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Promoting Health and Nutrition Through Sport: Attitudes of the Junior Sporting Community

This study aimed to provide information on parents', children's and sporting officials' attitudes to sponsorship arrangements, and their support of potential policy interventions to reorient sponsorship to be more health promoting. Methods: Sports clubs (n=20) known to have food and beverage sponsors in Sydney, Illawarra and Canberra/Queanbeyan were selected. Parents and children at sports clubs were recruited through convenience sampling by approaching those attending the sports club at the time of the survey and those children who had a signed consent form. Sports clubs were visited between May and November 2010. At each club, one sports club official, ten parents of players aged 5 to 14 years, and five children aged 10 to 14 years were surveyed. Results: The majority of sporting officials and parents were supportive of policies to restrict unhealthy food and beverage sponsorship of elite sport and children's sports clubs. More than two-thirds of all children were able to correctly recall sponsors of their sports club and almost half could correctly name at least one sponsor of their favourite elite sports team. Most children thought that food and beverage companies sponsored sport to help out sports clubs and liked to return the favour to these sponsors by buying their products. Conclusion: Children's high level of recall of food and beverage sponsors is concerning as this recall is likely to be linked to children's product preferences and consumption behaviours. Alternative funding mechanisms are required to replace community and elite sport sponsorship from unhealthy food and beverage companies to reduce the promotional effects of this marketing on children's food choices and eating
Theories of Change in Rural Policy Evaluation

Rural policy evaluation helps to understand the extent to which policies have met pre-defined objectives, achieve value for money and learn from implementation failures. However, there is increasing debate over the quality of policy evaluation and the extent to which its methods can fully contribute to an understanding of rural policy. Responding to these calls, this paper employs a theory driven approach to policy evaluation to assess the social impacts of attempts to reduce animal disease on farms in England. Popular in other policy arenas, theory driven evaluation relies on developing a theory of change to examine the interactions between policy contexts and mechanisms and policy outcomes and determine what works for whom. Drawing on longitudinal qualitative and quantitative research, the paper identifies two mechanisms of change to evaluate the Badger Vaccine Deployment Project (BVDP) in England to reduce incidence of bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) in cattle. The papers shows how these mechanisms – ‘seeing is believing’ and ‘practice similarity’ – are triggered by different contextual factors leading to the failure to deliver expected policy outcomes. We also consider the advantages and limitations to theory based evaluation, and the contribution it can make to the evaluation of other rural development programmes.
The Effectiveness of Standardized Patient Managed Instruction for a Fundamental Nursing Course

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a standardized patients managed instruction program for a fundamentals of nursing. The standardized patients managed instruction was evaluated by using a quasi-experimental, nonequivalent control group posttest design with two separate classes of sophomore students attending fundamentals of nursing classes at one baccaleureate nursing school in Korea. Control group was taught by traditional lecture/model instruction and experimental group was taught by standardized patient managed instruction. Data were collected from December, 1999 to July, 2000 using checklist developed by researcher on following areas; clinical nursing performance, communication skills, and learning motivation. There were 36 students in the experimental group and 40 students in the control group. Data analysis was done using SPSS WINDOW. The results were summarized as follows ; 1. Clinical nursing performances were evaluated by change position, back care and hot bag apply. The total score was statistically significant higher in the experimental group than the control group(t=3.325, p=.000). Thus hypothesis 1 was supported. 2. Communication skill was evaluated by professional attitude and ability to explain to patients. There was a statistically significant difference between the experimental group and the control group (t=4.232, p=.000). Thus hypothesis 2 was supported. 3. Learning motivation was evaluated by self-reported questionnaires. There was statistically a significant difference between the experimental group and the control group(t=3.024, p=.004). Thus hypothesis 3 was supported. In conclusion, this study suggests that standardized patients managed instruction is an effective learning method to nursing students. By utilizing a standardized patient managed instruction, learning can proceed in a more relaxed environment and reduce the risks to patients because student inexperience are avoided. It is recommended to develop more standardized patients cases for wider areas of nursing educational and evaluate the program with more students using logitudinal method.
cyberspace: new place for counselor supervision

