The grant negotiation process introduces much opacity into the data, obscuring linkages between proposals, budgets, and expenditures; activity-based financial data are not made available; and, there is often a lack of relevant performance indicators that can be linked to specific activities, further limiting meaningful analysis.
The Lib Dems, expanding on a vague promise made by the Conservatives yesterday, also said it is possible to balance the need to keep some of the BBC's expenditure activity out of the public domain while being more thorough in scrutinising where the £3.4bn-a-year licence fee goes.
"Some of us have been the beneficiary of some of this independent expenditure activity.
Imbalance between energy intake (food ingestion) and energy expenditure (activity and/or heat production) leads to changes in body composition [47].
Then, to obtain detailed categories of income and expenditure, some of interviewed households were asked to also track daily income and expenditure activity.
ISRCTN reference: ISRCTN43453770 Sedentary behaviour (SB), conventionally defined as low energy-expenditure activity undertaken in a sitting or reclining position [ 1], is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes [ 2].
The increase of physical activity level during growth was explained by the increase in body mass, because in children and adolescents there was no relation between weight-adjusted activity energy expenditure (activity energy expenditure/kg) and age (Hoos et al. 2003).
While previous studies have focused on moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA), the primary focus of sedentary behavior research is on low-energy-expenditure activities that involve sitting, reclining, or lying down.
The concepts of identity and environmental factors contribute to the preference and choice for some gender-specific BRFCH (e.g., more physical activity practice among boys, while girls prefer low energy expenditure activities) [ 20, 27, 36].
Factors commonly associated with lower BMI in lower SES groups in developing countries, such as food scarcity and/or high energy expenditure activities, may no longer be major factors underlying trends in BMI in the population in the Seychelles.
However, many low-energy-expenditure activities can be classified as "sedentary behaviors" (e.g. reading, television viewing, driving) with effects that may be different on health indicators depending on the specific behavior [ 9- 12].
