Local Food Impacts on Health and Nutrition

Prevalence of local foods is believed to answer several food issues one of which is health and nutrition. This study focused on the on the availability of local foods to consumers and see its relationship with two specific diet-related diseases namely, obesity and diabetes. Other variables were included in the analysis to provide additional evidence to previous findings. Factors considered are divided into 5 groups namely diet-, local food-, environment-, education- and gender-related factors. Diet- and environment-related variables provide the most perceptive findings while local food variables provided significant however weak evidence of positive impacts to health and nutrition.local foods, diabetes, obesity, food environment, farmers' market, Agricultural and Food Policy, Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Health Economics and Policy, I15, I31,

THE JOURNEY OF TEACHING NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING LEARNERS FROM A FOREIGN COUNTRY

The study explored the experiences of the Trainers during their conduct of Summer Training with Thai Elementary teachers on May 2016 and April 2017 at Bukidnon State University (BukSU), Malaybalay City, Philippines. The Summer Training was conducted to teach the Thai teachers English Communication Arts; Mathematics and Science using English language. The challenges, difficulties and problems encountered by the BukSU Trainers in training Thai Teacher-Trainees as English second language (ESL) learners, were determined as well as the interventions utilized by the Trainers to address their encountered challenges/difficulties/problems. Narrative qualitative analysis was employed to gather data. From the narratives of the Trainers, trends and patterns were established to analyze and interpret the results. Data revealed that the encountered challenges by BukSU Trainers in training the Thai Trainees include language barrier, the Trainees’ difficulty in understanding English language and how to effectively teach content in math and science using English language. The difficulties/problems encountered by the Trainers were addressed through teaching strategies and approaches that promoted active participation; involved minds-on, hands-on, and experiential learning activities; and exposed the Thai Teacher-Trainees to real-life situations. 

Recent and Rapid Radiation of the Highly Endangered Harlequin Frogs (Atelopus) into Central America Inferred from Mitochondrial DNA Sequences

Populations of amphibians are experiencing severe declines worldwide. One group with the most catastrophic declines is the Neotropical genus Atelopus (Anura: Bufonidae). Many species of Atelopus have not been seen for decades and all eight Central American species are considered “Critically Endangered”, three of them very likely extinct. Nonetheless, the taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeographic history of Central American Atelopus are still poorly known. In this study, the phylogenetic relationships among seven of the eight described species in Central America were inferred based on mitochondrial DNA sequences from 103 individuals, including decades-old museum samples and two likely extinct species, plus ten South American species. Among Central American samples, we discovered two candidate species that should be incorporated into conservation programs. Phylogenetic inference revealed a ladderized topology, placing species geographically furthest from South America more nested in the tree. Model-based ancestral area estimation supported either one or two colonization events from South America. Relaxed-clock analysis of divergence times indicated that Atelopus colonized Central America prior to 4 million years ago (Ma), supporting a slightly older than traditional date for the closure of the Isthmus. This study highlights the invaluable role of museum collections in documenting past biodiversity, and these results could guide future conservation efforts

Search-Based Evolution of XML Schemas

The use of schemas makes an XML-based application more reliable, since they contribute to avoid failures by defining the specific format for the data that the application manipulates. In practice, when an application evolves, new requirements for the data may be established, raising the need of schema evolution. In some cases the generation of a schema is necessary, if such schema does not exist. To reduce maintenance and reengineering costs, automatic evolution of schemas is very desirable. However, there are no algorithms to satisfactorily solve the problem. To help in this task, this paper introduces a search-based approach that explores the correspondence between schemas and context-free grammars. The approach is supported by a tool, named EXS. Our tool implements algorithms of grammatical inference based on LL(1) Parsing. If a grammar (that corresponds to a schema) is given and a new word (XML document) is provided, the EXS system infers the new grammar that: i) continues to generate the same words as before and ii) generates the new word, by modifying the original grammar. If no initial grammar is available, EXS is also capable of generating a grammar from scratch from a set of samples

Prevalencia del virus de la diarrea viral bovina y de animales portadores del virus en bovinos en la provincia de Espinar, Cusco.

The prevalence of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) in 406 cattle was evaluated of both sexes and older than 6 months. Animals belonged to 114 small farmers from three rural communities of the province of Espinar, Cusco, Peru. Blood samples were collected according to three age groups Ɩ-12, 13-23, \u3e24 months old). Serum samples were tested for antibodies against BVDV using the viral neutralization test. The 56.2 ± 4.8% 鴤/406) of samples had antibodies against BVDV. Persistently infected animals were not detected. Antibodies were present in the three age groups, but the highest prevalence ࿡.4%) was detected in animals older than 24 months of age. The 51.3% ྴ/39) of young and adult bulls had antibodies against BVDV. Antibodies titers varied from 2 to \u3e256, and high titers 鳀 to \u3e256) were detected in 42.1% of animals of 13 to \u3e24 months of age. The 86.8% ဃ/114) of the small farmers had at least one animal seropositive to BVDV

Efecto de la aplicación del protocolo modificado por Henao y Pérez (2011), para el manejo de la intimidación escolar y la conducta prosocial en adolescentes del grado sexto de educación media de la institución educativa bello horizonte del municipio de Florencia-Caquetá

