Yoga and Its Influence on Children\u27s Behavior

This study looked at the impact ten minutes of daily yoga had on the behavior of elementary school children. Yoga was led by classroom teachers once daily for ten minutes over a sixteen-week period. At weeks one, eight, and sixteen, classroom teachers evaluated student behavior in six categories: personal awareness, attention, rapport with friends, rapport with teacher, following rules and transition between activities. The teachers rated the behaviors on a never, sometimes, mostly or always scale. The data was then analyzed and interpreted. Results revealed a significant difference in the attention, ability to follow rules, transition between activities, and personal awareness from the beginning of the yoga implementation to the eight-week evaluation. Results suggest that implementing yoga into daily routines for elementary school students will improve their behavior

Apparatus for measuring electric field strength on the surface of a model vehicle Patent

Space environment simulation system for measuring spacecraft electric field strength in plasma sheat

RESEARCH AND ADVERTISING DECISIONS IN AN OPEN ECONOMY: THE CASE OF COLOMBIAN MILDS COFFEE

Research and advertising investment both offer the potential to increase producer surplus. A model is developed that includes applied research and generic advertising with the aim of measuring marginal and optimal returns from each. While applicable to specific firm behavior, the model is applied to data from the world coffee market, with particular focus on Kenyan and Colombian producer groups.Marketing, Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies,

Missy ‘Misdemeanor’ Elliott: Rapping on the Frontiers of Female Identity

This paper provides an analysis of Missy Elliott as a contemporary icon, using the innovation and creativity of two of her music videos (One Minute Man and She’s A Bitch), as media texts that both illuminate and disrupt feminist frameworks of identity. This paper begins with a discussion of the ways in which Elliott subverts and revises cultural signifiers; particular attention is paid to female embodiment and sexuality, blackness and power. The paper moves to discuss the visual landscape created through this cultural play, and explores this terrain through the theoretical frameworks of science fiction and technology. This paper then turns to the idea of female patterns of identity as developed by Christine Battersby in The Phenomenal Woman; a framework which holds on to both a fluid and re-constructed female identity. It is the argument of this paper that Elliott gives creative expression to this philosophical position; illustrating the fluid and changeable patterns of identity that limitlessly re-configure in ways that retain political potency

Making Public Media Personal: Nostalgia and Reminiscence in the Office

In this paper we explore the notion of creating personally evocative collections of content from publicly available material. Compared to the personal media that we look at, reminisce over, or personalise our offices with, public media offers the potential for a different type of nostalgia, signifiers of an era such as entertainment, products, or fashions. We focus on an office environment, where the use of filtered public media may mitigate concerns over protecting privacy and disclosing too much of one's identity, while keeping the existing benefits of office personalisation in terms of reminiscence, improving mood, and developing identity. After preliminary explorations of content and form, we developed a two-screen ambient display that cycled through 500 images automatically retrieved based on four simple user questions. We ran a two-week trial of the display with six users. We present qualitative results of the trial from which we see that it is possible to bring the delight associated with personal content into the workplace, while being mindful of issues of appropriateness and privacy. Images of locations from childhood were particularly evocative for all participants, while simple objects such as stickers, music, or boardgames were more varied across participants. We discuss a number of avenues for future work in the workplace and beyond: improving the chance of an evocative moment, capturing the mundane, and the crowdsourcing of nostalgia

Problem based learning: Developing competency in knowledge integration in health design

Different communities, organizations, and people hold different views on their own and others wellbeing. It is often challenging to balance different perspectives during the design process when the truth of medicine is competing with the truth of social media and the everyday experience of wellbeing of patients, caregivers, family and friends. In the context of the Masters of Health Design at OCAD University, we develop students’ competency in working with truth through challenging students to engage with multiple ‘truths’ in the design process, engaging deliberately in identifying and working with multiple truth regimes as part of a problem based learning approach. This includes how truth regimes impact the understanding of a challenge area, techniques for engaging with stakeholders, communicating and developing concepts, and the process of seeking and working with feedback for refining and iterating, and finally in communicating project solutions. By engaging in problem based learning, students are exposed to the real challenges of different stakeholder perspectives and in particular how different truth regimes serve to impact what counts as legitimate knowledge and legitimate knowledge representation

Research on ion beam diagnostics Final report

Research on ion beam diagnostic

PENGARUH LAMA PENYIMPANAN DAN KONSENTRASI EKSTRAK BUNGA TAPAK DARA TERHADAP AKTIVITAS ANTIOKSIDAN DAN KARAKTERISTIK KEFIR

Tanaman tapak dara diketahui memiliki khasiat kesehatan, karena mengandung beberapa senyawa fenolik dan volatil. Saat ini, pengembangan produk pangan fungsional masih menjadi tren di bidang teknologi pangan. Salah satu produk minuman yang dikenal efek kesehatannya yaitu minuman fermentasi kefir. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh penambahan ekstrak tapak dara pada kefir terhadap karakteristik kimia, mikrobiologi dan aktivitas antioksidan. Konsentrasi penambahan ekstrak tapak dara yaitu 0; 3%; 6%; dan 12%, serta lama penyimpanan yaitu 0; 7 hari; dan 14 hari diamati agar diperoleh karakteristik kefir tapak dara terbaik. Hasil penelitian diperoleh analisis kadar abu, total padatan, kadar protein dan kadar lemak dari semua sampel kefir menunjukkan nilai gizi yang sesuai dalam standar Codex nomor 243-2013  Susu fermentasi berperisai. Karakteristik mikrobiologi dari kefir tidak berpengaruh terhadap penambahan tapak dara namun berpengaruh pada lama penyimpanan. Sedangkan aktivitas antioksidan yang diuji dengan metode DPPH menunjukkan bahwa aktivitas antioksidan semakin meningkat dengan semakin bertambah besar konsentrasi ekstrak tapak dara yang di tambahkan. Karakteristik dari sampel kefir dengan penambahan ekstrak tapak dara 12% dan penyimpanan selama 7 hari mengandung kadar abu 6,90%, total padatan 11,12%, kadar protein 4,70%, kadar lemak 4,52%, total BAL 9,07 log cfu/ml, total khamir 6,71 log  cfu/ml, total asam 0,59%, kadar alkohol 0,51% dan aktivitas antioksidan 77,9%

Interaction Between Ion Beams and Plasmas

Interaction between low energy cesium ion beam and thermal cesium plasm