Background/Objectives Few studies have applied the Chinese Diet Balance Index (DBI) in evaluating dietary quality for Chinese people. The present cross-sectional study assessed dietary quality based on DBI for older people, and the associated factors, in four socioeconomically distinct regions in China.

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This study adds to the emerging literature explaining public opinion toward transgender rights by demonstrating the importance of elite cues for such an opinion. Data from two cross-sectional surveys conducted in 2015 and 2016 measure public opinion on several policies affecting transgender people. Consistent with Zaller [1992. The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Un...

The growing number of Nigerian higher education institutions should improve development of moral reasoning in Nigeria, assuming these institutions have a similar impact as institutions have had in the United States. To test this hypothesis, this study completed a cross-sectional survey of a Christian higher education institution in Nigeria using the Defining Issues Test (DIT2), a proven tool fo...

In recent years, the concept of relationship value has attracted increasing attention among marketing researchers and practitioners alike. Despite a growing body of literature in this area, no generally accepted conceptualization of relationship value has emerged from the marketing literature. The present paper investigates the theoretical foundations of relationship value and identifies seven ...

Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the intermediate and high schools in the Riyadh region, Saudi Arabia. The Arabic version of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Children (ISAAC) questionnaire tool was distributed to 568 students in the rural area and 556 students in the urban area. The factors such as lifetime, 12 months, and the severity prevalenc...

Value creation is considered as key to collaborative customer-supplier relationships. Despite the growing body of research, more knowledge is needed about the construct of relationship value and its operationalization. The present paper provides a definition of relationship value and develops a scale for measuring the concept in business-to-business markets. Findings from a cross-sectional surv...

in the first part of this paper, some theorems are given for a riemannian manifold with semi-symmetric metric connection. in the second part of it, some special vector fields, for example, torse-forming vector fields, recurrent vector fields and concurrent vector fields are examined in this manifold. we obtain some properties of this manifold having the vectors mentioned above.