Green Dining Proposal

University of Richmond has slowly but steadily introduced efforts to reduce its campus-wide, local, and national environmental impact, most notably with its commitments to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and to divert 75 percent of waste from landfills by 2025. Yet most eateries on campus offer their food and beverages to the hundreds of customers they serve every day only with single-use serve ware, an incredibly expensive practice in terms of cost, energy use, and environmental impacts. This proposal suggests introducing a “for-here” option–serving food and beverages with reusable serve ware–at all eateries on campus that currently do not offer one. The introduction of reusable serve ware, in tandem with an update of the current single-use to-go serve ware (such as switching to entirely post-consumer, recyclable, plant-based, or compostable materials), could help significantly reduce the University’s waste production and support efforts to reach its waste diversion goal. This project also has the potential to provide marketing opportunities for eateries, programming opportunities for the Office for Sustainability, and learning opportunities for students; enhance customers’ dining experience; and help improve the University’s rankings and reputation

Women\u27s Worth: A Western Misconception

Focusing on gender relations and dominance within the Gusii of Kenya, Tombema, Kaihsienkung, and India cultures this paper will focus on bridewealth and dowry, specifically what it means in terms of women\u27s value or status within these cultural groups. The dominance of the male perspective in academics is one cause for women\u27s domestic or \u27secondary\u27 subsistence work being given lower status. Women\u27s contributions to subsistence especially domestically (in the home) are great. This paper will focus on two points. First is the lack of research done on the subject of bridewealth and dowry; the second point is to look at recent research that is appreciating and acknowledging women\u27s domestic contributions in more than just a reproductive capacity. Bridewealth and dowry are very fascinating topics since they are so variable between societies. Bridewealth and dowry should be considered further and in contemporary society, in how women are being valued in relation to their contribution to male\u27s production in society

Pharmaceutical Marketing in the United States: How Prescription Drugs Have Become THE Health Care Solution

The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most powerful and profitable industries in the world, valued at over a trillion dollars. People need and will always need medicine, but the enormous success of the pharmaceutical industry cannot simply be attributed to the inherent, enduring demand for their products. It is well documented that pharmaceutical companies often spend as much, or more money on marketing their existing products than on developing new ones. Developing new pharmaceuticals is extremely costly in terms of both time and money, so pharmaceutical companies often rely on marketing to create demand and drive profits. Pharmaceutical marketing spending has increased substantially over the years, and prescription drug consumption by Americans has followed the same trend. A large volume of literature has been written on the subject of pharmaceutical marketing, and there is an ongoing debate about the ethicality of the practice. This is because the marketing of pharmaceuticals differs greatly in many respects from the marketing of other consumer products. Unlike other markets, there are multiple agents involved on both the demand side and the supply side. Although patients are the end-users, physicians are the ultimate gatekeepers of prescription medications. Thus, pharmaceutical companies direct their marketing efforts towards both patients and physicians in the form of Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTCA) and Direct to Physician Promotion (DTPP). This thesis aims to provide an in-depth description of both DTCA and DTPP and the impact of these practices on physicians, patients, and prescription volume. In doing so, this thesis will examine the evidence on both sides of the debate surrounding pharmaceutical marketing practices in order to shed light on the true nature of the current situation.Pharmaceutical Science

Reading “le grand livre de la Vie”: Roch Carrier’s Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune

The question of reading and writing occupies a central place in Roch Carrier's Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune, and is also fundamental to the short essay "Comment j'ai écrit Les enfants du bonhomme dans la lune" which appears in the 1983 edition. In the text, reading and writing are understood as an interpretation of the surrounding world; the book which Sister Brigitte teaches the children to read is Life. All of the characters engage in a more or less insightful "reading" of Life, and several stories — as well as Carrier's explanation of these stories — reveal a search for that mysterious point at which the secret of the earth will be disclosed. In interpreting the world, either in his "fiction" or "non-fiction," Carrier has embarked on a difficult journey; there is no book in which the totality of Life is apparent — past, present, and future\ — and no text that is a transparent vision of the entire world

The Impact of Environment on the Perception of Art

When we see a work of art, no matter the environmental setting, we have some sort of reaction to the piece. An analysis of some of the art housed in museums in New York City, Paris, and Rome, this thesis outlines some examples of different environmental factors affecting a viewer’s perception of that specific visual representation. The surrounding works, the accompanying wall texts and labels, as well as the structure of the building or specific room that houses the work, affects how a viewer might perceive it. Similar works offer different experiences when displayed in different places, such as Monet’s Water Lilies in MoMA and in the Musée de l’Orangerie. Other art pieces gain significance because of the harmony or contrast that they create with their surroundings--whether it be other paintings, as in the Frick Collection, or large machinery, as in the case of the Centrale Montemartini in Rome.Plan II Honors Progra

Review of F4transkript, a simple interface for efficient annotation

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Could parental rules play a role in the association between short sleep and obesity in young children?

Short sleep duration is associated with obesity in young children. This study develops the hypothesis that parental rules play a role in this association. Participants were 3-year-old children and their parents, recruited at nursery schools in socioeconomically deprived and non-deprived areas of a North-East England town. Parents were interviewed to assess their use of sleep, television-viewing and dietary rules, and given diaries to document their child's sleep for 4 days/5 nights. Children were measured for height, weight, waist circumference and triceps and subscapular skinfold thicknesses. One-hundred and eight families participated (84 with complete sleep data and 96 with complete body composition data). Parental rules were significantly associated together, were associated with longer night-time sleep and were more prevalent in the non-deprived-area compared with the deprived-area group. Television-viewing and dietary rules were associated with leaner body composition. Parental rules may in part confound the association between night-time sleep duration and obesity in young children, as rules cluster together across behavioural domains and are associated with both sleep duration and body composition. This hypothesis should be tested rigorously in large representative samples

The Individual Budgets Pilot Projects: Impact and Outcomes for Carers

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