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Chapter and Conference Paper
Flipgrid for Social Interaction and Collaborative Learning in a Virtual Learning Environment
This article proposes incorporating Flipgrid in the academic environment to strengthen learning and social presence. The study analyzes students’ participation in social, academic, and collaborative learning f...
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Article
Open AccessSchool-based gardening, cooking and nutrition intervention increased vegetable intake but did not reduce BMI: Texas sprouts - a cluster randomized controlled trial
Although school garden programs have been shown to improve dietary behaviors, there has not been a cluster-randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted to examine the effects of school garden programs on obesit...
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Chapter
Personal and Collective Development Via Conversational Intelligence
This chapter focuses on emotional intelligence, levels of emotional intelligence, needed skills to develop conversational intelligence, and how to use these skills in the field of statistics. The chapter encou...
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Article
Open AccessIdentifying high risk areas of Zika virus infection by meteorological factors in Colombia
Several Zika virus (ZIKV) outbreaks have occurred since October 2015. Because there is no effective treatment for ZIKV infection, develo** an effective surveillance and warning system is currently a high pri...
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Body Image Dissatisfaction, Obesity and Their Associations with Breastfeeding in Mexican Women, a Cross-Sectional Study
Introduction In Mexico the breastfeeding rate is low and the obesity rate is high. Body image concerns, particularly prevalent in obese women, are associated with low breastfeeding rate; however, this associatio...
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Estimation of Lead Time via Low-Dose CT in the National Lung Screening Trial
Based on recent reports from the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST), smokers who were screened by low-dose computer tomography (LDCT) had a 20% lower chance of dying from lung cancer than those screened by c...
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Acculturation and Breastfeeding Among Hispanic American Women: A Systematic Review
Introduction Hispanic immigrants are more likely to breastfeed than are Hispanics born in the US, in part due to their acculturation. This paper aims to systematically review the existing literature on the assoc...
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The effect of prenatal maternal cigarette smoking on children’s BMI z-score with SGA as a mediator
The goal of this study was to assess the effect of prenatal maternal cigarette smoking on children’s BMI z-score trajectories, and to evaluate whether small-for-gestational-age (SGA) acts as a potential mediator ...
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Open AccessSurveillance on the endemic of Zika virus infection by meteorological factors in Colombia: a population-based spatial and temporal study
Zika virus (ZIKV) infection is a pandemic and a public health emergency. It is transmitted by mosquitoes, primarily the Aedes genus. In light of no treatment currently, it is crucial to develop effective vector c...
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Predictors of weight loss in early treated Parkinson’s disease from the NET-PD LS-1 cohort
Weight loss is a common symptom of Parkinson’s disease and is associated with impaired quality of life. Predictors of weight loss have not been studied in large clinical cohorts. We previously observed an as...
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DELLAs Contribute to Set the Growth and Mineral Composition of Arabidopsis thaliana Plants Grown Under Conditions of Potassium Deprivation
DELLAs proteins play a major role in the modulation of plant responses to fluctuations in environmental conditions. In this work, we examined to what extent Arabidopsis thaliana plants lacking DELLAs activity (5x...
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Open AccessMeasuring the bias, precision, accuracy, and validity of self-reported height and weight in assessing overweight and obesity status among adolescents using a surveillance system
Evidence regarding bias, precision, and accuracy in adolescent self-reported height and weight across demographic subpopulations is lacking. The bias, precision, and accuracy of adolescent self-reported height...
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Perinatal factors and breast cancer risk among Hispanics
This study assessed whether perinatal factors were associated with breast cancer among Hispanics, a group with fairly low incidence rates of breast cancer.
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Open AccessPrevalence of asthma and other allergic conditions in Colombia 2009–2010: a cross-sectional study
While it is suggested that the prevalence of asthma in developed countries may have stabilized, this is not clear in currently develo** countries. Current available information for both adults and children s...
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Article
Perceptions of Social Support, Empowerment and Youth Risk Behaviors
This study examined the association of perceived social support and community empowerment among urban middle-school students living in Matamoros, Mexico and the risk behaviors of fighting, alcohol and tobacco ...
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Chapter
Diabetes and Employment Productivity: The Effect of Duration and Management Among Mexican Americans*
Diabetes has been shown to affect productivity. Most of the work to this point has been based on binary indicator measures for diabetes, other than Kahn, who considered the duration of diabetes. However, diabe...
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Article
A limited review of over diagnosis methods and long-term effects in breast cancer screening
Breast cancer screening programs have been effective in detecting tumors prior to symptoms. Recently, there has been concern over the issue of over-diagnosis, that is, diagnosis of a breast cancer that does no...
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Article
Evaluation of Norrish’s Equation for Correlating the Water Activity of Highly Concentrated Solutions of Sugars, Polyols, and Polyethylene Glycols
Norrish’s equation, \(a_{{\text{w}}} = X_{{\text{w}}} \exp {\left( { - KX^{2}_{{\text{s}}} } \right)}\) , where a ...
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Genotypes and clinical aspects associated with bone mineral density in Argentine postmenopausal women
The aim of this study was to determine genotypes and clinical aspects associated with bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women from Córdoba, Argentina. Polymorphisms were assessed by RFLP-PCR techniq...
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Open AccessCrime rates and sedentary behavior among 4thgrade Texas school children
Although per capita crime has generally fallen over the period which coincides with the obesity epidemic, it has not fallen uniformly across communities. It also has not fallen enough to allay fears on the par...
