PURPOSE Evidence suggests that adolescents gain more weight during the summer break than they do during the school year, and that participation in the summer school program is beneficial in maintaining their healthy lifestyle. It is known that obesity and physical fitness in adolescents can be affected by their socio-economic and psychological status, especially during a long school break. The ...

These are the lecture notes for the forcing class in the 2014 UCLA Logic Summer School. They are a revision of the 2013 Summer School notes. The most substantial differences are a new proof of the forcing theorems in section 10.3 and a final section on the consistency of the failure of the axiom of choice. Both write-ups are by Sherwood Hachtman; the former is based on the author’s notes from a...

In the summer of 1997 we ran the PRAGMATIC summer school in Catania. After many different thoughts about the format, we decided to try an experiment: We made a list of 18 research problems (reproduced below) and handed it out on the first day of class. Early in the first week we went through the list briefly explaining the background of the problems, and asked each student to choose a problem t...

These notes are concerned with recent developments in multivalued logic, particularly in fuzzy logic and its status as a model for human linguistic reasoning. This first section discusses the status of formal logic and the need for logics of approximate reasoning with vague data. The following sections present a hasic account of fuzzy sets theory; fuzzy logics; Zadeh's model of linguistic hedge...

background: functional constipation (fc) is one of the important digestive disorders in pediatrics. its prevalence varies in different communities. the purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of fc in our area between the school children and the impact of school on it. methods: this study was done on 4 to 12 years old children of nine schools and kindergartens of amirkola, (2007)....

Summer schools serve multiple purposes for students, families, educators, and communities. The current need for summer programs is driven by changes in American families and by calls for an educational system that is competitive globally and embodies higher academic standards. A research synthesis is reported that used both meta-analytic and narrative procedures to integrate the results of 93 e...