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MANAGING NEWLY ESTABLISHED PESTS: Growers, scientists and regulators collaborate on European grapevine moth program

California Agriculture, 2014
The first detection of the European grapevine moth in North America triggered the establishment of federal and state regulatory programs that (1) identified the insect's geographic range in California, (2) developed and implemented ...
Monica Cooper, Lucia Varela, Rhonda Smith, David Whitmer, Gregory Simmons, Andrea Lucchi, Roxanne Broadway, Robert Steinhauer   +7 more
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Development and Validation of a Digital Photographic Atlas of Argentine Foods

Revista Española de Nutrición Humana y Dietética, 2023
Introduction. Before the Second National Health and Nutrition Survey in Argentina, it was necessary to create a digital visual tool to help participants in the quantification of intake.
Guadalupe Mangialavori, María Victoria López, Sergio Defusto, Camila B. Panaggio, Yeni Bobadilla, Lara Gómez, Fernanda Gimenez, Selva Sandonato, Graciela Areces, Natalia Elorriaga   +9 more
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Evaluating the Effects of Acarbose on Anthropometry Indexes and Metabolic Markers in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome in Comparison to Placebo, in Isfahan City, Iran

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2018
Background: Metabolic syndrome (MTS) is a group of metabolic abnormalities that occur simultaneously. Acarbose is an anti-diabetes medication that studies showed its effects on improving lipid profile, blood sugar, insulin resistance, and weight loss ...
Noushin Khalili, Ali Sheikh-Aboomasoudi
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The association between household socioeconomic status, breastfeeding, and infants' anthropometric indices

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2018
Background: The growth, learning, and contribution to active life in the communities are better in well-nourished children, and various factors influence infants' feeding.
Marjan Ajami, Morteza Abdollahi, Forouzan Salehi, Wilna Oldewage-Theron, Yasaman Jamshidi-Naeini   +4 more
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Determinate multidimensional measures, the extended Carleman theorem and quasi-analytic weights [PDF]

, 2002
We prove in a direct fashion that a multidimensional probability measure is determinate if the higher dimensional analogue of Carleman's condition is satisfied.
de Jeu, Marcel
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Caratheodory-Tchakaloff Subsampling [PDF]

, 2016
We present a brief survey on the compression of discrete measures by Caratheodory-Tchakaloff Subsampling, its implementation by Linear or Quadratic Programming and the application to multivariate polynomial Least Squares.
Piazzon, Federico, Sommariva, Alvise, Vianello, Marco   +2 more
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Brazilian Portuguese version of financial risk-taking and tolerance scales: validity evidence within and between measures

Trends in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, 2020
Objectives To construct and validate a psychological measure called the Financial Risk-Taking Scale (FRTakS) and to translate, adapt, and validate a psychological measure called the Financial Risk Tolerance Scale (FRTolS) with a Brazilian sample ...
Anna Beatriz Howat-Rodrigues, José Henrique Benedetti Piccoli Ferreira, Jerson Laks   +2 more
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Anthropometric Measures and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: Is there an Opportunity for Non-Traditional Anthropometric Assessment? A Review

Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
Background: Several anthropometric measurements are used to assess cardiovascular risk and progress during clinical treatment. Most commonly used anthropometric measurements include total body weight and body mass index (BMI), with several other simple ...
Aurora Carrión-Martínez, Benjamin J R Buckley, Esteban Orenes-Piñero, Francisco Marín, Gregory Y. H Lip, José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca   +5 more
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A natural derivative on [0,n] and a binomial Poincar\'e inequality [PDF]

, 2011
We consider probability measures supported on a finite discrete interval $[0,n]$. We introduce a new finitedifference operator $\nabla_n$, defined as a linear combination of left and right finite differences. We show that this operator $\nabla_n$ plays a
Hillion, Erwan, Johnson, Oliver, Yu, Yaming   +2 more
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Obtaining optimal quality measures for quantitative association rules [PDF]

, 2016
There exist several works in the literature in which fitness functions based on a combination of weighted measures for the discovery of association rules have been proposed.
Martínez Ballesteros, María del Mar, Martínez Álvarez, Francisco, Riquelme Santos, José Cristóbal, Troncoso Lora, Alicia   +3 more
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