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“Do I look fat?” Self-perceived body weight and labor market outcomes [PDF]
, 2018 Research reporting that greater body weight is associated with lower wages and employment, particularly among women, focuses on how employers perceive workers. In contrast, we examine whether workers’ own perceptions of body weight influence labor market
Smith, Patricia K., Zagorsky, Jay L.
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Mutiara Medika, 2014 This research aims to retrospectively review forensic autopsy cases of a Indonesian people to see the description of liver weight, kidney weigt, body weight and length.
Wikan Basworo, Idha Arfianti Wira Agni
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Does Falling Smoking Lead to Rising Obesity? [PDF]
, 2006 The strong negative correlation over time between smoking rates and obesity have led some to suggest that reduced smoking is increasing weight gain in the U.S.. This conclusion is supported by the findings of Chou et al.
Frakes, Michael D., Gruber, Jonathan
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Journal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture, 2014 The aim of the research was to evaluate the genetic improving of production traits selected of Balicattle. Four hundred and twenty eight data of weaning weight, yearling weight and body weight gainwere used to estimate genetic improvement for those ...
A. Supriyantono +3 more
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The correlation between body weight, body weight gain and blood parameters in pigs at birth and weaning [PDF]
Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, 2023 The aim of study was to determine the relationship between metabolic parameters, body weight and body growth of piglets at birth and weaning. The experiment included 80 piglets obtained from F1 generation sows.
M. Mirkov +4 more
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Estimation of genetic variation in residual variance in female and male broiler chickens [PDF]
, 2008 In breeding programs, robustness of animals and uniformity of end product can be improved by exploiting genetic variation in residual variance. Residual variance can be defined as environmental variance after accounting for all identifiable effects.
A. Vereijken +29 more
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Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2020 Perception of body weight has been recognized as an important barrier in the adoption of healthy lifestyles. Several factors affect perception of body weight, but the outcomes have been varied.
Wan Nurhafizah Wan Abdul Hamed +1 more
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Resize Me! Exploring the User Experience of Embodied Realistic Modulatable Avatars for Body Image Intervention in Virtual Reality [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Obesity is a serious disease that can affect both physical and psychological well-being. Due to weight stigmatization, many affected individuals suffer from body image disturbances whereby they perceive their body in a distorted way, evaluate it negatively, or neglect it. Beyond established interventions such as mirror exposure, recent advancements aim
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Weight, height, weight change, and risk of incident atrial fibrillation in middle‐aged men and women
Journal of Arrhythmia, 2020 Background Anthropometric factors are reported to be risk factors for atrial fibrillation (AF), but it is unclear whether weight change in mid‐life is associated with AF.
Cecilia Johansson +3 more
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Disruption of type 3 adenylyl cyclase expression in the hypothalamus leads to obesity [PDF]
, 2016 Evidence from human studies and transgenic mice lacking the type 3 adenylyl cyclase (AC3) indicates that AC3 plays a role in the regulation of body weight. It is unknown in which brain region AC3 exerts such an effect.
Cao, Hong +3 more
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