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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Mr. Wilson English 11 5 September 2012 Summer Reading Assignment: About a Boy Insensible Will‚ who lives comfortably off of the money from a popular Christmas song his father wrote‚ comes up with the idea to join a Single Parents Alone Together‚ (SPAT)‚ group in order to pick up single moms. What he chooses to overlook however‚ is the fact that he does not have any children. This sparks a chain of events beginning with him meeting Marcus‚ an awkward young teenage boy who is being raised
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Literature Review Executive Summary: Emotional concerns in the workplace are a considerable loss to employee’s health and welfare. They slow down the performance of employee and so they are harmful to the organisational well-being as well. This literature review would put forward a concise introduction on the two frequently occurring emotional concerns in the workplace: anxiety and depression. Anxiety and depression are a usual and adaptive reaction to the individual who is undergoing such emotional
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(Alcohol sourcebook) This is the same as one drop of alcohol in 1‚200 drops of blood. While this may seem a small amount to worry about‚ a blood alcohol concentration of 0.30 can cause a person to go into a coma‚ while a blood alcohol concentration level of 0.40 could easily kill you” (Chaves County DWI Program). A surprising statistic to most people is‚ on average about three drinks will put an individual over the legal limit. One drink is considered 12oz beer‚ 3oz of wine‚ and 1oz of hard liquor
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Literature has supported that generally an individuals’ sense of self and relationships are intertwined due to their reciprocal‚ transactional nature. People’s interpersonal relationships become part of their self since they store mental representations of
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LITERATURE REVIEW Semiotics is an important concept when it comes to studying media and communications because we use signs whether it is seen‚ heard or felt in order to communicate. Umberto Eco (1975‚ p.7) defines semiotics in a broad sense that it is ‘concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign’ however it is unclear specifically what a ‘sign’ is‚ Daniel Chandler (2007‚ p2) elaborates further on Eco’s definition by stating that semiotics is ‘anything that stands for something else’.
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Review of Literature on Abortion in the Family Abortion is a very controversial subject that has been continuously argued over for the past few years and probably for many more years to come. Women who are making the decision are effected emotionally‚ mentally‚ and physically since their bodies are going through many changes which it is not accustomed to. The main controversy is‚ who’s right is it to abort? Many will argue and say it is the woman’s right to chose what she does with her own
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Literature Review What is E-learning? “E-learning” is a broader term used to represent the electronic or technological way through which education is delivered. It may encompass all aspects of machine-based learning and technology-enhanced education‚ such as online learning‚ web-based learning‚ computer-aided learning‚ and electronic books and course materials. In addition‚ those more conventional methods of at-distance education delivery can also be included in the category of E-learning‚ such
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LITARTURE REVIEW Roma Mitra‚ Shankar Ravi (2008)‚ A stable and efficient banking sector is an essential precondition to increase the economic level of a country. This paper tries to model and evaluate the efficiency of 50 Indian banks. The Inefficiency can be analyzed and quantified for every evaluated unit. The aim of this paper is to estimate and compare efficiency of the banking sector in India. The analysis is supposed to verify or reject the hypothesis whether the banking sector fulfils its
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oriented instead of transportation oriented; they were product oriented instead of customer oriented.” They declined not because of cars‚ trucks‚ airplanes‚ and even telephones‚ but because of their own myopia. The article is as much about strategy as it is about marketing‚ but it also introduced the most influential marketing idea of the past half century: that businesses will do better in the end if they concentrate on meeting customers ’ needs rather than on selling products. ’ Article
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