With increasing importance placed on physical appearance in our culture, body image and weight worries may negatively affect the emotional well-being of adolescents. However, researchers disagree as to how an adolescent’s weight, their perception of their weight and their mental health status relate. The purpose of our study was to examine mental distress and social-protective factors in youths...

Height and weight were measured and body mass index (BMI) calculated in 56 sickle cell disease (SCD), 57 Caucasian (CC), and 63 African/Caribbean (AC) 3-9 year old children. The SCD children were taller, but had similar weight and BMI to the CC controls. The SCD group had lower weight and BMI than the AC controls. The AC controls were of greater height, weight, and BMI than CC controls. These d...

With many molecular markers in many species, research efforts in quantitative genetics have focused on dissecting these traits and understanding the importance of factors such as correlated response due to hitchhiking or pleiotropy. Here, in an examination of long-term selection experiments in mice, the evidence strongly supports the primary importance of hitchhiking on the coat colour loci bro...

Aiming at the weight degeneracy phenomena in particle filter algorithm, the improved particle filtering algorithm based on neural network was presented. BP neural network and generalized regression neural network (GRNN) are adapted to improve resampling algorithm and importance probability density function. This algorithm utilizes the nonlinear mapping function of BP neural network. First of al...

In the cloud right weight attribute encryption scheme based on multi-agency. Under existing cloud computing environment based on multi-agency access control scheme generally do not take into account the weights of the attributes that the status attributes are equal. But in real life, with the right to property values are meaningful. Each attribute in the system that served as different roles, t...

The goal of this study is to address directly the predictive value of birth outputs, particularly birth weight. Specifically, in the context of four birth inputs (maternal smoking, drinking, prenatal care, and maternal weight gain during pregnancy), three birth outputs (gestational age, birth length, and birth weight), and 32 exogenous covariates observed during pregnancy, we investigate the ab...

Node importance degree is a vital index in distribution network reconfiguration because it reflects the robustness of the network structure by evaluating node importance. Since the traditional reconfiguration ignores this index, the reconstructed network structure may be vulnerable which would reduce the security and stability of the distribution systems. This paper presents a novel reconfigura...

This study examines interviewers’ sensitivity to impression management in structured interviews by determining the relative importance that interviewers attach to (verbal and nonverbal) impression management as compared to the relative importance that they attach to predetermined competencies. Two samples of interviewers (55 Master I/O psychology students and 18 professional interviewers) watch...

this paper considers the automatic design of fuzzy rule-basedclassification systems based on labeled data. the classification performance andinterpretability are of major importance in these systems. in this paper, weutilize the distribution of training patterns in decision subspace of each fuzzyrule to improve its initially assigned certainty grade (i.e. rule weight). ourapproach uses a punish...