OBJECTIVE To determine the association between family structure, maternal education level, and maternal employment with sedentary lifestyle in primary school-age children. METHOD Data were obtained from 897 children aged 6 to 12 years. A questionnaire was used to collect information. Body mass index (BMI) was determined using the age- and gender-specific Centers for Disease Control and Preven...

The k-th power of a n-vertex graph X is the iterated cartesian product of X with itself. The k-th symmetric power of X is the quotient graph of certain subgraph of its k-th power by the natural action of the symmetric group. It is natural to ask if the spectrum of the k-th power –or the spectrum of the k-th symmetric power– is a complete graph invariant for small values of k, for example, for k...

This study on incidence of the jassid Amrasca biguttula in cucumber reveal that begins from 10<sup>th</sup> standard meteorological week (SMW) (0.56 jassid/ three leaves) with a peak (2.96 jassids/ 16<sup>th</sup> SMW. Whitefly Bemisia tabaci appeared during 11<sup>th</sup> SMW (0.80 whiteflies/ leaves), increasing to (2.65 17<sup>th</sup> Fruit f...

Th e drying characteristics of “Granny Smith” apple were investigated using a bench-scale fl uidised bed drier at diff erent temperatures and using blanching in hot water as pre-treatment. Temperatures of fl uidisation for non-treated and treated samples were 50, 60, 70 and 80 oC and airfl ow velocity 3.50 m s-1. Th e aim of the experiment was to get apples with approximately 9% water content, ...

The distribution of gene frequency a t a single locus in a population of diploid individuals, w ith two sexes, subject to m utation , non-random m ating and phenotypic selection, is obtained in the case where the generations are overlapping so th a t individuals die one by one. This d istribution is of the same form as th a t obtained by heuristic m ethods by S. W right in a random ly m ating p...

The current article has investigated unsteady convective flow for MHD non-Newtonian Powell-Eyring fluid embedded porous medium over inclined permeable stretching sheet. We have pondered the thermophoresis parameter, chemical reaction, variable thermal conductivity, Brownian motion, variable heat source and variable thermal radiation in temperature and concentration profiles. Using similar trans...

Th e article investigates the consequences of credit constraints on rural household consumption in China. Based on a unique rural fi nance and consumption survey, the authors fi rst identify the credit constraint status of rural households from formal fi nancial institutions. Th en, they apply an endogenous switching regression model to compare the consumption responses to household production ...

The pomegranate seed oil (PSO), containing 17-α-estradiol, is one of the newly found phytosterols with synergistic health effects on estrogen related physiological conditions. Herein, PSO was assessed for its potential improving effects on bone characteristics in a rat model of menopausal syndrome. Three month old non-pregnant female Wistar rats (n = 30) were either sham-operated (SHAM) or ovar...