Childhood Obesity: America’s Number One Health Threat

 Over the past decade, one half of all Americans have been diagnosed with obesity or being overweight. This means the past three years obesity among children has tripled. Childhood obesity is considered the number one health threat in America. Childhood obesity has become a major issue facing America. And today over “nine million” (Selicia … Read more

Identity Theft in Thailand: Effects on Tourists and the Tourism Industry

 Based on USAGov (n.d.), identity theft is the crime in which the personal data was stolen either physically or electronically. The thief use those information to apply for credit card, receive medical care, and create fake identification card or passport. According to the Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC) (2017), most of such crime which … Read more

The Impact of Autonomous Vehicles on the Economy

 Autonomous vehicles fulfill the human need for transportation without human input by sensing the environment, interpreting using algorithms and navigating. Autonomous vehicles (self-driving cars) will occupy a majority of the roads by 2030 (Alexiou, 2017) and will amount to $5.6 trillion in savings globally (RobotEnomics, 2017). Since this idea of driverless cars has become … Read more

Athens vs. Sparta: An In-Depth Look at the Differences between Two Legendary Greek City-States

 1D)At the end of the Greco-Persian Wars, Athens assumed preeminence in Greece, becoming increasing imperialistic. While victory over Persia was due to the synergetic unity of Hellenic military forces, cooperation rapidly evaporated when Sparta, alarmed by domestic Helot rebellions, withdrew and became politically isolated. In doing so, it left Athens’ military unchecked to, by … Read more

Using the Internet as an Effective Distribution Channel for Insurance Products

 Question 1 – Learning Outcome 1 (10 marks) A) MC plc has established an effective distribution channel, which services many of it’s customers, however the way in which customers purchase insurance is constantly evolving, and it is important for insurance companies to be at the forefront of the evolving changes, in order to capture … Read more

Unethical Behavior: From Academic Fraud to Everyday Dishonesty

 Introduction Instances of unethical behavior are widespread. A big scandal within the academic field was the discovery of academic fraud conducted by Dutch scientist Diederik Stapel. Stapel conducted a lot of popular and highly cited studies in the field of social psychology. However, in 2010 he was found guilty of fabricating and manipulating the … Read more

Modeling Airport Terminal Buildings’ Service Level with Fuzzy Set Method

 HAVALİMANI TERMİNAL BİNALARI HİZMET DÜZEYİNİN BULANIK KÜME YÖNTEMİ İLE MODELLENMESİ İsmail Aydın Mimarlık bölümü, Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi, Cumhuriyet Mahallesi 2254.Sokak No:2 41400 Gebze/Kocaeli, Türkiye Özet.  Dünya sürekli bir gelişim ve değişim göstermeye devam etmektedir. Her sektörde olduğu gibi mimarlık da bu durumdan çok fazla etkilenenler arasındandır. Geçmişte temel ihtiyaçlar doğrultusunda ortaya çıkan mimarlık, çağın … Read more