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Operation Nutrition: Assessment of California National Guard On Their Mission Toward Better Health
Operation Nutrition was executed in June 2016. A group of 22 men and women from the 49th Military Police Brigade of the California National Guard participated in our nutrition intervention. There is currently no nutrition education program in place for the California National Guard; thus, the overall goal of this project was to a pilot nutrition education program toward improving nutritional status and reducing the risk of developing Metabolic Syndrome in a pre-select group of at-risk California National Guard Members. Criteria for a Metabolic Syndrome diagnosis include having a combination of any 3 of the following symptoms: elevated measures of triglycerides, fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, and waist circumference, and reduced HDL cholesterol. At baseline, the Nutrition Team collected data on the soldiers, including body composition using a dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry machine, height, weight, waist circumference, blood pressure, blood labs, and 3-day diet recall data. Unfortunately, baseline data revealed that two of the 22 participants already fit the diagnostic criteria for Metabolic Syndrome. As part of the pilot intervention, a basic nutrition seminar was delivered to provide the necessary skills to promote increased health and wellness through the adoption of long-lasting lifestyle changes. This newly acquired nutrition knowledge was reinforced through hands on experience in the kitchen that included lessons on cooking well-balanced and nutritionally sound meals. Our intention with this was to implement Cal Poly’s Learn by Doing to provide soldiers with the means—both intangible as well as material—to improve their eating habits and to demonstrate the adoption of such practices before the end of Operation Nutrition. Due to difficulties in maintaining correspondence and communication with the majority of participants, the project did not go as originally planned. Though 22 participants began the project, only two participants returned for follow-up. Feedback received from the participants indicated the program had a positive effect on overall nutrition knowledge despite the lack of follow-up data
Mechanistic-Empirical Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) Method Implemented to Estimate Damage in Flexible and Rigid Pavements
The implementation of the Empirical-Mechanistic Pavement Design Guide (MEPDG) method for flexible and rigid pavements requires numerous input parameters. Most of these parameters can be easily determined while some require best estimates that are usually extracted from available literature. This thesis identifies the most critical input parameters in terms of their effects on the damage of pavements and their influence on the determination of the number of corrective maintenance cycles to be performed during the design life of pavements. It was found that for flexible pavement, change in the average monthly temperature by as little as results in large differences in the number of corrective maintenance cycles. Also, consistently with simple mechanics concepts, pavements on stiffer foundations performed better under the load and hence, required fewer number of the corrective maintenance cycles than those founded on more flexible soils. Also, variations in truck weights affected the outcome in terms of the estimated number of corrective maintenance cycles for flexible pavement. Hence, better estimates of the number of corrective maintenance cycles can be obtained when the analysis was based on larger numbers of truck samples. On the contrary, no significant difference in the final estimation of the number of corrective maintenance cycles was found for rigid pavements even when the average monthly temperatures were increased or decreased by as much as . Moreover, no major difference was observed when a larger sample of trucks was used as input for the analysis. Similarly, change in ambient temperature which is directly related to the differential temperature on the top and the bottom of the slab that may lead to the curling of the slab and faulting, was found not to be critical. Similar to the results obtained for flexible pavements, rigid pavement with stiffer foundation properties performed better in terms of the number of corrective maintenance cycles as they required fewer corrective maintenance cycles
La costruzione della frontiera abruzzese nella territorializzazione normanna del XII secolo
Protagonisti di una secolare stagione di migrazioni dalla Scandinavia verso numerose aree del continente europeo, i Normanni furono responsabili di profonde trasformazioni sociali e politiche. Ricostruire la storia dei loro spostamenti è del resto un lavoro già avviato, ma si è riflettuto assai poco sugli effetti geoculturali che essi ebbero con gli spazi insediati. A tal proposito è quindi necessario rifarsi a concetti a volte del tutto estranei al mestiere dello storico e spesso relegati al solo ambito geografico: accanto alle fonti più tradizionali, il paesaggio può certamente rappresentare un’ottima base di partenza per comprendere le dinamiche intercorrenti tra il milieu naturale e le comunità che trovano il proprio posto in un determinato spazio. Così, un’indagine delle modalità di risemantizzazione di una determinata rete di relazioni umane, condotta attraverso la geolocalizzazione degli insediamenti e l’esame della loro interazione nel contesto locale, riesce a dare numerose informazioni per lo studio del territorio. Il Catalogus baronum, concepito proprio come progetto di territorializzazione, mostra in tal senso l’interesse da parte dei Normanni per l’insediamento capillare di tutto il Mezzogiorno continentale, con una particolare attenzione verso le aree frontaliere dell’Abruzzo, tra le più militarizzate del neonato Regnum Siciliae.
