You Can’t “Nudge” Nuggets: An Investigation of Late Night Dining With Behavioral Economics Interventions

A mixed-methods approach was used to evaluate and improve the “Late-Night Dining” options in a university dining hall. Surveys assessed student desires around Late-Night offerings, and evaluated students’ habits and motivations during Late-Night. Two interventions based on the principles of behavioral economics were implemented to see if students could be “nudged” into making healthier choices. In the first, a “veggie-heavy” entrée was added at the beginning of the entrée line, so that students would substitute a healthier entrée for the less healthy alternatives. In the second, a healthy snack-food bar was set up to cater to students who didn’t want to stand in the long entrée line. Data on food choice was collected during the interventions. Survey responses showed significant differences in the reasons females and males utilized Late-Night Dining (p Following our interventions, Dining Services continued to offer the healthy snack bar, and veggie-heavy entrées were included in the rotation of Late-Night entrée options

Between Codes and Palimpsest: Stephanie Strickland's Dragon Logic

This article will study the impact of programming languages on poetic language in Stephanie Strickland’s print poetry collection Dragon Logic (2013). In this article, I argue that Dragon Logic not only ponders on the changes that occur in contemporary literature with the invasion of digital technologies, but it also articulates via the use of the print form certain concerns relating to the electronic, and finally helps readers reinvent the way one reads a print book. This article follows the theoretical insights provided by N. Katherine Hayles about the connection of natural language and computer code, as well as the different reading practices that are brought forward by computation. Through a selection of close readings of poems in Dragon Logic, I will discuss the layering of codes and how this layering affects the ways natural language is informed by programming language via feedback loops, a process that by extension influences not only human readers but also reading machines.

An Introduction to CMJ

Welcome to the Cambridge Medical Journal. First published in 1978, representing the work of the students of Cambridge Clinical School, the journal covers a wide range of topics relating to medicine. In 2010, 32 years on, we are bringing the CMJ up to date with an online only version. Covering new sections, the new CMJ aims to be more accessible and useful to its readership, as well as expanding its reach

Marketing Plan: Increasing Access & Creating a Local Voice

Too many youth in Santa Cruz County are not seeing their basic needs being met. Basic needs of residents include education, health and financial stability, three of the main focuses described in United Way of Santa Cruz County’s (UWSCC) mission. The pandemic has only exacerbated the effects that low-income families and individuals have experienced, with youth at the forefront of those affected. UWSCC aims it’s programming towards local at-risk youth, providing needed support services and resources to the community. When systems for distributing these services and resources were switched from in-person to predominantly virtual pathways, it became harder for low-income families in the county to meet these basic needs. Having internet access at home is a luxury that many did not consider prior to the COVID-19 outbreak. If needs go unmet for a prolonged period of time, growing age youth see higher rates of homelessness, as well as increased physical and mental health related needs. This paper will describe the marketing plan created for UWSCC’s Marketing and Resource Development department to help streamline outreach to youth in the county who could use the support services available. The project was successful in creating an organizational tool that can be used as a reference for maintaining a consistent and structured presence on social media, using a localized tone to increase organizational engagement over time

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Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII

A review of Justin Clemens and Russell Grigg (eds.), Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII, Duke University Press, 2006. ISBN: 0-8223-3719-3.A new book that brings together 16 essays, mostly all commentaries upon Lacan's Seminar XVII, known asThe other Side of Psychoanalysis;. Topics include the four discourses, the relation between psychoanalysis and contemporary social discourses, the question of social change, the relationship between psychoanalysis and politics, and the structuring function of the Oedipus complex