DIETARY AND HEALTH RISK BEHAVIORS FOR METABOLIC DISEASES IN DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY IN CHONGQING, CHINA

Dietary and health risk behaviors for metabolic diseases in different age groups: a cross-sectional study in Chongqing, China

Abstract Background The study aimed to investigate the relationship between the frequency of metabolic diseases (MetD) and dietary behaviors as well as health risk behaviors in various age groups.Methods This Cross-Sectional study involved 12,215 participants, and the relationship between MetD and health risk behaviors was discussed using Pearson c

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Short-term pain for long-term gain? A longitudinal meta-analysis of downsizing-financial performance relationships

IntroductionDownsizing, and the mass layoff upheavals that ensue, has been euphemistically referred to as a short-term pain, long-term gain strategy.But is that so? Do its financial outcomes over time justify the short-run harm? And, to what extent has its adoption been driven by economic or social rationales over time?MethodsTo examine these quest

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Do truth-telling oaths improve honesty in crowd-working?

This study explores whether an oath to honesty can reduce both shirking and lying among crowd-sourced internet workers.Using a classic coin-flip a&d ej-123 experiment, we first confirm that a substantial majority of Mechanical Turk workers both shirk and lie when reporting the number of heads flipped.We then demonstrate that lying can be reduced by

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Classification Characteristics of Some Roads in Karbala City

A comprehensive understanding of the characteristics of the road network is imperative for implementing fundamental measures to enhance traffic efficiency and mitigate delays.The objective of the present study is twofold: firstly, to classify the urban street network in the city of Karbala; and secondly, to evaluate its effectiveness.Following the

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