scholarly journals Obesity Prevention In Infants, Children And Adults: An Interdisciplinary Approach

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Shari McMahan ◽  
Graciela Amaya
Keyword(s):  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
California State University ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
State University ◽  
Multi Level

The Center for the Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles and Obesity Prevention, housed in the College of Health and Human Development, at California State University Fullerton promotes interdisciplinary research and community outreach in areas related to children’s health and weight management. Three research projects presented below offer a comprehensive multi-level approach that guides us in developing current and future programs that are effective for addressing obesity in infants, children, and adults. These projects range from creating and testing a telenovela, designing a healthy eating program emphasizing breakfast nutrition and physical activity, and finally looking at the role of the environment in terms of commute times and obesity patterns. 

scholarly journals Obesity Prevention In Urban Settings: Creating Healthy Environments

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-50
Author(s):  
Shari McMahan ◽  
Graciela Amaya
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Community Outreach ◽  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Santa Ana ◽  
Activity Unit ◽  
Parking Lot ◽  
Commuting Patterns

The Center for the Promotion of Healthy Lifestyles and Obesity Prevention, housed in the College of Health and Human Development, at California State University, Fullerton promotes interdisciplinary research and community outreach in areas related to children’s health and weight management. Two studies focusing on the built environment are showcased. The first study, “Commuting Patterns and Obesity Risk” demonstrates that students with longer commute times are more likely to have a body mass index (BMI) over 25, which is considered overweight. The second study, “Increasing Physical Activity with a Mobile Physical Activity Unit” turned a parking lot into a playground. This was created to provide children in Santa Ana, one of the densest cities in Orange County, California, a place to play. The built environment can have a profound effect on physical activity and if given the opportunity, is important to address in the design stages for the health of our communities. 

Online weight-loss services and a calculative practice of slimming

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Niva
Keyword(s):  
Weight Loss ◽  
Calorie Restriction ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Lifestyle Change ◽  
Control Device ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Theories Of Practice

This study examines the slimming practice produced by Internet-based weight-loss services and their use. Drawing on theories of practice, the study analyses the script of use that is constructed by the services, and the meanings, materialities and competences that are enacted in their use. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews with women who were users of two Finnish online weight-loss services, the study concludes that the services transform food into quantitative depictions of calories and nutrition. They configure slimmers as calculative agents and slimming as a practice based on incessant recording and monitoring. For online slimmers, the services acted in the double role of a control device with a focus on calorie restriction, and a learning device used to develop a skill of healthy eating. In the latter role, online slimming was hoped to result in an internalisation of a lifestyle change that would make calculation and constant monitoring unnecessary and the services redundant for their users. The results suggest that for its practitioners, online slimming is temporary rather than long-standing, but it may and is expected to act as a mediary in establishing other practices related to healthy lifestyles.

scholarly journals Liminal Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Researching, Writing and Disseminating an Archival Novel about the Violent Past

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Claire Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Literary Genre ◽  
Visual Artists ◽  
Mass Graves ◽  
History Of

This article explores the concept of liminal fiction, a new literary genre that takes on the challenge of narrating human rights in the sphere of transitional justice. Liminal fiction makes porous the boundaries between literature, law, history, art, and the archive. Using the work of contemporary visual artists who explore the art of forensics, and ground-breaking research methodologies adopted by social and forensic anthropologists, this article analyses the idea of researching and fictionalising a new memory paradigm, one rooted in the visual imagery of disinterred remains. It suggests that establishing a creative synthesis between interdisciplinary research and writing a work of fiction is a means to open up new avenues for narrating the history of the missing. This is partly achieved through a re-configuration of the role of writer and reader as co-curators, charged with the task of shifting through a multi-layered narrative that links the exhumation of mass graves in Spain in the 2000s with experiences in the country's postwar diaspora and the 'Indignados' demonstrations and occupations of 2011. Further, it becomes possible to consider alternative methods of 'publication' and dissemination of a work of liminal fiction — part-archive, part-book, part-installation — in creative collaborations with 'new musuems of space and emotion.'**This refers to a term used by economist and campaigner Susie Symes to evoke the significance of memory sites such as 19 Princelet Street, London, where she is Chair of Trustees. 

California State University, East Bay

2013 ◽  
pp. 134-152
Author(s):  
Aline Soules
Keyword(s):  
Information Literacy ◽  
Instructional Program ◽  
California State University ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
State University ◽  
Teachable Moments ◽  
East Bay ◽  
Time Basis

At California State University, East Bay, reference is one component of a comprehensive instructional program in information literacy. Based on this approach, the focus of reference is on teachable moments on a just-in-time basis rather than a means by which users, primarily students, are simply provided with answers to their questions. This chapter provides a description of the role of reference within that context and describes the various services offered.

scholarly journals The role of midwives and obstetrical nurses in the promotion of healthy lifestyle during pregnancy

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 263349412110318
Author(s):  
Mahnaz Bahri Khomami ◽  
Ruth Walker ◽  
Michelle Kilpatrick ◽  
Susan de Jersey ◽  
Helen Skouteris ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Healthy Lifestyles ◽  
Gestational Weight ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle Promotion

