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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Literature Review ‘Mobile marketing’ is a dynamic and cutting-edge channel of communication for marketing messages. Before evaluating whether there is a future for mobile marketing‚ it would be sensible to analyse the current literature in this area. To begin with‚ this paper will look into the growth of the mobile phone globally and how the term ‘mobile marketing’ has developed. From here‚ it is important to get an in-depth understanding of how consumers’ attitudes <TO WHAT?> contribute
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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: According to Casse and Banahan (2007)‚ the different approaches to training and development need to be explored. It has come to their attention by their own preferred model and through experience with large Organisations. The current traditional training continuously facing the challenges in the selection of the employees‚ in maintaining the uncertainty related to the purpose and in introducing new tactics for the environment of work and by recognizing this‚ they advising 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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Segmentation Analysis Literature Review To match the needs of costumers‚ consumers and producers‚ not only in case of private people but of businesses or companies‚ target marketing is needed. To obtain the particular market firstly a marketer has to prepare a market research‚ after which he segments the market‚ and then targets a single segment or series of segments‚ and finally positions within the segment(s). From these processes‚ I have chosen Segmentation Analysis as the topic of this essay
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outcome the disposition effect has on several aspects of stock trading. Taking this in consideration‚ this paper focuses on the features of this effect in the extend of the angles these economists have presented their empirical evidence. LITERATURE REVIEW Following the Prospect Theory raised by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1986)‚ Shefrin and Statman (1985) take a further step and try to examine the decisions that might have a crucial impact on the decision making on realizing gains and
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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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Chapter 1 The Problem and Review of Related Literature Introduction “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” –Confucius. This quote from the famous Chinese philosopher must be true for every student who wishes to study abroad and attain a winning career. Students should be careful in choosing which country they will spend their time and money for studying because if they made a wrong step or move‚ the journey to success would be different to them to take. Few countries in
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