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Objectives: To examine Plate Waste (PW) from elementary and middle school-aged children by school and by grade when grapes were on the lunch menu versus when they were absent. The primary hypothesis tested was that grapes enhance consumption and lessen plate waste, thereby serving as a “gateway” fruit to healthier eating. The foods examined were selected fruits, vegetables, and entrées. The end...

This article explores how social media use in formal and informal learning spaces can support the development of digital citizenship for secondary school students. As students increasingly spend large amounts of time online (e.g., an average of six hours of screen time per day, excluding school and homework), it is critical that they are developing skills enabling them to find, evaluate, and sh...

1School of Cancer and Enabling Sciences, Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences, University of Manchester, and Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, United Kingdom; 2Department of Histopathology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, United Kingdom; 3Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Med...

This work presents a collaborative educational game, Time2Play, developed in Second Life, which allows the creation of stories in a collaborative fashion, offering a new form of expression in education. This game is projected for children from 7 to 12 years old, enabling them to express their creativity and imagination by creating and enacting stories of their own. The proposed game can become ...

A healthy mouth is essential for general health and wellbeing, enabling individuals to communicate effectively, and to eat and enjoy a variety of foods. It is important for overall quality of life, self-esteem and social confidence. The cost of oral disease to individuals and society extends beyond the oral health burden alone; there is, for example, lost productivity due to absenteeism fromwor...

1Biomolecular Modelling Laboratory, Cancer Research UK London Research Institute, Lincoln’s Inn Fields Laboratories, London, United Kingdom; 2Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; 3Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Jagiellonian University, Collegium Medicum, Krakow, Poland; and 4Cancer Research UK Children’s Cancer Group, School of Cancer and Enablin...

This documents reports on the results obtained by the research activity undergone within the IRCSET Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007 Scheme) at the school. The research described in this paper aimed at the development of a spatiotemporal multi-granular data model and query language enabling the efficient and consistent representation and analysis of spatio-temporal data at different levels of deta...