background : breast cancer is the first-rank malignancy in women. although surgery is the most common method of treatment, patients experience many threats both from the cancer and from the surgery itself. exercises such as walking can improve body mass index, attitudes and life quality of patients. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of walking on physical aspect of qualit...

Huntington's disease (HD) is a congenital, progressive, neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cognitive, motor, and psychological disorders. Clinical diagnosis of HD relies on the manifestation of movement abnormalities. In this study, we introduce a mathematical method for HD detection using step spacing. We used 16 walking signals as control and 20 walking signals as HD. We took a s...

OBJECTIVE To determine if the metabolic cost of the incremental shuttle-walking test protocol is the same as treadmill walking or predicted values of walking-speed equations. SETTING Primary care (community-based cardiac rehabilitation). PARTICIPANTS Eight Caucasian cardiac rehabilitation patients (7 males) with a mean age of 67±5.2 years. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES Oxygen con...

aim: investigating factors affecting the adoption of preventive behaviors in women with osteoporosis is necessary. this study aims at determining the preventive treatment of osteoporosis in women in fasa using the health belief model (hbm) during 2014. method: in this cross-sectional study, 401 women (aged 30-50 years) covered by the health centers in fasa city were randomly chosen. construct o...

the purpose of this study is to describe the histological and histochemical features of digestive tract intwo aquarium fishes with different types of feeding habits which are omnivorous (walking catfish) andcarnivorous (piranha), respectively. five adult walking catfish (l: 26.4 ± 3.4 cm, w: 265 ± 55 g) and fiveadult piranha (l: 23.6 ± 4.5 cm, w: 247 ± 50 g) were used for this study. the fishes...

Although gait-related dual-task interference in aging is well established, the effect of gait and cognitive task difficulty on dual-task interference is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of gait and cognitive task difficulty on cognitive-motor interference in aging. Fifteen older adults (72.1 years, SD 5.2) and 20 young adults (21.7 years, SD 1.6) performed ...

The paper discusses results of experiments carried out at healthy individuals with an aim to establish an in-house developed sensor mechanism using ADXL 330 accelerometer. The sensor was developed in view to measure gait phases (heel strike & toe off), gait duration and gait speed. These findings were useful in understanding the range of normal gait though accelerometer and further used for con...

Recent data have shown differences between Spain and the United States in the prevalence of reported disability among community elderly. Differences in reporting functional capacity by culture may contribute to these observed differences. The purpose of this study was to estimate the agreement between self-report of disability and performance-based measures for some basic mobility tasks in the ...

AIMS To identify the relevance and impact of walking speed (WS) over a short distance on activities of daily living (ADLs) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). METHODS An internet-administered survey of MS patients in four countries was distributed to 605 individuals in 2010. Participants had MS for > 5 years and must have reported difficulty walking as a result of MS. The impact of MS o...

Settlement inhibition of barnacle (Amphibalanus amphitrite) cypris larvae resulting from exposure to ultrasound was measured at three frequencies (23, 63, and 102 kHz), applied at three acoustic pressure levels (9, 15, and 22 kPa) for exposure times of 30, 150, and 300 s. The lowest settlement was observed for 23 kHz, which also induced the highest cyprid mortality. Cyprid settlement following ...