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Maintaining an ideal weight throughout life is the most beneficial thing someone can do for their body. A healthy body and ideal weight can be achieved with proper nutrition and lifestyle, starting from childhood and even infancy. Therefore, it is important for those raising children to be conscious of this issue and to be good role models and guides for their children by exhibiting the healthi…
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Body Image in Eating Disorders
Body Image in Eating Disorders explores issues relating to the prevention, clinical diagnosis, and psychological treatment of distortions of body image in eating disorders. It presents a multifactorial model of indicators for diagnosis and treatment, considering psychological, sociocultural, and family indicators. Based on original empirical research with women and girls suffering from eating d…
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Body Image Across Health and Disease - A Bio-Psych-Social Perspective
This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researcher…
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Body Contouring and Sculpting
Over the past decades, surgical techniques have greatly progressed to improve and correct appearance. They are artistic procedures to give the highly demanded proportions. The growing public interest in aesthetic and plastic surgery interventions such as body contouring and sculpting requires clear description and differentiation of these highly sophisticated techniques, their results and combi…
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The Role of Pseudo-Commons in Post-Socialist Countries
Hardin explains that each herdsman found it more profitable to graze more animals than the pasture could support, since each took all the profit from an extra animal but bore only a fraction of the cost of overgrazing. Yet, what Hardin calls a “Tragedy of the Commons” is rather a “Tragedy of Open Access” (Feeny et al., 1990), since Hardin confuses the characteristics of a resource, such…
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Language technology approach to “seeing” in Akkadian
One of the ways meanings of words can be understood is based on their distributional properties. Such methodology offers an interesting quantitative viewpoint on the study of the lexicography of long-extinct languages. This chapter explores the use of Pointwise Mutual Information (PMI), a well-known statistical word association measure used in collocation analysis
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The European Parliament as a gender equality actor: a contradictory forerunner
The chapter maps the formal institutional arrangements, which support gender equality within the institution and constitute important facets of feminist governance. This includes not just the FEMM Committee but also different gender mainstreaming initiatives in all parlia- mentary committees as well as gender action plans and sexual harassment policies for parlia- mentary staff.
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Teacher agency in plurilingual learning contexts
Educational institutions offer different teacher education programmes to prepare teachers to effectively implement a plurilingual approach in the language classroom. The formative model that underlies those programmes is of two types: training sessions through conference and workshops, as well as collaborative work between universities and schools
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Addiction treatment providers’ engagements with the Brain Disease Model of …
Debates about the etiology of addiction among researchers and policymakers have a long history and continue to the present day. In contemporary societies within a range of nations, the brain disease model of addiction (BDMA) has received strong support. This has come, in particular, from US agencies such as the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and American Society of Addiction Medi…
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Interaction in Aerial Warfare The Role of the Mission Commander in Composite…
This chapter explores the leadership practices of Mission Commanders. The major focus is on key features in leadership practices that contribute to effective samhandling in the execution of Composite Air Operations and handling of unexpected events. “Aerial warfare” is the term used to describe the use of military aircraft and other aeronautical equipment in warfare
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