scholarly journals Taste Ratings of Healthier Main and Side Dishes among 4-to-8-Year-Old Children in a Quick-Service Restaurant Chain

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 673
Author(s):  
Sara Tauriello ◽  
Lily McGovern ◽  
Brianna Bartholomew ◽  
Leonard H. Epstein ◽  
Lucia A. Leone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rank Order ◽  
Peanut Butter ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Nutrition Guidelines ◽  
Taste Testing ◽  
Side Dish ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Side Dishes ◽  
Quick Service

Restaurants are regular eating environments for many families. Children’s consumption of restaurant foods has been linked with poorer diet quality, prompting emerging research examining strategies to encourage healthier eating among children in restaurants. Although taste is a primary determinant of restaurant meal choices, there is a lack of research considering children’s perspectives on the taste of different healthier kids’ meal options. The current study sought to examine, via objective taste testing, children’s liking of and preference for healthier kids’ meal options at a quick-service restaurant (QSR) and to describe bundled kids’ meals with evidence of both taste acceptability and consistency with nutrition guidelines. Thirty-seven 4-to-8-year-old children completed taste tests of ten healthier main and side dish options. Liking and preference were assessed using standard methods after children tasted each food. Children also reported their ideal kids’ meal. Results show the majority of children liked and preferred three main (turkey sandwich, chicken strips, peanut butter/banana sandwich) and side dishes (yogurt, applesauce, broccoli), with rank order differing slightly by age group. Accepted foods were combined into 11 bundles meeting nutritional criteria. Results highlight healthier kids’ meals with evidence of appeal among children in a QSR. Findings can inform future research and may increase the success of healthy eating interventions in these settings.

scholarly journals Instructors’ ideas on the use of code-switching in EFL in Turkey: A case study

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Engin Evrim Onem
Keyword(s):  
Rank Order ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
State Universities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Efl Teachers ◽  
Language Classrooms ◽  
Foreign Language Instructors ◽  
Teaching Ideas

Abstract   Code switching is a very common phenomenon in EFL language classrooms. The goal of this case study is to find out the possible reasons why EFL instructors employ code switching in ELT classes in Turkey. To achieve this, a brief questionnaire composed of the most common seven reasons mentioned in the relevant literature on code switching in language classrooms was compiled by the researcher and administered to ten EFL teachers working at different state universities in Turkey. The participants were asked to rank order the reasons from the most ideal to the least ideal purpose of employing code switching in classrooms for themselves and were later asked to write the reasons for their choices. It was found that “leaving no confusion about the topic” was the most common reason for the participants and the teachers who prioritized that reason seemed to have similar ideas about employing code switching in EFL. Discussion of the results and implications for future research are presented. Keywords: Code switching, language teaching, ideas about code switching, foreign language instructors.    

scholarly journals Team-Based Decision-Making in an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee Dagenais ◽  
Shane A Pawluk ◽  
Daniel C Rainkie ◽  
Kyle Wilby
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Clinical Examination ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Pharmacy Students ◽  
Competency Framework ◽  
Objective Structured Clinical Examination ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reflective Journal ◽  
Students Attitudes

  Evaluation of pre-licensure students’ competency in team-based decision-making is lacking. The purposes of this study were to evaluate pre-licensure pharmacy students’ competency in team-based decision-making in the context of an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), and to determine whether performance correlated with reflective assignment scores. Students’ self-assessment and conceptualization of team-based decision-making in practice was also evaluated. Twenty-three pre-licensure pharmacy students’ competency in team-based decision-making was evaluated in an OSCE station and with a reflective journal assignment; rubric scores for both evaluations were compared using Spearman’s rank order analysis. Students completed an 18-item questionnaire regarding attitudes, confidence, and perceptions related to team-based decision-making. Descriptive statistics and construct analysis with open coding were used to analyse questionnaire results. Mean OSCE station and reflective journal scores were 45% and 66.3%, respectively, and were not correlated. Students’ attitudes toward team-based decision-making were positive, and they reported performing associated behaviours during experiential education rotations. Students appropriately defined ‘team-based decision-making’ and were highly confident in performing related activities. However, students’ conceptualization of team-based decision-making did not align with the pharmacy program’s competency framework.  Three key themes were identified through the study analyses: 1) student performance is dependent on assessment context when evaluating collaborator-related competencies; 2) there is a mismatch between students’ perceived competency and objectively measured competence when collaborator outcomes were assessed within an OSCE; and 3) students’ perceptions of team-based decision-making do not align with the program’s competency framework. Future research is necessary to assess competency and perceptions of team-based decision-making in students from other healthcare professions, and to further evaluate whether pre-licensure students are “collaborative practice ready”.   Article Type: Case Study

scholarly journals Children's perspectives on outdoor play programs in childcare centre playgrounds: are early childhood educators listening?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunjoo (Christina) Lee
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Outdoor Play ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Childcare Centre ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Mosaic Approach ◽  
Outdoor Programs ◽  
Children's Interests

