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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Anthropometric Measurement"”.
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“It’s Like an Iceberg”: Storying the Student Experience of Classroom-Based Anthropometric Measurement
Anthropometric measurement (AM) is conducted in classrooms for educational screening purposes, and is often done in the context of childhood obesity prevention. Past research has indicated that classroom-based AM practices pose risks to student well-being by compromising student privacy, …
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Comparison of Fitness Training Efficacy of In-Person to Online Coaching on Goal Attainment for Adults
… the fitness professional will collect anthropometric measurements such as scale weight, body mass index, percent body fat, height, and both waist and hip circumference data on the client. This information is used to establish a realistic timeframe for achieving the client's goal(s) …
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Relationships Among Selected Demographic Characteristics, Health Indices, and Cholesterol Levels of Factory and Healthcare Workers
… systolic and diastolic blood pressure, and anthropometric measurement of abdominal body fat.<br> A secondary analysis of healthcare data collected in 1995 from 1805 participants was completed. The data were collected by the staff of a Northern Plains hospital-based wellness center during …
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A comparative evaluation of surrogate measures of adiposity as indictors of cardiometabolic disease
… methods used for disease classification and anthropometric measurement procedure are important for diagnosing cardiometabolic risk and type 2 diabetes; (2) to compare adiposity variable relationships with a range of cardiometabolic disease features, biomarkers of chronic low-grade …
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Comparison of a Body Shape Index and Body Mass Index as Predictors of Metabolic Syndrome: NHANES 2007-2012
A newly calculated anthropometric measurement (A Body Shape Index, ABSI) was introduced as a more reliable index of body composition than waist circumference (WC) and body mass index (BMI). ABSI was reported as a stronger predictor for mortality. Thus far, the relationship between ABSI and …
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Mid-upper arm circumference and nutritional risk in macrocephalic pediatric patients
… in pediatric patients is dependent on anthropometric measurements. In macrocephalic children, current anthropometric measures may fail to correctly diagnose malnutrition. The purpose of this study is to determine if the measurement of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) in pediatric …
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Lifestyle practices associated with anthropometric status among students at the University of Venda
… to describe lifestyle practices associated with anthropometric status among students at the University of Venda. A quantitative approach using cross-sectional design was adopted. A total sample of 363 participants was used in the study. Data was collected using self-reported questionnaire and …
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Future-proof toilet design: A user-centred mixed-methods investigation
… methods comprising semi-structured interview, anthropometric measurement, user-controlled fitting trial, design evaluation and motion trials. The findings of the semi-structured interview, presented in Chapter 4, demonstrate the extent to which toilet height is an issue to participants and …
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Mobile tools for community health workers : an application of machine vision for mobile phones
… convenient and reliable tools to perform their measurements. In this thesis, we first propose a number of mobile tools that make use of the smartphone camera, combined with machine vision and augmented reality (AR) to extract, collect and analyze data from the image of the child, and provide the …
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The Effects Of Jaw Clenching, Jaw Alignment Via Performance Mouthpiece, And The Combination Of Both On Power And Force Production
… prescreening, obtaining informed consent, basic anthropometric measurement, mouthpiece fitting and instruction, and familiarization of the countermovement vertical jump (CMVJ) and isometric mid-thigh clean pull (MTCP) assessments. The testing conditions, counterbalanced for all participants were …
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Surguvant inflammation and metabolism in colorectal surgery
… may be adopted in colon cancer, in particular anthropometric measurement, cfDNA analysis and profiling of the systemic metabolome. Aims: The aims of this thesis were as follows: 1. Analyse the association between CT-generated body composition parameters (BCPs), inflammation and colon cancer …
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Early Undernutrition and Unmet Learning Needs: Exploring Relationships between Stunting, Cognition, and Teacher Perceptions of Early Grade Learning in Ghana
… related to aptitude and school readiness. Anthropometric measurement and birth record data were collected to calculate height-for-age z-scores, and household surveys collected data from caretakers to understand the extent to which additional equity dimensions including gender, rural …
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An investigation into the risk factors of musculoskeletal diseases and the association between chronic diseases of lifestyle in an under-resourced area of the Cape Town Metropole
… Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ), and anthropometric measures of weight, height, and waist and hip circumference. Data were collected via interview and anthropometric measurement. Responses were captured by online questionnaires on mobile devices using the mobile data collection …