Appendix 2 Literature Review – Childhood Obesity Obesity - Background All of the literature refers to similar statistics regarding obesity. The list below gives some examples of the data available from the different sources. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Obesity has more than doubled between 1990 and 2000 in Britain. One in 10 six year olds (8.5%) are obese. One in six (15%) 15 year olds is obese. If the current trends continue‚ one fifth of boys and one third of girls will be obese by 2020. Obesity is measured using
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and that social processes are best to be studied when change is introduced to observe the effects of these. Furthermore‚ It makes use of a cyclical approach in order for an initial holistic understanding of a social setting. The action research literature has strongly challenged the character of positivism. It is believed that this type of research is derived from a different ontological basis; it tends to a humanistic social practice rather than a traditional natural science. Lewin started with
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LITERATURE REVIEW INTRODUCTION OF ENZYMES Enzymes are complex proteins that cause a specific chemical change in all parts of the body (David C. Dugdale‚ 2011). When we understand enzymes we understand cells (Marshall Brian‚ 2001). In many organisms most chemical reactions are catalyzed -when a substance speeds up the rate of a chemical reaction- by enzymes. Each enzyme controls a certain function that happens in a cell. Still each one has its own process and rate that it converts molecules. Studying
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David Friedman Charles Wright Dan Kalowsky John Daniel Electronic Voting Literature Review Computer scientists who have done work in‚ or are interested in‚ electronic voting all seem to agree on two things: Internet voting does not meet the requirements for public elections Currently widely-deployed voting systems need improvement Voting on the Internet using everyday PC’s offers only weak security‚ but its main disadvantages are in the areas of anonymity and protection against coercion and/or
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Literature Review From the time of independence‚ India has been suffering from acute poverty‚ most of it is chronic in nature. If we look at the percentage of people below the poverty line‚ we do notice a sharp fall‚ but the absolute number remains increasing at a high rate. The situation keeps aggravating despite of several poverty alleviation programs that are implemented every year. The main reason for such failure‚ apart from the implementation issues‚ would be the measurement and numbers on
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Literature Review How does exposure to violence relate to violent crimes in American society? Exposure to violence can encompass three of our senses. We will see it‚ hear it and unfortunately touch it as well. Most of our exposure will come from seeing and hearing. We watch movies‚ television we experience violence in our homes‚ schools‚ workplace or simply being out and about‚ we may experience some sort of violence. The majority of us experience violence and abstain from it as best we can while
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Literature Review March 6‚ 2003 The first of the ten articles to be discussed examined a training program that consisted of an individualized‚ classroom-based social skills intervention. In the study‚ there were 45 children with learning disabilities 9-12 years old. These children were in self-contained special education classrooms. Thirteen children received intervention for 6 weeks and 7 children received intervention for 12 weeks. The remaining 25 children were in the control group
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Appendix 2: Environmental and Social Impacts of Mining This appendix is meant to provide a brief review of the literature with regard to environmental and social impacts from mining‚ as well as key regulatory issues. Key Environmental and Social Impacts Environmental and social impacts of mining have been well-documented and an ample literature exists on this topic. The following discussion summarizes those environmental and social issues that formed the basis for the Mining and Critical Ecosystems
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LITERATURE REVIEW : INFLUENCER MARKETING INTRODUCTION Influencer marketing has emerged as one of the fastest-growing social marketing practices as brand marketers look to connect with consumers and customers in meaningful and authentic ways often through the collective voice of active bloggers that are passionate and vocal about the brands they love. It represents a form of Word of Mouth marketing‚ which we define as an unpaid form of promotion – oral or written- in which satisfied consumers tell
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Literature review An in-depth view into fish disease Kimberley 12/1/2010 Contents 1 Introduction 3 1.1 What is Fish Disease 3 2 Viral diseases present 3 2.1 Freshwater species only 3 2.1.1 Herpesvirus salmonis 3 2.1.2 Channel catfish virus 4 2.1.3 Epithelioma papillosum 4 2.1.4 Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis 5 2.1.5 Koi Herpes virus 5 2.1.6 Spring Viraemia of Carp and Swim Bladder Infection Virus 6 2.2 Both Freshwater and Marine species 6 2.2.1 Viral Haemorrhagic
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