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Carroll, Margaret D.; Navaneelan, Tanya; Bryan, Shirley; Ogden, Cynthia L. – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2015
About one-quarter of Canadian adults and more than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. Obese children are at risk of becoming obese adults and can experience immediate health consequences such as psychosocial stress, elevated blood pressure and cholesterol, and abnormal glucose tolerance. Monitoring trends in childhood obesity is…
Descriptors: Obesity, Incidence, Comparative Education, Comparative Analysis
Moseley, Christopher – 1995
The future of endangered languages is discussed, drawing on experiences in development of an atlas of language. Issues in the debate over language maintenance are examined, including the emotion-laden concept of ethnicity and relative youth of the concepts of human rights and linguistic geography. The fact that the atlas in question indicates only…
Descriptors: Atlases, Contrastive Linguistics, Demography, Diachronic Linguistics
Baumgaertner, William L., Ed. – 1987
Information on U.S. and Canadian theological schools for 1986-1987 and previous year trends is presented in narrative and statistical form. Contents include: enrollment trends, 1969-1986; enrollment and graduation of women and minority group students (Blacks, Hispanics, Pacific/Asian Americans); enrollment by individual degree programs; enrollment…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Administrators, Church Related Colleges, College Faculty