When first introduced to counselors, computers were viewed as magnificent, albeit mysterious, machines that promised to expedite routine clerical tasks and offer students innovative learning opportunities. Tools for information retrieval would be at the hand of the counselor, who could examine a student's record in the blink of an eye. Counselors were about to enter the twenty-first century of modern technology and computer-assisted programs. However, it did not quite work out that way. First, most schools relied primarily on mainframe computers, which were usually located in an administrative office. They increased the amount of student information collected and stored, and they enabled school personnel to transmit data to and from the district's central office. Nevertheless, the school computer's remote location and the high demand for it often restricted general use. Until recently, few personal computers were making their way into school systems and this limited counselor communication within and outside the district.
Military experienced board and corporate social responsibility disclosure: an empirical evidence from Indonesia

This study examines the impact of military connection and politically connection on Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure. Using 110 firm year observations of Indonesia listed firms, we predict that the presence of military or politically connection in firms board will increase the Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure level on its Sustainability Report. We found that military connected boards increase the Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure while politically connection does not show any correlation. Our further analysis on specific type of each connection shows that military career position, army military origin, marine military origin, People's Consultative Assembly politically affiliation and House of Representation politically affiliation increase the level of Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure level. Our result is robust due to various research model and Heckmana's two stage regression. © 2019 by author(s) and VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center.
Libel and the Media: The Chilling Effect

The impact of libel law on the freedom of the press is a subject which interests not only practising media lawyers, law students, and journalists, but also members of the general public who are keen to learn about any perceived threat to the freedom of the press. This book presents those people with a look at the impact of libel law on the media. It is based on research conducted by the author and his collaborators which involved interviewing the editors of national newspapers, journalists, and their lawyers to discover the extent to which libel laws chill press freedom. The authors examine the present state of libel law (including the Neill reforms and the law in Scotland), and go on to explore the impact of libel law on national and regional newspapers, broadcasters, and book and periodical publishers.
Life-Cycle Inventory Analysis of I-joist Production in the United States

Documenting the environmental performance of building products is becoming increasingly common. Creating environmental product declarations (EPDs) based on life-cycle assessment (LCA) data is one approach to provide scientific documentation of the products’ environmental performance. Many U.S. structural wood products have LCA-based “eco-labels” developed under the ISO standard 14025. In this study, the standard dictates underlying life-cycle inventory (LCI) data to be used reflect current practices in the industry. Therefore, gate-to-gate manufacturing LCI data for I-joist must be developed to construct updated cradle-to-gate LCAs for southeastern (SE) and for Pacific Northwestern (PNW) regions of the United States. Modeling the production weighted-average primary industry data per 1.0 km of I-joists with an assumed average depth of 30 cm through LCI analysis provides cumulative energy consumption and environmental outputs. For PNW and SE, cumulative mass allocated energy consumption associated with manufacturing 1.0 km of I-joist was found to be 65.7 and 71.0 GJ/km, respectively, with about 30% of the primary energy provided from wood residues. Emission data produced through modeling found that estimated biomass and fossil CO2 emissions in kg/km were, respectively, 1,774 and 1,969 for the PNW and 1,808 and 2,042 for the SE. One km (4,437 oven-dry kg wood portion, on average) of I-joist stores about 8,130 kg CO2 equivalents. The amount of carbon stored in I-joists thus exceeds total CO2 emissions during manufacturing by about 215%. From this study, the gate-to-gate I-joist manufacturing LCI data can now be incorporated into the cradle-to-gate LCAs to develop an updated EPD.
The Intervening Effect of Current Knowledge Enhancement on Attitude and Intention to Choose Accounting Career

The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of attitude in accounting students to the intention to choose an accounting career. It was through the intention to increase current knowledge as an intervening variable. This research used a survey online method to test the research model, which was responded by a total of 503 accounting students across Java. Data analysis and hypothesis testing used partial least square as part of the structural equation model technique. According to their ages, the respondents were famous as the millennial generation in this era. The results of this research are in accordance with the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). It is proven that attitudes have a positive and significant influence on the intentions of accounting students in terms of increasing current knowledge and choosing accounting careers. This research also supports the Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT). There is evidence that educational background and learning experience can increase the intention of accounting students to pursue careers in accounting. The existence of different generations leads to different perceptions of students regarding accounting careers. Therefore, further research is needed to identify these differences. The results also suggest that accounting educators need to update their curriculum by adapting the current development and demands of graduates. Last, the rapid development of technology has had a significant influence on the accounting profession.
Book Review: The use of Computers for Management in Industry

