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A Systematic Review on Monitoring and Advanced Control Strategies in Smart Agriculture
IEEE Access, 2021 Automation in agriculture nowadays is the main focus and area of development for various countries. The population rate of the world is increasing rapidly and will be double in upcoming decades and the need of food is also increasing accordingly. To meet
Syeda Iqra Hassan +5 more
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Obesity, 2007 AbstractObjectives: Our goal was to examine the relationship between BMI and climate amenable for physical activity at the county level in the U.S.Research Methods and Procedures: Using Geographic Information Systems tools and 6‐year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration station hourly weather records, an index of amenable climate was derived
Lin, Ge +3 more
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Intergenerational change and familial aggregation of body mass index [PDF]
, 2011 The relationship between parental BMI and that of their adult offspring, when increased adiposity can become a clinical issue, is unknown. We investigated the intergenerational change in body mass index (BMI) distribution, and examined the sex-specific ...
AG Barnett +20 more
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A single-cell nanocoating of probiotics for enhanced amelioration of antibiotic-associated diarrhea
Nature Communications, 2022 Here, the authors develop a polyphenol-based single-cell coating that forms a nanoarmor on the surface of probiotics, showing that protects from a wide range of antibiotics and enhances probiotic action against antibiotic-mediated diarrhea.
Jiezhou Pan +11 more
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Long-term trends in BMI: are contemporary childhood BMI growth references appropriate when looking at historical datasets? [PDF]
, 2009 Background Body mass index (BMI) is the most widely used surrogate measure of adiposity, and BMI z-scores are often calculated when comparing childhood BMI between populations and population sub-groups. Several growth references are currently used as the
de Stavola, BL, Leon, DA, Silverwood, RJ
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An optimised credit scorecard to enhance cut-off score determination
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2018 Background: Credit scoring is a statistical tool allowing banks to distinguish between good and bad clients. However, literature in the world of credit scoring is limited. In this article parametric and non-parametric statistical techniques that are used
Nico Kritzinger, Gary W. van Vuuren
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Acceleration of BMI in Early Childhood and Risk of Sustained Obesity
New England Journal of Medicine, 2018 Background The dynamics of body‐mass index (BMI) in children from birth to adolescence are unclear, and whether susceptibility for the development of sustained obesity occurs at a specific age in children is important to determine.
Mandy Geserick +8 more
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Review of innovations in the South African collection industry
South African Journal of Science, 2018 The objective of this review was to provide an overview of new developments and innovations within the collections industry that could possible enhance the performance of collection agencies, specifically in South Africa. A literature study was conducted
Vinzent Blaschczok +2 more
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British medical journal, 2016 Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies of body mass index (BMI) and the risk of all cause mortality, and to clarify the shape and the nadir of the dose-response curve, and the influence on the results of confounding ...
D. Aune +7 more
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Body Mass Index, Smoking, and Alcohol and Risks of Barrett’s Esophagus and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma: A UK Prospective Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2014 BACKGROUND: The timing of the risk factors cigarette smoking, alcohol and obesity in the development of Barrett’s esophagus (BE) and esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) is unclear.
Cheong, Edward +6 more
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