A Theory of Planned Behavior-Based Fruit and Vegetable Intervention for College Students

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of implementing a brief Theory of Planned Behavior- based nutrition intervention to address fruit and vegetable consumption in college students. Design: Two in-person lessons utilizing activities based around TPB were implemented to a class of college students. A Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB)-based pretest and posttest assessed constructs regarding fruit and vegetable consumption. Fruit and vegetable intake was measured by a pre-and-post 3-day dietary record. Results gathered from all parts of this intervention were analyzed with paired t-tests in SPSS. Setting: Bridgewater State University; Health Promotion Strategies Class Participants: 16 Bridgewater State University Students, ages 21 and older, and mostly female Results: Survey results about TPB constructs and fruit and vegetable consumption did not significantly increase between pre-and-posttests. Yet a high intention to consume the daily recommend amount existed. Conclusion: Though students showed high intention to consume fruits and vegetables through their responses to the pre-and-posttests, students did not consume the daily recommended amount of fruits and vegetables. This showed that the intervention did not have an impact on behavior change but slightly increased intention to consume fruits and vegetables. The study supported the idea that college students do not consume the daily recommended amount of fruits and vegetables

Fighting Cybercrime After \u3cem\u3eUnited States v. Jones\u3c/em\u3e

In a landmark non-decision last term, five Justices of the United States Supreme Court would have held that citizens possess a Fourth Amendment right to expect that certain quantities of information about them will remain private, even if they have no such expectations with respect to any of the information or data constituting that whole. This quantitative approach to evaluating and protecting Fourth Amendment rights is certainly novel and raises serious conceptual, doctrinal, and practical challenges. In other works, we have met these challenges by engaging in a careful analysis of this “mosaic theory” and by proposing that courts focus on the technologies that make collecting and aggregating large quantities of information possible. In those efforts, we focused on reasonable expectations held by “the people” that they will not be subjected to broad and indiscriminate surveillance. These expectations are anchored in Founding-era concerns about the capacity for unfettered search powers to promote an authoritarian surveillance state. Although we also readily acknowledged that there are legitimate and competing governmental and law enforcement interests at stake in the deployment and use of surveillance technologies that implicate reasonable interests in quantitative privacy, we did little more. In this Article, we begin to address that omission by focusing on the legitimate governmental and law enforcement interests at stake in preventing, detecting, and prosecuting cyber-harassment and healthcare fraud

The KIBRA Gene: Learning About Memory

Memory is a polygenic trait that enables humans to learn and remember information. A novel genome-wide association study performed in 2006 implicated that a polymorphism in the KIBRA gene was associated with enhanced episodic memory. Very little detail is known about the pathways to which this gene contributes; however, research implicates that the cytoplasmic protein plays a structural role in neurons. Recent studies examining the gene’s association with memory performance are consistent and age-independent in healthy individuals; however, conflicting results when examining subjects with impaired memory suggest KIBRA’s effects are complex. Although one memory-enhancing therapy has suggested based upon these findings, future research must focus on the genetic and molecular mechanisms through which KIBRA acts. Greater understanding of these pathways will allow for the discovery and understanding of therapies that can potentially treat non-disabling memory declines associated with healthy aging, as well as impaired memory associated with diseases such as Alzheimer’s

Disagreement in Partners’ Reports of Financial Difficulty

We use unique data in which both partners report about household finances to demonstrate that there is often disagreement about whether the household has experienced financial difficulty in the past year. Four alternative explanations for this disagreement are tested using the data. The results indicate that disagreement may be related to the severity of the underlying material hardship rather than to gender differences or individual (as opposed to household) views of financial difficulty. We find only weak evidence that information asymmetries explain couple disagreement about financial difficulty. This implies that standard surveys which collect information about the household’s financial position from a representative individual may fail to completely characterize the nature of material hardship.Household Finances, Survey Methodology, Material Hardship

The Effects of Combined Movement and Storytelling Intervention on Motor Skills in South Asian and White Children Aged 5–6 Years Living in the United Kingdom

Early motor development has an important role in promoting physical activity (PA) during childhood and across the lifespan. Children from South Asian backgrounds are less active and have poorer motor skills, thus identifying the need for early motor skill instruction. This study examines the effect of a movement and storytelling intervention on South Asian children’s motor skills. Following ethics approval and consent, 39 children (46% South Asian) participated in a 12-week movement and storytelling intervention. Pre and post, seven motor skills (run, jump, throw, catch, stationary dribble, roll, and kick) were assessed using Children’s Activity and Movement in Preschool Study protocol. At baseline, South Asian children had poorer performance of motor skills. Following the intervention, all children improved their motor skills, with a bigger improvement observed for South Asian children. Early intervention provided remedial benefits to delays in motor skills and narrowed the motor skills gap in ethnic groups