Increasing awareness of healthy eating through the use of performing arts: An evaluation of the StarBites project

This project report discusses an evaluation of StarBites - a joint initiative between the arts for health and foods for health strands of Halton's Healthy Living Programme. StarBites aims to convey healthy eating messages through drama, dance, poetry, and music performed by school children.Halton's Healthy Living programm

A Review of the Literature on Self-Care Children: A Need for Empirical Studies

The term self-care child\u27\u27 refers to a young child who returns from school and remains at home unsupervised for an indefinite period until the parents arrive from work, or one who is alone before school in the mornings. In this paper, the emotional functioning, social functioning, and academic performance of self-care children were compared to adult-supervised children. Also, programs designed for self-care children were examined. When examining the current literature on the self-care child regarding loneliness, anxiety and behavior problems, susceptibility to peer pressure, sexuality, social functioning, and academic performance, no significant differences were found between self-care and adult-supervised children. Much of the current literature, however, lacks consistency in quality. Empirical studies, with proven measures, need to be conducted before any definite conclusions are made about self-care children

A Review of the Literature on Self-Care Children: A Need for Empirical Studies

The term self-care child\u27\u27 refers to a young child who returns from school and remains at home unsupervised for an indefinite period until the parents arrive from work, or one who is alone before school in the mornings. In this paper, the emotional functioning, social functioning, and academic performance of self-care children were compared to adult-supervised children. Also, programs designed for self-care children were examined. When examining the current literature on the self-care child regarding loneliness, anxiety and behavior problems, susceptibility to peer pressure, sexuality, social functioning, and academic performance, no significant differences were found between self-care and adult-supervised children. Much of the current literature, however, lacks consistency in quality. Empirical studies, with proven measures, need to be conducted before any definite conclusions are made about self-care children

Digitization and Digital Preservation: A Review of the Literature

Digitization and digital preservation are rapidly becoming the standard forms of preservation for libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions, yet there is still much confusion as to what they mean and how they are meant to be used. Through a review of the recent literature, this paper aims to define both concepts, as well as find some of the common challenges associated with these preservation processes. Different preservation methods, collaboration techniques, and metadata schema are also discussed

Thermochronology and provenance of the Yakutat terrane, southern Alaska based on fission-track and U/Pb analysis of detrital zircon

Northward transport of the Yakutat terrane along the Transition and Queen Charlotte-Fairweather transform faults led to Neogene collision of the Yakutat terrane with the southern continental Alaska margin. Northward translation resulted in a stratigraphy that records the erosion of thermotectonic terranes along its path. The strata of the Yakutat terrane includes the Lower Oligocene to Lower Eocene Kulthieth Formation, the Upper Eocene to Lower Miocene Poul Creek Formation and the Miocene-Pleistocene Yakataga Formation. Detrital zircon fission-track (DZFT) ages from stratigraphically coordinated samples collected in the Northern Robinson Mountains yield provenance information of the units that can shed light on their transport history. For all dated samples 50 grains were counted and morphology/color noted and grain ages were deconvolved into component populations. The Kulthieth Formation has three primary cooling age populations at ~70-97 Ma, 38-58 Ma and 28-31 Ma. The Poul Creek Formation has three primary cooling age populations at ~61-67 Ma, 39-42 Ma and 24-33 Ma. The Yakataga Formation has three primary cooling age populations at ~68-77 Ma, 30-35 Ma and 15-21 Ma. The DZFT grains were then analyzed by LA-ICPMS to determine U/Pb crystallization ages. For the Yakataga Formation three crystallization peak age populations resulted: ~52 Ma, ~71 Ma and ~155 Ma. For the Poul Creek Formation four crystallization peak ages resulted: ~59 Ma, ~71 Ma, ~94 Ma, and ~147 Ma. Three grains yielded U/Pb ages of ~318 Ma, ~365 Ma, ~1864.71 Ma. Analysis of the Kulthieth Formation resulted in three U/Pb crystallization age populations of ~59 Ma, ~94 Ma, and ~159 Ma.Paleocene to Eocene deposition of the Yakutat terrane stratigraphy records a long-lived, non-volcanic source terrain that crystallized from ~50-220 Ma and cooled from ~48-110 Ma. Miocene cooling episodes in the Kulthieth and the Poul Creek Formations likely records deposition associated with plutons located in the northern Coast Plutonic Complex and the Kuiu-Etoilin belt in the North American Cordillera. Late Miocene deposition of the Yakataga Formation records a provenance signal of crystallization from ~50-53 Ma and cooled from ~17-20 Ma. Late Miocene deposition is likely associated with the Chugach accretionary complex and superimposed Sanak-Baranof Plutonic Belt (~50-58 Ma).The uniform provenance of the Kulthieth and Poul Creek Formations, the overall grain-age distribution, and the distinct lack of volcanic zircons favors northern reconstructions (i. e. Plafker et al., 1994) for the original position of the Yakutat terrane. Southern options (i.e. Bruns, 1982), can be ruled out mainly due to the lack of volcanic grains that would be expected in the stratigraphy during continuous transport of the terrane along route