The small firm is an important source of new vitality in all industrial societies and it may also be the most efficientsize of unit for certain types of work. It is therefore significant that in Britain the number of manufacturing firms with less than 200 employees has been falling steadily since the 1920s and has roughly halved in the last 30 years. The Boulton Committee reported on this situation in 1971 and indicated why we should be concerned about the trend, although it is also evident to a lesser degree in other industrial countries. Jonathan Boswell's book is a slightly more recent personal investigation of 382 small firms' by interview and analysis of published information. Mr. Boswell restricted his study to private firms with less than 500 employees. He interviewed the central figures in 64 firms, all but three of which had less than 200 employees. The results of the survey indicate a wide spread of company performance without any large central core of mediocrity. Instead, there were comparable flanking quantities of conspicuous success and failure. There was no apparent correlation between performance and company size. Surprisingly also, although successful companies seem to grow quickly beyond the limits imposed in the survey, those that were not successful after an initial establishing period seemed able to survive inefficiently for a very long time. Mr Boswellconsiders that the most important common factors in the analysis relate to company age, to the industrial circumstances in which it is working, and to social change within the business. Perhaps, however, this assessment does not go far enough. There is, it seems, both within the reality being studied and also within the data presented a larger single dynamic problem than has been identified; a problem of sensitivity which may be illustrated by the different prospects for an ocean liner and a small dinghy in a stormy sea. The small firm, like the dinghy, is livelier and more responsive, but it is also more vulnerable. It can quickly seize
MULTIPLE MEASURES AND THE VALIDITY OF RESPONSE IN RESEARCH ON DRINKING DRIVERS

Drivers were stopped on city streets on weekend nights in a large midwestern city. In the course of a five-minute interview, four measures of alcohol consumption were made. Interviewers indicated a personal initial reaction as to whether the driver had been drinking. Second, the interviewers attempted to observe the presence of positional alcohol nystagmus by asking drivers to tilt their heads. Third, drivers were asked if they had been drinking alcohol. Finally, a breath sample was taken and later analyzed for blood alcohol concentration. Analysis of the results, using blood-alcohol concentration as a criterion measure, indicates that interviewers were conservative in their estimates, making a high percentage of false negatives, and conservative in their observations, indicating "cannot determine" most often in positive cases. A high percentage of drivers gave false negatives although false positives also occurred. Situational factors are suggested as possible reasons for invalid responses.
Does Citrulline Malate Enhance Physical Performance

Abstract : The purpose of this study was to investigate the ability of citrulline malate (CM) to enhance physical performance. Our hypothesis was that CM ingestion prior to exercise would result in increased maximal or peak oxygen consumption and time-to-exhaustion. Twelve subjects, 7 men and 5 women, after signing their consent and completing medical screening, participated in this randomized double blind, repeated measures design. Each subject completed three VO2max testing sessions. Initial testing was accomplished to provide a baseline for their secondary and tertiary tests. Following this baseline test, subjects ingested 6 g/d of either CM or a placebo for 14 days. Subjects then returned for their second VO2 max test. After the second test, subjects ingested 6 g/d of the other condition's capsules for 14 days, and then returned for their third and final VO2 max test. VO2max, lactate threshold, maximum watts reached, ratings of perceived exertion and pre- and post-test blood urea nitrogen levels were compared between conditions. There were no significant differences between groups for any of the performance variables measured nor was there a difference between groups in RPE. Although previous studies have claimed to observe an ergogenic effect of CM ingestion, its effects do not appear to include enhancing maximal oxygen uptake or exercise time-to-exhaustion.
Public-Private Circulation and the Revolving Door in the Chilean Executive Branch (2000–2014)

Abstract In the context of the global debate about the revolving door between private and public sectors, the case of Chile, a country in which the State has been considerably weakened, is of great interest. First, we describe the career paths of a universe of 386 individuals who held the posts of minister, undersecretary (vice-minister) and superintendent between 2000 and 2014. Then, we examine the determinants of traffic between the public and private spheres using mixed-effects logistic regression and a maximum likelihood logit model. Sex, professions of economist or lawyer, and private sector provenance are significant variables that increase the probabilities of transition from the private to the public sphere and subsequent return to the private world. The fact of being a political party member is significant but lessens the probability of circulation. This effect is different depending on the government and the type of position.
Generational differences in international stereotypes and destination images: tourism between partitioned states