Women with maternal obesity, an unhealthy lifestyle before and during pregnancy and excess gestational weight gain have an increased risk of adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes that can also increase the risk of long-term poor health for them and their children. Pregnant women have frequent medical appointments and are highly receptive to health advice. Healthcare professionals who interact with women during pregnancy are in a privileged position to support women to make lasting healthy lifestyle changes that can improve gestational weight gain and pregnancy outcomes and halt the intergenerational nature of obesity. Midwives and obstetrical nurses are key healthcare professionals responsible for providing antenatal care in most countries. Therefore, it is crucial for them to build and enhance their ability to promote healthy lifestyles in pregnant women. Undergraduate midwifery curricula usually lack sufficient lifestyle content to provide emerging midwives and obstetrical nurses with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to effectively assess and support healthy lifestyle behaviours in pregnant women. Consequently, registered midwives and obstetrical nurses may not recognise their role in healthy lifestyle promotion specific to healthy eating and physical activity in practice. In addition, practising midwives and obstetrical nurses do not consistently have access to healthy lifestyle promotion training in the workplace. Therefore, many midwives and obstetrical nurses may not have the confidence and/or skills to support pregnant women to improve their lifestyles. This narrative review summarises the role of midwives and obstetrical nurses in the promotion of healthy lifestyles relating to healthy eating and physical activity and optimising weight in pregnancy, the barriers that they face to deliver optimal care and an overview of what we know works when supporting midwives and obstetrical nurses in their role to support women in achieving a healthy lifestyle.

scholarly journals Translation and Translanguaging Pedagogies in Intercomprehension and Multilingual Teaching

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cedric Joseph Oliva ◽  
Clorinda Donato ◽  
Francesca Ricciardelli
Keyword(s):  
Learning Strategies ◽  
California State University ◽  
The Other ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
State University ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Romance Language ◽  
Multilingual Learning

Since 2007, California State University, Long Beach has developed and offered courses that highlight students’ pre-existing linguistic repertoires in English and in the Romance languages. These courses are unique in that they build upon a multilingual base for the acquisition of new languages through the method of intercomprehension. As an approach that moves among languages, Intercomprehension places learners in conditions that are conducive to translanguaging and translation. This paper discusses the role of translation and translanguaging in Intercomprehension as a pedagogical approach in these courses. Since our students are constantly moving between English and one ormore Romance language(s), they actively bring the other Romance languages they are learning into the translingual repertoire they already practice through the multilingual learning strategies deployed in intercomprehension. Keywords: intercomprehension, plurilingualism, multilingualism, pedagogies, translanguaging, translingual practices

Relationship Between the Use of Online Courseware and Achievement in a Developmental Writing Course

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-32
Author(s):  
Christine Leow ◽  
Yun Jin Rho ◽  
Ross Metusalem ◽  
Sara Kasper
Keyword(s):  
Student Achievement ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Preliminary Evidence ◽  
California State University ◽  
Developmental Writing ◽  
Confounding Factors ◽  
State University ◽  
Class Time ◽  
Writing Course ◽  
Multi Level

A consistent challenge of implementing blended learning is the support that students should receive when using online courseware outside of class time. For blended learning to be successful in terms of student learning, the online courseware would need to be able to support the learning of students outside of class time. An interactive, digital courseware was used for a developmental writing course at California State University - Bakersfield. The main goal of this study was to gather evidence to determine if the use of this online courseware was associated with higher student achievement within a blended learning environment. After controlling for confounding factors, a multi-level regression was used to determine the contribution of courseware usage to student achievement, which was measured by a final writing exam. The number of writing topics completed by students in the courseware was found to be positively related to their exam scores. This provides preliminary evidence that the online courseware with certain interactive features can be supportive of learning outside of class.

The role of library media services in the University Distance and Distributed Education

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 379-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Gu
Keyword(s):  
California State University ◽  
State University ◽  
Library Media ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Center ◽  
Library Media Center ◽  
Media Services ◽  
Consistent Change ◽  
The University

PurposeThis article aims to outline the functions and activities performed by California State University, Sacramento Library Media Center in the University Distance and Distributed Education (DDE) program, with an emphasis on the unique role of the library media services in partnership with other campus units in the system‐wide integrative DDE service.Design/methodology/approachThe article observes and examines the effectiveness of the library media services through the framework functions of the University DDE Program.FindingsThe article finds that faculty and librarians may share benefits of information resources and university technologies through a well‐organized collaboration program in an environment of learner‐centered service.Originality/valueThis paper highlights the library cooperative efforts in expanding access to library media resources in serving DDE educators and students, and the exceptional role of the library media services in collaboration with other campus units in handling consistent change, sharing fund and achieving successful alliance in the University Distance and Distributed Education program.

Formation of financial literacy in training of informatics teachers on the basis of the 1С:Enterprise system

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
M. A. Rodionov ◽  
I. V. Akimova
Keyword(s):  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Basic Knowledge ◽  
State University ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Mathematics History ◽  
School Subjects ◽  
Personal Finances ◽  
The Right

In the submitted study the problem of the formation of financial literacy of students at informatics lessons and relevant training of future informatics teachers is considered. Financial literacy is understood as a set of basic knowledge in the field of finance, banking, insurance, as well as budgeting for personal finances that allow a person to choose the right financial product or service, soberly assess and take risks that may arise during the use of these products, correctly accumulate savings and identify doubtful (fraudulent) investment schemes. The authors conclude that successful development of meaningful lines of the course of financial literacy requires integration of a few school subjects, such as mathematics, history, informatics, social science and literature. The role of modern informatics teacher in the formation of financial literacy of students is great. Therefore, in the training of a future informatics teacher, it should be paid the attention to issues related to the study of elements of financial literacy in informatics lessons. In order to solve the problem, the authors propose to use the special course “Basics of work in 1С:Enterprise”, which is implemented at Penza State University. The article contains a program of the course and the methodological recommendations for its implementation.

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