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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Z-scores"”.
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Characterisation of human metabolism in physiological and pathophysiological states
… REE and LM were presented as standardised Z scores. REE in healthy adults was predicted by the coefficients: age, fat mass and fat-free mass. LM in healthy adults was predicted by the coefficients: bone mineral content and height2 in men; and by fat and height2 in women. In healthy children, …
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Examining the Associations between Depressive Symptoms, Body Mass Index, and Physical Activity Self-Efficacy in African American Mother-Child Dyads
… depressive symptoms, body mass index (BMI) Z-scores, and physical activity self-efficacy and maternal depressive symptoms and BMI in African American mother-child dyads. A community sample of 65 African American mother-child dyads was recruited. Data were collected on height and weight to …
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Spectral EEG analysis in refractory Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy: a new biomarker in epilepsy
… of delta, theta, alpha and beta bands. The Z scores were calculated by comparison with population parameters based one the age-dependent regression function. Was evaluated theta/alpha index and compared to intelligence quotient (IQ). Results: 38 samples, 19 in morning sample (MS) and 19 in …
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Parental feeding styles and weight status of preschool children in Chile: Perceptions and influential factors
… of the child weight status and child BMI z-scores; (2) to assess parent misperceptions of weight status in young children; and the association of sociodemographic, anthropometric, and behavioral factors with parent underestimation of child weight status; and (3) to explore what influences …
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Late Effects of Hypothalamic Radiation Exposure in Pediatric Brain Tumor Survivors
… low HDL levels (p = 0.04), and lower IGF-1 z-scores (p < 0.001). On DXA scan, patients exposed to HPA radiation had lower Bone Mineral Content (BMC) and Bone Mineral Density (BMD) z-scores (-1.3 vs. -0.3, p = 0.003 and -1.4 vs. -0.2, p < 0.001 respectively) and lower Fat Free Mass Index …
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The influence of water, sanitation and hygiene and feeding practices on growth status and antibiotic resistance in infants aged 0-6 months in Dzimauli rural villages
… progressive declines in length-for-age z-scores and weight-for-age z-scores were observed over time. After adjustment, the water, sanitation and hygiene practices were not significantly associated with growth outcomes, despite temporal growth faltering. High resistance to tetracycline and …
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Analysis of the Relationship Between Growth Hormone Receptor Polymorphism rs6180 and Craniofacial Morphological Changes Associated with Herbst Appliance Therapy
… craniofacial morphologic changes. Changes in Z-scores based on standards from the Michigan Growth Study were then converted to slow or normal growth status by slow being when the Z-score difference between the initial and final measurements is less than zero. The number of subjects with a slow …
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Indulgent caregivers’ feeding style moderated the association between food responsiveness and BMI z-score of preschool children
… feeding styles in the association between BMI z scores and eating behaviors of preschool children. Participants were 81 caregiver-preschooler dyads from low-income neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile. Moderated multiple linear regression models were used to test the moderating effect of caregiver …
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Student-Centered Statistics for Algebra II
… an understanding of standard deviation, z-scores, and percentiles, which are then to be used in a culminating project based learning assignment. These lessons are aligned to the Common Core Standards for statistical reasoning.
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Growth of HIV Exposed and Unexposed Infants
… collected during the Good Start Study. Mean z-scores were calculated for length-for-age (LAZ), weight-for-age (WAZ) and weight-for-length (WLZ), and if they were below minus two, the infant was considered as moderately stunted, underweight and wasted, respectively. Mean z-scores, stratified by …
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Evaluating the South African National School Nutrition Programme
… effect on weight-for- age and BMI-for-age z-scores, but data constraints necessitating the employment of a proxy selection variable and potentially unobserved discontinuity in other variables around the cut-off call into question the validity of the identification strategy. As such, these …
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First and second generation impacts of shocks in early childhood: evidence from Latin America and Africa
… exposed to the flood have lower height-for-age Z-scores three years after the shock, with larger effects for girls than for boys. Moreover, women who were less than 18 years old during the flood experienced negative health impacts that were persistent even 17 years after the flood. Surprisingly, the …
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Memory Performance of Children with ADHD and Reading Disability
… interactions were not significant, based on raw scores and z-scores, and there were no Group effects. However, performance of all groups was significantly below average. These results suggested that Long Term Storage and Consistent Long Term Retrieval were both associated with RD and ADHD; …
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Zinc status and functional correlates in preschool and school-aged children in Egypt
… size (length- or height- and weight-for-age Z scores), current growth over 6 months or longer, illness experience over 10 to 12 months, demographic variables affecting food availability and distribution, sex, and season. Data were collected by Egyptian workers as part of a larger field project. …
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Lung function determinants and mortality of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis in South Africa 2007-2016
… Population mean FEV1 and body mass index (BMI) Z scores improved from -2.5 1.70 to -1.9 1.70 (p = 0.1) and from -0.7 1.2 to -0.4 1.2 (p = 0.3) respectively from 2007 to 2016. FEV1 Z score declined by an average of 0.17 per year of age and this was mirrored by an average decline in BMI Z …
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Growth Analysis of Mixed Ancestry Infants Aged 0 – 18 months, South Africa
… associations between age-standardised z-scores with socio-demographic and socio-economic factors (recorded via questionnaires) were assessed, and subsequently used in regression modelling of age-standardised growth. Infants under 6 months grouped between -2 SD and +1 SD for length, …
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The Effect of SmartMusic on Student Practice
… a significant difference between the mean scores of SM and the CC. Likert survey data were measured using a Wilcoxon Signed rank test and a 2-sample t test and indicate no significant difference in z scores or mean scores, respectively.</p>
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Risk and Efficiency in Banking: A Comparative Study between Islamic and Conventional Banking
… risk levels compared to conventional banks. Z scores were higher in conventional banks indicating that insolvency risk in Islamic banks was higher. The study has found that efficiency levels in Islamic banks were also similar to efficiency levels in conventional banks. The Sharī‘ah’ compliance …
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The Stabilizing Effects of Sesame Oil Extraction Technologies on Seasonal Fluctuations in Food Consumption and Nutritional Status of Rural Farming Households in The Gambia
… a marked increase in weight-for-height z-scores at the peak oil-pressing season that decreased to near baseline levels thereafter. The Combination and Press children exhibited a steady increase in weight-for-height z-scores across seasons except for the pre-harvest lean season when their …
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