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Regional and sex-specific variation in BMI distribution in four sub-Saharan African countries: The H3Africa AWI-Gen study

open access: yesGlobal Health Action, 2018
Background: African populations are characterised by diversity at many levels including: demographic history, genetic ancestry, language, wealth, socio-political landscape, culture and behaviour.
Michèle Ramsay   +25 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Regional Disparities in Dual Burden of Malnutrition among Rural Men in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Nutrition Sciences, 2022
Background: The steadily increase in prevalence of overweight/obesity coexisted with under-nutrition can pose a major public health problem among adult populations in most of developing countries.
Bhawna Kathuria, Sherin Raj TP
doaj   +1 more source

Weakening seasonality of Indo-Pacific warm pool size in a warming world since 1950

open access: yesEnvironmental Research Letters, 2023
Seasonal variation of the Indo-Pacific warm pool (IPWP) plays an important role in oceanographic and climatological processes. While expansion of the IPWP under greenhouse warming has been widely discussed, the response of IPWP seasonality to climate ...
Qiuying Gan   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Determination of Total Phenolic Levels in Ethanol Extract of Moringa (Moringa oleifera L.) Leaves based on Differences in Growing Sites

open access: yesJournal of Food and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021
Moringa oleifera L. have good nutritional content including phenolic compounds which can be used as antioxidants and can grow in lowlands and highlands.
Any Guntarti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Toeing the Party Line: Indexicality and Regional Andalusian Phonetic Features in Political Speech

open access: yesLanguages, 2023
Performative style is an important sociolinguistic variable among politicians, who accomplish agentive goals through speech. Examining 32 Spanish politicians, this article focuses on four Andalusian Spanish phenomena: the fronting of /t͡ʃ/ and the ...
Matthew Pollock
doaj   +1 more source

One Size Fits All—Venomics of the Iberian Adder (Vipera seoanei, Lataste 1878) Reveals Low Levels of Venom Variation across Its Distributional Range

open access: yesToxins, 2023
European vipers (genus Vipera) are medically important snakes displaying considerable venom variation, occurring at different levels in this group. The presence of intraspecific venom variation, however, remains understudied in several Vipera species ...
Ignazio Avella   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Quantile Regression Approach to Measuring the Educational Effect on Body Mass Index

open access: yesJournal of the Georgia Public Health Association, 2016
Background: By use of a publically available database, the effects of education and geography on obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI) were evaluated with a quantile regression approach.
Dakshina De Silva   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using Crowd-Sourced Speech Data to Study Socially Constrained Variation in Nonmodal Phonation

open access: yesFrontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
This study examines the status of nonmodal phonation (e.g. breathy and creaky voice) in British English using smartphone recordings from over 2,500 speakers.
Ben Gittelson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regional Variations of Fertility Control Behavior among Rural Reproductive Women in Bangladesh: A Hierarchical Analysis

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences, 2018
Women’s fertility decision is quite difficult in male-dominant rural culture due to their poor reproductive autonomy. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in rural community of Bangladesh between November 2017 and February 2018 among 1285 ...
Muhammed Ashraful Alam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Regional Variation in Causes of Injuries among Terrorism Victims for Mass Casualty Events

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2015
The efficient allocation of medical resources to prepare for and respond to mass casualty events (MCEs) attributable to intentional acts of terrorism is a major challenge confronting disaster planners and emergency personnel.
James L Regens   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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