In a cross-sectional sample of infants aged 5-11 months in two rural villages of Ethiopia, maternal height, triceps skin fold thickness and zinc concentration in beast milk were associated with stunting but current weight and MUAC were not associated with stunting [ 41].
A second gallery at the Studio Museum, labeled "Land of the Outlaw," is filled with European images of the Antilles as a nightmare of ravenous beasts, hostile natives and monstrous phantoms associated with indigenous religions.
There are many survivals from local pagan cults, particularly of motifs associated with life, fertility, and protection; in Calabria an animal stake may be carved with the head of the blank-eyed mother-goddess, expected to protect the tethered beast, and similar elemental forms were preserved in the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
Satyr and Silenus, in Greek mythology, creatures of the wild, part man and part beast, who in Classical times were closely associated with the god Dionysus.
The Jehovah's Witnesses go to great lengths to distance themselves from other expressions of Christian faith, and symbols associated with traditional Christianity are described as marks of the beast.
All of them turned out to be part of, or associated with, a satanic sect known as the Beasts of Satan.
He is associated with the island of Chios, from which he is said to have driven the wild beasts.
Cray has always been associated with speed and power and its latest computing beast called the Cray Urika-GX system has been designed specifically for big data workloads.
We used the hierarchical Bayesian model *BEAST, implemented in program BEAST v1.6.1 [ 131], to estimate a species tree from lineages defined in [ 59]. *BEAST estimates the species tree directly from the sequence data, and incorporates the coalescent process, uncertainty associated with gene trees, and nucleotide substitution model parameters [ 131].