A Review of the Literature on Self-Care Children: A Need for Empirical Studies

The term self-care child\u27\u27 refers to a young child who returns from school and remains at home unsupervised for an indefinite period until the parents arrive from work, or one who is alone before school in the mornings. In this paper, the emotional functioning, social functioning, and academic performance of self-care children were compared to adult-supervised children. Also, programs designed for self-care children were examined. When examining the current literature on the self-care child regarding loneliness, anxiety and behavior problems, susceptibility to peer pressure, sexuality, social functioning, and academic performance, no significant differences were found between self-care and adult-supervised children. Much of the current literature, however, lacks consistency in quality. Empirical studies, with proven measures, need to be conducted before any definite conclusions are made about self-care children

A Retrospective Comparative Analysis of a CMS Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Measure: Are We Improving Care?

This paper is a retrospective analysis of the pre- and post-implementation of a CMS quality measure designed for its Nursing Home Compare Five-Star Quality Rating System. The measure, Percentage of short-stay residents who have had an outpatient emergency room visit (Medicare claims-based) introduced in 2016, was added due to the increasing rates of resident transfers to acute-care facilities. The skilled nursing facility’s performance outcomes of this measure will determine payment by CMS as part of the new skilled nursing facility value-based purchasing program (SNF VBP), which is set to be implemented in 2019. Methods: Information found in the Skilled Nursing Facility records within the Medicare 5% national sample data set comprised the data for the study. Time frames for the applicable data were from January through December of 2015 and January through December 2016. Data was selected for all nursing home residents with a nursing home stay of 30 days or less (short-stay residents). Results: A total of 126,098 patients were examined within the dataset, 63,546 discharges were included for 2015 and 62,552 discharges for 2016. A total of 39,275 patients were transferred from a SNF to the hospital with 20,248 (31.86%) transferred in the pre-quality measure implementation year, and 19,027 (30.42%) in the post quality improvement year. The percent of patients who were transferred to a hospital declined from 31.9% in 2015 to 30.4% in 2016. Conclusion: The rate of transfer of short-stay SNF residents was reduced in the post-quality measure implementation year 2016. It is unknown if the reduction in transfers was a direct result of the implementation of the quality measure or due to other causes. Answering this question warrants the need for future research

Curriculum Studies the Creative Student: A Winnicottian Literary Analysis

Generalizations are made regarding the importance of creativity because creativity is considered to be the hallmark that sets humans apart from other animals. Creativity is a highly coveted gift that allows people the outlet by which to achieve greater joy, fulfillment, and meaning in their lives. However, relatively little is known about the origins of creativity and how to achieve greater creativity. Hoping to improve the quality of life of individuals and society, this dissertation examines the creativity that first springs up between a child and parent. In researching the relationship between children and parents, I draw heavily from the theories of Dr. Donald W. Winnicott, an English pediatrician and psychoanalyst who lived from 1896 to 1971. Winnicott\u27s experience with children enabled him to develop many innovative and lasting contributions to psychoanalytic theory, including his transitional object and potential space theories, which explain the first creative act of a child using its imagination to create his or her reality. In addition to Winnicott, I utilize the works of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, James Hillman, Marion Milner, Hanna Segal, Michael Parsons, Michael Eigen, Christopher Bollas, and Adam Phillips, who have theorized psychoanalytic principles of creativity and who comprise the first body of literature. The second body of literature that addresses the curriculum aspects of creativity includes Maxine Greene, Madeleine Grumet, Marla Morris, Mary Aswell Doll, Deborah Britzman, and Martha Nussbaum. These authors are directly concerned with sparking creativity and imagination through literature in students. Witnessing firsthand transitional phenomena in my own children, I see the offshoots of transitional phenomena in my language arts classroom. In the curriculum studies field, much has been written about the relationships between students and teachers, but much more needs to be explored as to the beginning relationship between parent and child. Further, the connection between this first relationship between mother and child and its affects on a child\u27s remaining formal education needs to be examined more completely. My contribution to the field of Curriculum Studies is to address the earliest relationship between parents and children and theorize how this initial relationship affects the continued education of children today. This work examines the connection between the first transitional phenomena that occur between the child and parents and the subsequent ability of the child to use transitional phenomena through language arts to enhance the ability to live creatively