ABSTRACT Studies have attempted to understand tourism issues between politically divided countries, yet few studies have argued that tourism between such states has a strong generational component. This study examines the generational differences in South Koreans’ international stereotypes and tourism destination images of North Korea. While generational differences existed in international stereotypes, there were no differences in tourism destination images between generational cohorts. Young female South Koreans were likely to view North Korea more positively than males in the same generation, and generational differences were present in the intention to visit North Korea and the perception of peace through tourism.
Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Introduction 1. The Rise of Complementary and Alternative Therapies 2. A Brief History of Placebos 3. Natural Impediments to Making Valid Inferences 4. Impediments That Prevent our Physicians and Therapists From Making Valid Inferences 5. Impediments that Prevent Poorly Trained Scientists from Making Valid Inferences 6. Why Randomized Placebo Control Groups Are Necessary in CAM Research 7. Judging the Credibility and Plausibility of Scientific Evidence 8. Some Personal Research 9. How We Know that the Placebo Effect Exists 10. A Bio-Chemical Explanation for the Placebo Effect 11. Do CAM Therapies Work Or Are They Placebo Effects? Evidence From High Quality Randomized Placebo Controlled Trials 12. Do CAM Therapies Work Or Are They Placebo Effects? Evidence From High Quality Systematic Reviews 13. How CAM Therapies Are Hypothesized to Work 14. Tying Up a Few Loose Ends Notes Index
Factors that Impact Customers' Loyalty for Mobile Telecommunication Products and Services in Australia

Customer loyalty (CL) has become rapidly appeared as a relatively important area of investigation for both researchers and practitioners. However, there has been little research in the area of customer loyalty in the Australian mobile telecommunication sector. The aim of this study is to develop a framework to identify factors affecting customers loyalty in mobile telecommunications products and services domain. A web-based survey was used to collect data which were analysed using the partial least squares based on structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). This study found that customer satisfaction, price value, facilitating condition and social influence have a significant impact on customer loyalty in the mobile telecommunication sector for product and services usage. This study has also found that customer satisfaction has an impact on customer experience and positively contribute to explaining the variance in loyalty. In contrast, habit and customer experience did not contribute to explaining the variance in loyalty. The findings of this study contribute to the development of businesses strategies of how to retain their customers which will result in higher revenues.
Dystocia in the bitch

Dystocia means difficult birth or inability to expel foetuses through the birth canal. The aetiology of dystocia may be maternal or foetal. Primary uterine inertia is the most common reason for dystocia in the bitch approaching 75% of the cases. The objective of this thesis was to investigate the incidence of dystocia and to find causes of primary uterine inertia. Also the treatment regimes for bitches with primary uterine inertia were evaluated. An epidemiologic investigation was performed. A large animal insurance data-base was used which covered healthy as well as diseased animals over time. Incidence of dystocia and the frequency of caesarean section in affected bitches were calculated. The overall incidence of dystocia was 5.7 cases per 1 000 dog years at risk. The frequency of caesarean section in bitches with dystocia was 64%. The other three studies included healthy bitches and bitches with abnormal parturition and the hormonal concentrations were analysed. An increase in prostaglandinF2α-metabolite concentration was observed from the last week of pregnancy. At labour stage II the plasma concentrations of prostaglandinF2α-metabolite, oxytocin, vasopressin and cortisol all increased in normal labour. Bitches with primary uterine inertia had plasma concentration of prostaglandinF2α-metabolite which was significantly lower compared to the normal bitches. The serum electrolytes was analysed in bitches with normal and abnormal parturition. No evidence was found indicating that abnormal serum concentration of electrolytes was a cause of primary uterine inertia in the bitch. Evaluation of two different treatment regimes revealed no significant difference in labour outcome if the bitch was treated with calcium solution in combination with oxytocin or with oxytocin only. In summary, this thesis provides information about the incidence of dystocia which was earlier unknown. The results suggest that abnormal release or production of prostaglandinF2α may be a cause of primary uterine inertia in bitches.
Evaluation of a continuous monitoring and feedback initiative to improve quality of anaesthetic care: a mixed-methods quasi-experimental study

1Imperial Patient Safety Translational Research Centre, Department of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK 2Department of Anaesthesia, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK 3IQ Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, the Netherlands 4Department of Anaesthesia, Royal Lancaster Infirmary, Lancaster, UK 5School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK 6Centre for Perioperative Medicine and Critical Care Research, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK