Describe and evaluate the evolutionary theory of food preferences According to an evolutionary approach current human behaviour can be understood in terms of how it may have been adaptive in our ancestral past. Evolutionary theorists are concerned with behaviour which is adaptive and having survival value‚ these researchers look for ultimate explanations. Current behaviours may be maladaptive and dysfunctional but can be understood as having been adaptive and functional in some way. To undertake
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Giant Sand (also currently recording as Giant Giant Sand) is an American rock band‚ based in Tucson‚ Arizona‚ United States. The name is shortened from the original ’Giant Sandworms ’‚ a reference to the creatures in the Dune books. Overseen by singer-songwriter Howe Gelb‚ its membership has shifted over the years—at times with each album. Members have included keyboardist Chris Cacavas (of Green on Red)[citation needed]‚ bassist Paula Jean Brown (who was briefly a member of The Go-Go ’s and
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incoming college freshmen should have decided on what program they should take in college. Unfortunately‚ senior students nowadays are facing a dilemma on their college course preference. This quandary made the researcher conduct a study regarding the factors that influence seniors’ decision making in their college course preference. Information Technology‚ Nursing‚ and Hotel and Room Management are the usual courses that are taken up by many students because of the popularity. Some of them are constrained
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Internal Customers‚ Physician Preference Items‚ and Standardization Physicians are both participants and customers of the health care supply chain.1 While the patient is the ultimate recipient of hospital products‚ the physician‚ or clinician decides which product to use.1 Physicians; because of their strong preferences‚ create up to 61 percent of total supply chain expenditures‚ and drive 80 percent of hospital expenditures.1‚ 2 Physicians possess a lot of power‚ and at times do not align with
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Jon Sabrino and Peter Singer share with readers what it takes to live ethically in a world in which 22‚000 children die each day from poverty-related causes. In The Principles of Mercy‚ Sabrino emphasis that people must no longer turn a naked eye to the problems of the world and they should start living out the gospel. In The Life You Can Save‚ Singer stresses the importance of giving more money. This paper will first address Sabino’s methods to living ethically‚ awaking and living the gospel. Then
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My research shows that people of Hispanic heritage prefer playing football‚ while people living in America prefer playing American football. I learned by talking and actually playing with some of my Hispanic friends that really love football a heck of a lot more than any other sport. Alex R.‚ a 17 year old high school senior‚ and one of my friends‚ told me why he loved football so much. “Football is actually a lot of fun. You have more planning and you don’t get hurt as much as you think. In
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Demographic profile of respondents Table 1 Demographic profile of respondents Sex (n=45) Age (n=45) Education (n=45) Male 51.1% Female 48.9% 60 years 6.7% Uneducated 4.4% Primary‚ middle‚ high school graduate 6.7% Collage graduate 13.3% University graduate 53.3% Advanced degree 22.2% Monthly income (n=45) Length of Beijing (n=45) 10001 6.7% >50000 2.2% 10 years 8.9% >20 years 37.8% N stand for number
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DOI: 10.1007/s00199-011-0632-8 Risk‚ Ambiguity‚ and State-Preference Theory Robert Nau Received: 30 August‚ 2010 / Accepted: 16 May‚ 2011 © Springer-Verlag 2011 Received: date / Accepted: date Abstract The state-preference framework for modeling choice under uncertainty‚ in which objects of choice are allocations of wealth or commodities across states of the world‚ is a natural one for modeling “smooth” ambiguity-averse preferences. It does not require reference to objective probabilities
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A Study on Customers Preference and Satisfaction of Four Basic Banking Services in Coimbatore and Erode T Vetrivel* and T Devasenathipathi** The purpose of this study is to investigate the differing preference and satisfaction level of customers towards Loans‚ Deposit schemes‚ Insurance and Value-added services rendered by various banks in Coimbatore and Erode cities. By using non-probability convenient sampling‚ 300 samples were taken at various branches and ATM centers‚ etc. Simple percentage
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Australian professor and animal rights advocate Peter Singer states this well in this essay “All Animals Are Equal”: The same form of discrimination may be observed in the widespread practice of experimenting on other species in order to see if certain substances are safe for human beings‚ or to test some psychological theory about the effect of severe punishment on learning‚ or to try out various new compounds just in case something turns up” (Singer 6). All major United States cosmetic companies have
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