NIAAA‚ in order for something to be considered binge drinking the blood alcohol concentration has to be .08 grams percent or above. Usually‚ for most college students‚ this means consuming five or more drinks in 2 hours. The rate is extremely high among college students and according to NIAAA reports‚ two out of every five students of all ages‚ which is more than 40 percent have reported in binge drinking once during the past 2 weeks. Most college students get involved in binge drinking due to the
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Minister of Human Resources‚ the number of unemployment female graduates is also much higher on comparison male graduates. In view of this‚ there is a pressing need for the education authorities and employers to look into the cause of unemployment among new university graduates and find solution to address this problem. Firstly‚ the cause of unemployed graduates nowadays is the incompatibility in the focus of higher education institutions and the needs of labor market. The reason for that is lack
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Topic: The problems of unemployment among Malaysia graduates. Recently‚ Malaysian people have been taught facing on the issue of high unemployment rates among the local graduates. This issue has been a phenomenon to the current news as it has been aired on the television‚ newspaper‚ internet and others agency. There are several problems of the unemployment among Malaysia graduates such as lack of skill experiences‚ Malaysia graduates demand too much on salary and employer
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children aged 6-10 years from 22.8 percent in 2005 to 25.6 percent in 2008‚ equivalent to 2.6 million. The number of underheight children in this age group likewise increased from 32 percent to 33.1 percent. A very high level of acute malnutrition among preschoolers (aged 0-5) was noted in six regions‚ namely Mimaropa‚ Bicol‚ Western Visayas‚ Eastern Visayas‚ Zamboanga Peninsula and Soccsksargen where the underweight-for-age prevalence was at
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TITLE: A study on influence of socio-cultural and religious factors on cardio-vascular risk among ischemic heart patients in Father Muller Hospital‚ Mangalore. INTRODUCTION: Cardiovascular diseases are becoming the major cause of morbidity and mortality in most of the developing countries including India. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) encompasses a number of diagnoses‚ including coronary heart diseases‚ hypertension and strokes. Common risk factors of cardiovascular diseases are older age group
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Body Ritual Among Nacirema Who are the Nacirema? The Nacirema are a North American group living in the territory between the Canadian Cree‚ the Yaqui and Tarahumare of Mexico‚ and the Carib and Arawark of the Antilles. Little is known about their origin but people believe that they came from the east. These people concentrate on the human body‚ which is their main concern which makes the Nacirema unique in their rituals and ways of thinking. The Nacirema believe that the human body is ugly in
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. a. Association: linkage among variables b. Positive Association: values of two different variables increase simultaneously c. Negative Association: inverse; one variable’s value increases as the other decreases d. Non-linear Association: curvilinear; un-proportional increases/decreases between two variables e. Dose-response Relationship: correlative association between an exposure and effect 2. A non-causal association is when one variable is related to but doesn’t cause the other variable (outcome);
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Nacirema When I read Body Rituals Among the Nacirema by Horace Miner the first time‚ I couldn’t imagine how a culture could behave this way and live their daily lives following these rituals. They believed that their bodies were ugly and its natural tendency was to debility and disease. They devoted much of their time trying to prevent these characteristics After observing the Nacirema customs‚ I found it to be crazy that they had shrines with a box or chest built into the wall full of magic
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smoking among female university students is a trend nowadays. In 5 paragraph essay state opinion about this issue. Provide a suitable title for this. Smoking Trend Among Female University Student Why do female university students smoke? Based on statistics‚ out of 28 millions of of people in Malaysia 15% of female students tends to smoke nowadays. Cigarettes are made up of tobacco and other chemical substance. Female university students smoke because influence by friends‚ influence by environment
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“Body Ritual Among the Nacirema” Summary In the essay “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema”‚ anthropologist Horace Miner depicts a group of people known as the “Nacirema”‚ but is referring to Americans‚ whose cultural beliefs are deeply rooted in the perspective that the human body is prune to sickness and disfiguration. Consequently‚ a substantial part of their lives is spent on unusual rituals and customs to improve conditions of the body that are filled with magical components. Moreover‚ Miner uses
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