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Slater, Sandy; Pugach, Oksana; Rogers, Todd; Barker, Dianne C.; Ross, Ashley; Tworek, Cindy; Ridgeway, William; Dart, Leah; Engstrom, Martha C. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Background: In April 2016, the City of Chicago implemented an ordinance restricting the sale of all flavored (including menthol) tobacco products (FTPs), including electronic cigarettes, at retailers located within 500 feet of any public, private, or alternative elementary, middle ("primary"), or high ("secondary") school. We…
Descriptors: Smoking, Retailing, Schools, Public Policy
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Dorie, Amy; Jablon-Roberts, Sara; McCracken, Arienne; Sadachar, Amrut; Shane-Nichols, Amy; Fiore, Ann Marie; Curwood, Sandra – International Journal on E-Learning, 2021
The growing number of online and hybrid graduate programs and their particular relevance to older female students suggests the salience of hybrid education for female-dominated degrees such as apparel merchandising and design (AMD). The current study reports on the initial iteration of an action research assessment of the hybrid option of an AMD…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Blended Learning, Conventional Instruction, Doctoral Programs
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Attia, Mohamed A. S.; Chepyator-Thomson, Jepkorir Rose; Sonkeng, Katja; el Azim, Hazem Kamal El-Din Abd – ICHPER-SD Journal of Research, 2018
Drawing on a specific case of the El-Hawwar Sporting Club, located in El-Mansoura, Egypt, the primary intent of this study was to identify variables and key factors that contribute to an effective sport marketing promotional mix, used to enhance visibility and consumption of products and services of the sport organization. A total of 100…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clubs, Athletics, Marketing
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McGreal, Rory; Chen, Nian-Shing – Educational Technology & Society, 2011
This study is a comparison of AUPress with three other traditional (non-open access) Canadian university presses. The analysis is based on the rankings that are correlated with book sales on Amazon.com and Amazon.ca. Statistical methods include the sampling of the sales ranking of randomly selected books from each press. The results of one-way…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, University Presses, Books, Open Universities
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Davis, Dexter J. – College Student Journal, 2012
Estimates are that 32 million people currently play fantasy football every year. Project Based Learning (PBL) is one method of engaging students in the educational process. This paper outlines a semester long project undertaken by undergraduate sport management students that uses fantasy football as a vehicle to enhance student knowledge of basic…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Evidence, Active Learning, Business Administration Education
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Gaffney, Michael; Rafferty, Pauline – Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate users' knowledge and use of social networking sites and folksonomies to discover if social tagging and folksonomies, within the area of independent music, aid in its information retrieval and discovery. The sites examined in this project are MySpace, Lastfm, Pandora and Allmusic. In addition,…
Descriptors: Music, Program Effectiveness, Social Networks, Information Retrieval
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Rafferty, Karen; Zipay, Diane; Patey, Camellia; Meyer, Jennifer – Journal of Child Nutrition & Management, 2009
Purpose/Objectives: The objective of the School Milk Pilot Test and the Westside School Milk Pilot Study was to test the effect of a milk enhancement initiative to make milk more appealing and attractive to elementary and secondary school students and to improve milk consumption. Methods: 146 schools participated in the national School Milk Pilot…
Descriptors: Lunch Programs, Nutrition, Child Health, Secondary School Students