Growth in reading and how children spend their time outside of school

Running title: Growth in readingIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 36-38)Performed pursuant to contract no. 400-81-0030 of the National Institute of Educatio

Effective Parallel Algorithm Animation

The AFIT Algorithm Animation Research Facility AAARF was developed by the Air Force Institute of Technology AFIT as a teaching aid for data structures and algorithm design. In particular, an extensive set of performance animations has been developed for the Intel iPSC Hypercube parallel processing system. This research focuses in part on developing animation support for discrete event simulation, mission routing, and evolutionary algorithms based on abstract representations of parallel algorithm behavior. The effort also builds extensions to the AAARF system and examines direction for further research. An innovative adaptable application-specific animation construction environment has been designed and implemented. The environment provides a set of composible graphics objects and a flexible event mapping and transformation system that allows development of arbitrary animation formats. The system also reduces operational complexity via a simplified event format. The resulting visualization system is inherently portable between architectures, easily extensible to meet specific user animation requirements, and successfully deals with scalability problems associated with massively parallel processing systems

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Canadian Consumers’ Purchasing Behavior of Omega-3 Products

The development of innovative functional food products is a major trend in today’s food industry. The growth of this industry is driven by increased consumer awareness of their own health deficiencies, increased understanding of the possible health benefits of functional foods, development in formulation technologies, a positive regulatory environment, and changing consumer demographics and lifestyles. While there has been a proliferation of omega-3 products such as milk, eggs, yogurt, and margarine in the Canadian food market, very little is known about consumers of these products. We use ACNielsen Homescanâ„¢ data combined with survey data to develop profiles of omega-3 consumers in Canada. The focus of the study is on consumers of four products: omega-3 milk, omega-3 yogurt, omega-3 margarine, and omega-3 eggs. We investigate whether there are significant differences between consumers and non-consumers of omega-3 products based on their age, income, education, and household composition. We also investigate whether a household’s use of Canada’s Food Guide and the Nutrition Facts table and consideration of the health benefits of food influences the decision to purchase omega-3 products. The results from the ordered probit model estimation show that the aging Canadian population is a major driver of omega-3 purchases. Also, the presence of children in the home increases the purchasing frequency of omega-3 yogurt and omega-3 margarine, and reading the Nutrition Facts table and considering the health benefits of food are important factors that affect omega-3 product purchases.Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,

Canadian Consumer Attitudes and Purchasing Behaviour of Omega-3 Products

The development of innovative functional food products is a major trend in today's food industry. The growth of this industry is driven by increased consumer awareness of their own health deficiencies, increased understanding of the possible health benefits of functional foods, development in formulation technologies, a positive regulatory environment and changing consumer demographics and lifestyles. While there has been a proliferation of omega-3 products such as milk, eggs, yogurt, and margarine in the Canadian food market, very little is known about consumers of omega-3 products. In our study we use ACNielsen HomescanTM data combined with ACNielsen Panel TrackTM survey data to develop profiles of omega-3 consumers in Canada. The focus of the study is on consumers of four products: omega-3 milk, omega-3 yogurt, omega-3 margarine and omega-3 eggs. We investigate whether there are significant differences between consumers and non-consumers of omega-3 products based on their age, income, education, and household composition. We also investigate whether a household's knowledge of the Canadian food guide, knowledge of nutrition labels, and consideration of health benefits influences the decision to purchase omega-3 products. The results from the ordered probit model estimation show that an aging (baby boomer) population is the most frequent purchaser of omega-3 products, the presence of children in the home increases the purchasing frequency of omega-3 yogurt and omega-3 margarine, and reading the Nutrition Facts panel and health benefits are important factors that affect the purchase of omega-3 products.omega-3 fatty acids, nutritional labelling, health benefits, ordered probit model, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, C81, D12, I19, Q19,

Tri-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Measurements of Snow Water Equivalent

A new airborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system was recently developed for the estimation of snow water equivalent (SWE). The radar is part of the SWESARR (Snow Water Equivalent Synthetic Aperture Radar and Radiometer) instrument, an active passive microwave system specifically designed for the accurate estimation of SWE. The dual polarization (VV, VH) radar operates at three frequency bands (9.65 GHz, 13.6 GHz, and 17.25 GHz), with bandwidths of up to 200 MHz. The radar flew its first flight campaign in November 2019, along with SWESARRs - already operational radiometer. The radar collected comprehensive data sets over various terrains that show a successful system performance. The inst slated to participate in future SnowEx campaigns

MEMS 411: African Pouched Rat Trap

What is often thought of as a rat trap is often in reality a mouse trap, or a trap designed to catch small rodents. Rats can be quite large and catching them without harming them can be quite difficult. Current market solutions generally either kill or harm the rodent which is not acceptable for our client\u27s needs. While there are some solutions on the market, they fall short of the needs of our client which is more specialized due to the size of rodent they will be capturing, the circumstances surrounding the capture, the number of rodents our client needs to capture, and the importance of the rodent\u27s health after capture

Tri-Frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar for the Measurements of Snow Water Equivalent

SWESARR (Snow Water Equivalent Synthetic Aperture Radar and Radiometer) is an airborne instrument developed at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center for the retrieval of Snow Water Equivalent. SWESARR was specifically designed to measure co-located active and passive signals using a high resolution and multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) and a multifrequency radiometer. SWESARRs Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) system is made up of three independent radar units that operate in the X, Ku-Low, and Ku-High bands with bandwidths up to 200 MHz, and acquires data in two polarizations (dual-polarization radar). The difference in sensitivity of the backscatter signals to snow microstructure, in conjunctions with radiometer measurements, permits an accurate estimation of the snow water equivalent (SWE)

DNA extraction from formalin-fixed tissue: new light from the Deep-Sea

DNA samples were extracted from ethanol and formalin-fixed decapod crustacean tissue using a new method based on Tetramethylsilane (TMS)-Chelex. It is shown that neither an indigestible matrix of cross-linked protein nor soluble PCR inhibitors impede PCR success when dealing with formalin-fixed material. Instead, amplification success from formalin-fixed tissue appears to depend on the presence of unmodified DNA in the extracted sample. A staining method that facilitates the targeting of samples with a high content of unmodified DNA is provided