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Utilizing Community Resources to Reduce the Presence of Type 2 Diabetes in Rural Youth
The purpose of this study was to implement a program designed to promote diabetes prevention activities among preadolescents in a rural southern setting using a day camp intervention. Participants in the study were eleven youth from a rural Alabama county who participated in a week-long half-day camp administered by local and community volunteers. Change scores were used to compare pre- to post- to follow-up measures for camp participant responses. Program results consistently demonstrated that the day camp was theoretically sound and that program activities positively impacted behavioral antecedents. This study demonstrated the feasibility of conducting a diabetes prevention day camp in a rural environment. Insights from this intervention can assist planners in rural environments to tailor similar initiatives in rural settings. Given the complicated nature of behavior change, a day camp approach of this length does not modify the behaviors of participants. Behavior changes may take considerably longer to initiate
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Saponifiable and nonsaponifiable soxlet and cold solvent extracts of soil, carbonaceous meteorite, and sedimentary rocks studied by thin layer chromatography and spectroscop
Stabilizing the electroweak vacuum by higher dimensional operators in a Higgs-Yukawa model
The Higgs boson discovery at the LHC with a mass of approximately 126 GeV
suggests, that the electroweak vacuum of the standard model may be metastable
at very high energies. However, any new physics beyond the standard model can
change this picture. We want to address this important question within a
lattice Higgs-Yukawa model as the limit of the standard model (SM). In this
framework we will probe the effect of a higher dimensional operator for which
we take a -term. Such a term could easily originate as
a remnant of physics beyond the SM at very large scales.
As a first step we investigate the phase diagram of the model including such
a operator. Exploratory results suggest the existence
of regions in parameter space where first order transitions turn to second
order ones, indicating the existence of a tri-critical line. We will explore
the phase structure and the consequences for the stability of the SM, both
analytically by investigating the constraint effective potential in lattice
perturbation theory, and by studying the system non-perturbatively using
lattice simulations.Comment: 7 pages, 6 figures; Proceedings of the 31st International Symposium
on Lattice Field Theory - LATTICE 201
Mechanical testing of advanced coating system, volume 1
The Electron Beam Physical Vapor Deposition (EBPVD) coating material has a highly columnar microstructure, and as a result it was expected to have very low tensile strength. To be able to fabricate the required compression and tensile specimens, a substrate was required to provide structural integrity for the specimens. Substrate and coating dimensions were adjusted to provide sufficient sensitivity to resolve the projected loads carried by the EBPVD coating. The use of two distinctively different strain transducer systems, for tension and compression loadings, mandated two vastly different specimen geometries. Compression specimen and tensile specimen geometries are given. Both compression and tensile test setups are described. Data reduction mathematical models are given and discussed in detail as is the interpretation of the results. Creep test data is also given and discussed
Fatigue testing of plasma-sprayed thermal barrier coatings, volume 2
A plasma sprayed thermal barrier coating for diesel engines were fatigue tested. Candidate thermal barrier coating materials were fatigue screened and a data base was generated for the selected candidate material. Specimen configurations are given for the bend fatigue tests, along with test setup, specimen preparation, test matrix and procedure, and data analysis
Multi-jet cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at next-to-leading order
We present the perturbative prediction for three-jet production cross section
in DIS at the NLO accuracy. We study the dependence on the renormalization and
factorization scales of exclusive three-jet cross section. The perturbative
prediction for the three-jet differential distribution as a function of the
momentum transfer is compared to the corresponding data obtained by the H1
collaboration at HERA.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure
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