Association of junk food consumption with high blood pressure and obesity in Iranian children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-IV Study by Moloud Payab, Roya Kelishadi, Mostafa Qorbani, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Shirin Hasani Ranjbar, Gelayol Ardalan, Hoda Zahedi, Mohammad Chinian, Hamid Asayesh, Bagher Larijani, Ramin Heshmat

“…Methods: This nationwide study was conducted in 2011-2012 among 14,880 students, aged 6-18 years, selected by cluster sampling from 30 provinces. Weight, height, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), as well as systolic and diastolic blood pressure (BP) were measured. …”
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La formación Puncoviscana y unidades estratigráficas vinculadas en el Neoproterozoico - Cámbrico Temprano del Noroeste Argentino The Puncoviscana Formation and related units in the... by Florencio Aceñolaza, Guillermo Aceñolaza

“…Although recent papers deny the presence of body fossils in the unit, the Puncoviscana Formation has provided two remarkable soft body fossils: Selkirkia sp. and Beltanelloides from outcrops of Jujuy and Tucumán provinces (Fig. 8). The ichnological research during the last 30 years contributed with a fairly acceptable knowledge of the paleontological content of the Puncoviscana Formation. …”
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An Alberta Guaranteed Basic Income: Issues and Options by Wayne Simpson, Harvey Stevens

“…Serious discussion of poverty reduction through a basic or guaranteed income has reemerged at the federal level and among the provinces, including Québec and Ontario, coinciding with renewed efforts to address child poverty through the Canada Child Benefit and the Alberta Child Benefit.  …”
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cDNA Cloning and Functional Verification of Transcription Factor NhbZIP1 from Neoporphyra haitanensis by Gaoxiong ZENG, Kai XU, Yan XU, Dehua JI, Changsheng CHEN, Chaotian XIE, Wenlei WANG

“…In recent years, due to global warming, the continuously high temperatures following the White Dew solar term, has led to the decomposition of seedlings of N. haitanensis in Fujian, Zhejiang and other provinces. This has had a huge impact on the coastal N. haitanensis cultivation industry in terms of production and development. …”
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Digital Mapping of Surface and Subsurface Soil Organic Carbon and Soil Salinity Variation in a Part of Qazvin Plain (Case Study: Abyek and Nazarabad Regions) by Gordafarin Rezaie, F. Sarmadian, Ali Mohammadi Torkashvand, J. Seyedmohammadi, Maryam Marashi Aliabadi

“…The study area includes a part of agricultural lands and natural areas of Alborz and Qazvin provinces, between the Nazarabad and Abyek cities in Iran. …”
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Formant Transitions of Turkish Vowels by Vahid Sadeghi, Solmaz Mahmoodi

“…Most of the speakers inhabit in four provinces of the northwestern part of Iran. In the literature, two striking features of Turkic morphology has been presented: first, its agglutinative nature (low level of fusion in Sapir's terminology), indicating the fact that there is basically one-one correspondence between grammatical categories and their exponents and second, its highly synthetic nature (high level of synthesis again by using Sapir's terminology), demonstrating the fact that a given word can contain a large number of morphemes. …”
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Socioeconomic inequality in childhood obesity and its determinants: a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition by Roya Kelishadi, Mostafa Qorbani, Ramin Heshmat, Shirin Djalalinia, Ali Sheidaei, Saeid Safiri, Nastaran Hajizadeh, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Gelayol Ardalan, Hamid Asayesh, Morteza Mansourian

“…Methods: This multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted in 2011–2012, as part of a national school-based surveillance program performed in 40,000 students, aged 6–18-years, from urban and rural areas of 30 provinces of Iran. Using principle component analysis, the socioeconomic status of participants was categorized to quintiles. …”
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An Alberta Guaranteed Basic Income: Issues and Options by Wayne Simpson, Harvey Stevens

“…Serious discussion of poverty reduction through a basic or guaranteed income has reemerged at the federal level and among the provinces, including Québec and Ontario, coinciding with renewed efforts to address child poverty through the Canada Child Benefit and the Alberta Child Benefit. …”
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The Relationship Between Family Environment, Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Well-Being in Cameroon by Mohamadou, Galy

“…Three hundred and thirty eight (338) adolescents aged between 12 to 19 years from three bilingual schools in the Adamaoua and Centre provinces in Cameroon were included in the sample. …”
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Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Fishing Ports Using an Integrated Biomarker Response Approach by Qian LIU, Yong LIU, Linbao ZHANG, Haigang CHEN, Zhe ZHANG, Fei TIAN, Xuefeng WANG

