Food Accessibility Related to Double Your Dollar Program

The Double Your Dollar (DYD) Program is a program that gives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries and Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) participants match dollars to spend at local farmers markets. Users are able to spend these dollars on fruits, vegetables, eggs, meats, dairy, jam/jelly, honey and food producing plants. DYD’s goal is to incentivize healthy eating among individuals of low income, promote local purchases, and increase spending at farmers markets. Food insecurity effects over 60,000 individuals in Washington and Benton county. With food accessibility being an area of concern in Northwest Arkansas, programs like SNAP and SFMNP are significant in helping individuals acquire nutritious food. The goal of this study was to assess how the DYD program has impacted users’ food accessibility and how the program can be improved for the future. Types of food purchased were assessed because this gives insight on an individual’s health. Individuals of lower income are known to generally have poorer health status which is related, in part, to the food they are consuming. By assessing how DYD users altered their purchases because of the program, inferences can be made on how this program is affecting their nutritional status. Food accessibility was evaluated through analyzing how much food users are able to purchase. Additionally, customer shopping patterns were studied because this gives insight to how the program can be improved in the future. A survey was created to address these areas and was distributed to participants taking part in the DYD program at farmers markets in Washington and Benton county. A total of 80 surveys were obtained and results were analyzed using Qualtrics Survey Software. The results indicated that the vast majority of current DYD users had increased purchases and consumption of fresh fruits, vegetables, eggs, meat, and dairy. Main motivations for shopping at the farmers market included the ability to buy fresh, healthy, and quality foods. Main obstacles for shopping at the farmers market included price and type of food available. Previous research has shown that purchases made to locally owned businesses and farmers create more jobs and improves local wealth. Therefore, the purchases made through DYD potentially contributes additionally to improve the local economy. Overall, the DYD program suggests being successful in improving food accessibility. This study indicates that food assistance programs such as DYD could be replicated throughout the country to improve local food accessibility and as a result, improve nutritional status among individuals of low income. Future studies should assess the awareness of the program within the community since this study only assessed participants that were already participating and the impacts of those purchases on buying and eating behaviors

Focus in the structure of concepts in analytic discourse

The primary focus of this thesis was to find out what makes workable topic sentences different from inadequate ones. A group of topic sentences was collected from the author\u27s eight grade students and reviewed

Hospitality in the House of God: Deconstructing Habit and Building Missio Dei

This research project addresses neighborliness, change, and hospitality in the life of a mainline church of 1,200 members. It is a congregation that has traditional worship and programming with progressive values. The congregants are not comfortable with change and are coming to terms with the missing Millennial generation. Mixed method Action Research using missional practices of hospitality and neighbor interviews offered new faith formation and relationship growth with neighbors. There were also educational opportunities on change, the missional church movement, and neighborliness. The work relies on the theology of Serene Jones, Kosuke Koyama, and Miroslav Volf

Essential Oils as Bacterial Disinfectants

Essential oils have become quite popular in natural medicine and their uses as an antibacterial household cleaner have been touted. We investigated how essential oils compared to bleach when used as disinfectants. Previously, we examined eight essential oils and two recipes (mixtures of oils) from Art Naturals for bacterial inhibition and found that six oils and both recipes consistently inhibited bacterial growth. In this study, we tested bacterial inhibition of individual oils, combinations/recipes of oils, exposure time to oils, concentrations of an oil, and build-up/toxicity of oil residues from doTERRA. Escherichia coli was plated onto McConkey agar as a lawn where treatment solutions were spotted onto each plate. Bleach and water served as positive and negative controls respectively. Thyme essential oil had the highest bacterial inhibition. Lemon essential oil did not inhibit bacterial growth. Inhibition zones were between 0-3cm out from the treatment location. To examine growth inhibition versus death, E. coli (MM294) was genetically transformed with pVIB containing lux genes to glow-in-the-dark during growth phase. Every essential oil that inhibited bacteria growth also showed a lack of glowing at the treatment location. Additionally, bleach and thyme oil were diluted (2%-0.2%) to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC). After 48 hours bleach’s MIC was 1% and thyme’s was 0.3%. These finding indicate that not only do essential oils kill E. coli, but some are as or more effective than bleach. Testing other species of bacteria, and essential oils’ potency on human skin cells are areas for future study

Reading the Bibliographies of the Women’s Rest Tour Association: Cultural Travel in the Long Nineteenth Century

