BACKGROUND Understanding environmental factors related to obesity can inform interventions for the world wide obesity epidemic, yet no study has been conducted in this context in Africa. This study examined associations between neighbourhood environment variables and overweight in Nigerian adults. METHODS A total of 1818 randomly selected residents (age: 20-65 years, 40% female, 31% overweigh...

OBJECTIVE To define the prevalence of overweight and obesity among school-aged children resident in mountain areas, rural areas and urban areas. DESIGN, SETTING AND SUBJECTS The sample (n = 12832; 50.7% boys) included 9- and 11-year-old children of the Veneto Region of north-east Italy. Overweight and obesity status were determined using the International Obesity Task Force cut-off points for...

Belloni, Chernozhukov, and Fernández-Val (2011) developed nonparametric quantile regression methods to estimate and make inference on conditional quantile models. The R package quantreg.nonpar implements these methods for partially linear quantile models. quantreg.nonpar obtains point estimates of the conditional quantile function and its derivatives based on series approximations to the nonpar...

OBJECTIVE To develop and test optimal Medline search strategies for retrieving sound clinical studies on prevention or treatment of health disorders. DESIGN Analytical survey. DATA SOURCES 161 clinical journals indexed in Medline for the year 2000. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Sensitivity, specificity, precision, and accuracy of 4862 unique terms in 18 404 combinations. RESULTS Only 1587 (24.2...

Creative tourism is a novel segment of the market that may turn into great opportunity for small cities to attract visitors. Thus, it can be possible economic and social driver local development. Despite its potentiality, not much empirical research has been conducted explore specific strengths weaknesses developing creative in cities, probably due lack reliable data. Our study aims fill this g...

The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI), which is an indicator of people’s subjective outlook for the economy, claimed to have affective dimensions, but research exploring its emotional aspects scant. We explore association and causality between CCI variables denoting three emotion-related psychological states: depression, anxiety, positive affect. Study 1 used data a three-arm internet-based rando...