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Personality And Body-Mass-Index In School-Age Children: An Exploration Of Mediating And Moderating Variables, Mark S. Allen, Stewart A. Vella Jan 2016

Personality And Body-Mass-Index In School-Age Children: An Exploration Of Mediating And Moderating Variables, Mark S. Allen, Stewart A. Vella

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

This study explored longitudinal associations between personality and body-mass-index (BMI) in school-age children, including the potential mediating role of screen time and physical activity, and the potential moderating roles of child demographics and neighbourhood socioeconomic position. Participants were the parents (and teachers) of 3857 ten-year-old children, who completed questionnaires at baseline with a two-year follow-up. After controlling for child demographics (e.g., sex, pubertal status), we found that personality was unimportant for concurrent BMI, but was important for subsequent BMI and change in BMI over two years. Low levels of introversion and persistence at baseline, and decreases in persistence over time, …


Determination Of Stress State In Rock Mass Using Strain Gauge Probes Ccbo, Petr Waclawik, Stas Lubomir, Jan Nemcik, Petr Konicek, Tomas Kalab Jan 2016

Determination Of Stress State In Rock Mass Using Strain Gauge Probes Ccbo, Petr Waclawik, Stas Lubomir, Jan Nemcik, Petr Konicek, Tomas Kalab

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

The strain gauge probes of different construction are typically used for determination of stress state rock mass. The modified overcoring method known as the Compact Conical ended Borehole Overcoring method (CCBO) for stress state determination in rock mass was designed in Institute of Geonics of the CAS (IGN) in cooperation with Kumamoto University in Japan. The implemented adjustment of the overcoring method consists mainly in omitting the overcoring phase (stress relief phase). The probe is glued directly to the conically shaped end of a borehole. The data logger located within the conical probe enables continual strain monitoring directly in the …


The Evolution In The Stellar Mass Of Brightest Cluster Galaxies Over The Past 10 Billion Years, Sabine Bellstedt, Christopher E. Lidman, Adam Muzzin, Marijn Franx, Susanna Guatelli, Allison R. Hill, Henk Hoekstra, Noah Kurinsky, Ivo Labbe, Danilo Marchesini, Z. Cemile Marsan, Mitra Safavi-Naeini, Cristobal Sifon, Mauro Stefanon, Jesse Van De Sande, Pieter Van Dokkum, Catherine Weigel Jan 2016

The Evolution In The Stellar Mass Of Brightest Cluster Galaxies Over The Past 10 Billion Years, Sabine Bellstedt, Christopher E. Lidman, Adam Muzzin, Marijn Franx, Susanna Guatelli, Allison R. Hill, Henk Hoekstra, Noah Kurinsky, Ivo Labbe, Danilo Marchesini, Z. Cemile Marsan, Mitra Safavi-Naeini, Cristobal Sifon, Mauro Stefanon, Jesse Van De Sande, Pieter Van Dokkum, Catherine Weigel

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Using a sample of 98 galaxy clusters recently imaged in the near-infrared with the European Southern Observatory (ESO) New Technology Telescope, WIYN telescope and William Her- schel Telescope, supplemented with 33 clusters from the ESO archive, we measure how the stellar mass of the most massive galaxies in the universe, namely brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs), increases with time. Most of the BCGs in this new sample lie in the redshift range 0.2