“…A working group should be created to address this issue and agree on the unification of a gold standard, taking into account the geographical region, the ethnic groups and the age groups of the child and youth population and above all, the secular growth.…”
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“…CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest a high global dementia prevalence in LAC countries and an unequal burden of dementia for women, lower-educated, and rural residents. Secular increases in dementia prevalence call for greater public health efforts for preventative actions.…”
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“…For the latter thesis, two further assumptions were at play: (1) we speculated that religious worship songs were associated with stronger divine experiences than with secular ones, and (2) it was assumed that if they could worship to their own selection of songs, the experience would be more powerful than with the ones that were provided by the research team. …”
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“…It was hypothesized that there was no secular trend of morphological features, its maintenance in endurance, increased sexual dimorphism and the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the observed characteristics. …”
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“…Chanting is practiced in many religious and secular traditions and involves rhythmic vocalization or mental repetition of a sound or phrase. …”
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“…Prognostic factors of OS were evaluated. Secular trends in the increased application of NUC therapy and improved survival were observed in the last decade. …”
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“…Historical examples of different styles in music point out that if any allusion or reminder about gender in music might happen most probably occurs in folk non always written pagan or secular music with lyrics or voice. This genre of music usually tells about traditional gender differences in jobs, habits, lifestyles, etc., and has a clear preference for male musicians, while on the contrary, classical music usually does not have a clear gender difference in meaning, and instruments are played by both. …”
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“…To examine the effectiveness of this policy change, we estimated an intent-to-treat regression-adjusted difference-in-difference model with propensity score weighting, an approach that allowed us to control for both secular trends in breastfeeding and selection bias. …”
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“…Carbonate rocks provide unique and valuable sedimentary archives for secular changes in Earth’s physical, chemical, and biological processes. …”
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“…Additionally, we report secular trends of resuscitation fluid use in a cohort of ICUs that participated in both the 2007 and 2014 studies. …”
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“…OBJECTIVE: To assess the prevalence and secular trends of and the factors associated with long-term concurrent use of stimulants and opioids among adults with ADHD. …”
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“…IMPORTANCE: There has been a worldwide secular trend toward earlier onset of puberty in the general population. …”
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“…This mushrooming of ethical problems will be taking place at a time of increasing moral pluralism, when common moral values become harder to establish, and powerful subgroups embrace moral dogmatism, whether religious or secular in character. Faced with such complexity and confusion, governments and industrial groups will increasingly seek guidance from bioethics "experts", through paid consultancies, advisory panels and commissioned reports on specific topics. …”
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“…Muslim women’s perceptions of cultural, religious, and secular determinants of physical activity have been studied for many years, with information typically acquired through focus groups or interviews. …”
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“…We established a steady-state scaling law relying the internal temperature variation to the Rayleigh number and we showed that this scaling law remains valid during the transitory regime provided both internal heating and secular evolution of the temperature are taken into account. …”
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“…Music can serve as a pedagogical and therapeutic strategy for development of psychomotor skills in children and adolescents with long-lasting illnesses, and also as a secular way of promoting comfort and spiritual health for patients and families during difficult times; it can also be used to alleviate suffering during diagnostic and therapeutic procedures throughout the long recovery and/or rehabilitation processes. …”
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“…EMIR is freely available for research purposes and contains 600 sample recordings of Orthodox Tewahedo chants, traditional Azmari songs and contemporary Ethiopian secular music. Each sample is classified by five expert judges into one of four well-known Ethiopian Kiñits, Tizita, Bati, Ambassel and Anchihoye. …”
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“…Emerging evidence indicates that lockdowns have had several negative effects on children; therefore, the present study seeks to analyze the secular effects of COVID-19 lockdowns on Chilean students’ actual motor competence (AMC) and perceived motor competence (PMC). (2) Methods: using a sequential cohort design, data from 523 fifth-grade students at nine elementary schools (46.8% girls, age M = 11.11, SD = 0.66) were assessed in 2018–19 (pre-lockdown) (n = 265) and 2022 (post-lockdown) (n = 258). (3) Results: in the domain of object control (AMC and PMC), no significant differences were found (AMC p = 0.559; PMC p = 0.682). …”
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“…The differences in slopes and intercepts from those published by Trotter and Gleser (1952, 1958) may result from an ongoing secular increase in stature. Our study illustrates that AI-algorithms are a promising new tool enabling large-scale measurements.…”
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“…BACKGROUND: To estimate secular trends and disease burden of diabetes and prediabetes among Chinese adults. …”
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