“…Samples of green mussels (Perna viridis) and surface water were collected at 12 sampling points in four fishing ports located in Guangdong and Guangxi provinces, China. Six types of heavy metals were measured in the surface water and soft tissues of P. viridis by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. …”
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Pragmatic Translation of the Quarantine/Lockdown Classifications in the Philippines: An Attempt to Translate Pandemic Words and Meanings by Marvin Reyes

“…“Palace: Extending ECQ in Metro Manila, Nearby Provinces ‘Absolute Last Resort’ | ANC.” March 20, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?…”
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Evaluating the selection of improved Fars native fowl with the inbreeding assessment approach by S Jelokhani-Niaraki1 and Sh Ghorbani1*

“…Considering the genetic diversity among the native fowl breeds of Iran, several breeding stations were established in different provinces of the country for the purpose of reproduction and genetic improvement of these breeds. …”
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China’s Climate Change Policy Attention and Forestry Carbon Sequestration Growth by Jixian Meng, Feng Lu, Baodong Cheng

“…Specifically, panel data from 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2017 are used for empirical analysis, and the following results are obtained: (1) The baseline regression indicates that <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>A</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> significantly promotes the growth of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, while <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>U</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> or <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>E</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>U</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> inhibits its growth. (2) The interactive regression shows that the effect of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>A</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> on the growth of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> can mitigate the inhibiting impact of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>U</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> or <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>E</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>U</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. (3) Mediation analysis documents that <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>A</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> promotes <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> growth by increasing the forest tending area, expanding the existing forest area, increasing renewable energy consumption, and improving green investment. (4) Heterogeneity analysis reveals a clear differentiation in the effect of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>C</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>P</mi><mi>A</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> on <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>F</mi><mi>C</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> under different situations. …”
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The Backgrounds of the Saveh Battle and its Effect on the Changes in the Power Structure and Relationship in the Iran Seljuk by reza derikvandy, seyed abolqasem foroozani, soleyman heydari

“…In such a political structure, the ruling kingdoms of the provinces constantly tried to rebel against the great sultan to seize his position based on the ethnic traditions of the Turks. …”
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Structural, metamorphic and geochronological studies in the south-east Tauern (Austria) by Waters, D

“…</li> </ol> <p>The tectonic sequence in the map area has been determined by structural analysis and correlation, and the K-Ar mineral age provinces correlated with episodes of mineral growth. …”

Representation of arsacid Wars with Seleucians and Romans in Islamic Texts by farshid nadari, zohreh taghipour

“…The fifth blast calls on the rulers of the provinces of Oserouen and Adiabon, whose lands were near the Roman borders, to oppose Roman siege and besiege Rome (Dio cassius, 1957: 217-218; Chaumont, 1988: 57 579; Voleski, 2004: 210; Shipman, 2005: 75). …”
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Passive cooling techniques by Xiaoyu Du

“…Bouillot (2008) studied six Chinese vernacular houses in different provinces and found that the value and the diversity of the Chinese housing stock is due to the combination of the specific structure of the Chinese eastern climates, which creates the contrast of cold-dry winters and hothumid summers, with the structure of the Ming t’ang, which contains the opposition of the yin and the yang. …”
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The Study Area by Donya Ahmadi, Tuna Tasan-Kok

“…While the federal government maintains a significant steering capacity and remains partially in control over aspects of the process (such as overall levels of admissions and security regulations), provinces have increasingly become significant, autonomous players (separation of powers). …”
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Integrating sedimentologic data and stable isotope geochemistry to comprehend the sequence stratigraphic framework of the Middle–Upper Jurassic Sargelu and Najmah formations in NW... by Milad Imani Seginsara, Aram Baetgoll, Mehdi Daraei, Mahmoud Sharafi, Meysam Isanejad, Afshin Zohdi, Javad Rabbani

“…Hawraman or Avroman is a mountainous region located within the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah in western Iran and in north-eastern Kurdistan Region of Iraq (Biglari and Shidrang, 2019). …”
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政治革命下的教育變革：民國初期教育制度的再造（1912-1916） Educational Transformation During the Political Revolution: Restructuring the Education System in Early Republican China (1912-1916)... by 周愚文 Yu-Wen Chou

“…Empirical evidence indicates that only 6 out of 18 provincial governments adopted the new statutes and regulations to implement the new educational system; the status of the remaining provinces remains unknown. Four major factors influenced these reforms. …”
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