Conflict of motivations is typically where self-regulation comes into play, student athletes want to participate in the social scenes of college life but also need to be concerned with health and performance. ... The self-regulation theory works well with a study of sleeping habits and recovery because it is dependent upon the person and his or her relationship to the environment, the change of that relationship is initiated by their self-set goals. ... Downstream intervention would be most effective for PERS, the focus on individual intervention and the change of a health behavior would be mo...

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Despite a general consensus that pressure ulcers are largely preventable, they continue to be a problematic and persisting health concern (Australian Wound Management Association, 2012). ... One year later, in 2009, the Queensland Government published a set of guidelines that encouraged health care settings to initiate repositioning every two hours. ... In their study, elderly patients were either repositioned three hourly on a 30 ° tilt or six hourly on a 90 ° lateral rotation. ... Like Moore (et al., 2011), Rafter found that three hourly repositioning was the most ideal schedule, only in t...

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Today in the United States, a debate about serious health care issues in young adults cannot be completed without discussing underage drinking. ... Through its various research, the NIAAA finds underage drinking, a major public health problem. ... One of the major factors that contributes to this massive problem is alcohol beverage advertising, which has been attracting people to drink, especially young adults who have become the main target of these advertising (Studying). ... Such reports and studies have strengthened the industry's stand on alcohol advertising, and there have not been...

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It is widely known that what happens in the mind also happens in the body, and therefore a healthy and strong mind directly influences our physical health as well as our mental and emotional health, due to the mind-body connection. There are two main channels of focus, both of which train the mind in various ways and aid health and wellbeing on a number of levels. ... The practice of meditation promotes the development of deep diaphragmatic breathing, which is the core of health and wellbeing. Medical studies have proven that if cells get enough oxygen due to correct deep breathing, it is ...

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As a qualitative researcher, the author is cognizant of the lack of racial diversity in her study, as this would rather depict a more contrasting outcome about transgender experiences. ... Though this process was unsuccessful, Bender-Baird was triumphant in opening up the purpose of the study with clear and organized objectives and that is to examine and understand the political terrain they are treading and its appositeness to gender racialization, which are the meaningful foci of her open-ended inquisitions. ... Additionally, some findings are prevalent and identifies with other pertinent r...

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Community health nurses (CHNs) provide care to groups, individuals, and families at an outside hospital setting with the aim of improving the communities' health outcomes. ... Hence, the role of the community health nurses became indispensable in the provision of preventive health care. ... Hence, community health nurses offer important advice to individuals through health promotion programs that stress on the need to adapt the desirable care plan. ... Hence, the desired health outcome may take several years to be achieved. ... Various studies have indicated inconsistencies in the communi...

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They believe that the World Health Organization (WHO) tobacco initiative has some important risks that investors will see as becoming increasingly high profile as the 2003 deadline approaches. First, WHO's aim and negotiation for Global Regulatory Authority by 2003 covers key issues such as advertising, promotion, packaging, excise tax, litigation, and health warnings. ... The WHO treaty covers key issues such as advertising, promotion, packaging, excise tax, litigation, and health warnings. ... Numerous campaigns have been waged against WHO-sponsored studies from the tobacco industry ...

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According to a study done by SRI Consulting's, prostate cancer in the United States will rise by 35% in the next 10 years, lung cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma will increase by 30% among women, and skin melanoma and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma will grow by 50% among men. ... As a result, stroke is "a major drain on health-care funding" (Rothwell 1613). ... Intel Corporation, well known for its world famous Pentium processor, has started a Proactive Health Strategic Research Project (PHSRP), in the hope to find new technologies that "can support behaviors that help prevent disease, ...

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This includes potential health problems of the worker as well health issues of the person's partner. ... Increasing the Health and Physical Well-Being of Older Workers Given that the primary reason that older workers choose to retire is related to their health or the health of their partner it is important that Little Whinging Institute a community program that specifically addresses these issues for working older adults. ... Hughes et al. (2011) examined the effectiveness of two worksite health interventions in a randomized controlled trial with workers over the age of 40. ... The contr...

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Cannabis is illegal due to many reasons such as addiction, links with other drugs, health and wellbeing of individuals, and risk to society (Hall, 1997). ... Tobacco like other illicit drugs contains many harmful chemicals such as nicotine or tar as compared to cannabis, which is organically grown and has health benefits for individuals as it does contain harmful chemicals. ... They conducted studies on adolescents and young adults and found by the age of 21 years over a quarter of the group used a variety of illicit drugs other than cannabis, and 99% of those who used cannabis also used othe...

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In a follow-up study of 100 Harvard students to their midlife, Vaillant (1977) found that intellectual ability was not significantly associated with any of his measures of adjustment, which included mental health, physical health, family relations, and success in work. ... In another long-term predictive study, Felsman and Vaillant (1987) followed a group of 456 inner-city men from early adolescence to middle life. ... Several studies have failed to and significant correlations between IQ and work performance, whereas others, such as those conducted by Terman and his colleagues on highly gifte...

