Also found in: Thesaurus, Medical, Financial, Acronyms, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia. Related to protective: protective tariff, Protective custody, Protective Factors, protective putpro·tec·tive (prə-tĕk′tĭv) adj. Adapted or intended to afford protection. n. Something that protects. pro·tec...
The relative importance of various cognitive factors in determining who performs various health behaviors constitutes the basis of different models. Such models have been labeled SCMs because of their focus on cognitive variables as the primary determinant of individual social behaviors. Two types of ...
Regulatory agencies should be encouraged to fund and develop or upgrade existing public online tools to compile nationally consistent, robust, and reliable data for identifying overburdened communities, and create detailed visualization tools for hazardous exposures and other factors that increase a populati...
One of the key lessons learned from the pandemic has been the vital role of schools in safeguarding children – at least for those who attend school. This has highlighted the need to protect children who are not physically at school and for teachers and others to better identify children at-...
Results reinforce the importance of social support for the mental health of chronically ill caregivers, and suggest that factors related to the specific nature of HIV/AIDS may be hindering the potential stress-buffering effects of social support among people living with the disease. Implications for ...
The structure of our article has been developed with clarity and depth in mind. To start off our narrative, we will explore the factors contributing to male infertility caused by oxidative stress, with particular focus on ROS-related adverse outcomes. This will then lead to methods of assessing...
Figure 4.Effects ofC. cassiaon the inflammatory factors in gastric damage in ethanol-induced gastritis in SD rats. The expression levels of (A) TNF-α, and (B) IL-1β in serum were measured by ELISA. (C) The mRNA levles ofiNOS,IL-6, andTNF-αin gastric tissue were analyzed by qRT...
Prices, public interest, risk, trust, COVID-related and other demographic factors Table 1 also shows the average price respondents reported that they have paid for face masks. In the outbreak period, it reached CNY 3.93 (with the exchange rate of about 6.5:1 between CNY and USD in January...
The overall performance of the model was evaluated using several metrics such as IoU, AP, and AR values class-wise, mAP and Mean Average Recall (mAR), the standard metrics for evaluating computer vision classifiers based on factors such as the imbalance of the dataset. AP and mAP values ...