University of Windsor

About: University of Windsor is a education organization based out in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Argumentation theory. The organization has 10654 authors who have published 22307 publications receiving 435906 citations. The organization is also known as: UWindsor & Assumption University of Windsor.

Shore platforms; a neglected coastal feature

Abstract: number of workers, is undoubtedly only a minute sample of the platforms which exist around the world. Until the early 1960s, the study of shore platforms was by default the almost exclusive domain of Australasian workers. This work, which still exerts a strong influence on the treatment of shore platforms in modern texts, was descriptive and generally concerned with determining whether platforms are the product of wave erosion or weathering processes. Genetic criteria usually included the degree of shelter provided by platform sites, and the elevation of the platforms in relation to specific tidal levels. It is ironic that in Britain the neglect of contemporary shore platforms occurred at a time when great importance was attached to the identification and interpretation of their ’raised’ counterparts. The first studies specifically concerned with British shore platforms are less than twenty years old. Recent work has been particularly concerned with:

Healthy eating index-C is positively associated with family dinner frequency among students in grades 6-8 from Southern Ontario, Canada.

Abstract: Unhealthy eating behaviours may contribute to the rising prevalence of childhood obesity in Canada. The purpose of this study was to describe family dinner frequency (FDF) and its associations with overall diet quality. The sample included grades six (n=372), seven (n=429) and eight (n=487) students from Southern Ontario. Data were collected with the Food Behaviour Questionnaire, including a single 24-h dietary recall and questions about individual meals. Diet quality was calculated using the Healthy Eating Index-C (HEI-C), which is a recently modified diet quality index. The majority of participants (65%) reported frequent family dinner meals (6–7 days/week versus 20% on 3–5 days/week and 15% on 0–2 days/week). Diet quality scores were higher among participants reporting 6–7 dinners/week (HEI-C=66.2 versus 62.1 and 62.8 for 0–2 and 3–5 days/week, respectively, P<0.001). Adjusted models reported that diet quality scores were also associated with whom participants consumed breakfast (P<0.001), lunch (P<0.001) and dinner (P<0.001), yet they were most strongly associated (negatively) with participants who skipped the meal altogether. Increased family dinner meals were positively associated with daily diet quality and negatively associated with breakfast and lunch skipping. Promoting family dinner meals in healthy living intervention strategies is advised.