The purpose of this study was to use the Eccles’ expectancy-value model of choice as a framework to examine university students’ expectancy beliefs and task values in exergaming systems compared to those in physical education activities. Two hundred and thirty two first-year undergraduate students at the Democritus University of Thrace completed questionnaires assessing their expectancy-related...

Observations of tsunamis away from shore are critically important for improving early warning systems and understanding of tsunami generation and propagation. Tsunamis are difficult to detect and measure in the open ocean because the wave amplitude there is much smaller than it is close to shore. Currently, tsunami observations in deep water rely on measurements of variations in the sea surface...

Introduction: Adolescence is marked as a critical period of human life because the rapid physical and sexual growth. Technological advances in recent decades have increased interaction adolescents with screen-based technologies. The unhealthiest diets all age groups, most do not meet national guidelines for activity. Objectives: To assess activity, dietary pattern screen time among urban to fin...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) improves quality of life (QoL) in several cancer survivor groups, but no study to date has focused on kidney cancer survivors (KCS). The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence of PA in KCS and determine any associations with QoL. METHODS All 1,985 KCS diagnosed between 1996 and 2010 identified through a Canadian provincial Registry were mailed a...

BACKGROUND Patients with renal transplant are at higher risk of mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD) compared with the general population. Physical activity has been shown to reduce the risk of CVD mortality in these patients. Unfortunately, barriers such as the harsh Canadian climate prevent patients from engaging in and harvesting the health benefits of physical activity. This pilot st...

The mammary gland is a system in which the components of the blood stream which are used by body tissues for protein synthesis can be readily investigated (Barry, 1956). Previous work has shown that the mammary gland takes the free essential amino acids from the blood stream to provide the essential amino acids of casein (Barry, 1952; Campbell & Work, 1952; Askonas, Campbell, Godin & Work, 1955...

Recent algorithms for processing hydrographic data have treated the problem of achievable resolution by constructing grids of fixed resolution, a composite grid of variable resolution, recursive sub-division in a quad-tree, or by relying on a comprehensive TIN of the original points. These algorithms all impose some artificial structure on the data to allow for efficient computation, however, w...