scholarly journals Quantifying light exposure patterns in young adult students

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (14) ◽  
pp. 1200-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda A. Alvarez ◽  
Christine F. Wildsoet
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
Exposure Patterns

Mental Health Severity Is Associated with Increases in Alcohol Consumption in Young Adult Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Kathryn E Coakley ◽  
David T Lardier ◽  
Kelley R Holladay ◽  
Fabiano T Amorim ◽  
Heather Mechler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Adult Students

scholarly journals THE PERCEPTION OF ADULT AND YOUNG ADULT STUDENTS ON THE RIVER RIO DOCE - CARTOGRAPHIES OF FEAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda de Melo Marques ◽  
Maria Celeste Reis Fernandes de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Work Loss ◽  
Health Concerns ◽  
Post Disaster ◽  
Empirical Material

Abstract The article is part of a series of debates that are concerned with the effects of the socio-technical disaster caused by the Fundão dam collapse in the year 2015, which affected the river Rio Doce, and presents results of a study that sought to understand the perceptions of Adult and Young Adult Education (EJA) students about the river. The theoretical framework establishes a dialogue between EJA, Environmental Education, and the contributions of the geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. The empirical material was produced through mental maps and interviews. The results indicate that the subjects’ perceptions on the river are marked by cartographies of fear of environmental degradation, before the disaster and post-disaster, health concerns, household budget, and work loss. The conclusions point to the importance of providing further information about water to the population, and the effects of the disaster, which intensify social inequalities.

scholarly journals Association between overweight and characteristics of young adult students: support for nursing care

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jênifa Cavalcante dos Santos Santiago ◽  
Thereza Maria Magalhães Moreira ◽  
Raquel Sampaio Florêncio
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Diastolic Blood Pressure ◽  
Nursing Care ◽  
Excess Weight ◽  
Abdominal Circumference ◽  
Institutional Review

OBJECTIVE: to verify associations between overweight and the characteristics of young adult students to support nursing care. METHOD: case-control study conducted with young adults from public schools. The sample was composed of 441 participants (147 cases and 294 controls, with and without excess weight, respectively). Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics were collected together with exposure factors and anthropometrics. Multiple logistic regression was used. The study received Institutional Review Board approval. RESULTS: statistically significant association with overweight: non-Caucasian, having a partner; weight gain during adolescence, mother's excess weight, the use of obesogenic medication, augmented diastolic blood pressure, of abdominal circumference and waist/hip ratio. In addition to these, schooling and weight gain during childhood were also included in the multivariate analysis. After adjustment, the final model included: having a partner, weight gain during adolescence, augmented diastolic blood pressure and abdominal circumference. CONCLUSION: the analysis of predictor variables for excess weight among young adult students supports nurses in planning and developing educational practices aimed to prevent this clinical condition, which is a risk factor for other chronic comorbidities, such as cardiovascular diseases.

scholarly journals Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes Risk Among Young Adult Students in the Health Sciences from Kathmandu, Nepal

2020 ◽  
Vol Volume 12 ◽  
pp. 125-133
Author(s):  
Manisha Sapkota ◽  
Alaska Timilsina ◽  
Mudita Shakya ◽  
Tika Bahadur Thapa ◽  
Sneha Shrestha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Adult Students ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Diabetes Risk

scholarly journals Telling the Seasons Underground: The Circadian Clock and Ambient Temperature Shape Light Exposure and Photoperiodism in a Subterranean Rodent

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danilo E. F. L. Flôres ◽  
Milene G. Jannetti ◽  
Giovane C. Improta ◽  
Patricia Tachinardi ◽  
Veronica S. Valentinuzzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Circadian Clock ◽  
Laboratory Experiments ◽  
Light Exposure ◽  
Seasonal Patterns ◽  
Subterranean Rodents ◽  
Subterranean Rodent ◽  
Lighting Conditions ◽  
Oscillatory Structure ◽  
Exposure Patterns ◽  
Living Organisms

Living organisms anticipate the seasons by tracking the proportion of light and darkness hours within a day—photoperiod. The limits of photoperiod measurement can be investigated in the subterranean rodents tuco-tucos (Ctenomys aff. knighti), which inhabit dark underground tunnels. Their exposure to light is sporadic and, remarkably, results from their own behavior of surface emergence. Thus, we investigated the endogenous and exogenous regulation of this behavior and its consequences to photoperiod measurement. In the field, animals carrying biologgers displayed seasonal patterns of daily surface emergence, exogenously modulated by temperature. In the laboratory, experiments with constant lighting conditions revealed the endogenous regulation of seasonal activity by the circadian clock, which has a multi-oscillatory structure. Finally, mathematical modeling corroborated that tuco-tuco’s light exposure across the seasons is sufficient for photoperiod encoding. Together, our results elucidate the interrelationship between the circadian clock and temperature in shaping seasonal light exposure patterns that convey photoperiod information in an extreme photic environment.

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