Seguendo così un’impostazione basata prevalentemente sull’analisi geosemiotica degli insediamenti e comparando i dati provenienti dalle fonti scritte con quelli materiali disseminati nello spazio si scopre come dall’agire territoriale sia possibile ricavare un’istantanea del momento storico in cui una data comunità si è organizzata e relazionata con le altre. Nel caso specifico dell’Abruzzo del XII secolo è dunque possibile far luce sulla costruzione materiale di una precisa simbologia territoriale, quel “feudalesimo d’importazione” di cui parlava Marc Bloch a proposito delle migrazioni normanne
El gusto estético. La educación del (buen) gusto
El discurso educativo en el ámbito filosófico de lo estético se ha
abordado desde lo que podrĂamos denominar dos lĂneas básicas:
la primera, la estética, para el arte desde su posible contenido
pedagĂłgico o educaciĂłn por el arte y, la segunda, la educaciĂłn
para la experiencia estética. Los objetivos que ambas persiguen
son diversos y obedecen a planteamientos diferenciados pero en
ambas es necesaria la educaciĂłn. Este artĂculo se ocupa del gusto
estético y la educación del gusto
Conceptos de Gracián: Gusto
[Resumen] El artĂculo presenta un catálogo de textos fundamentales sobre el concepto de “gusto” -especialmente de El HĂ©roe, El Discreto y El CriticĂłn- para mostrar que dicho concepto establece la Ăşltima conexiĂłn entre todos los aspectos del ser y acciĂłn humanos. El autor concluye con una reflexiĂłn sobre el contexto intelectual de Gracián y algunas referencias a las caracterĂsticas que el tĂ©rmino “gusto” adquirirá desde el autor barroco hasta Gadamer.[Sommaire] L’article prĂ©sente un catalogue de textes fondamentaux relatif au concept de «goĂ»t» - spĂ©cialement dans El HĂ©roe, El Discreto et El CriticĂłn - pour montrer que ledit concept Ă©tablit la dernière connexion entre tous les aspects de l’être et l’action humains. L’auteur conclu avec une rĂ©flexion sur le contexte intellectuel de Gracián et quelques rĂ©fĂ©rences aux caractĂ©ristiques que le mot “goĂ»t“ acquerra chez l’auteur baroque jusqu’à Gadamer.[Abstract] The article presents a catalogue of fundamental texts on the concept of “taste” - specially of El HĂ©roe, El Discreto and El CriticĂłn- to show that the aforementioned concept establishes the last connection between all the aspects of the human life and acts. The author ends with a reflection on Gracián’s intellectual context and some references to the characteristics that the term “taste” acquires from the Baroque author up to Gadamer
El gusto es mĂo
Estamos a principios de los noventa. DirĂa que los noventa fueron peores en las ciudades de provincias que en las grandes urbes. HabĂa mucho adosado de nueva construcciĂłn y el centro de la ciudad estaba dominado por el reino indiscutible de El Corte InglĂ©s. Se decĂa que cuando las esposas de los señores fachas morĂan no iban al cielo sino que iban a la planta de hogar de estos grandes almacenes. Se quedaban allĂ viendo las Ăşltimas novedades aprovechando que en verano habĂa aire acondicionado. Estem a principis dels noranta. Diria que els noranta van ser pitjors en les ciutats de provĂncies que a les grans urbs. Hi havia molt adossat de nova construcciĂł i el centre de la ciutat estava dominat pel regne indiscutible d'El Corte InglĂ©s. es deia que quan les dones dels senyors fatxes morien no anaven al cel sinĂł que anaven a la planta de llar d'aquests grans magatzems. Es quedaven allĂ veient les Ăşltimes novetats aprofitant que a l'estiu hi havia aire condicionat
AgustĂn Cueva, un gusto!
Este é um trabalho de conclusão de curso da pós-graduação lato sensu em Relações Internacionais Contemporâneas
pela Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana; produzido sob orientação da professora Roberta
TraspadiniO presente trabalho Ă© sĂntese de uma primeira aproximação Ă obra do pensador equatoriano AgustĂn Cueva. Detemo-nos aqui em analisar fundamentalmente sua obra “O desenvolvimento do capitalismo na AmĂ©rica Latina” - publicada em 1977 - onde o
autor demonstra um vasto domĂnio da histĂłria latino-americana e delineia suas principais categorizações a respeito do processo de nossas formações sociais. A análise de Cueva está profundamente comprometida com o horizonte socialista de nosso continente, desta forma, no curso de nossa análise procuramos evidenciar como Cueva compreende o horizonte estratĂ©gico da luta de classes em seu tempo histĂłrico. Sendo uma primeira aproximação, nossas conclusões terĂŁo caráter sumário, uma vez
que seria demasiado injusto ultra-generalizar afirmações a partir da avaliação de apenas uma de suas obras – ainda que consideramos a principal
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