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Body image of highly trained female athletes engaged in different types of sport
(Hindawi, 2018)Background.The aim of the study was to evaluate differences in body image across different types of sports in highly trained female athletes. Methods. 242 female individuals, aged 13–30 years (M = 20.0, SD = 4.5), ... -
Body mass index cut-points to identify cardiometabolic risk in black South Africans
(Springer, 2017)Purpose To determine optimal body mass index (BMI) cut-points for the identification of cardiometabolic risk in black South African adults. Methods We performed a cross-sectional study of a weighted sample of healthy ... -
Body mass index vs deuterium dilution method for establishing childhood obesity prevalence, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Morocco, Namibia, Senegal, Tunisia and United Republic of Tanzania
(WHO, 2018)Objective To compare the World Health Organization (WHO) body mass index (BMI)-for-age definition of obesity against measured body fatness in African children. Methods In a prospective multicentre study over 2013 to ... -
Body, space and narrative in 2Macc 1:1-10a
(Institut Fuer Biblische Exegese, 2016)This article examined the commentaries on 2 Maccabees over the past forty years, focusing on 2Macc 1:1-10a. The following transpired. Commentaries had a difference of opinion on how the narrative should be interpreted. ... -
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria : a reflection on the failure of democratic containment
(UNISA Press, 2014)Democracy is a system of government greatly supported by the vast majority of Nigerians and they are willing to sustain it. It is believed that the system guarantees security and promotes prosperity. It is considered a ... -
Boko Haram terrorism in Nigeria: A reflection on the failure of democratic containment
(Sabinet SA ePublications, 2014)Democracy is a system of government greatly supported by the vast majority of Nigerians and they are willing to sustain it. It is believed that the system guarantees security and promotes prosperity. It is considered a ... -
Bolstering resilience through teacher-student interaction: Lessons for school psychologists
(Sage, 2016)Schools are often the only formal service provider for young people living in socio-economically marginalized communities, uniquely positioning school staff to support positive psychosocial outcomes of youth living in ... -
Bone density and asymmetry are not related to DDT in House Sparrows: insights from micro-focus X-ray computed tomography
(Elsevier, 2018)In organisms, DDT (Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane) and its metabolites, DDE (Dichlorodiphenyldichloroethylene) and DDD (Dichlorobischlorophenylethane) are endocrine mimics. They can influence bone density and other bone ... -
Bone resorption and environmental exposure to cadmium in women: a population study
(National Institute of Environmetal Health Sciences (NIEHS), 2008)Background: Environmental exposure to cadmium decreases bone density indirectly through hypercalciuria resulting from renal tubular dysfunction. Objective: We sought evidence for a direct osteotoxic effect of cadmium in ... -
Bone turnover markers in HIV-infected women on tenofovir-based antiretroviral therapy
(AOSIS, 2017)Background: Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) antiretroviral therapy is associated with disruption of the bone turnover process. Objectives: The objective of this study was to determine the association between tenofovir ... -
Bootstrap maximum likelihood for quasi-stationary distributions
(Taylor & Francis, 2018)Quasi-stationary distributions have many applications in diverse research fields. We develop a bootstrap-based maximum likelihood (BML) method to deal with quasi-stationary distributions in statistical inference. To ... -
Bootstrap procedures for online monitoring of changes in autoregressive models
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)We compare the behavior of several bootstrap procedures for monitoring changes in the error distribution of autoregressive time series. The proposed procedures are designed to control the overall significance level and ... -
Bootstrapping an XML Schema of syntactic functions into a skeleton ontology
(North-West University (Vaal Triangle Campus), 2009)Information Systems is regarded as an interdisciplinary science. Therefore, insights from the humanities are important for this discipline, although this is not always recognised or valued. One outstanding example is the ... -
Bootstrapping the conditional copula
(Elsevier, 2013)This paper is concerned with inference about the dependence or association between two random variables conditionally upon the given value of a covariate. A way to describe such a conditional dependence is via a conditional ... -
Borassus aethiopum Mart. (Arecaceae) in Limpopo province with a key to South African palms
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Borassus aethiopum Mart. commonly occurs in many parts of tropical Africa, and in South Africa it is restricted to the Leydsdorp region where it is conspicuous along the Selati River. The species is sometimes ... -
Bottom of Pyramid 4.0: modularising and assimilating industrial revolution cognition into a 4-tiered social entrepreneurship upliftment model for previously disconnected communities
(World Scientific, 2018)Developing a sociopreneurial (social-entrepreneurship) ecosystem is a substantial long-term investment. Much like natural ecosystems, there are a multitude of support systems needed to maintain balance and diversity in ... -
Bound Together in Invisible Ways: Eulogising a Giant of History
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)This article examines Barack Obama's eulogy on the occasion of Nelson Mandela's memorial on 10 December, 2013. Using a critical discourse analysis framework, the article demonstrates that Obama's eulogy is an act of ... -
Boundaries: an interdisciplinary (hi)story
(AOSIS, 2016)The experience and awareness of boundaries form an integral part of being human. This article investigates the systematic philosophical underpinnings of our understanding of the nature of boundaries, in some instances ... -
Boundary layer nucleation as a source of new CCN in savannah environment
(EGU, 2013)The South African savannah region is a complex environment of air pollution and natural emissions influenced by a strong seasonal cycle in biomass burning and strong precipitation. However, the scarcity of long-term ... -
Bounded real lemma and structured singular value versus diagonal scaling: the free noncommutative setting
(Springer, 2016)The structured singular value (often referred to simply as μ) was introduced independently by Doyle and Safonov as a tool for analyzing robustness of system stability and performance in the presence of structured uncertainty ...