Using Collective Impact to overcome systemic racism

The Impact of Packaged Food on Children\'s Health: Strategies to Overcome

Background: Packaged foods are often high in sugar, salt, fat, additives, preservatives, artificial colours and flavours and low in nutrients. These factors may lead to weight gain, delayed growth and development, type 2 diabetes, damage to the teeth, food poisoning, and many other health problems. This short commentary has critically examined the effects of packaged food on children's health a...

the impact of using inspirational quotes on abstract vocabulary recall

the present study is an attempt to investigate the potential impact of inspirational quotes on improving english abstract vocabulary recall. to achieve this goal, a multiple choice language proficiency test of 60 items including vocabulary and grammar component was administered to a sample of 63 second-semester male and female students whose age ranged between 17 to 22 and they were studying en...

Using the Web to Overcome Data Sparseness

This paper shows that the web can be employed to obtain frequencies for bigrams that are unseen in a given corpus. We describe a method for retrieving counts for adjective-noun, noun-noun, and verbobject bigrams from the web by querying a search engine. We evaluate this method by demonstrating that web frequencies and correlate with frequencies obtained from a carefully edited, balanced corpus....

Using Technology to Overcome the Password’s Contradiction

AbStrAct The traditional approach to security has been the use of passwords. They provide the system with a barrier to access what was quite safe in the analogical world. The digital era provided the means to easily try thousands of passwords in a short period of time and now the password schema is no longer safe. Now it suffers of the password's contradiction: the fact that it requires both si...

How Group Identification Helps to Overcome the Dilemma of Collective Action