Adolescent obesity is associated with both immediate and longer-term health implications. This study aims to identify dietary patterns among a nationally representative sample of Lebanese adolescents aged between 13 and 19 years (n 446) and to assess the association of these patterns with overweight and obesity. Through face-to-face interviews, socio-demographic, lifestyle and anthropometric va...

Nunavut’s government “shall immediately declare suicide a public health emergency,” and appoint a Cabinet minister responsible for suicide prevention, recommended a coroner’s jury in Iqaluit. The territorial government should appoint the new minister by its next sitting and add a secretariat with “the mandate and the resources to demonstrate the Government’s commitment to this crisis,” by April...

Lebanese Arabic allows the use of optional 1st and 2nd person dative pronouns. These are pronouns embedded in sentences without being linked to any participant roles. Their task is to express a positive or negative attitude toward the events depicted in utterances. In this paper, I present examples of such pronouns as used in gossip constructions. I show that these pronouns allow the speaker to...

The year 2022 was a period of contradictory developments in terms political stability the Netherlands. On one hand, Mark Rutte became longest-serving Prime Minister country's history after celebrating his 12th office. other newly formed IV Cabinet charged with steering country through tumultuous period, marked by soaring energy prices and inflation wake Russian invasion Ukraine, large-scale civ...

Childhood obesity has beome an international concern. Our objective was to construct a scale for assessing obesity-related distress among Lebanese boys and girls and to study the relationship between obesity-associated behaviours and distress. A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2009 on a sample of 1933 adolescents aged 12-18 years. Questions were asked about personal and family characteri...

The purpose of this article is to introduce, analyze and compare two performance participation methods based on a portfolio consisting of two risky assets: Option-Based Performance Participation (OBPP) and Constant Proportion Performance Participation (CPPP). By generalizing the provided guarantee to a participation in the performance of a second risky underlying, the new strategies allow to co...

The theoretical literature on common pool problems in fiscal policy suggests that government fragmentation increases public expenditures. In parliamentary regimes, the fragmentation hypothesis refers to (i) coalition governments and (ii) cabinet size. This paper explores the effect of coalition governments and cabinet size on public expenditures with panel data covering all 16 German States ove...