Browsing by Author "Wang, Yan"

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    China’s Urban Household Food Consumption, Nutrition and Health
    (North Dakota State University, 2017) Wang, Yan
    The effect of family structure on household nutrition intake and the effect of wine, beer, and spirits consumption on household nutrition and health are examined. To evaluate nutrition intake, an Eating Healthy Index (EHI) is developed following the Compilation of Food-Based Dietary Guidelines, published by the Chinese Nutrition Society, and the Healthy Eating Index-2010 components and standards for scoring from USDA. Using previously collected household survey data from 11 cities in China, an EHI is developed and calculated for each family to assess their nutrition intake. The score is calculated such that it increases if consumption is in a range representing healthy food intake. The relationship between the score, representing healthy nutrition intake, and household income, wife's education level, demographics, and household composition is explored using regression analysis. The results indicate that changes in family structure have significant effects on household nutrition intake.
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    A Closed Form Optimization Model for The Conflict Neutralization Problem
    (North Dakota State University, 2010) Wang, Yan
    In this study, we proposed a novel closed form optimization model for the Conflict Neutralization Problem (CKP) and implemented an efficient algorithm for solving the problem. A novel tableau representation of the CNP model was presented and described in detail. We implemented a special structured branch and bound algorithm to solve the problem. Key components of the implementation were described. To test the computation performance of our algorithm, we designed and conducted three sets of experiments. The experiment results were reported and analyzed in this report. The test results showed the efficiency of the algorithm for solving the Conflict Neutralization Problem.