The Boston-based Women’s Rest Tour Association provided a carefully selected reading list for its “literary pilgrims” from its founding in the 1890s into the twentieth century. As an organization designed to support educated American women traveling on a budget, the WRTA provided members with a range of information to facilitate travel, including a handbook containing two lengthy bibliographies. These bibliographies expose a duality within the organization that balances a progressive feminism with a deep-seated cultural and social conservatism. They exhibit strong support for women writers and educational reading as a tool for personal empowerment at the same time that they show a commitment to the cultural authority of Boston and the British Isles and reveal a notable degree of class bias and ethnic prejudice.Depuis sa création dans les années 1890 et jusque dans les premières décennies du xxe siècle, la Women’s Rest Tour Association (WRTA), basée à Boston, eut pour objectif d’apporter son soutien à des Américaines éduquées n’ayant pas les moyens de voyager à grands frais. L’association fournissait à ses membres une panoplie d’informations pour faciliter leur périple, notamment un guide de voyage comprenant deux volumineuses bibliographies révélatrices d’une certaine tension entre un féminisme progressiste et un conservatisme social et culturel. Si elles encouragent le développement de pratiques d’écriture et louent les bienfaits éducatifs de la lecture comme mode d’affirmation et d’émancipation de ces femmes, ces bibliographies n’en restent pas moins inféodées à l’autorité culturelle de Boston et des îles Britanniques, témoignant de préjugés notables ethniques et sociaux

Food accessibility related to the Double Your Dollar Program

The Double Your Dollar (DYD) Program is a program that gives Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries and Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP) participants match dollars to spend at local farmers markets. The DYD’s goal is to incentivize healthy eating among individuals of low income and promote spending at farmers markets. Food insecurity affects over 60,000 individuals in Washington and Benton counties in Arkansas. The aim of this study was to assess how the DYD program impacted users’ food accessibility and how the program could be improved for the future. A survey was used to address basic demographics, type, frequency, and change of food purchases, and customer shopping patterns. Eighty DYD users were surveyed at farmers markets in Washington and Benton counties. The results indicated that the vast majority of current DYD users had increased purchases of fresh fruits and vegetables, which is a marker for improved nutritional status. The main motivations for shopping at the farmers market included the ability to buy fresh, healthy, and quality foods. This study indicates that food assistance programs such as DYD could be replicated throughout the country to improve local food accessibility and, as a result, potentially improve nutritional status among individuals of low income. Future studies should assess the awareness of the program within the community since this study only assessed those already participating

Representations of elementary abelian p-groups and bundles on Grassmannians

We initiate the study of representations of elementary abelian $p$-groups via restrictions to truncated polynomial subalgebras of the group algebra generated by $r$ nilpotent elements, $k[t_1,..., t_r]/(t^p_1,..., t_r^p)$. We introduce new geometric invariants based on the behavior of modules upon restrictions to such subalgebras. We also introduce modules of constant radical and socle type generalizing modules of constant Jordan type and provide several general constructions of modules with these properties. We show that modules of constant radical and socle type lead to families of algebraic vector bundles on Grassmannians and illustrate our theory with numerous examples

Laminar Flow Face Shield

The scope of this project was to design a personal protective equipment (PPE) that protects the wearer from SARS-CoV-2 without inhibiting communication and was comfortable to wear for long periods of time. SARS-CoV-2, commonly known as COVID-19, is a contagious respiratory virus that spreads through droplets produced when someone who is infected by the virus coughs, sneezes, or talks. These droplets may land on the mouths or noses of nearby people or may be inhaled in the lungs, infecting those who come in contact with the virus. The current guidelines to help slow the spread of COVID-19 are to wear a mask that covers the mouth and nose when around others [1]. However, this causes the wearer\u27s voice to be muffled and be difficult to understand, covers the wearer\u27s facial expressions, inhibits others from picking up on important facial cues, and can become uncomfortable after long periods of wear. An alternative that meets these needs would be a powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR), which is currently sold by several companies in various forms. Many are quite comfortable and allow the user’s face to be seen, but the price is the biggest downfall, most costing over $1,000. Our goal was to design a comfortable, affordable, and effective powered air purifying respirator for Cal Poly professors. We were able to create a respirator that costs only$140, filters out 99.93% of COVID-19 sized particles, and is generally well received in functionality by the general public. This document comprises the results of the critical design process, including background research, specifications, concept development and final design, testing and manufacturing plans, and project timeline