Outdoor programs are part of children’s everyday experiences in childcare centres. However, there is a lack of research that explores children’s viewpoints on their outdoor programs in childcare centres. This qualitative study examined children’s perspectives using the Mosaic approach. In addition, the early childhood educators (ECEs) were interviewed to investigate how they learn about and support children’s interests. Findings indicate that using the Mosaic approach can contribute to a more holistic understanding of children’s perspectives of their outdoor play programs. Findings also indicate that ECEs use observation and communication to learn about children’s interests. The ECEs also stated that they support children’s interests during their outdoor programs through verbal support and modelling, changing and expanding activities, and preparing various activities and materials for the children. Discussion on the findings explores multiple methods for tapping children’s perspectives, implications for teacher practices, and direction for future research.

The Design and Presentation Order of Web Page Buttons

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (15) ◽  
pp. 1449-1453
Author(s):  
Aaron W. Bangor ◽  
James T. Miller
Keyword(s):  
Web Sites ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Web Page ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Standardization Effort ◽  
The Right ◽  
Order Four ◽  
A Company

As part of a guidelines standardization effort, a company wanted to know what customers think a “good” button looks like for web sites. A study was conducted with 63 participants that had them rank-order four existing button designs and then asked follow-up questions about their preference for several button characteristics. Results show that participants preferred bold text for labels, dark characters on a lighter background, rounded corners, and the button and page background colors to be different. One of the four designs was preferred over the other three, even though it embodied only three of the four preferred characteristics. The horizontal ordering of button pairs was also investigated. Participants preferred Save to the left of Cancel and Next to the right of Back, but did not indicate a preference for Continue with respect to Cancel. Possible reasons for these findings and future research topics are discussed.

Improving fertility to timed artificial insemination by manipulation of circulating progesterone concentrations in lactating dairy cattle

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milo C. Wiltbank ◽  
Alexandre H. Souza ◽  
Paulo D. Carvalho ◽  
Robb W. Bender ◽  
Anibal B. Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Dairy Cattle ◽  
Liver Blood Flow ◽  
Prostaglandin F2α ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Luteal Tissue ◽  
Primary Determinant ◽  
Time Of Breeding ◽  
Timed Artificial Insemination ◽  
Lactating Dairy Cattle

This manuscript reviews the effect of progesterone (P4) during timed AI protocols in lactating dairy cows. Circulating P4 is determined by a balance between P4 production, primarily by the corpus luteum (CL), and P4 metabolism, primarily by the liver. In dairy cattle, the volume of luteal tissue is a primary determinant of P4 production; however, inadequate circulating P4 is generally due to high P4 metabolism resulting from extremely elevated liver blood flow. Three sections in this manuscript summarise the role of P4 concentrations before breeding, near the time of breeding and after breeding. During timed AI protocols, elevations in P4 are generally achieved by ovulation, resulting in an accessory CL, or by supplementation with exogenous P4. Elevating P4 before timed AI has been found to decrease double ovulation and increase fertility to the timed AI. Slight elevations in circulating P4 can dramatically reduce fertility, with inadequate luteolysis to the prostaglandin F2α treatment before timed AI being the underlying cause of this problem. After AI, circulating P4 is critical for embryo growth, and for establishment and maintenance of pregnancy. Many studies have attempted to improve fertility by elevating P4 after timed AI with marginal elevations in fertility. Thus, previous research has provided substantial insights into mechanisms regulating circulating P4 concentrations and actions. Understanding this prior research can focus future research on P4 manipulation to improve timed AI protocols.

Alcoholic psychoses and suicide trends in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine

2017 ◽  
Vol 41 (S1) ◽  
pp. S401-S401
Author(s):  
Y. Razvodovsky
Keyword(s):  
Binge Drinking ◽  
Rank Order ◽  
Heavy Drinking ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Suicide Mortality ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mortality Trends ◽  
Suicide Rates ◽  
Post Soviet Period

