Although even in the most recent time periods, the women who conceived via ART remained a highly select group of the total population of women giving birth, the ART trend might nonetheless have influenced the differential between mothers of ART and non-ART children, such that there is less ...
The waist circumference and the WHR are commonly used to assess abdominal obesity as they reflect intra-abdominal fat accumulation (Hughes et al., 2009). However, most people cannot report their waist and hip circumferences with accuracy, so measurement using a predetermined protocol is often neces...
The stress balance value (ranging from −1 to 1) indicates the proportion of time of stress and recovery reactions during self-reported sleep periods during the measurement period. Values from 0.5 to 1 indicate good recovery, values from 0 to 0.5 indicate moderate recovery, and values from 0...
For simulating regulatory cascades, it is assumed that the time in a simulated regulatory system advances in discrete “quanta,” or periods of time. The “state of substances” of the system for each discrete period of time is computed by: creating a set of substance objects, where a set ...
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has affected numerous aspects of human functioning. Social contacts, work, education, travel, and sports have drastically changed during the lockdown periods. The pandemic restrictions have severely limited professi...
Those assigned to the intervention group were asked to choose class periods during which they could attend the program. By October 2019, both the intervention and control groups completed a baseline survey developed to assess their basic knowledge about mental health and attitude towards mental ...
To determine the best way to calculate the central tendency of dinner time over one week of diary, we first created a histogram of the week of dinner time observations. Because of between and intra-subject variability, we chose to use the median and standard deviation to summarize the week ...
The questions covered two time periods, i.e., before the COVID-19 pandemic and during the period from October 2020 to June 2021 (hereafter referred to as the pandemic period). The pandemic period was selected to cover full academic year and to exclude the period of adaptation to the ...
Inter-node and intra-node separation fluctuate the density of correlation [19]. 3.2. Temporal Correlation A wide range of applications of WSNs such as habitat monitoring, event tracking, defense, video surveillance requires sensor nodes to perform periodically. This sporadic assignment feature of ...
respectively. The fractal dimension was calculated by using Higuchi’s algorithm, and it is a suitable measure for time series data analyses, providing information about the intra-cyclical complexity and the irregularity of the variations in a given series [29]. Bartolomeu et al. [29] showed tha...