192 research outputs found
COVID-19 and Executive Functions
Get PDFâCOVID brain,â a term coined by those who survived COVID-19 and still feel the lasting effects, ultimately raises the question of what COVID-19 is doing to the brain, specifically the executive functions. There have been little to no studies done to examine the relationship between post-COVID-19 and the brain. The current study examines whether COVID-19 leaves a long-lasting effect on processing speed, even after the person has recovered from the virus. In the laboratory setting, participants are expected to take the n-back task and the Stroop test to measure their executive functions, specifically their processing speed. The expected findings will be that participants who have had COVID-19 will have a slower processing speed compared to the participants who did not have COVID-19. The examination of the association between COVID-19 and processing speed could imply that COVID-19 is not just a respiratory disease, but also targets executive brain function. Further research could imply that post-COVID cases should be evaluated further by neuropsychologists and neurologists
Cafe nudge project: choice architecture for eating and nudging healthy behaviors
Get PDFThe objective of the Cafe Nudge Project was to assess the cafeteria environment and the flow of students through the lunch-line to determine characteristics that could be enhanced to encourage healthy food choices in three Appalachian high schools. The Center for Behavioral Economics and Child Nutrition Program (BEN Center) has collectively conducted prior research on this topic and has coined the term Smarter Lunchrooms Movement for improving cafeteria environments. These improvements included increased fresh fruit and vegetable consumption, increased consumption of low-fat white milk, and decreased consumption of high-fat and high-calorie foods. This study was a two-part observation. In the first part, the cafeteria was videotaped to observe how students move through the serving areas. Each site was given three different scores when referring to the video component of the project. In the second part, an assessment tool was created from adapting research from the BEN Center on Smarter Lunchrooms. NudgeSAT (Nudge Student Assessment Tool) was developed and was composed of 6 different scoring categories that according to BEN make up a smarter lunchroom. Eight components using auditor interpretation of the exterior, hot serving area, cold serving area, salad bar, beverage area, payment station, dining area and grab-n-go (only 2 sites had this option) were identified with a score (higher score equals more healthier components offered). High School (HS) #1 earned 73/128 points (57%), High School #2 earned 69/128 points (54%) and High School #3 earned 53/102 (52%). Since High School #3 did not have a grab and go option the final score was out of 102. Each school had a summary report based on recommendations identified for improvement to score higher. HS #1 and HS #2 received low scores in the serving areas of the cafeteria, in the dining area, and the grab and go section. HS #2 also received low scores in the beverage and payment stations. HS #3 received a much lower score compared to HS #1 and HS #2 because it did not have a grab and go section. The NudgeSAT evaluation tool to understand choice architecture is one more novel way to assess the lunchroom environment to encourage smarter lunchroom choices. The long-term impact of adjusting small changes in a cafeteria environment may translate into healthier food choices by students, which leads to improvement in nutritional status and health profiles of students utilizing the National School Lunch Program
Choice Architecture in Appalachian High Schools: Evaluating and Improving Cafeteria Environments
Get PDFSchool meals are a primary source of nutrition for many adolescents. Determining factors that influence the selection of various foods can provide insight on strategies to improve studentsâ cafeteria choices. This evaluation and observation was conducted at three Appalachian high schools to assess the cafeteria environment. The study developed and implemented an assessment tool created using principles of choice architecture and behavioral economics building on the work of the Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs (BEN Center). The assessment tool scored eight components of the lunchroomâthe exterior, hot serving area, cold serving area, salad bar, beverage area, payment station, dining area and grab-n-go, where a higher score equals healthier components offered. High school (HS) #1 earned 73/128 points (57%), HS #2 earned 69/128 (54%), and HS #3 earned 53/102 (52%). HS #3 did not have a grab-n-go option and the final score was out of 102. Video observation was used to collect data on lunchroom activity during mealtimes. Each school received reports that highlight the results and suggest improvements to raise their score. The scoring tool represents a novel way to assess the health of school lunches, provide insights on how to improve the healthfulness of studentsâ lunch choice, and improve overall nutrition status
Exploring the error characteristics of thin ice cloud property retrievals using a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm
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White Habits, AntiâRacism, and Philosophy as a Way of Life
Get PDFThis paper examines Pierre Hadotâs philosophy as a way of life in the context of race. I argue that a âway of lifeâ approach to philosophy renders intelligible how anti-racist confrontation of racist ideas and institutionalized white complicity is a properly philosophical way of life requiring regulated reflection on habits â particularly, habits of whiteness. I first rehearse some of Hadotâs analysis of the âway of lifeâ orientation in philosophy, in which philosophical wisdom is understood as cultivated by actions which result in the creation of wise habits. I analyze a phenomenological claim about the nature of habit implied by the âway of lifeâ approach, namely, that habits can be both the cause and the effect of action. This point is central to the âway of lifeâ philosophy, I claim, in that it makes possible the intelligent redirection of habits, in which wise habits are more the effect than simply the cause of action. Lastly, I illustrate the âway of lifeâ approach in the context of anti-racism by turning to Linda MartĂn Alcoffâs whiteness anti-eliminativism, which outlines a morally defensible transformation of the habits of whiteness. I argue that anti-racism provides an intelligible context for modern day forms of what Hadot calls âspiritual exercisesâ insofar as the âway of lifeâ philosophy is embodied in the practice of whites seeing themselves seeing as white and seeing themselves being seen as white
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