Confident Body Confident Child (CBCC) is a new resource to assist parents in providing a positive body image and eating environment for 2-6 year-old children. The print materials, website, poster and information session were developed from research on child risk factors for body dissatisfaction and disordered eating. This study evaluated the CBCC resource using a four arm RCT; A) CBCC resource ...

OBJECTIVE The primary objective of the current study was to determine the reliability between methods of supine and prone leg length inequality (LLI) assessment. The secondary objective was to determine if the degree of examiner confidence affected the degree of intermethod agreement. METHODS Two experienced doctors of chiropractic assessed 43 participants for LLI, one using a prone and the o...

As the U.S. and international multiracial populations have increased, so has research in this area. Despite a multitude of studies about unique struggles being multiracial, little empirical data been published specific strategies that individuals use to navigate monoracial (single-race)-oriented society. In article, I offer insights suggestions cope with discrimination involving family, friends...

Regularization of neural networks can alleviate overfitting in the training phase. Current regularization methods, such as Dropout and DropConnect, randomly drop neural nodes or connections based on a uniform prior. Such a data-independent strategy does not take into consideration of the quality of individual unit or connection. In this paper, we aim to develop a data-dependent approach to regu...

Although traditional social network analysis operates on the assumption that the observed relationships represents the true social network, this assumption is dangerous, especially in noisy environments. This assumption is especially problematic given the lack of robustness with respect to missing or erroneous information that has been found for node-level network indices such as degree central...

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