Unlike facial expressions of emotion, the effect of static and dynamic facial information on the perception of physical exertion have not been discussed in much depth. The purpose of this study is to examine whether the observer could perceive exertion by others based only on static or dynamic facial expression. And to examine which conditions (static and dynamic exertion face) could be better ...

Exertion is gaining currency in digital game design. Exertion games promise increased athletic performance and hence health benefits. They also offer enhanced engagement due to the coupling of physical engagement with digital gameplay. Addressing these converging perspectives is one of the challenges currently faced by researchers. To illustrate the implications for game user research and provo...

a 29-year-old woman was referred to our hospital due to exacerbation in dyspnea on exertion and easy fatigability. a known case of congenitally corrected transposition of the great vessels and congenital complete heart block, she had already received a permanent single-chamber pacemaker. decision was made to implant a biventricular pacemaker for the treatment of the failing heart. excellent cor...

CONTEXT Exertion has been reported to acutely increase the risk of sudden coronary death, but the underlying mechanisms are unclear. OBJECTIVE To determine the frequency of plaque rupture in sudden deaths related to exertion compared with sudden deaths not related to exertion. DESIGN Autopsy survey. Coronary arteries were perfusion fixed and segments with more than 50% luminal narrowing wer...

BIGEMINY or coupling of beats may involve the atria alone, the ventricles, or both. There are many causes for coupling, the commonest and most important being extrasystoles.1 In extrasystolic bigeminy, there is a premature contraction after each normal beat. The premature beat may orig-immate from the sinoatrial node, the atrium, the atrioventricular node, the atrioventricular bundle, or the ve...

The stigma exertion rate is a polygenic inherited trait that is important for increased seed yield in hybrid rice breeding. To identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) associated with high stigma exertion rate, we conducted QTL mapping using 134 recombinant inbred lines derived from XieqingzaoB and Zhonghui9308, which have high and low stigma exertion rates, respectively. A total of eight QTLs (q...

BACKGROUND Dyspnea or perceived exertion during exercise is most commonly measured using Borg or visual analog scales, created for use in adults. In contrast, pictorial scales have been promoted for children due to skepticism concerning applicability of the said scales in pediatrics. We sought to validate our newly created, pictorial Dalhousie Dyspnea and Perceived Exertion Scales in adult popu...