I felt like I had tried everything when it came to losing weight. I was the nomadic dieter, jumping from regimen to regimen. Whether after a few weeks or a few months, I'd end up quitting. Little wonder too: my favourite foods were deemed off-limits and I was always famished. Whatever pounds I had lost would then come right back, as if they were waiting in the sidelines all along. After years of this, it finally clicked. This wasn't working. It wasn't ever going to work. So I started to come up with my own approach, something I knew I could follow. Forget trying to deny myself doughnuts and cheesecake, and no more of this being starved business. In fact, I'd never let myself go hungry again. It worked. I went from obese to slender in a year with not a single pound coming back. This book details every step I took to pull it off. It also include insights on how I got my binging under control and handle such red zones as the big annual family dinner.
I felt like I had tried everything when it came to losing weight. I was the nomadic dieter, jumping from regimen to regimen. Whether after a few weeks or a few months, I'd end up quitting. Little wonder too: my favourite foods were deemed off-limits and I was always famished. Whatever pounds I had lost would then come right back, as if they were waiting in the sidelines all along. After years of this, it finally clicked. This wasn't working. It wasn't ever going to work. So I started to come up with my own approach, something I knew I could follow. Forget trying to deny myself doughnuts and cheesecake, and no more of this being starved business. In fact, I'd never let myself go hungry again. It worked. I went from obese to slender in a year with not a single pound coming back. This book details every step I took to pull it off. It also include insights on how I got my binging under control and handle such red zones as the big annual family dinner.
The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important ideological role in presenting the policies of economic and political elites in a favourable light, even if the latter’s aim has been to shift the burden of adjustment onto citizens. This book explains how and why, using a critical political economic perspective and focusing on the case of Ireland. Throughout, Ireland is compared with contemporary and historical examples to contextualise the arguments made. The book covers the housing bubble that led to the crash, the rescue of financial institutions by the state, the role of the European institutions and the International Monetary Fund, austerity, and the possibility of leaving the eurozone for Europe’s peripheral countries. Through a systematic analysis of Ireland’s main newspapers, it is argued that the media reflect elite views and interests and downplay alternative policies that could lead to more progressive responses to the crisis.
Basic Biostatistics for Medical and Biomedical Practitioners, Second Edition makes it easier to plan experiments, with an emphasis on sample size. It also shows what choices are available when simple tests are unsuitable and offers investigators an overview of how the kinds of complex tests that they won't do on their own work. The second edition presents a new, revised and enhanced version of the chapters, taking into consideration new developments and tools available, discussing topics, such as the basic aspects of statistics, continuous distributions, hypothesis testing, discrete distributions, probability in epidemiology and medical diagnosis, comparing means, regression and correlation. This book is a valuable source for students and researchers looking to expand or refresh their understanding of statistics as it applies to the biomedical and research fields. Based on the author’s 40+ years of teaching statistics to medical fellows and biomedical researchers across a wide range of fields, it is a valuable source for researchers who need to understand more about biostatistics to apply it to their work. Introduces procedures, such as multiple regression, Poisson distribution, binomial and multinomial distributions, variance analysis, and how to design and sample clinical trials Presents a new section on ANCOVA Gives references to free online tests Includes over 200 diagrams, enabling the reader to visualize the results Discusses NHST testing in detail, its disadvantages, and how to think about probability
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