Average Household Income in Relation to Individual Dietary Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables

The purpose of this analysis is to review data from the USDA Economic Research Survey in a data collection regarding FoodAPS National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey. Our data include a sample size of 4,826 participating households with 279 variables describing each household. Several variables were utilized which include average collective income for households, perceptions of fruit and vegetable prices and quality, self-reporting items about perceived fruit and vegetable consumption, and financial survey responses. With these chosen variables we made initial inferences that there would be a relationship between income and fruit consumption. We predict that throughout the duration of the study, we will find a relationship to explain how collective income affects recommended fruit and vegetable consumptions in households. We began our study by cleaning our data and variables as they pose relevance to our research. Then we began making graphs and charts of each variable to visually inspect univariate variables. When we begin running analysis, we will perform statistical testing to identify if there is a relationship between our independent variable (fruit and vegetable consumption) and our dependent variable (household income). Through the results of these, we can start making conclusions as to whether our hypothesis can be supported. Our analysis models will include frequency tables that will show various correlation coefficients between both our categorical and continuous variables and present any statistical relationship between our chosen variables. Finally, conclusions are drawn from T-tests to show our hypothesis and prediction is supported and that there is some relationship between our variables to show that average household income may influence fruit and vegetable consumption. If these results show predicted conclusions, we will have evidence that allow for policy change and public health advancements as it relates to ensuring individuals have readily access to healthy diets regardless of income

Identifying patient concerns during consultations in tertiary burns services: development of the Adult Burns Patient Concerns Inventory

ObjectivesIdentifying the issues and concerns that matter most to burns survivors can be challenging. For a number of reasons, but mainly relating to patient empowerment, some of the most pressing concerns patients may have during a clinical encounter may not naturally be the focal point of that encounter. The Patient Concerns Inventory (PCI) is a tried and tested concept initially developed in the field of head and neck cancer that empowers patients during a clinical encounter through provision of a list of prompts that allows patients to self-report concerns prior to consultation. The aim of this study was to develop a PCI for adult burns patients.DesignContent for the PCI was generated from three sources: burns health-related quality of life tools, thematic analysis of one-to-one interviews with 12 adult burns patients and 17 multidisciplinary team (MDT) members. Content was refined using a Delphi consensus technique, with patients and staff members, using SurveyMonkey.SettingWithin outpatient secondary care.ParticipantsTwelve adult burns patients and MDT members from two regional burns centres.ResultsA total of 111 individual items were generated from the three sources. The Delphi process refined the total number of items to 58. The main emergent domains were physical and functional well-being (18 items), psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being (22 items), social care and social well-being (7 items) and treatment-related concerns (11 items).ConclusionsThe Adult Burns Patient Concerns Inventory is a 58-item, holistic prompt list, designed to be used in the outpatient clinic. It offers a new tool in burn care to improve communication between healthcare professionals and patients, empowering them to identify their most pressing concerns and hence deliver a more focused and targeted patient-centred clinical encounter

Community Preparatory School: 2013-2014 Public Relations Plan

Community Prep sends out seasonal newsletters during fall, winter, spring, and summer of each year that promote recent activities in school, discuss recent events, profile important donors, and give updates on alumni’s successes. These newsletters are sent out in the mail, and are also accessible on Community Prep’s website. Each newsletter comes in one color, with black and white photographs, and has a readable and attractive layout. Email updates have similar information, but sometimes have embedded videos, and provide links to a site where donations can be made or tickets can be bought for future events

ZDNS: A Fast DNS Toolkit for Internet Measurement

Active DNS measurement is fundamental to understanding and improving the DNS ecosystem. However, the absence of an extensible, high-performance, and easy-to-use DNS toolkit has limited both the reproducibility and coverage of DNS research. In this paper, we introduce ZDNS, a modular and open-source active DNS measurement framework optimized for large-scale research studies of DNS on the public Internet. We describe ZDNS' architecture, evaluate its performance, and present two case studies that highlight how the tool can be used to shed light on the operational complexities of DNS. We hope that ZDNS will enable researchers to better -- and in a more reproducible manner -- understand Internet behavior.Comment: Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Internet Measurement Conference. 202

Social Freedom and Self-Actualization: “Normative Reconstruction” as a Theory of Justice

In Freedom's Right Axel Honneth seeks to provide a theory of justice by appropriatingHegel's account of ethical substance in the Philosophy of Right, but hewants to do sowithout endorsingHegel'smore robust idealist commitments. I argue that this project can only succeed if Honneth can offer an alternative, comparatively robust demonstration of the rationality and normative coherence of existing social institutions. I contend that the grounds Honneth provides for this claimare insufficient for his purposes. In particular, I argue that Honneth's claim that "justice and individual self-determination are mutually referential," even were it to be accepted, would be insufficient to underwrite hismore robust identification between the normative foundations of justice, autonomy and reciprocal self-realization. In the final section of the paper, I turn to Honneth's analysis of the "social institution" of friendship,which he, followingHegel, holds up as a paradigmatic instantiation of social freedom understood as, in Hegel's words, "being with oneself in another" (Beisichselbstsein in einem Anderen). I argue that an analysis of the normative import of friendship wholly in terms of mutual recognition misses an important aspect of the kind of self-realization that friendship makes possible

The Grizzly, October 30, 2008

Sounds of NYC Poet Tracie Morris • Plan to Vote? UC Students Take Note: Polling Location Change • Business Management Students Assist Charitable Causes • Colin Powell Publicly Endorses Obama • Young and Engaged: Planning for Life Beyond UC Years • Hingston of Philadelphia Speaks at UC • Faculty Spotlight on Philosophy Professor Kelly Sorensen • More from Students Studying Abroad: UC in Germany • Opinions: We Will Overcome: Positive Psychology in America; Logical Reason Behind Refusal to Vote; Controversy for the Republicans • Football Quarterback Nick Dye Great Leader for Young Team • Kelly Hosier: Sole, Shy Senior on UC Women\u27s Volleyball Teamhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1773/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 26, 2009

UC Major and Minor Fair • No More Daily Multivitamin Supplements • Japanese Teaching Assistant: Mina Asai • A Swimmin\u27 Senior • Grant for Diversity • Want & Marriage • UCEA to Raise Awareness in Community • VP of National Center for Drug-Free Sports Imparts Wisdom • Opinions: Theatre, Dance and Voice: Why No Musical?; My Momma Said: Wash Your Hands; Art and Skill of Piercings and Tattoos • Senior Cherson Swims Out of UC with Wisdom and No Regretshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1781/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, February 19, 2009

Opening Minds and Hearts • Alumni Advice • Lecturer Dr. Andrew Delbanco Reviews Lincoln Now and Then • Thai Spice is Giving You a Taste of a Different Part of Asia • Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Cautionary Reminder • Fresh Talent, New Face: Heather Dougherty Visits Ursinus • French TA Spotlight: Vincent Brousse • Opinions: Reading for Pleasure? Trilogies Will Have You Hooked; There is Always Time to Learn: Confessions of an Art Enthusiasthttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1780/thumbnail.jp

The Grizzly, April 30, 2009

UCDC: A Bright Present and Future • Out-of-Wedlock Pregnancies on Rise • CoSA: Research, Course Work and Talent • Earth Day Celebrations Go On All Week Long Here at Ursinus • Embodying the UC Experience: Dance, Sports and Biology • Jennifer Washington: Reflections on the UC Experience • Bringing the Midwest to the Northeast • Men\u27s Tennis Wraps Up Another Season • Remembering the Late Harry Kalashttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/grizzlynews/1788/thumbnail.jp