Factors influencing engagement in postnatal weight management and weight and wellbeing outcomes

Weight expectations, motivations for weight change and perceived factors influencing weight management in young Australian women: a cross-sectional study.

OBJECTIVE To examine young Australian women's weight expectations, motivations for weight change and perceived factors influencing weight management, and to determine if these factors differ by age, BMI, marital status, education or income. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. An online survey captured respondents' weight, height, ideal weight, main reasons for wanting to change their weight and cha...

Developmental Outcomes of Premature and Low Birth Weight Infants

Background: Prematurity is the most common cause of death and disability And Preterm infants, are prone to developmental complications. For this reason this study was designed for follow up of these babies until 2 years by modified DDST-2. Methods: This study was a prospective longitudinal descriptive study from March 2009 to March 2011 in clinic of sheikh and Imam Reza Hospitals, mashhad, Iran...

Factors Influencing Fetal Growth and Birth Weight in Cattle

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...

Factors Influencing Length of Gestation and Birth Weight in Cattle

Postnatal growth and performance in cattle are influenced to some extent by the course of prenatal development. It is important, therefore, to know what factors affect prenatal development and the degree of variation brought about by these factors. The present study was undertaken as part of a broad project to evaluate the factors that affect the efficiency of feed utilization in cattle. This p...