British doctors yesterday called on the media to use female models with more realistically proportioned bodies instead of "abnormally thin" women who contributed to the rise in the numbers of people suffering from eating disorders. A report by the British Medical Association claimed that the promotion of rake-thin models such as Kate Moss and Jodie Kidd was creating a distorted body image which young women tried to imitate. It suggested that the media can trigger and perpetuate the disease. "Female
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Being in the category branded ‘young women’ myself‚ I firmly believe that the way in which magazines are being portrayed in today’s body image driven society‚ is wrong. Despite the positive information that the media communicates to the world‚ they also have a propensity to convey negative messages. Teenagers should not have to feel that what they read in magazines compared to what they see in the mirror is a compulsory way of life. Models and celebrities have the life airbrushed into them only to
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Carrier Phase Tracking of Weak Signals Using Different Receiver Architectures M.G. Petovello‚ C. O’Driscoll and G. Lachapelle Position‚ Location and Navigation (PLAN) Group Department of Geomatics Engineering Schulich School of Engineering University of Calgary lock indicator values and carrier phase-based positioning quality were compared. Unexpectedly‚ the vector-based receiver did not perform very well and more work is needed to understand why this is the case. Of the remaining receivers‚ the
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A busy lifestyle may leave you little time to cook and eat healthy meals. According to Jeannette Bessinger and Tracee Yablon-Brenner‚ authors of "Simple Food for Busy Families: The Whole Life Nutrition Approach‚" it is possible to eat a diet filled with nutritious foods even when you are busy with a career and family. A few simple changes will allow you to create cooking and eating routines that focus on a variety of healthy ingredients. Step 1 Prepare meals ahead of time. Take a few hours
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The Signal-Man by Charles Dickens is a pre-20th century short story‚ written in around 19th century. It is a Gothic story as a genre. A Gothic story is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in English literature. The Gothic novel emphasized mystery and horror and was filled with ghost haunted rooms‚ underground passages‚ and secret stairways. These ingredients are essential and crucial for Gothic story in order to create suspense to the readers. In the story an obvious theme of mystery
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Summary Assignment "The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore‚" by Sherman Alexie is a story that starts out with two guys‚ the author states in the beginning of the story Victor is holding a pistol to his temple and said he wished he was drunk enough to pull the trigger. Adrian then took the gun and put the barrel in his mouth‚ smiled around the metal and then pulled the trigger‚ soon after‚ the author says he spits the BB out. Adrian and Victor both sat on the
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July 2012 Design and development of a Virtual Instrument for Bio-signal Acquisition and Processing using LabVIEW Patterson Casmir D’Mello1‚ Sandra D’Souza2 Department of Instrumentation & Control Engineering‚ M.I.T‚ Manipal1‚2 Sandra.dsouza@manipal.edu ‚ pattersoncasmir@gmail.com 1 2 Abstract: The increased performance of personal computers and their reduced cost has made it possible for development of PC based signal processing systems.Hospitals need several measurement systems that can
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IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL‚ VOL. 12‚ NO. 3‚ MARCH 2012 439 Film-Type Sensor Materials PVDF and EMFi in Measurement of Cardiorespiratory Signals— A Review Satu Rajala and Jukka Lekkala Abstract—In this paper‚ some recent results obtained with filmtype sensor materials polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) and electromechanical film (EMFi) are presented. The materials generate a voltage when they are mechanically deformed‚ however‚ because of their capacitive nature only the change of an external force
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Submitted by: Hira Naqvi (2k8-ee-214) Roshaan Khan (2k8-ee-235) Usman Asif Khan (2k8-ee-253) Physiological Parameters Measurement Based on Wheelchair Embedded Sensors and Advanced Signal Processing Introduction:- This paper presents a multisensing system with wireless communication capabilities embedded on a smart wheelchair that can measure physiological parameters such as heart rate and respiratory rate in an unobtrusive way. Ballistocardiography
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In “The Only Traffic Signal on the Reservation Doesn’t Flash Red Anymore” by Sherman Alexie the theme for the story would be‚ there is always hope even if there exists a cycle of failure as portrayed on the reservation in the passage. In the passage‚ Victor tells Adrian that he thought “Julius might be the one” but in the end‚ Julius got drunk and lost the game. For a long time‚ Julius symbolized hope on the reservation to make it all the way but it was alcohol that made him lose the game‚ so this
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