemporary Catholic Thought: Paradigms, Principles, and Prudence

How do we navigate a morally complex world? How do we know how to do the right thing, especially when so many voices are clamoring for our attention, telling us that they have the full truth of just what the “right thing” is, and what it requires of us? James T. Bretzke, S.J., one of most lucid interpreters of the Catholic tradition writing today, helps students morally analyze a wide range of controversial and contested issues in society today through the use of principles, paradigms, and the cardinal virtue of prudence. After introducing the approach of principled prudence, drawing on Thomas Aquinas, Catholic Social Teaching, and other sources, Bretzke engages a range of moral considerations in the following chapters: the death penalty, abortion, gender, immigration and border security, welfare, economics, and faithful citizenship