requiring working outside the home. In return, 680 billion dollars a year are spent on meals purchased from fast food restaurants, resulting in higher caloric intakes ("America's Best & Worst Fast Food," 2014). Schools have faced budget cuts affecting their physical fitness and food and nutritional programs. Children's entertainment has moved indoors in front of the television, computer, and video games, decreasing physical activity contributing to obesity. For the first time in modern American
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cards, cash or checks had been reduced due to the advancement of technology and emergence of e-Wallet. E-Wallet is an easy-to-use, convenient electronic prototype which acts as a secure global payment system by using only a mobile smartphone. This study is directed towards developing a model to explain the consumer's’ intention to adopt e-Wallet in the social context. It adopts Consumer Need for Uniqueness Theory based on the concept of Counter-Conformity Motivation (CCM) also known as Need For Uniqueness
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University of Rizal System Morong, Rizal THE IMPACT OF TEXT MESSAGING TO THE LITERACY LEVEL OF SELECTED FRESHMEN STUDENTS OF UNIVERSITY OF RIZAL SYSTEM (MORONG CAMPUS) ON THE SCHOOL YEAR 2014-2015 A Library Research Paper Presented to Professor Yonie SD. Timog In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements in English 2 – Writing in the Discipline by LEWIS RENZ D. CELESTRA GILLIAN A. GONZALES PAULINE A. SALAZAR INTRODUCTION The fast-growing change in the society is undeniable
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Chapter I INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Conflicts among inhabitants of a community is inevitable and the necessity of establishing a formal institution such as trial courts or courts of justice, to address conflict resolution is indispensible. The establishment of this formal institutions is based on the social contract theory wherein the government is duty bound to maintain order in a community and to protect and enforce the fundamental rights of its inhabitants in exchange for the
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE AND STUDIES In expounding more ideas in the study, the researchers made a review of related foreign and local literatures as well as studies relevant to their present study collected from different sources. These related literature and studies cover the topics such as personality, behavior, social learning, and mental health. A. Foreign Literature Humanistic Psychology According to Crooks and Stein (1988), humanistic psychology differs from both the
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concepts of health and illness as presented in Nursing Fundamentals. It applies theories of nursing in the care of patients through the lifespan, utilizing problem solving and critical thinking. This course will provide an opportunity to study conditions affecting different body systems and apply evidence-based nursing interventions. It will also introduce concepts of leadership and management Prerequisites Nursing Fundamentals Nursing Skills Nursing Pharmacology Nursing: Introduction to Clinical
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FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENTS “Do Female College Students Eat More than Male College Students when Stressed?” Maxine Mempin and Tresha Mae Torino University of San Carlos, Talamban Campus Cebu City, Philippines Abstract College has been found to be stressful for many young adults (Pierceall and Keim, 2007). This study examines the relationship between academic stress and compulsive eating of college students in the various universities/collages in Cebu City, Philippines. Students (male and female)
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implement practices. Secondly, there needs to be communication in place between administration, staff, and students in order to keep all safe which leads to the third point: a supporting place for recess. Recess should have adequate space and equipment for all and stagger different age groups to avoid undue harm. Fourth is to gain support. This can be achieved by parents being involved and allowing students to participate at their own leisure. Lastly, it is important to track the efficacy of the newly, implemented
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bodies to help us through the day to come. Lack of sleep can affect us the very next day, as well as accumulate to result in chronic illnesses. Some problems caused by sleep deprivation that affect all ages are drowsy driving, snoring, and decreased performance. Statistics show that “twenty percent of all serious car crash injuries in the general population are associated with driver sleepiness, independent of alcohol effects (Wickboldt et al., p4).” Teens are already known for their reckless driving,
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paid to employees who experience difficulties with work performance because of serious personal problems. Because of the nature of problems such as alcoholism and certain psychiatric illnesses, special strategies have been developed via occupational programs which attempt to use the deteriorating work performance of the employee as a basis for intervening in his or her problem. Such programs have had a mixed reception from management. To study, how problem employees are perceived and handled in the
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