Beliefs about Childhood Obesity

Currently in the United States, it is estimated that 25% of American children are obese. Several factors that may contribute to childhood obesity are environment, eating habits, underlying health conditions, and psychological influences. I plan on becoming an elementary teacher and I was shocked to find out that elementary schools are now cutting physical education classes to as little as thirty minutes and only every other week in some districts. While at the same time increasing the total amount of time students are using computers. I believe it is important that structural issues such as the decrease in physical education are acknowledged as a contributing factor for the increase in childhood obesity. I wanted to find what the average person believes are contributing factors for the increase of childhood obesity and if these factors are based on structural issues or an individual’s behavior. For instance, do people believe that childhood obesity has increased due to the increased due to children being lazy and only playing video games or do they believe it is due to the decrease in physical education? To understand people’s thoughts on childhood obesity, I used two different but connected methodologies: content analysis and interviews of parents and professionals who work with minor children. For my content analysis, I searched for articles on childhood obesity, coding commenters’ opinions about factors contributing to childhood obesity. I interviewed parents and professionals who work with children to find out what they think about childhood obesity and, specifically, how they feel about physical education in their children’s schools. By performing both content data analysis and interviews with parents and professional who work closely with children I was able to find out what some people believe are the main contributing factors to increasing childhood obesity, and what people are saying, overall, about childhood obesity

Inelastic scattering calculations with projected Hartree-Fock wave functions: Coupled channel treatment

Microscopic coupled-channel analysis of proton inelastic scattering from neon and magnesium ion

A study of the Hartree-Fock model space for light deformed nuclei

Effects of altering truncated basis space used in Hartree Fock model for light deformed nucle

Spacecraft design sensitivity for a disaster warning satellite system

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Composite Structure with Load Distribution Devices, and Method for Making Same

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Deformed Brueckner-Hartree-Fock calculations

The renormalized Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (RBHF) theory for many-body nuclear systems is generalized to permit calculations for intrinsic states having permanent deformation. Both Hartree-Fock and Brueckner self-consistencies are satisfied, and details of the numerical techniques are discussed. The Hamada-Johnston interaction is used in a study of deformations, binding, size, and separation energies for several nuclei. Electromagnetic transition rates, moments, and electron scattering form factors are calculated using nuclear wave functions obtained by angular momentum projection. Comparison is made to experiment as well as to predictions of ordinary and density-dependent Hartree-Fock Theory

Gamma ray angular correlations following inelastic scattering of 42-MeV alpha particles from magnesium 24

Angular correlation between inelastically scattered alpha particles and gamma rays emitted in subsequent nuclear decay of magnesium 2

Short-range correlations in carbon-12, oxygen-16, and neon-20: Intrinsic properties

The Brueckner-Hartree-Fock (BHF) method has been applied to nuclei whose intrinsic structure is nonspherical. Reaction matrix elements were calculated as functions of starting energy for the Hamada-Johnston interaction using the Pauli operator appropriate to O-16 and a shifted oscillator spectrum for virtual excited states. Binding energies, single particle energies, radii, and shape deformations of the intrinsic state, in ordinary as well as renormalized BHF, are discussed and compared with previous HF studies and with experiment when possible. Results are presented for C-12, 0-16 and Ne-20. It is found that the binding energies and radii are too small, but that separation energies are well reproduced when the renormalized theory is used

The development and technology transfer of software engineering technology at NASA. Johnson Space Center

The United State's big space projects of the next decades, such as Space Station and the Human Exploration Initiative, will need the development of many millions of lines of mission critical software. NASA-Johnson (JSC) is identifying and developing some of the Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) technology that NASA will need to build these future software systems. The goal is to improve the quality and the productivity of large software development projects. New trends are outlined in CASE technology and how the Software Technology Branch (STB) at JSC is endeavoring to provide some of these CASE solutions for NASA is described. Key software technology components include knowledge-based systems, software reusability, user interface technology, reengineering environments, management systems for the software development process, software cost models, repository technology, and open, integrated CASE environment frameworks. The paper presents the status and long-term expectations for CASE products. The STB's Reengineering Application Project (REAP), Advanced Software Development Workstation (ASDW) project, and software development cost model (COSTMODL) project are then discussed. Some of the general difficulties of technology transfer are introduced, and a process developed by STB for CASE technology insertion is described