IntroductionThe dramatic fluctuations in suicide mortality in the countries of the former Soviet Union (fSU) over the past decades have been widely discussed in the scientific literature and are still relatively unexplored. Accumulated evidence suggests that the mixture of cultural acceptance of heavy drinking, high rate of distilled spirits consumption, and binge drinking pattern is major contributor to the suicide mortality burden in fSU countries.AimsThe present study aims to analyze whether binge drinking is able to explain the dramatic fluctuations in suicide mortality in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine from the late Soviet to post-Soviet period.MethodTrends in alcoholic psychoses incidence and suicide rates from 1980 to 2015 in Russia Belarus and Ukraine were analyzed employing a Spearman's rank-order correlation analysis.ResultsThe estimates based on the Soviet data suggest a strong positive association between alcoholic psychoses and suicide rates in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. This positive relationship was less evident in the post-Soviet period.ConclusionCollectively, these findings indicate that alcohol has played an important role in the fluctuation of suicide mortality rates in the former Soviet republics during the last decades. Further monitoring of suicide mortality trends in the former Soviet countries and detailed comparisons with earlier developments in other countries remain a priority for future research.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his/her declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals The Co-Development of Generativity and Well-Being into Early Late Life

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erica Baranski ◽  
Jennifer Lodi-Smith ◽  
Elyse Ponterio ◽  
Nicky Newton ◽  
Michael Poulin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rank Order ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Late Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Change Models ◽  
Demographic Covariates ◽  
Early Late

The current manuscript replicates and extends the few existing studies of generativity in later adulthood with regard to two aims: (1) to model individual differences in the development of generativity into early late life and (2) to quantify the relationship between development in generativity and development in well-being into late midlife and early older adulthood. Data from the Rochester Adult Longitudinal Study (RALS) are used to address these aims in a preregistered secondary analysis of existing RALS data (see https://osf.io/syp2u). Analyses quantify individual development of generativity in a sample of 284 RALS participants who completed the Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS; McAdams & de St. Aubin, 1992) and the Psychological Well-Being Scale (PWB; Ryff, 1989a) during the most recent two waves of the RALS (2000 – 2012). Both generativity and well-being demonstrated substantial rank-order stability and mean-level change as well as individual variability on both. Dual score change models showed a robust concurrent relationship between both constructs at the first assessment and meaningful correlated change between generativity and well-being over time. While demographic covariates were not associated with study findings, one of the most important limitations of the RALS is the racial and ethnic homogeneity of the sample that constrains generalizability to other racial and ethnic groups. Results are discussed in the context of our current understanding of the development and impact of generativity in later adulthood anddirections for future research in this area are identified.

scholarly journals LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN’S PERSPECTIVES ON BOOKS BEING DELIVERED TO THE HOME DURING THE LETTERBOX CLUB SCOTLAND PROJECT

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
Andy Hancock ◽  
Juliet Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Looked After Children ◽  
Children’S Agency ◽  
Literacy Profiles ◽  
Individual Conversations

The low educational achievement of looked after children — children in the care of a local authority — is well documented in the United Kingdom and internationally. However, official statistics do not reveal the nuances of individual children’s lived experiences nor children’s agency. This article gives weight to children’s perspectives, and reports on the views of looked after children aged 7 to 10 in Scotland during the Letterbox Club project. It specifically investigates children’s perspectives of reading practices in the home and their responses to books delivered to them over a 6-month period. Data were gathered from 3 distinct but interrelated phases of the research: (a) literacy profiles completed by the children in collaboration with their carer(s), (b) children’s comments on evaluation sheets contained in each of the six parcels, and (c) individual conversations with children at the end of the project. The findings reveal the heterogeneous nature of looked after children with multifarious reading proficiencies and reading habits and routines. The children made choices about where and when they read and with whom, expressing opinions about books and authors and using the contents of the parcels to take action and gain greater ownership of their own learning. Finally, the contested nature of children’s agency is discussed, as well as the implications for future research involving looked after children.

scholarly journals Children's perspectives on outdoor play programs in childcare centre playgrounds: are early childhood educators listening?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunjoo (Christina) Lee
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Early Childhood Educators ◽  
Outdoor Play ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Children’S Perspectives ◽  
Childcare Centre ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Mosaic Approach ◽  
Outdoor Programs ◽  
Children's Interests

Outdoor programs are part of children’s everyday experiences in childcare centres. However, there is a lack of research that explores children’s viewpoints on their outdoor programs in childcare centres. This qualitative study examined children’s perspectives using the Mosaic approach. In addition, the early childhood educators (ECEs) were interviewed to investigate how they learn about and support children’s interests. Findings indicate that using the Mosaic approach can contribute to a more holistic understanding of children’s perspectives of their outdoor play programs. Findings also indicate that ECEs use observation and communication to learn about children’s interests. The ECEs also stated that they support children’s interests during their outdoor programs through verbal support and modelling, changing and expanding activities, and preparing various activities and materials for the children. Discussion on the findings explores multiple methods for tapping children’s perspectives, implications for teacher practices, and direction for future research.

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