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How Community-Based Nutrition Education Impacts Health Disparities Among Black American Adolescents: A Scoping Review
Get PDFPurpose: There has been increasing concern about the level of health and food literacy among Black adolescents. Food literacy and nutrition interventions have been studied in an effort to improve health outcomes among this population. This study aimed to explore which interventions found success in increasing fruit and vegetable (FV) intake which included culturally relevant education material. Method: Five databases were searched using terms related to racial ethnicity, diet and age. Thirteen articles met inclusion criteria of including majority minority participants and the majority citing community based interventions focusing on dietary change including FV intake. Results: This scoping review revealed three studies with statistically significant differences in FV consumption, none of which involved primarily adolescent participants. One study was culturally sensitive with three others involving input from community members, organizations or services in the intervention implementation. Conclusions: The culturally sensitive intervention showed promising results, as did interventions utilizing community input. Future interventions should include culturally relevant programs which collaborate with the local community for implementation. Community-based nutrition education interventions for Black American adolescents are scarce. The majority of programs are designed for adults or children, with few geared towards adolescents. Although the majority of education interventions are community based, few involve culturally relevant information designed for specific communities. More research is needed to understand how culturally relevant and/or community informed interventions can benefit adolescent Black Americans
“You Guys are Blowing this Recipe Up.”: Food Influencers’ Effective Engagement with Followers
Get PDFIn recent years, social media profiles with large followings have been used as opinion leaders and have earned the term influencer. This research examines the engagement of Keto Diet influencers’ followers on Instagram, then analyzes which type of content has the most engagement i.e., likes/views and comments. Due to the rise of social media engagement, it is vital to analyze the content of posts and personalities that elicit this high engagement to determine effective strategies for future influencers.
This content analysis analyzes the 11 top-most-followed Keto Diet influencers on Instagram with more than 30,000 followers. Posts were collected over a three-month time-period. This is the data set and codebook for the research
Synthesis and Characterization of Oxovanadium Compounds as Potential Insulin Mimetic Molecules
No full textOxovanadium(IV) complexes have numerous applications in diverse areas such as catalysts for organic transformations and as anti-fungal agents. Complexes that this research focused on have shown potential in acting as insulin mimetics. The goal of this research was to synthesis and fully characterize a new series of oxovanadium complexes and then investigate the insulin mimetic properties of the complexes with adipose cell culture work. Vanadyl complexes involving a series of salicylaldiminato ligands [C6H5N=CHC6H4OH (L1), 2,6-iPrC6H3N=CHC6H4OH (L2), C6H5N=CH-3,5-tBu2C6H2OH (L3) and 2,6-iPrC6H3N=CH-3,5-tBu2C6H2OH (L4)] were synthesized and structurally characterized. The ligand set was investigated due to the ease of sterically tuning the substituents on the ligand backbone to influence size and hydrophobicity of the resulting complexes. It is envisioned that such properties will play an important role in cellular uptake of these complexes. Reported here is the initial structural characterization of a series of complexes using FTIR and 1H-NMR spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, and X-ray crystallography
Zeolite-templated carbons as effective sorbents to remove methylsiloxanes and derivatives: A computational screening
No full textThough widely used in our daily lives, volatile methylsiloxanes and derivatives are emerging contaminants and becoming a high-priority environment and public health concern. Developing effective sorbent materials can remove siloxanes in a cost-effective manner. Herein, by means of Grand Canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulations, we evaluated the potentials of the recently proposed 68 stable zeolite-templated carbons (ZTCs) (PNAS 2018, 115, E8116-E8124) for the removal of four linear methylsiloxanes and derivatives as well as two cyclic methylsiloxanes by the calculated average loading and average adsorption energy values. Four ZTCs, namely ISV, FAU1, FAU3, and H8326836, were identified with the top 50% adsorption performance toward all the six targeted contaminants, which outperform activated carbons. Further first principles computations revealed that steric hindrance, electrostatic interactions (further enhanced by charge transfer), and CH-π interactions account for the outstanding adsorption performance of these ZTCs. This work provides a quick procedure to computationally screen promising ZTCs for siloxane removal, and help guide future experimental and theoretical investigations
Simple Three-Coefficient Equation for Temperature-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Cold-Formed Steels
No full textThe objective of this paper is to propose relationships for the reduction in mechanical properties of cold-formed steels at elevated temperature. Predicting the degradation of strength and modulus of cold-formed steels with temperature is critical to enable fire design of cold-formed steel members. Here, the properties of elastic modulus, 0.2% proof stress, 2% stress, and ultimate stress are studied for grades up to and including 550 MPa. Data are collected from the literature as well as from recent tests conducted by the authors at Johns Hopkins University. Steady-state and transient test results in the range of 20°C-1,000°C are analyzed. Retention factors are then proposed for the mechanical properties adopting a standardized format developed through committee work with the American Iron and Steel Institute
Nonviolence in the world’s religions: A concise introduction
No full textThe twenty-first century began with the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Much has been written and debated on the relationship between faith and violence, with acts of terror at the forefront. However, the twentieth century also gave rise to many successful nonviolent protest movements. Nonviolence in the World’s Religions introduces the reader to the complex relationship between religion and nonviolence. Each of the essays delves into the contemporary and historical expressions of the world’s major religious traditions in relation to nonviolence. Contributors explore the literary and theological foundations of a tradition’s justification of nonviolence; the ways that nonviolence has come to expression in its beliefs, symbols, rituals, and other practices; and the evidence of nonviolence in its historic and present responses to conflict and warfare. The meanings of both religion and nonviolence are explored through engagement with nonviolence in Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Sikh, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, Jain, and Pacific Island religious traditions. This is the ideal introduction to the relationship between religion and violence for undergraduate students, as well as for those in related fields, such as religious studies, peace and conflict studies, area studies, sociology, political science, and history
Is the United States ‘Exceptional’?
Get PDFDebates over issues of national identity have been constants in American history, up to and including today, with the Civil War being the most notable and violent example of serious disagreement about national identity and unity. There are many interpretations of how the country came to be, what its defining characteristics are, and how factual or merely self-congratulatory the elements of the nationalistic claims of exceptionality really were or are now. Like any nationalistic tenet, the exceptionality thesis certainly requires a deliberatively selective and incomplete understanding of the national history. Whole university courses and disciplines of study in American Studies could be devoted to this contentious topic in its broadest sense. The characteristics and conclusions set forth below are not definitive, or exclusive, but are important for foreign students of the United States to take into consideration when trying to understand the formation of the country and the effects of that process today. This essay is meant as a comprehensive introductory overview from an empirical comparative politics and society standpoint. Many links to a wealth of high-quality cost-free online sources in English are offered to assist interested persons who wish to analyze further some aspects of the contemporary situation of the United States in a comparative context
Traveling through the National Dark: Poet and Pacifist William Stafford
No full textThe Young Center and The Bowers Writers House welcome poet Fred Marchant for an evening celebrating William Stafford (1914-1993), a Library of Congress Poet Laureate with significant ties to the Church of the Brethren. Marchant and Jesse Waters, director of the Bowers Writers House, discuss Stafford’s life and legacy and read some of his poems. Young Center Interim Director Steve Nolt review the World War II context in which Stafford declared his conscientious objection to war and the Civilian Public Service program in which he served for four years. Fred Marchant is the author of several books of poetry, including his most recent, Said Not Said (Graywolf, 2017), which was named an Honored Book by the Massachusetts Book Awards. He is the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford (Graywolf, 2008) and Professor Emeritus of English at Suffolk University in Boston
