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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Fitness outcomes"”.
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Predicting physical fitness outcomes of exercise rehabilitation: An retrospective examination of program admission data from patient records in a hospital-based early outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program
… formulate baseline variables which could predict outcomes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the utilization of baseline clinical, exercise test, and psychosocial variables to predict clinically relevant changes in exercise tolerance of cardiac patients who participated in early …
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Assessing the disparities in COVID-19 outcomes among different socioeconomic and demographic groups and implications for public health policy.
… healthcare, exposure to the virus, and typical fitness outcomes. This research ambitions to research these disparities, specializing in decrease-income households and the white ethnic institution, to apprehend how the intersection of socioeconomic repute and ethnicity impacts health …
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Using Mesocosms to Model Optimal Levels of Body Size Variation in Larval Spotted Salamanders (Ambystoma maculatum)
… interactions and impacts competition-driven fitness outcomes within populations. Understanding optimal levels of body size variation will help illuminate how variation influences competitive outcomes and reproductive fitness. Populations may be structured through resource partitioning or …
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A critical evaluation of neophobia in corvids: causes, consequences and conservation implications
… in neophobia are expected to be associated with fitness outcomes, I found no direct connections between neophobia, reproductive success or offspring stress hormone expression (Chapter Four). Moreover, if neophobia levels were defined by human presence, populations should differ in their novelty …
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The effects of endophytic Fusarium verticillioides on the interactions of maize and its fungal pathogen Ustilago maydis.
… interact with each other, and affect their fitness. Although theoretical studies suggest that the outcomes of multispecies interactions are often different from those of pairwise interactions, most empirical studies have focused on pairwise plant-pathogen interactions. Using endophytic …
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Unravelling the ecological trade-offs in behavioural and physiological sexual traits
… current environment, are able to maximise their fitness. These behavioural adjustments are particularly important where there are trade-offs between investment in different life-history traits. Trade-offs between reproduction and survival have been widely documented, in addition to a body of …
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Towards an understanding of symbiont natural history through studies of crayfish and their annelid associates
… in transmission dynamics can be explained by the fitness outcomes for dispersing symbionts. Field observations revealed that worm reproduction is contingent on host size and intraspecific competition for preferred microhabitats. Using a predictive model that assumes transmission of symbionts only …
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Impacts of shared pollinators and community composition on plant-pollinator interactions and their fitness consequences
… the foraging decisions of pollinators, and the fitness outcomes of plant species. Through several comprehensive field studies, I contribute to our understanding of mutualist interaction patterns at multiple levels of biological hierarchy: the community, species, and individuals. My first chapter …
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Genome-Scale Quantification of Target Vulnerability in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
… with the resulting impact on bacterial fitness. Partial gene inhibition results in stronger fitness costs for vulnerable genes than invulnerable genes. Understanding vulnerability is critical for prioritizing targets for drug development and in understanding the growth rate limiting …
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Improving the functional fitness of older adults through Lifelong Improvements through Fitness Together (LIFT): Use of an integrated research-practice partnership approach in community and clinical settings
… of older adults and improve their functional fitness outcomes. These intervention attributes are outlined in the prominent RE-AIM Framework: Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation, and Maintenance. Taken together, practice- and research- adaptations may increase the adoption of an …
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Applying ecological models to positive interactions among lotic fishes: implications for population and community regulation at multiple spatial scales
… and biotic contexts on reproductive behavior and fitness outcomes between a cyprinid host and associate, using the biological markets model to generate predictions; (2) examining the utility of the nest web framework (previously only used for cavity nesting vertebrate communities) and the stress …
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Drivers and Fitness Consequences of Dispersal and Structure in Wild Sockeye Salmon Populations (Oncorhynchus nerka)
… within and between subpopulations can reduce fitness losses due to inbreeding depression, influence rates of adaptation, and facilitate colonization or recolonization of newly available habitat. However, an understudied aspect of metapopulation biology is the influence of biotic and abiotic …
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Social Determinants of Immature Phenotype and Survival in Wild Baboons and Other Mammals
… links between maternal survival and offspring fitness outcomes have important implications for the evolution of slow primate life histories: in species where stronger links exist between maternal survival and offspring fitness, there may be increased selection for longevity at the expense of …
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The impact of exercise in children and adolescents with movement impairment
… relationship between level of movement skill and fitness in children and adolescents plays an important role in improving physical activity (PA) and health. Children with poor motor proficiency and coordination categorised as having movement impairment (MI) often choose a more sedentary lifestyle …