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High amounts of time spent sedentary and low levels of physical activity have been implicated in the process of excessive adiposity gains in youth. The aim of this review is to discuss the role of physical activity, sedentary time and behaviour (i.e. television (TV)-viewing) in relation to adiposity during the first two decades of life with a specific focus on whether the association between se...

[1] Shear wave splitting is a robust tool to infer the direction and strength of seismic anisotropy in the lithosphere and underlying asthenosphere. Previous shear wave splitting studies in the Afar Depression and adjacent areas concluded that either Precambrian sutures or vertical magmatic dikes are mostly responsible for the observed anisotropy. Here we report results of a systematic analysis...

(1) Integrated Groundwater Modeling Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA, (2) University of Padova, Padova, IT, (3) UF-Z, Leipzig, DE, (4) Technical Services Center, US Bureau of Reclamation, Lakewood, CO, USA, (5) CEE Dept. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, (6) Meteorological Institute, Bonn University, Bonn, DE, (7) Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, (8) INRS-ETE, Univer...

We show that taking into account the temporal intensity profile of a pulsed pump beam may lead to significant deviations from the predictions based on a continuous wave analysis of the modulation instability process occurring in a dispersion oscillating fiber operating under the conditions that lead to gain sideband splitting. Potential application to a pulse doubling scheme with tunable delay ...

The prevalence of leprosy varies between continents. Likewise, countries within a continent have differing rates of prevalence of leprosy (15). Even countries in which leprosy is endemic may demonstrate variations in leprosy prevalence from one state to another, and even from one district to another within the same state (13 . 14 ._ 15). The reasons for these variations have not been fully expl...

Purpose: The purpose was to develop a questionnaire, gathering the professionals’ opinion, to measure the degree of collaboration between clinicians from different levels of care (primary care and specialised care) in a given healthcare organisation. This questionnaire was originally developed to assess processes of care integration in the Basque Health System (Spain), but can also be used in o...

We show if M is a closed, connected, orientable, hyperbolic 3-manifold with Heegaard genus g then g ≥ 1 2 cosh(r) where r denotes the radius of any isometrically embedded ball in M . Assuming an unpublished result of Pitts and Rubinstein improves this to g ≥ 1 2 cosh(r) + 1 2 . We also give an upper bound on the volume in terms of the flip distance of a Heegaard splitting, and describe isoperim...

In the last decade, significant theoretical advances were obtained for steady-state fracture propagation in spring-mass lattice structures, that also revealed surprising fracture regimes. Very few articles exist, however, on the dynamic fracture processes in lattices composed of beams. In this paper we analyse a failure (feeding) wave propagating in a beam-made lattice strip with periodically p...

In this paper, we study systems of two conservation laws with homogeneous quadratic flux functions. We use the viscous profile criterion for shock admissibility. This criterion leads to the occurrence of non-classical transitional shock waves, which are sensitively dependent on the form of the viscosity matrix. The goal of this paper is to lay a foundation for investigating how the structure of...