Previous studies have demonstrated a negative effect of concurrent walking and talking on gait in Parkinson's disease (PD) but there is limited information about the effect of concurrent walking on speech production. The present study examined the effect of sitting, standing, and three concurrent walking tasks (slow, normal, fast) on conversational speech intensity and speech rate in fifteen in...

OBJECTIVE To give the rationale and evidence for and a detailed description of a rehabilitation programme of proven effectiveness in improving balance in older adults. BACKGROUND THEORY AND EVIDENCE Based on the knowledge that balance loss usually occurs in situations when attention is divided, especially when being older, and that balance control relies on the interaction of several physiolo...

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...

the object of this study was evaluation of a walking tractor drawn peanut harvester at different conditions of soil moisture content and forward speed and comparing it with manual harvesting. the evaluation factors for peanut harvester were two levels of soil moisture content and three levels of forward speed. the results revealed that the effect of soil moisture content was only significant on...

background: osteoporosis is the most common metabolic bone disease in postmenopausal women. it seems necessary to determine the factors affecting the adoption of preventive behaviors of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women using the patterns that identify the factors influencing behavior. objectives: to investigate preventive behaviors of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women in fasa, fars provi...

background: osteoporosis is one of the most common metabolic bone diseases. the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of a prevention program based on health belief model on osteoporosis among women. methods: in this quasi-case study, 120 patients (60 cases and 60 control), registered under the health centers in fasa city, fars province, iran were selected in 2014. a questionnaire...

this paper employs nonlinear disturbance observer (ndo) for robust trajectory-free nonlinear model predictive control (nmpc) of biped robots. the ndo is used to reject the additive disturbances caused by parameter uncertainties, unmodeled dynamics, joints friction, and external slow-varying forces acting on the biped robots. in contrary to the slow-varying disturbances, handling sudden pushing ...

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...