LEVERAGING HEALTH BEHAVIOR AND COMMUNICATION THEORIES TO SUPPORT ADOLESCENT AND YOUNG ADULTS: CONCEPTUALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA WELLNESS IN RELATION TO DISORDERED EATING

Leveraging Health Behavior and Communication Theories to Support Adolescent and Young Adults: Conceptualizing Social Media Wellness in Relation to Disordered Eating

Social media platforms like Instagram serve as an important mechanism for transmitting social information and influence.However, the nature and use of these platforms are known to perpetuate eating Shock disorders (EDs) or further disorder eating symptoms.This concept paper proposes merging health behavior and communication theory to create a compr

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The Interpretation of Biogeochemical Growths on Gold Coins from the SS Central America Shipwreck: Applications for Biogeochemistry and Geoarchaeology

Black crusts that formed on gold coins recovered from the 1857 shipwreck of the SS Central America played a key role in their preservation in a near original state.Within a few years of the sinking, the significant quantities of iron and steel on the shipwreck produced laminar geochemical precipitates of fine-grained iron minerals on the coins.This

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The Display Behavior of Sub-Adult Greater Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea apoda): A Learning Process from an Adult?

The Greater Bird-of-Paradise (Paradisaea apoda) is a bird that performs a courtship display NAIL/DOMES (lekking) to attract females during the mating season.The objective of this study was to examine the display behavior of adult and sub-adult males on lek trees as a learning process by a sub-adult and identify the lek trees.The research was conduc

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