Increasing Physical Activity Intent in the 50 and Older Population

Background: Older adults are living longer, developing more physical disabilities, and are spending a significant amount of money on chronic preventable conditions. Applying a moderate to vigorous physical activity (PA) regimen of at least 150 minutes a week can prevent certain chronic conditions, improve or prevent declining physical abilities, and lead the older adult to live a more satisfying life. Implementing a new regimen is difficult, and practitioners can assist by providing older adults education regarding the benefits of physical activity, national recommendation of PA for the older adult, and resources for application of PA in the home and community. The Health Belief Model (HBM) was used as a guide to identify the common variables of human behaviors, which can be altered to create positive health outcomes for an individual. Objective: The purpose of this DNP project was to increase the intent of the older adult individuals at the Abundant Health Family Practice to meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention moderate intensity PA recommendations of 150 minutes per week, through the theoretical framework of the Health Belief Model and educational interventions. Design: Two-group post-test quality improvement project Setting: Abundant Health Family Practice. October 1, 2019 – October 8, 2019. Participants: Older adults over the age of 50 who had a preexisting scheduled primary care appointment. Measurements: Participants were surveyed after their primary care scheduled appointment. General background, demographic data, and data-on participants current PA practices and future PA practices was collected. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Findings: There were 20 participants who started and completed the post-survey. Ten were included in the standard appointment group and 10 were a part of the PA education group. The demographics were similarly distributed between both groups. The PA education group had 20% higher scores on the Likert scale when asked if they intended to increase weekly PA. The average mean answer was also higher in the PA group when the participant was asked about belief on importance of exercise, barrier to benefits, and self-efficacy

Broken contract : : a people\u27s history of CSU Monterey Bay, 1994-2004 ...

The only part of the vision that I think is alive is the constant questioning of where is the vision. In other words, there is still enough memory in this place for people to invoke the vision statement when they\u27re disappointed. Anonymous Staff Member. The university administration\u27s history of CSU Monterey Bay starkly contrasts with the experiences many members of the campus community have had: that of a campus of broken promises, vindictive suppression of the outspoken, and an empty commitment to its Vision Statement. This history, a people\u27s history, seeks to show that other perspective: that marginalized voice, that silenced student, that disappeared professor. This project is an attempt to document a people\u27s history -a chronicling of struggles, movements, moments, and acts of resistance against decisions and actions perpetrated by a university administration that often marginalized and silenced members of the campus community and undermined the spirit of the university Vision Statement. This is a story, a history, and a tactics guide for the campus community. The stories collected for this project came from interviews, emails, letters, articles, and dissertations. This a collection of voices lifted from forgotten letters, taken from seditious pamphlets, mined from whispers and rumors, taken from names etched onto sidewalks with chalk, words ripped through the air from a bullhorn. Each voice, whether it\u27s a whisper from the disappeared or a cry from the ignored, joins this swelling chorus of voices that collectively rises to say once more, you will not write us off

Castle Pinckney: Past, Present, Future

Castle Pinckney is one of a few surviving \u27castle\u27 style forts. At the time of Castle Pinckney\u27s construction in 1811 these all masonry, circular, casemated fortifications were a revolutionary experiment in military architecture, inspired by the theories of the foremost military engineers in the world. The southern theater of the War of 1812 never materialized, and Castle Pinckney was not called upon to demonstrate its superior tactical capabilities. As military technology progressed during the nineteenth century, Castle Pinckney became increasingly outdated, but its strategic location in Charleston Harbor caused its continued use as an important military post during the Nullification Crisis, the Civil War, and events in between. Today Castle Pinckney is a ruin, but it remains a spectacular cultural, historic, and archeological resource. During nearly a century of neglect, the fort and its surroundings have been reclaimed by nature, whose destructive forces have wreaked havoc on the historic masonry structure. The preservation and interpretation of Castle Pinckney faces significant obstacles: the masonry\u27s instability, the exposed and isolated location of the site, the significant cost of any contemplated work, and many more. This thesis seeks to dispel the oft-held notion that Castle Pinckney was nothing but an insignificant spectator to the more important events in Charleston Harbor by presenting evidence of the fort\u27s architectural significance as well as its participation in events of local and national importance. After establishing the site\u27s unique historic significance, this thesis will survey the existing conditions of the fort\u27s surviving masonry walls to assess the threats to their stability and provide a substantiated claim for remediation where necessary. Finally, this thesis provides a vision for the future of Castle Pinckney which promotes its potential as a unique cultural heritage tourism site

