The Impact of a School Gardening Program on Nutrition Attitudes, Behaviors and Interests Amongst Fourth Grade Students

This study intended to examine the impact of the gardening curriculum in an urban elementary school in Cleveland, Ohio. This yearlong gardening education program is introduced to the students in the 4th grade and incorporates a curriculum that includes gardening, nutrition, community service and experiential learning. With ample support from the community and from parents, this school provided the ideal setting to research the topic of how school gardening programs influence the students, their families and the community.The study used a series of questionnaires administered to the students in the fall of August 2013, early winter December 2013 and February 2014. The study sought to determine how studentś⁰₉ knowledge, behavior, attitudes and interest are influenced by this program. These administrations are to demonstrate the differences between the knowledge of nutrition before the pretest and after as well as retention of information about consuming vegetables after the curriculum. The gardening program is offered once per week and is part of the ten month curriculum. This program is offered in a greenhouse that is located onsite of the school grounds. Once per week, students leave their classrooms and walk to the greenhouse that is near the main school building. During class time, students are provided instruction for 20 minutes and for the remainder of the class period students do hands-on exercises. Depending on the weather, activities could entail being inside working on seedlings or outside working in the designated childreń⁰₉s garden. The variables being assessed are nutritional knowledge, attitudes about healthy eating, eating behavior and motivation interest in school and these variables have been taken from An Evaluation of the School Lunch Initiative (Pearson, Atkin, Biddle, Gorely, & Edwardson, 2010). This study will extend the literature on this field by examining the impact of a nutrition-based gardening education intervention in an urban setting. After expos

The Perspective of Bullying According to Students with Asperger Syndrome

This study examines the perspective of bullying according to students\u27 who are labeled with Asperger syndrome. Bullying is a growing problem in our schools today that greatly affects a student\u27s education and life. The results are traumatic and linger for extensive periods of time, greatly affecting the student\u27s education both short and long term. For this study, I conducted my research utilizing an action research oriented framework. As part of my action research, I obtained and evaluated data utilizing the qualitative research and analysis methodology. Through in-depth interviewing, students shared their perspective on bullying. Data was analyzed and various themes emerged. In the results, students shared insight in regards to strategies that educators could create and implement to reduce and prevent bullying. The results also include perspectives on the definition of bullying, why students bully, and who is responsible to prevent bullying. Findings include a significant revelation; from the perspective of students labeled with Asperger syndrome, educators are at fault and not doing enough to prevent bullying

Personal motivations, political pathways : Canadian university students studying in Australia

Student mobility programs are promoted as an experience of a lifetime. Students who study abroad are thought to acquire a number of skills necessary for today's increasingly global labour market--cross cultural competence, familiarity in a second language, and a broadened world view. Studying overseas is also presumed to accelerate the personal development of students. As students negotiate unfamiliar environments, far away from home, friends, and family, they are thought to gain wisdom, self-confidence, and independence. Along with its educational dimensions, student mobility is also enmeshed with issues related to university internationalization, international trade, a move towards knowledge-based economies, and immigration. Based on ethnographic research, which focussed on Canadian university students studying mainly in Melbourne, Australia, I advance two main arguments in this thesis. First, I suggest that claims about the potential outcomes of studying abroad are premature and need to be re-assessed against students' own motivations for wanting to study abroad and their actual experiences during their time overseas. Second, I argue that student mobility patterns are reflective of the differential economic and political positioning of nation-states in a globalizing world. The experiences of Canadian students are, therefore, considered within the larger context of the processes involved with university internationalization and relevant political and economic priorities of nation-states. This research also forms a part of a larger project on international youth travel, developed by Professors Vered Amit (Concordia University) and Noel Dyck (Simon Frasier University)

Bringing Oral Health Home. An Implementation Evaluation of Heartland Alliance Healths Shelter-Based Oral Health Outreach Program

In response to the COVID-19 crisis, Heartland Alliance Health (HAH) aligned with multiple residential sites serving people experiencing homelessness and people with substance use disorders to expand access to oral health services for their residents through site-based outreach.The HAH Shelter-Based Oral Health pilot program aims to improve the oral health of individuals experiencing homelessness and increase access to oral health services and other services addressing social determinants of health. The pilot program aims to do this by establishing stronger partnerships with residential sites and providing on-site dental services. The long-term goals of the program are to increase knowledge for medical providers to successfully implement and deliver on-site oral health care and continue developing strategic alignment between Heartland Alliance Health and residential sites.Recognizing the importance of program implementation in effective service delivery, the evaluation of the Oral Health Service followed the World Health Organization's Implementation Framework. To understand how the service was operationalized, the outcome variables of acceptability, adoption, appropriateness, feasibility, fidelity, coverage and sustainability were assessed. Research questions were developed within each of the overarching outcome variables, sourced from relevant literature and the HAH Oral Health Logic Model (Appendix A). The logic model was co-developed by the research team, HAH Oral Health staff, and outreach partner staff. Specifically, the research questions for this report focus on the implementation of the Oral Health Service based on identified short- and mid- term outcomes

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Analysing cerebrospinal fluid with explainable deep learning: From diagnostics to insights

