conclusions behaviors are actually adopted and sustained by patients are so far from that recommended by health professionals. this gap could be reduced by identifying behavioral change challenges, rooted in the beliefs of the individual and the family. therefore, culturally-based interventions to enhance disease self-management should be considered. results three sources of behavioral change c...

conclusions supervised in-hospital exercise training was associated with improvements in saecg-measured electrical activity post-mi. results cardiac rehabilitation led to significant improvements in qrs duration (p < 0.001), square root of amplitude in the last 40 ms (p < 0.001) and duration of terminal signal with low amplitude (p < 0.001). cardiac rehabilitation also resulted in amelioration ...

Petroleum hydrocarbons are contaminants of particular significance. With production rates of 13.26 million cubic meters of crude oil per day, their potential as soil and water contaminant is apparent. The most commonly used analytic method for assessing Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons (TPH) in soil samples, is based on extraction with 1,1,2-Trichlorotrifluoroethane (Freon 113) , a substance prohib...

cystic fibrosis (cf) is an inherited disease that affects multiple organ systems. it is the most common cause of severe progressive lung disease and exocrine panceratic insufficiency. in our investigation 67 patients had cf. of these, 79% had panceratic insufficiency and 92% had lung disease under 2 years age. also 67% of patients were < 2 percentile and 28% between 3-10 percentile weight for a...

The root cause of agricultural land degradation and decreasing productivity–as seen in terms of loss of soil health–is our low soil­carbon farming paradigm of intensive tillage which disrupts and debilitates many important soil­mediated ecosystem functions. For the most part agricultural soils in tillage­based farming without organic surface residue protection are becoming de­structured and com...

The Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB; SW of the Iberian Peninsula) is one of the most important volcanogenic massive sulphide ore deposits in the world. Cistus monspeliensis L. is a native woody shrub that grows spontaneously in non-contaminated soils as well as in soils with multielemental contamination from the IPB. In this study, different ecophysiological parameters of C. monspeliensis growing in s...

BACKGROUND Phytoextraction is an environmentally acceptable and inexpensive technique for mine tailing rehabilitation that uses metallophyte plants. These plants reduce the soil trace metal contents to environmentally acceptable levels by accumulating trace metals. Recently, whether more trace metals can be removed by species-rich communities of these plants received great attention, as species...

Soil erosion threatens the sustainable intensification of food systems among smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs). Intensifying adoption soil mitigation rehabilitation measures is thus needed urgently these ASALs, but scaling up depends on scientific evidence their contributions to key components such as organic carbon. However, there no information how existing influence car...