The Griffin Plan for Shanghai, 1904-1906

An event in Yokohama in January 1906 – the accidental death of the Chinese trade commissioner to Japan, Huang Kaijia (1860-1906)– seems to have ended one of the most intriguing city planning ventures of the early modern era. Two years previously, as Imperial Vice Commissioner to the St Louis Exposition, Huang Kaijia was almost certainly the ‘delegate from the Chinese government’ who commissioned the design of a ‘new city at Shanghai’ from the American architect and landscape architect Walter Burley Griffin (1876-1937). This paper reviews the testimony emanating from Griffin and his colleagues on which the claim for a Shanghai city plan from 1904-1906 is based; the modernising impulses in Shanghai at the time; and the broader context of ‘New China’ reforms initiated by the Qing Dynasty in the first decade of the twentieth century. From the available descriptions, the following details of the proposal can be established. First, the project was a Chinese initiative, not a ‘colonial’ venture associated with the Foreign Settlements. Second, the proposal involved ‘a modern city on a new site’ located ‘a few miles’ from the traditional walled city. Third, the project was conceived as an alternative to the ‘narrow streets, swarming tenements and insanitary areas’ of the ‘old city’ – and, indeed, included the proposal to ‘abandon the old city.’ Fourth, Griffin ‘drew the plans for the new Shanghai in detail.’ Based on archival research, critical review of contemporary newspaper accounts and recent scholarship on the ‘tradition vs modernity’ debate in Chinese historiography, the paper seeks to address the question, what does the fragmentary evidence of the ‘Griffin Plan for Shanghai’ tell us about innovation and change in urban thinking before the Chinese of revolution of 1911; the continuity of ideas across the revolutionary divide; and the distinctive fusion of modernity and poetic power in the successor to the Shanghai scheme in the Griffin oeuvre, the winning entry in the Australian Federal Capital competition of 1911-1912

Canberra – Cultural Controversies and Urban Change in a Capital City Region

Making international headline news, the uncontrollable forest fires that have devastated much of Australia in the summer of 2019/2020 have added a dramatic sense of urgency to the focus of this paper on cultural controversies in Canberra – controversies that relate to key themes of the REALCORP 2020 conference: the links between climate change and immanent natural disasters; the problematic co-ordination of urban development among urban and regional authorities; the conflict-ridden connections between public planning and real estate interests; and the role of civil society in the urban transformation process. The Australian Federal Capital has come a long way from its conception as a physical expression of parliamentary democracy designed in 1911 for a new, progressive nation, hailed at the time in Germany as ‘The Social Continent.’ Cultural controversies on ideals and issues such as urban vs. suburban ideal concepts, leasehold vs. freehold land, and welfare state politics vs. market-led development were reflected in the growth and change of the capital during the 20th century. By 1988, urban development under conditions of high planning control on leasehold land had led to the production of a city that could be summarized as ‘a perfectionist garden city metropolis.’ This paper focuses on transformations that have eroded this ideal in recent years through a combination of dysfunctional inter-governmental relations, neoliberal policies, power plays among public and private actors, and superficial populism. In 1988, withdrawal of the Federal Government from most of its responsibilities for Canberra plunged the city into a fundamental crisis in term of its role and identity, its administration and its finance throwing up questions such as: Do we need a national capital at all? If so, which functions should the capital cater for? Should certain government departments be relocated to regional districts (preferably at the seat of the Federal politicians lobbying for such a strategy)? Does it make sense to maintain the ambitions the founders of Canberra had for creating a model city, ‘The Pride of Time’ or should Canberra pursue a path of ‘normalization’ by following the ‘business as usual’ pattern that characterizes urbandevelopment in most other Australian cities? Isn’t public planning an expression of ‘nanny state’ ideologies anyway? And above all, how should the burden of national and local expenses for the capital be divided? At the administrative level, Canberra was subjected to years of turbulent change, with negative consequences at many levels including poorly devolved responsibility for forest management. This contributed to theconditions for a devastating bush fire in 2003, a harbinger of the fires of 2019/2020, played out in a political climate of climate change denial. Establishment of new suburbs on the burnt-out western flank of the city, exposed to the same threat of wildfire as in 2003 are an ominous sign of a development ethos that has put real estate interests above sound planning principles. In another instance, independent review by the Auditor General of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) exposed a serious “lack of transparency and accountability” in the way in which the ACT government mingled public and private real estate interests – an issue of continuing concern, particularly given the ACT’s recent agreement to cross-border development on rural lands long-held by land owners in the state of New South Wales. A core issue is that Federal Government divestment of all responsibilities beyond core national capital functions has meant that a substantial part of Canberra’s local government revenue has been financed through the sale of greenfield land. Since this approach is unsustainable given the limited extent of developable land in the ACT, strategies have been adopted which have culminated in densification through high-rise luxury apartment blocks. The upshot has been an intense cultural controversy driven by a remarkably crude and aggressive campaign by local politicians in unison with one of the biggest local developers ridiculing the planning approaches of the past and literally smashing the long-established image of Canberra as ‘The Bush Capital, ’ a city oriented on the Australian landscape. Even the way in which the introduction of light rail is linked into this process does not come as the desired triumph of sustainability. One of the many issues there is that it is partly financed through the relocation of public housing to bushfire prone areas at the edge of the city. In the context of these cultural controversies, Canberra’s civil society is beginning to raise its voice, but is still struggling to do so in a way that ensures more than sporadic victories