TablasEl proyecto de investigación, Efecto de aplicación del Protocolo modificado por Henao y Pérez (2011), para el manejo de la intimidación escolar y la conducta pro social, en adolescentes de los grados sexto A y sexto B de educación media de la Institución Educativa Bello Horizonte del Municipio de Florencia-Caquetá, constituyó un trabajo en el que se aplicó el Protocolo de Intervención modificado por Henao y Pérez (2011), en la intimidación escolar y la conducta pro social, y donde se logró detectar a través de once sesiones de este modelo, que el nivel de acoso escolar es alto, que los estudiantes se pierden el respeto entre sí, al igual que la práctica de antivalores, dándole cabida a la violencia, y al deterioro psíquico, emocional y físico de la o las personas víctimas del bullying. De igual manera, aplicado este procedimiento se trató de minimizar la problemática, creando conciencia en los estudiantes de lo perjudicial que es para la integridad humana el ser autor del bullying, lo importante que es orientar a los educandos desde un crecimiento personal, hacia la práctica de valores y de la actitud pro social para el compartimiento de una convivencia pacífica en el aula.The research project, Effect of application of Protocol amended by Henao and Perez (2011), for the management of school the intimidation and prosocial behavior in adolescents in grades six A and six B secondary education of School Bello Horizonte Florence Township Caquetá, was a work in which we applied the modified Intervention Protocol Henao and Perez (2011), school bullying and pro-social behavior, and where achievement detect through eleven sessions of this model, the level of bullying is high, students will lose respect for each other, as well as the practice of anti-values, give space to violence, and deteriorating mental, emotional and physical persons or victims of bullyng . Similarly, treatment applied this procedure to minimize the problem, creating awareness in students of how detrimental to human integrity is being Bullyng author, how important it is to guide learners from personal growth, to practice values and pro-social attitudes to the compartment of peaceful coexistence in the classroom

Novel approaches of nanoceria with magnetic, photoluminescent, and gas-sensing properties

The modification of CeO2 with rare-earth elements opens up a wide range of applications as biomedical devices using infrared emission as well as magnetic and gas-sensing devices, once the structural, morphological, photoluminescent, magnetic, electric, and gas-sensing properties of these systems are strongly correlated to quantum electronic transitions between rare-earth f-states among defective species. Quantitative phase analysis revealed that the nanopowders are free from secondary phases and crystallize in the fluorite-type cubic structure. Magnetic coercive field measurements on the powders indicate that the substitution of cerium with lanthanum (8 wt %), in a fluorite-type cubic structure, created oxygen vacancies and led to a decrease in the fraction of Ce species in the 3+ state, resulting in a stronger room-temperature ferromagnetic response along with high coercivity (160 Oe). In addition to the magnetic and photoluminescent behavior, a fast response time (5.5 s) was observed after CO exposure, indicating that the defective structure of ceria-based materials corresponds to the key of success in terms of applications using photoluminescent, magnetic, or electrical behaviors.Fil: Rocha, Leandro S.R.. Universidade Federal do São Carlos; BrasilFil: Amoresi, Rafael A.C.. Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho; BrasilFil: Moreno, Henrique. Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho; BrasilFil: Ramirez, Miguel A.. Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho; BrasilFil: Ponce, Miguel Adolfo. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales; ArgentinaFil: Foschini, Cesar R.. Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho; BrasilFil: Longo, Elson. Universidade Federal do São Carlos; BrasilFil: Simões, Alexandre Z.. Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho; Brasi

Research Ethics Training in Peru: A Case Study

With the rapidly increasing number of health care professionals seeking international research experience, comes an urgent need for enhanced capacity of host country institutional review boards (IRB) to review research proposals and ensure research activities are both ethical and relevant to the host country customs and needs. A successful combination of distance learning, interactive courses and expert course instructors has been applied in Peru since 2004 through collaborations between the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center Detachment, the University of Washington and the Department of Clinical Bioethics of the National Institutes of Health to provide training in ethical conduct of research to IRB members and researchers from Peru and other Latin American countries. All training activities were conducted under the auspices of the Peruvian National Institute of Health (INS), Ministry of Health. To date, 927 people from 12 different Latin American countries have participated in several of these training activities. In this article we describe our training model

Reading Comprehension and Behavior in Children Using E-books vs. Printed Books

The purpose of this research is to investigate the influence that personalized, gamified, and PDF electronic reading practices have on the attitudes which fifth-grade students possess toward e-reading experiences, as well as how these stances affect the students' motivation and reading comprehension while they are learning English as a second/foreign language (EFL). For the purpose of the study, there were a total of 84 fifth-grade kids from public schools in Greece, who participated. These students were split up into three different experimental groups and a control one. Participants in the experimental groups read throughout the treatment period according to a preset schedule using one of three diverse electronic reading formats (PDF, gamified, or customized), whilst participants in the control group read utilizing a paper guided reading plan. The participants' experiences playing video games online were analyzed via a technique called the quasi-experimental approach. According to the findings of the research, the experimental group and the control group did not significantly vary from one another in terms of their levels of reading comprehension. On the other hand, in comparison to the participants in the control group, those who took part in the experiments reported having more favorable sentiments regarding their electronic reading experiences and were more inspired to read. As indicated from the research findings, kids may experience an increase in their desire to read when they use electronic gadgets. This study has implications for educators and policymakers as they consider incorporating digital reading practices into their teaching methods, particularly when it comes to improving students' motivation to read