Association of physical activity levels with covid-19-related anxiety and anthropometric indices among active and inactive females during the coronavirus pandemic

Background and aims: Physical activity can promote the mental and physical health of individuals in various ways.Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the association between the levels of physical activity, corona-induced anxiety, and anthropometric indices among active and inactive students.Methods: This is a correlational and causal-compara

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Head to Head: Semantic Similarity of Multi–Word Terms

Terms are linguistic signifiers of domain-specific concepts.Semantic similarity between terms refers to the corresponding distance in the conceptual space.In this paper, we use lexico-syntactic information to define a vector space representation in which cosine similarity closely approximates semantic similarity between the corresponding terms.Give

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Integrative description of Mesobiotus anastasiae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotoidea) and first record of Lobohalacarus (Chelicerata, Trombidiformes) from the Republic of South Africa

A new species of the genus Mesobiotus is described from the Republic of South Africa using a traditional morphological approach (light and scanning electron microscopy) combined with molecular analysis (18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, ITS-2 and COI markers).Mesobiotus Protection anastasiae sp.nov.differs from all known Mesobiotus species by having a unique com

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