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Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

Obesity, Surgery for Weight Loss, and Their Psychological Impacts

may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...

Problem of Obesity

common occurrence for the American adolescents in particular, with findings indicating how not only are American teens less active...

Obesity Research and Motivation

Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...

Inner City Adult Asthma Patients and Risk Factors

and a very important factor is a lack of medical attention. All of these things culminate in a situation where people are more vul...

Latin America and Obesity

of food, and while in some instances that is true, it is not characteristic of obesity. While many people know when they are obes...

Preschool Children and Explanations of Dying and Death

go to sleep (VanClay, 2004; Vernon, 2002). As LesStrang said: "Grandpa did not go on a long journey; he did not pass on; he is not...

Explanation of Java Platforms

separately. We had mentioned above that Java makes use of small webpages (applets) to help add a little more pizzazz to wh...

Obesity and America's Youth

obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

An Article on Obesity, Diabetes, and the Effect of Estrogen Reviewed

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

An Individual's Explanation on Why He Wants to Become a Doctor

in most cases much better compensated than any other professional. Others want to become a physician simply because of the societ...

Occupational Pay Diversity and Economic Theory Explanation

social workers. This group had a 24 percent turnover rate" (Ryan, 2004) and social workers were not awarded the same type of pay i...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Crime Explanations by Social Theories

respond to them in that way and then the deviant reacts to the stimulus by engaging in untoward behavior (2005). This theory helps...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Methodology Proposal on Depression and Obesity

- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...

Obesity: Under-Diagnosis

This paper offers an abstract for study that pertains to the under-diagnosis of obesity. One page in length, no sources are cited....

Obesity/Chronic Disease

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

Explanation of Distributed Cognition

In seven pages the late 1980s theory known as distributed cognition is discussed in terms of its departure from other theories of ...

Explanation of Karl Marx's Theories

In twelve pages this paper examines concepts of capitalism, alienation, class struggle, and revolution in an overview of Karl Marx...

Explanation of Theories Pertaining to Physics

In five pages this research paper discusses modern physics in a consideration of 2 major theories with the groupings or Eightfold ...

Contemporary Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In five pages this paper considers 3 contemporary problems from the theoretical perspectives of Emile Durkheim including infant ab...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...

EXPLANATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR GIBERSON'S GLASS STUDIO

An examination of his production volume showed that he produced around 40 batches of glass a week (out of which only a certain per...

Fast Food Nation

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...