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Within the last thirty years, the rise obesity has become a major topic of concern in the United States. While many argue that this increase in size is due to disruptions in the “energy balance model,” which states that the obesity is due to a combination of eating too many calories and not exercising enough (Smith & Cummins, 2009), Julie Guthman argues in her book Weighing In that this definition focuses too much on the individual’s actions without looking at the broader health consequences…

biggest and most difficult problems the world faces today. The high demand in trending products, as well as food, has led to more challenging problems. Naomi Klein in her book, No Logo, talks about the poor treatment workers receive at the Export Processing Zones (EPZs), which is where brand companies produce all their products in a much cheaper way. Besides workers at EPZs, there are also people who work at the slaughterhouses and are mistreated as well. Eric Schlosser in his book, Fast Food…

They were tenement apartments and rented rooms built next to the stockyards and city dumps. Along with the housing area, there were acres of stockyards, slaughterhouses, and processing plants. Well known for their awful living and working conditions, the houses in Packingtown were built terribly and falling apart and known to have sink holes. Sinclair seems focuses on the setting of The Jungle and uses it as a metaphor for what…

System identification techniques: Extraction of the modal parameters from the response of the structure to vibration is an important step in SHM. Firstly, it gives to the engineers information about real dynamic behaviour of the structure. Secondly, designed model of the structure using computing technologies, FEM model, may be validated and optimized through comparison analytical and experimental modal parameters. The procedure developing the mathematical model of the structure on the basis of…

What is food authenticity? This essay will explore the dialectic relationship between the continuity of tradition and the continued changes found in the presentation of traditional activities (Lu and Fine 1995). Firstly, food authenticity is doubtful. Ask a range of people how to make spaghetti bolognaise and each person will have their own recipe, their own method, and their own claim to authenticity. So, when we talk about authenticity, what does that mean? When is it ok to improvise?…

Her claim is effective because it is relevant to a wide audience and properly appeals to their emotions, morals, and logic. Laudan appeals to the reader’s emotions by causing them to feel guilty for condemning the preservation, modifying, and processing of foods. She achieves this emotion by describing certain poor experiences that our ancestors encountered with natural foods. Such as the bitter taste, preparation time, and possible dangers. These also help Laudan appeal to the reader’s morals…

A camera is an optical device that records images that can be stored instantly or transmitted to another location. These images can be still photographs or moving images like videos. The functioning of the camera is very similar to the functioning of the human eye. It is an image forming device. A camera works with the light of the visible spectrum. It creates an image of the object and records the image on a photographic film. Every camera uses a very basic design: light enters a close d box…

Propaganda in “The Jungle” The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is a novel exploiting the lives of Lithuanian immigrants in Chicago during the Industrial Revolution of the early 19th century. The immigrants have a goal of achieving the American dream, and as the story goes on they are faced with the horrors of the meat packing industry. Upton Sinclair is a yellow journalist and muckraker during the progressive era, therefore the story is bound to have exaggeration in order for him to succeed in…

1. ABSTRACT The essence of an image is a projection from a 3D scene onto a 2D plane, during which the depth information is lost. The 3D point corresponding to a specific image point is constrained to be on the line of sight. From a single image, it is very difficult to determine the depth information of various object points in an image. If two or more 2D images are used, then the relative depth point of the image points can be calculated which can be further used to reconstruct the 3D image by…

2.10.1 Fuzzy Inference System (FIS) Fuzzy set theory explain this technique to enhance an image of handwritten scripts and for an edge detection of wrist X-ray images. In the case of the contrast enhancement process of an image, the Fuzzy set also seen as a collection of membership functions, where each represents how much degree of corresponding grayscale pixels is possible to be “bright”. In other words, a Fuzzy membership value of the image Fuzzy set can be understood as the degree of…