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Deakin University
Education•Burwood, Victoria, Australia•
About: Deakin University is a education organization based out in Burwood, Victoria, Australia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 12118 authors who have published 46470 publications receiving 1188841 citations. The organization is also known as: Deakin.
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TL;DR: Those who spent more time in sedentary behaviours (but were sufficiently physically active) and those who were insufficiently active (but spent less time in Sedentary behaviour) had a similar risk of being overweight or obese.
Abstract: Background
Television viewing and physical inactivity are independently associated with risk of obesity. However, how the combination of multiple leisure-time sedentary behaviours (LTSB) and physical activity (LTPA) may contribute to the risk of obesity is not well understood. We examined the joint associations of multiple sedentary behaviours and physical activity with the odds of being overweight or obese.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the dynamic relationship between economic growth and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions for 181 countries and found that CO2 emissions will decline with an increase in income over time, consistent with the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) hypothesis.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors suggest that a concurrent engineering approach in construction may significantly improve the way in which projects are procured, and propose a simple model demonstrating how concurrent engineering can contribute to project effectiveness.
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TL;DR: To examine body fat and musculoskeletal changes in men over 5 years, a large number of subjects were obese, and the proportion of men with a high BMI and those with a low BMI both increased their risk of injury and increased the likelihood of disease.
Abstract: Objective
To examine body fat and musculoskeletal changes in men over 5 years.
Methods
Body composition was evaluated for men in the Geelong Osteoporosis Study using whole body dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) during two time-periods. DXA was performed for 1329 men (25-96 years) during 2001-2006 and for 900 men (25-98 years), 2006-2011. The masses of fat, lean, and bone were expressed relative to the square of height (kg/m2). Each compartment was also expressed as a percentage relative to body weight (%fat, %lean, %bone).
Results
Mean BMI increased from 26.9 kg/m2 in 2001-2006, to 27.2 kg/m2 in 2006-2011 (P = 0.04). Mean fat mass increased by 9.0% from 6.98 kg/m2 (95%CI 6.84-7.11) in 2001-2006, to 7.60 kg/m2 (7.44-7.77) in 2006-2011 (P < 0.001); mean lean mass decreased by 0.9%, from 18.92 kg/m2 (18.83-19.01) to 18.75 kg/m2 (18.64-18.86) (P = 0.02), and mean bone mass decreased 1.6% from 1.041 kg/m2 (1.034-1.047), to 1.024 kg/m2 (1.016-1.032). Mean %fat increased from 23.4% to 25.2%, mean %lean decreased from 72.6% to 70.9% and mean %bone decreased from 4.0% to 3.9% (all P < 0.05).
Conclusions
An increase in BMI, which reflects a substantial increase in body fat mass and declines in both lean and bone mass was reported. This may have implications for future development of bone fragility, sarcopenia, and sarcopenic obesity.
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TL;DR: This rapid and up-scalable method offers a versatile route for surface grafting by adjusting the irradiation total dose and the monomer concentration and dramatically altered the net surface charge of the pristine membranes.
Abstract: Thin-film composite poly(amide) (PA) membranes have greatly diversified water supplies and food products. However, users would benefit from a control of the electrostatic interactions between the liquid and the net surface charge interface in order to benefit wider application. The ionic selectivity of the 100 nm PA semi-permeable layer is significantly affected by the pH of the solution. In this work, for the first time, a convenient route is presented to configure the surface charge of PA membranes by gamma ray induced surface grafting. This rapid and up-scalable method offers a versatile route for surface grafting by adjusting the irradiation total dose and the monomer concentration. Specifically, thin coatings obtained at low irradiation doses between 1 and 10 kGy and at low monomer concentration of 1 v/v% in methanol/water (1:1) solutions, dramatically altered the net surface charge of the pristine membranes from -25 mV to +45 mV, whilst the isoelectric point of the materials shifted from pH 3 to pH 7. This modification resulted in an improved water flux by over 55%, from 45.9 to up 70 L.m-2.h-1, whilst NaCl rejection was found to drop by only 1% compared to pristine membranes.
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Patrick D. McGorry | 137 | 1097 | 72092 |
Mary Story | 135 | 522 | 64623 |
Dacheng Tao | 133 | 1362 | 68263 |
Paul Harrison | 133 | 1400 | 80539 |
Paul Zimmet | 128 | 740 | 140376 |
Neville Owen | 127 | 700 | 74166 |
Louisa Degenhardt | 126 | 798 | 139683 |
David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
Anthony F. Jorm | 124 | 798 | 67120 |
Tao Zhang | 123 | 2772 | 83866 |
John C. Wingfield | 122 | 509 | 52291 |
John J. McGrath | 120 | 791 | 124804 |
Eduard Vieta | 119 | 1248 | 57755 |
Michael Berk | 116 | 1284 | 57743 |
Ashley I. Bush | 116 | 560 | 57009 |