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- Creator:
- Schott, Carly, Rashel
- Description:
- Establishing healthy eating habits at a young age is essential for promoting optimal health and wellbeing among children. Poor eating habits may increase risk for the development of diet-related non-communicable diseases (DR-NCDs), weight gain, and childhood obesity. Dieting is a common treatment for childhood obesity, but dieting often results in weight regain within a few years and increased risk for obesity later in life. As an alternative to dieting, this study explored intuitive eating as a tool to positively influence eating patterns, encourage healthy eating habits, and encourage early adoption of non-dieting eating behaviors among preschoolers. Preschoolers participated in a 4-week study, including 2 weeks of nutrition and intuitive eating education in the classroom that encouraged them to accept new fruits and vegetables and to stop eating when they recognized feelings of hunger satisfaction. Story books were sent home to reinforce education provided in the classroom. This feasibility study found no significant changes in the preschoolers’ fruit and vegetable intake and no significant changes in hunger ratings reported after snack time. Despite the lack of significant changes in eating habits, the valuable information gleaned from this feasibility study has laid the foundation for future researchers to continue the work of developing successful and sustainable childhood obesity prevention programs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Food Science and Nutrition
- Creator:
- Gao, Yongsheng and ATLAS Collaboration
- Description:
- This Letter reports a search for a heavy particle that decays to WW using events produced in pp collisions at root s = 7 TeV. The data were recorded in 2011 by the ATLAS detector and correspond to an integrated luminosity of 4.7 fb(-1). WW -> lvl'v' (l,l' = e or mu) final states are considered and the distribution of the transverse mass of the W W candidates is found to be consistent with Standard Model expectations. Upper limits on the production cross section times branching ratio into W boson pairs are set for Randall-Sundrum and bulk Randall-Sundrum gravitons, which result in observed 95% CL lower limits on the masses of the two particles of 1.23 TeV and 0.84 TeV, respectively.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2012.11.040
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Lee, Faith Mailee
- Description:
- The academic characteristics of 238 first-time freshmen Hmong college students enrolled in fall of 2009 at a medium size public four year university located in California were examined. Criterion-based sampling was used to identify Western University for the studied. Pre-existing student data of the fall 2009 first-time freshmen were obtained from the university and then disaggregated. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, chi-square, and the t-test were used to examine the academic characteristics of the first-time freshmen Hmong students. Although Hmong students accounted for 10% of the first-time freshmen enrollment in fall of 2009 at Western University, analysis of the student data indicated that the 2009 first-time freshmen Hmong college students do not share characteristics commonly described as model minority. Findings indicate that 97% of the 2009 first-time freshmen Hmong college students at Western University needed English remediation, 70% needed math remediation, 49% were from homes with a combined income of less than $24,000 a year, and 46% of the students� parents had less than a high school education. However, the retention rate found among the 2009 first-time freshmen Hmong students surpassed the national retention rate of 77.1% and was aligned with California�s retention rate of 84%. Based on the research, recommendations are provided for student success task force members and any personnel working with Hmong college students.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Counselor Education and Rehabilitation
- Creator:
- Gao, Yongsheng and ATLAS Collaboration
- Description:
- The mass of the top quark is measured in a data set corresponding to 4.6 fb(-1) of proton-proton collisions with centre-of-mass energy root s = 7 TeV collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC. Events consistent with hadronic decays of top-antitop quark pairs with at least six jets in the final state are selected. The substantial background from multijet production is modelled with data-driven methods that utilise the number of identified b-quark jets and the transverse momentum of the sixth leading jet, which have minimal correlation. The top-quark mass is obtained from template fits to the ratio of three-jet to dijet mass. The three-jet mass is calculated from the three jets produced in a top-quark decay. Using these three jets the dijet mass is obtained from the two jets produced in the W boson decay. The top-quark mass obtained from this fit is thus less sensitive to the uncertainty in the energy measurement of the jets. A binned likelihood fit yields a top-quark mass of m(t) = 175.1 +/- 1.4 (stat.) +/- 1.2 (syst.) GeV.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3373-1
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Pras{macr}ada, M{macr}ay{macr}a
- Description:
- The purpose of this study is to develop a mathematical model of the Leontief type of input-output structure for the Kern County economy. Due to the unavailability of data in the form needed to construct an input-output table and the limitations on resources needed to collect original data, secondary sources were used to develop the required data. The accuracy of the model will thus be limited to this extent. Furthermore, the latest data available was for the year 1963; thus, this model will reveal the economy of Kern County for the year 1963. An attempt was made to indicate the possible applications of the input-output model. Illustrations of some applications were made.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm61733600
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Gao, Yongsheng and ATLAS Collaboration
- Description:
- Differential cross sections for the production of at least four jets have been measured in proton-proton collisions at root s = 8 TeV at the Large Hadron Collider using the ATLAS detector. Events are selected if the four anti-k(t) R = 0.4 jets with the largest transverse momentum (p(T)) within the rapidity range vertical bar y vertical bar < 2 : 8 are well separated (Delta R-4j(min) > 0.65), all have p(T) > 64 GeV, and include at least one jet with p(T) > 100 GeV. The dataset corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 20.3 fb(-1). The cross sections, corrected for detector effects, are compared to leading-order and next-to-leading-order calculations as a function of the jet momenta, invariant masses, minimum and maximum opening angles and other kinematic variables.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2015)105
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Rowen, Amanda
- Description:
- The goal of this thesis was to understand how love in romantic relationships is constituted through the stories couples tell. Two research questions were asked: How do couples co-construct love? And, how do couples narratively define love? The stories were collected through open-ended dyadic interviews with 15 heterosexual couples. Couples ranged in ages and relationship length and some were dating, some were married. Narrative theory was used to understand how couples make sense of their love through the stories they told together.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Communication