Implementing New Practices in Mental Health: Implementation Climate and Collaborative Learning

Fourth Student Poster Presentation. Presenter: Yiwen Cao - "Implementing New Practices in Mental Health: Implementation Climate and Collaborative Learning"The Ohio State University College of Social WorkThe College of Social Work Doctoral Student Organizatio

Examine participant dropout, undiagnosed diabetes and undiagnosed prediabetes in a chronic disease prevention education program

There were 2768 participants enrolled in a chronic disease prevention education program. Survey and health measurements were obtained at three time points. We examine potential factors that might contribute to participant dropout, undiagnosed diabetes and undiagnosed prediabetes respectively. Logistic regression was used to examine the association between participant dropout and predictors, and to compare the odds of being undiagnosed with diabetes and prediabetes. We found that the potential predictors for participant dropout included age, employment, insurance, diabetes, self-reported health status, session type, program duration and curriculum. Factors affecting undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes were age, self-reported health status birth country, limited by problems, family history of diabetes, baseline BMI and fruit and vegetable intake. This research is informative to prevent the participant dropout from prevention education program and reduce rates of undiagnosed diabetes and prediabetes on the U.S.-Mexico border

How to improve the risk management system of Zhongtai securities company

According to the research, it is shown that the economic profits losses caused by single profit model that treats only one business as core business and potential risks may be reduced by the risk management system. To verify this, I did an internship in Zhongtai securities company to learn about its risk management system and give proper suggestions to improve this system . Finally, this report will also attempt to predict the future development of Zhongtai securities company under the new policy of the Belt and Road

Point-of-Sale Marketing in Recreational Marijuana Dispensaries Around California Schools.

PurposeAfter marijuana commercialization, the presence of recreational marijuana dispensaries (RMDs) was rapidly increasing. The point-of-sale marketing poses concerns about children's exposure. This study examined advertising and promotions that potentially appeal to children and access restrictions in RMDs around California schools.MethodsThis was a cross-sectional and observational study conducted from June to September 2018. Trained fieldworkers audited retail environments in 163 RMDs in closest proximity to 333 randomly sampled public schools in California.ResultsAbout 44% of schools had RMDs located within 3 miles. Regarding interior marketing, 74% of RMDs had at least one instance of child-appealing products, packages, paraphernalia, or advertisements. RMDs closer to a school had a higher proportion with interior child-appealing marketing. More than three fourths of RMDs had generic promotional activities; particularly, 28% violated the free-sample ban. Regarding exterior marketing, only 2% of RMDs had those appealing to children. More than 60% of RMDs had exterior signs indicative of marijuana. Approximately, one-third had generic advertisements, and 13% had advertisements bigger than 1,600 square inches. Regarding access restrictions, almost all RMDs complied with age verification, but 84% had no age limit signs, and only 40% had security personnel.ConclusionsDespite minimal point-of-sale marketing practices appealing to children on the exterior of RMDs around California schools, such practices were abundant on the interior. Marketing practices not specifically appealing to children were also common on both the interior and exterior of RMDs. Dispensaries' violation of age verification law, lack of security personnel, and presence of child-appealing marketing should be continuously monitored and prevented

Experimental demonstrations of high-Q superconducting coplanar waveguide resonators

We designed and successfully fabricated an absorption-type of superconducting coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators. The resonators are made from a Niobium film (about 160 nm thick) on a high-resistance Si substrate, and each resonator is fabricated as a meandered quarter-wavelength transmission line (one end shorts to the ground and another end is capacitively coupled to a through feedline). With a vector network analyzer we measured the transmissions of the applied microwave through the resonators at ultra-low temperature (e.g., at 20 mK), and found that their loaded quality factors are significantly high, i.e., up to 10^6. With the temperature increases slowly from the base temperature (i.e., 20 mK), we observed the resonance frequencies of the resonators are blue shifted and the quality factors are lowered slightly. In principle, this type of CPW-device can integrate a series of resonators with a common feedline, making it a promising candidate of either the data bus for coupling the distant solid-state qubits or the sensitive detector of single photons.Comment: Accepted by Chinese Science Bulleti