Tinkering with Comments: Tailoring Practice by Spying on Written Artifacts

Using data from two IRB-approved research studies, this panel presentation explores methods of and uses for coding tutors\u27 and writers\u27 written comments about documents. Half the presentation focuses on asynchronous online tutorial comments, and the other half focuses on graduate writing group members\u27 comments on their peers\u27 documents. The presentation demonstrates how coding methods have implications for writing center programming because they help us identify areas for potential additional tutor training by highlighting what tutors actually do in online sessions and because they clarify the type of positive impact a writing group might have over time

Virus Amplification

Sorghum is the fifth most produced cereal in the world and a source of nutrients for humans, feeding more than 500 million people in Africa and Asia [1]. It is grown commercially for food, animal feed, fiber and fuel in roughly 100 countries including U.S. [2]. Worldwide, feeding by 150 insect species causes substantial economic damage to sorghum [3]. Besides feeding damage, aphids such as the Corn Leaf Aphid vector Sugarcane mosaic virus (SCMV), Sorghum mosaic virus (SRMV), Maize mosaic virus (MDMV) and Johnson grass mosaic virus (JGMV) [4]. These are Potyviruses, the largest group of the Potyviridae family with 176 members [5] and cause substantial yield losses to sorghum, sugarcane, and maize. SCMV, SRMV, and MDMV are closely related whereas JGMV is more distantly related to them [6]. All have an average 9.7 kb positive-sense single-stranded RNA genome encoding 10 mature proteins in a single large ORF [7]

Characterization of booster-rocket propellants and their simulants

A series of shock-loading experiments on a composite and an energietic propellant and there simulants was conducted on a light-gas gun. The initial objectives were to obtain Hugoniot data, to investigate the pressure threshold at which a reaction occurs, and to measure spall threshold at various impact velocities. The Hugoniot data measured for the propellants fit the Hugoniot curves provided by the manufacturer of the propellants extremely well and the Hugoniot curves developed for the simulants matched those of the propellants. Threshold pressures to initiate reactions in the composite and energetic propellants were found to be 40 and 3 kbars, respectively. In spall tests, the composite propellant and its simulant exhibited spall strengths around 0.25 and 0.18 kbar, respectively. The energetic propellant and its simulant were somewhat stronger with spall strengths just above 0.33 and 0.22 kbar. 12 refs., 6 figs., 6 tabs