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INTRODUCTION: Background Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2. It is a rising epidemic due to many factors including genetics, lifestyle and other hormonal/medical issues. According to the World Health Organization, worldwide there are about 500 million obese adults and 42 million obese children. In the United States, 35 percent of adults (roughly 100 million people) and 17 percent of children are obese. Obesity is linked to many complications, including hypertension, dyslipidemia

ranking? Well, it would better help us discern which planets are best fit for colonizing. All research, authored by Professor Rory Barnes is published in the latest issue of Astrophysical Journal, and the data names the new metric “the habitability index for transiting planets’. Barnes, professor of astronomy and the University of Washington, declares that he and his team have conceived a way of taking all observational data available to develop a system that would help astronomers decide which planets

Background Comprehensive Severity Index (CSI) CSI is a severity scoring system that uses disease-specific measurements to categorize different levels of a patient’s severity. [51-53] These measurements include patient historical factors, physiologic parameters, and laboratory results. CSI covers a wide spectrum of diseases; more than 3,500 disease-specific severity matrices have been developed. It has been applied to predict patients’ prognosis[46], length of stay, re-hospitalization[54] and service

In reviewing the Conley Readiness Index assessment, I can verify that my greatest area of strength was my Problem Formulation, Financial Aid, and Ownership of Learning. Having a specific knowledge in each category helped me to develop certain skills to prepare me mentally and physically in school. With communication being my weakest, that notifies me that I need to use the school’s resources more often. When it comes to problem solving, usually I tend to recall certain details that will direct me

“Passed On” by Carole Satymurti, the speaker tells a story almost as in a novel of their mother and how she left them a box of index cards with advice on life when she died. The speaker’s gender seems to be female. In the poem, the poet presents the theme of growing up and becoming one’s own person through the maturation and acceptance process. She personifies the index cards themselves, comparing them to her mother. They also characterize the speaker and her mother and create a mood of sadness and

Table 4 summarises descriptive statistics of RATE, the un-weighted (weighted) risk disclosure index (RDI) as well as SSB for all bank fiscal years, as well as for each of the eight firm years investigated, separately from 2006 to 2013. Table 4 shows a number of remarkable outcomes. First, it reports that there is a high amount of variation in ratings between banks. For instance, RATE ranges from a minimum of 1 (Default) to a maximum of 19 (AA- which mean very high credit quality) with the median

prices, and he claims the economy supposedly gained 163,000 jobs in July 2012, and for those Americans lucky enough to have work, it may not be enough. Incomes have risen over time from the 1970’s, but not at the same rate that the Consumer Price Index has. As reported by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2014 in Poverty USA (2014), 47 million people lived in poverty, which means the poverty rate for 2014 was 15%. The year before the 2008 recession, poverty rate had an increase of 2.3% by 2014 (Poverty USA

Over the course of history, many scientist experts have raised the fright and panic about population numbers that only increase every year. According to the Living Planet Report, “the Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, has declined by 52 per cent since 1970.” Population sizes of different species in the world has dropped by at least half. Some of these species are the living things that establishes

households, including that earned in foreign countries. China is ranked 113th in 2013 in the world having an $11,850PPP and although GNI does not measure economic development it is used to measure the ability to buy goods and services . Human development index (HDI) is a composite indicator measurement based on life expediency, education and standard of living GDP, chia in ranked 101st in the world . This growth has led to an increase in the standard of living and a decline in poverty. As differences

Index Options are derivatives whose underlying security is not a single stock but a basket of securities called an index .The index could be either a Market Capitalization Weighted Index or Equal dollar Weighted Index. Index options provide investor the opportunity to trade the whole broad based market without much hassle and little capital .The investor can either trade in broad based indices like S&P500 or narrow based indices like sector specific index. The most popular index options in the US