Aim Analysis of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is essential for diagnostic workup of patients with neurological diseases and includes differential cell typing. The current gold standard is based on microscopic examination by specialised technicians and neuropathologists, which is time-consuming, labour-intensive and subjective. Methods We, therefore, developed an image analysis approach based on expert annotations of 123,181 digitised CSF objects from 78 patients corresponding to 15 clinically relevant categories and trained a multiclass convolutional neural network (CNN). Results The CNN classified the 15 categories with high accuracy (mean AUC 97.3%). By using explainable artificial intelligence (XAI), we demonstrate that the CNN identified meaningful cellular substructures in CSF cells recapitulating human pattern recognition. Based on the evaluation of 511 cells selected from 12 different CSF samples, we validated the CNN by comparing it with seven board-certified neuropathologists blinded for clinical information. Inter-rater agreement between the CNN and the ground truth was non-inferior (Krippendorff's alpha 0.79) compared with the agreement of seven human raters and the ground truth (mean Krippendorff's alpha 0.72, range 0.56–0.81). The CNN assigned the correct diagnostic label (inflammatory, haemorrhagic or neoplastic) in 10 out of 11 clinical samples, compared with 7–11 out of 11 by human raters. Conclusions Our approach provides the basis to overcome current limitations in automated cell classification for routine diagnostics and demonstrates how a visual explanation framework can connect machine decision-making with cell properties and thus provide a novel versatile and quantitative method for investigating CSF manifestations of various neurological diseases.Peer Reviewe

SNAPSHOT USA 2019: a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States

With the accelerating pace of global change, it is imperative that we obtain rapid inventories of the status and distribution of wildlife for ecological inferences and conservation planning. To address this challenge, we launched the SNAPSHOT USA project, a collaborative survey of terrestrial wildlife populations using camera traps across the United States. For our first annual survey, we compiled data across all 50 states during a 14-week period (17 August-24 November of 2019). We sampled wildlife at 1,509 camera trap sites from 110 camera trap arrays covering 12 different ecoregions across four development zones. This effort resulted in 166,036 unique detections of 83 species of mammals and 17 species of birds. All images were processed through the Smithsonian's eMammal camera trap data repository and included an expert review phase to ensure taxonomic accuracy of data, resulting in each picture being reviewed at least twice. The results represent a timely and standardized camera trap survey of the United States. All of the 2019 survey data are made available herein. We are currently repeating surveys in fall 2020, opening up the opportunity to other institutions and cooperators to expand coverage of all the urban-wild gradients and ecophysiographic regions of the country. Future data will be available as the database is updated at eMammal.si.edu/snapshot-usa, as will future data paper submissions. These data will be useful for local and macroecological research including the examination of community assembly, effects of environmental and anthropogenic landscape variables, effects of fragmentation and extinction debt dynamics, as well as species-specific population dynamics and conservation action plans. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this paper when using the data for publication

SNAPSHOT USA 2019 : a coordinated national camera trap survey of the United States

This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.With the accelerating pace of global change, it is imperative that we obtain rapid inventories of the status and distribution of wildlife for ecological inferences and conservation planning. To address this challenge, we launched the SNAPSHOT USA project, a collaborative survey of terrestrial wildlife populations using camera traps across the United States. For our first annual survey, we compiled data across all 50 states during a 14-week period (17 August - 24 November of 2019). We sampled wildlife at 1509 camera trap sites from 110 camera trap arrays covering 12 different ecoregions across four development zones. This effort resulted in 166,036 unique detections of 83 species of mammals and 17 species of birds. All images were processed through the Smithsonian's eMammal camera trap data repository and included an expert review phase to ensure taxonomic accuracy of data, resulting in each picture being reviewed at least twice. The results represent a timely and standardized camera trap survey of the USA. All of the 2019 survey data are made available herein. We are currently repeating surveys in fall 2020, opening up the opportunity to other institutions and cooperators to expand coverage of all the urban-wild gradients and ecophysiographic regions of the country. Future data will be available as the database is updated at eMammal.si.edu/snapshot-usa, as well as future data paper submissions. These data will be useful for local and macroecological research including the examination of community assembly, effects of environmental and anthropogenic landscape variables, effects of fragmentation and extinction debt dynamics, as well as species-specific population dynamics and conservation action plans. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this paper when using the data for publication.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

Thermischer Speicher für Solarkraftwerke

In solarthermischen Kraftwerken neuerer Bauart werden derzeit thermische Speicher basierend auf einer flüssigen Salzmischung eingesetzt. Das eingesetzte Speicherinventar weist hohe Investitionskosten auf und erfordert eine aufwändige Betriebsführung um ein Erstarren des Salzes zu verhindern. Im Rahmen des von E.ON mit dem Forschungspreis 2010 ausgezeichneten CellFlux-Projekts wird ein neuartiges Speichersystem entwickelt, bei dem die Wärme über einen Wärmeübertrager an ein geeignetes Zwischenwärmeträgermedium (z.B. Luft, CO2) übertragen wird und die Energie im direkten Kontakt an das Speichermedium abgegeben wird. Die Leistung des Speichers wird somit durch den Wärmeübertrager bestimmt und dessen Kosten skalieren bei gegebener Leistung nur noch mit der Kapazität. Zur Validierung des Konzeptes soll eine Pilotanlage aufgebaut werden, die eine Leistung von etwa 75kW bei einer Speicherdauer von acht Stunden aufweist. Der Wärmeübertrager wird mit Rippenrohren realisiert, als Speicherbehälter kommt ein 40 Fuß-ISO Container zum Einsatz

Understanding the role of interstate highway 80 on mammalian community composition of the Wasatch Mountain range using camera traps

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