Unveiling the royal road to happiness: the predictive role of psychological hardiness, mediated by vitality and materialistic values

The quest for happiness is highly esteemed in every culture.Based on the theory of the positive activity model, the current study examined the role of psychological hardiness in happiness among youth.The study also investigated the parallel mediating role of vitality and materialistic values in the relationship between psychological hardiness and h

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Dietary determinants of changes in waist circumference adjusted for body mass index - a proxy measure of visceral adiposity.

Given the recognized health effects of visceral fat, Shirts Girls the understanding of how diet can modulate changes in the phenotype "waist circumference for a given body mass index (WC(BMI))", a proxy measure of visceral adiposity, is deemed necessary.Hence, the objective of the present study was to assess the association between dietary factors

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Isotherms describing physical adsorption of Cr(VI) from aqueous solution using various agricultural wastes as adsorbents

Various agricultural wastes such as peels of pea (Pisum sativum) pod, tea (Camellia sinensis), and ginger (Zingiber officinale) and banana (Musa lacatan) waste were used to adsorb Cr(VI) from the aqueous solutions.A comparative adsorption efficiency study for all these adsorbents was done in laboratory for various pH, adsorbent doses, initial chrom

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