BASIC ENGLISH GRAMMAR PROFICIENCY: A PILOT STUDY AMONG THE ENGINEERING COLLEGE STUDENTS

<p>The impact of social influences on food choices in college settings is of great importance because students are vulnerable to new forming identities at this time. The purpose of this pilot study is to determine the degree to which social influences impact food choices in a sample of college students. A 22-item survey instrument was created to determine the extent to which students have experienced being influenced by others when making food related purchasing decisions. A total of 257 out of a 323 students invited (80% response rate) in 11 sections of a personal health course responded to the survey. The overwhelming majority of respondents were reportedly comfortable ordering whatever they wanted when in the presence of their friends (n=249; 97%). Students were more likely to feel pressure to make a healthy choice than an unhealthy choice if everyone else was (45.1% vs. 31.5%), but fewer felt this way when asked specifically if their friends were ordering (28.4% vs. 21%). Social influences surrounding food choices are a topic that has gained momentum recently, however more research needs to be conducted to determine the reasons why social influences affect certain college students especially in comparing healthy versus unhealthy food choices.</p>

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Compliance of a Small Convenience Sample and Efficacy of Short Term Modified Carbohydrate Diet on Weight Loss in Overweight College Students: A Pilot Study

Food and Nutrition Sciences ◽

10.4236/fns.2012.35095 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 03 (05) ◽

pp. 699-704 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jay Kandiah ◽

Dawn Brinson ◽

Valerie Amend

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Weight Loss ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Short Term ◽

Carbohydrate Diet ◽

Convenience Sample

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Psychiatrically Hospitalized College Students: A Pilot Study

Journal of American College Health ◽

10.1080/07448481.1992.9936301 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 11-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Arthur Rosecan ◽

Richard Goldberg ◽

Thomas Wise

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Psychiatrically Hospitalized

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Pitch strength and annoyance of acoustic analogs of flutter echo - a pilot study

INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings ◽

10.3397/in-2021-2062 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 263 (4) ◽

pp. 2145-2156

Author(s):

Anne Balant ◽

Heather Lai ◽

Vayda M. Wilson

Keyword(s):

College Students ◽

User Interface ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Graphical User Interface ◽

Scaling Method ◽

Short Pulses ◽

Pulse Trains ◽

Pitch Matching ◽

Category Scaling

The impetus for this pilot study was the observation of flutter echoes on the aisle of a church with a barrel-vaulted ceiling. When source and receiver height were comparable, the flutter echoes consisted of a 39-msec repeating pattern of three short pulses that persisted for reverberation times of up to 5 sec. The disruptive quality of these echoes perceptually was striking. It was hypothesized that the perception of a sequence of rapidly alternating periodicity pitches might be the source of this disruptive quality. A pilot study was conducted to assess the perceived pitch, pitch strength, and annoyance of isochronous and anisochronous synthetic pulse trains involving up to three different inter-pulse intervals per pattern. Intervals of the anisochronous pulse trains were controlled to create harmonic and inharmonic relationships among the intervals, which ranged from 5-20 msec. Twelve adult college students participated in the study remotely via videoconferencing due to social distancing requirements. A modified category scaling method was used. Participants positioned a slider on a graphical user interface to reflect their ratings of pitch strength and annoyance and used a slider to adjust the frequency of a reference tone for pitch matching. Results and implications for further research will be presented.

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