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Mindful Eating: How to Cultivate Awareness and Enjoyment in Every Bite
Get PDFThis land grant press emphasizes the importances to maintaining a healthy diet with the benefits of eating smaller portions, paying attention to hunger cues, and making conscious food choices to prevent overeating. Mindful eating can target individuals, families, and health educators seeking to improve their nutrition. By practicing mindful eating everyone can improve their overall well-being and improve long-term health goals
Positive Outcomes of Out-of-School Time Activity Participation for Youth: A Pattern-Centered Approach
Get PDFYouth participation in community-based, structured out-of-school time programs (OST) has been found to promote positive developmental outcomes by providing youth with resources to build interpersonal relationships and essential life skills. The increasing prevalence and multiplicity of youth participation in these activities leads us to expand the research evidence regarding the relation between program participation and positive youth development, with a focus on identifying nuanced patterns of OST participation that consider the breadth and frequency of activities across different types of programs. We apply this pattern-centered approach to analyzing how and for whom these activities may promote youth academic competence and character. The study sample is a subset of 700 middle-school youth of diverse race and ethnicity who primarily reside in low-resource areas of South Carolina. Survey respondents indicated their involvement in specific OST activities as well as the frequency of participation. PYD outcomes were measured with items from the academic competence and character subscales of the PYD-Short form. We conducted a latent profile analysis (LPA) of the activity participation variables to determine OST profile membership based on youth self-reported participation in OST activities. A series of analyses following the LPA examined the links between OST participation profile membership and academic competence and character as well as potential variation by race and gender. Our findings of consistent positive main effects of OST participation profiles on these outcomes across demographic groups underscore the value of diverse OST program participation for enhancing well-being and healthy development in early adolescence
Light in the Darkest Places: Analyzing News Coverage of a U.S. Immigrant Detention Center
Get PDFImmigrants remain one of the most disempowered groups within the United States. Drawing on critical media literacy research that focuses on power dynamics and positioning, this article addresses ways the news media reports on immigrants and immigrant detention centers. We conducted a critical content analysis of 180 articles on one specific location, Stewart Detention Center (SDC), to demonstrate variability in newspaper reporting on several levels, including frequency, geographic location, and context. Our first research question explored changes in reporting over time, and our second research question considered differences in reporting by geographic level. Our third research question examined differences in reporting on SDC and the national discourse during the first Trump administration. This type of research is particularly important when reporting primarily comes from the outside, overshadowing the voices of people experiencing detention. We consider implications for critical media literacy as an impetus for societal change
Deliverance
Get PDFMy work explores quilting as a vessel for storytelling, honoring the tradition of womenβs craft while examining the intersection of personal and generational history. By repurposing fabric imbued with past lives and memories, I construct pieces that embody both the resilience and fragility of the individuals in my family, capturing their struggles, aspirations, and constraints. Through abstraction, material manipulation, and narrative layering, my quilts function as both historical records and contemporary reflections, bridging the past and present through the tactile language of textile art. In describing a quilt as an object, I am including all material, patterning, orientation, scale, and process of coming into existence that results in a face, batting, backing, and top stitch as a βquiltβ. The pieces in this body center on one or two members of my family and their stories with which Iβm well acquainted. In retelling their stories in this way, I am both memorializing the path my family has trod and partnering with generations of women who have told stories through quilting, all while seeking contemporary integrations in my practice. My fabric is generally sourced from dresses, sheets, tablecloths, and jeansβ whatever has enough surface material to be harvested, treated, and dyed to serve my purpose. In sourcing, however, I am not producing a piece without history, I am editing a surface preloaded with a life of its own. To do this is to alter an object that has covered a strangerβs body, dressed a strangerβs bedβa witness to places I can\u27t go. I am unable to erase their previous ownership. Through dying sourced fabric, I am able to converse in ii my language, but the wholistic narrative will never be my singular experience. The same is true for the retelling of stories. These memories I have are fragments, most of them are aided by photographs and by my parentβs memories or my siblingβs. But to retell a story is to take an existing experience and to make it in my voice, to edit to alter to emphasize what I find important and to minimize other details. To bring my perspective to the surface and rely on supporting shreds to fill gaps where the original story has faded over the years. In creating this body of work, I aim to honor those who came before me, acknowledging that it is by standing on their shoulders that I find myself in my current position of privilege to study, create, and discuss art in pursuit of higher education
Application of Regression Techniques on Designed Economic Data
Get PDFEvaluating stock market data and public companies\u27 performance is an overwhelming task for day traders and brokers in the United States and internationally. As a financial metric of a company\u27s overall valuation, earnings per share is a commonly researched measure of a company\u27s profitability. We investigate relationships between earnings per share, multiple financial measures reported from company income statements, and classifiers such as market capitalization and sector. Multiple linear regression models are developed and assessed for this data. Results conclude that there is a significant difference between sectors and earnings per share recorded for a given company. Individual stock analysis highlights that research and development and depreciation and amortization are significant predictors relevant to explaining earnings per share for companies with a market capitalization of greater than one trillion. This thesis concludes with a discussion of model results and potential avenues forward for analysis in this field
Stability of Holes in Granular Raft
Get PDFA granular raft at an oilβwater interface exhibits unique mechanical properties, including the ability to form and sustain stable holes. In this study, we experimentally investigate the formation, stability, and collapse dynamics of holes in particle rafts composed of micrometer-sized particles. Holes are created using a hollow cylinder, which generates a meniscus that inhibits particle motion, thus stabilizing the hole. Stable holes are formed when their size reaches a critical value, which depends upon the capillary length. The critical hole size does not depend upon the circularity of the hole. We show that capillary forces due to the presence of the meniscus govern hole stability and that interparticle jamming forces, as defined by a local bond orientation number, play no role in stabilizing the hole. Unstable holes collapse inwards upon themselves, and we characterize the collapse dynamics, as they depend upon the experimental variables