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Now, in recent studies it has come to the conclusion that there are equal chances of men and women having this disorder, the difference is how it affects makes them act. ... A study was done between 38 BPD patients and 36 healthy patients with no degree of psychiatric disorders found, the study was finding a homogeneous group of subjects clinically significant impulsive aggression relating to IED-R. The study that was done is called Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm (PSAP), which is a study that was used to provoke aggressive behavior. The study is designed as a computer game for the pati...

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Another study used magnetic resonance imaging to investigate cerebral volume in patients with childhood-onset schizophrenia and a control group (Keller 128). ... In one study, families reported knowing that something was wrong with their child anywhere from 18 months to 7 years of age, but the average age of the child when first given a clinical diagnosis was not until 10.5 years of age (Schaeffer 540). ... Individual psychotherapy may also prove to be beneficial, although one study found this to be relatively ineffective in children (Schaeffer 541). ... If researchers are correct about child...

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So, chemo-prevention exploration encompasses vulnerable research clients which are neither patients diagnosed with disease, as in management studies, or classic vigorous volunteers. ... The societal cost of research refers to its ability to helpfully contribute to advancing knowledge about health (Lancet 1). ... This defense must be made on the foundation of capable risk-benefit trade-off from the study interventions to individual subjects and not solely upon potential benefit to the population. ... Studies both of clinical populations and the general public have found that people tend to ...

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A clear example is in Peru , where the coastal area has been seriously affected by industrial fisheries at an environmental, socioeconomic level and even seriously affecting the health of the population. ... Studies give an example of how the livestock needs large parts of land around the globe to meet their production; and "Grazing occupies 26 percent of the Earth's terrestrial surface, while feed crop production requires about a third of all arable land" ( FAO ) . ... The studies in return report that "farming has been responsible for the degradation of 70 % of the land used for gr...

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Another study found a similar link between instances of Conduct Disorder and youth whose parents suffer from psychological disorders (Kostic et al, 2014). ... Divorce, for instance, was found to have an impact on the prevalence and development of CD and other behavioural disorders in youths and adolescents – with some 44% of subjects in one study coming from a broken home (Kostic et al, 2014). ... Studies have also demonstrated a genetic factor in the origins of conduct disorder and substance use disorder (suspected already due to familial links), and actually suggest the same heritabl...

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It is even estimated that half of America lives with depression, and a large portion cannot legally purchase a cigarette (which, by the way, have been clinically proven to increase anxiety and depression by thirty percent in a six year study of juvenile smokers). ... A study found that one third of school counselors thought they could recognize suicidal tendencies "one third! ... The fact alone that suicide has thrown off its scarlet letter and has entered the common domain of conversation "with children, keep in mind, indicates plenty about the current mental health of teenage socie...

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In this sense, it would seemingly be unjust to introduce unhealthy food into more cultures and societies in terms of health reasons. ... The University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation have done a study which analyzed data from 188 countries over 33 years. The study showed that close to 2.1 billion of the world's population were overweight or obese last year. ...

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Many tertiary education institutions do not yet offer the software engineering course, however due to the engineering' title associated there are certain requirements in studies or experiences that students must complete. ... Performing services for society that affects their health, welfare and safety means that technical competence must be applied in all situations. ... It encompasses commitments to aim toward the highest standards of excellence in practice and in disseminating their knowledge, being responsive to society's health needs while keeping their welfare in perspecti...

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A significant concern is that college educators may not teach current environmental and social issues across all fields of study for organizational sustainability (Butler, 2012). ... However, the manager should be sensitive to employee safety and health concerns. ... In formulating a theoretical framework to look at the relationship of entry-level skills and manager prefer skills, leadership theory provided a useful base for study. ...

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However, there have been studies that have explored the advantages and disadvantages associated with the 5% of the eligible electorate who fail to vote, with Labor making a net gain in votes when turnout is high and the Coalition benefiting when the turnout is low (McAllister, 1986). ... An important factor to consider is each party's focus on social issues and how they have affected voting, issues such as defense, terrorism and interest rates have generally worked in the Coalitions favor whereas issues such as health, education, privatization and the environment have benefited Labor. .....

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Gibbon was born in 1737, a young man of delicate health and fairly good fortune; he had a partial and interrupted education at Oxford, and then he completed his studies in Geneva; on the whole his outlook was French and cosmopolitan rather than British, and he was much under the intellectual influence of that great Frenchman who is best known under the name of Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire, 1694 1778). ...

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This study also reported that the fault that caused the earthquake in Japan wasn't supposed to rupture but it did. ... " (3) The DOD released a strategic research project that talks about how unprepared the government as a whole is regarding natural disasters, in the project approved "complex catastrophe" which is "any natural disaster that leads to a result in multiple casualties affecting the population, public health, environment....

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A case study in the Pacific islands that reflects the disobedience to the Earth Charter principles is the exploitation of the environment in the form of mining of phosphate in Nauru. ... By ethics of character, human beings are gratified to adapt to the extensionism approach of environmental ethics which entails to uphold the rights of all (that is, all life forms that have the capacity to feel), together without discrimination and moving towards a social and natural environment that supports bodily health, spiritual well- being and human dignity with special responsiveness to minorities and i...

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When large segments of populations are displaced by natural or man-made disasters, people become separated from time-honored roots of language, culture, and social bonds. As a result, displaced peoples are forced to create new social and economic relations in the areas to which they re-locate, as we...

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