BACKGROUND The obesogenic home environment is usually examined via self-report, and objective measures are required. OBJECTIVE This study explored whether the wearable camera SenseCam can be used to examine the early obesogenic home environment and whether it is useful for validation of self-report measures. METHODS A total of 15 primary caregivers of young children (mean age of child 4 yea...

2014 The role of interplanar fluctuations associated with « parallel » vortex loops is considered in the two coupled problems of XY magnetism and superconductivity of the second kind, in a quasitwodimensional situation. Using an admittedly simplified criterion, it is argued that, for weak interplanar couplings, the critical 3d temperature is related to the multiplication of such loops ; it shou...

Simulation experiments are often analyzed through a linear regression model of their input/output data. Such an analysis yields a metamodel or response surface for the underlying simulation model. This metamodel can be validated through various statistics; this article studies (1) the coefficient of determination (R-square) for generalized least squares, and (2) a lack-of-fit F-statistic origin...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Multidimensional Body Image Scale (MBIS), a seven-factor, 62-item scale developed for Malaysian female adolescents. This scale was evaluated among male and female Malaysian university students. METHODS A total of 671 university students (52.2% women and 47.8% men) completed a self-administered questionnaire on MBIS,...

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The belief that Homo sapiens is absolutely dimorphic with the respect to sex chromosome composition, gonadal structure, hormone levels, and the structure of the internal genital duct systems and external genitalia, derives from the platonic ideal that for each sex there is a single, universally correct developmental pathway and outcome. We surveyed the medical literature from 1955 to the presen...

In many cases of callosal dysgenesis in both human patients and mouse models, misguided fibers from the cortex form abnormal bilateral, barrel-shaped structures known as Probst bundles. Because little is known about how axons are arranged within these anomalous fiber bundles, understanding this arrangement may provide structural and molecular insights into how axons behave when they are misguid...

neuromuscular disorders (nmds) include a broad range of diseases affecting muscles, nerves and neuromuscular junctions. approximately 761 different disorders occur in this group which is subdivided into 16 different subgroups with 406 known genes. nmds are genetically and clinically heterogeneous conditions. the advent of next generation sequencing (ngs) approaches has accelerated the pace of d...

and [[xy]z] + [[yz]x] + [[zx]y] = 0. Left multiplication in a Lie algebra is denoted by ad(x): ad(x)(y) = [x, y]. An associative algebra A becomes a Lie algebra A− under the product, [xy] = xy − yx. The first axiom implies that [xy] = −[yx] and the second (called the Jacobi identity) implies that x 7→ adx is a homomorphism of L into the Lie algebra (EndL)−, that is, ad [xy] = [adx, ad y]. Assum...