Purposive Facebook Recruitment Endows Cost-Effective Nutrition Education Program Evaluation

Purposive Facebook Recruitment Endows Cost-Effective Nutrition Education Program Evaluation

BACKGROUND Recent legislation established a requirement for nutrition education in federal assistance programs to be evidence-based. Recruitment of low-income persons to participate and evaluate nutrition education activities can be challenging and costly. Facebook has been shown to be a cost-effective strategy to recruit this target audience to a nutrition program. OBJECTIVE The purpose of o...

Perspectives and strategies for effective nutrition education.

A prerequisite for a discussion of effective nutrition education is the establishment of the premise that nutrition is a specific and separate branch of the life sciences. The nutritionist must be similarly identifiable as having a distinct role and professional function. Recent discussions of the state of nutrition have been equivocal on this point: the Neuberger report (ARC/MRC Committee, 197...

Cost-Effective Crime Prevention: Economic Analysis of the Chicago Child-Parent Centers Early Education Program

An education in Facebook

For some years academics have debated the role in higher education of Facebook, the world’s most extensive social networking site. At first there was enthusiasm—it was a new tool that could be ‘repurposed’ for education; then, as Facebook became more widespread, its use seemed less than opportune. But now, with so many students already engaged before they even come to a university, perhaps it i...

Inventory Cost Evaluation Under VMI Program with Lot Splitting

  This paper aims to evaluate inventory cost of a Two-echelon serial supply chain system under vendor managed inventory program with stochastic demand, and examine the effect of environmental factors on the cost of overall system. For this purpose, we consider a two-echelon serial supply chain with a manufacturer and a retailer. Under Vendor managed inventory program, the decision on inventory ...