INTRODUCTION This study objectively evaluates the effectiveness of a 6-week Preparatory Training Phase (PTP) programme prior to Basic Military Training (BMT) for less physically conditioned conscripts in the Singapore Armed Forces. MATERIALS AND METHODS We compared exercise test results of a group of less fi t recruits who underwent a 16-week modified-BMT (mBMT) programme (consisting of a 6-w...

Myxoma virus (MYXV)-encoded protein M029 is a member of the poxvirus E3 family of dsRNA-binding proteins that antagonize the cellular interferon signaling pathways. In order to investigate additional functions of M029, we have constructed a series of targeted M029-minus (vMyx-M029KO and vMyx-M029ID) and V5-tagged M029 MYXV. We found that M029 plays a pivotal role in determining the cellular tro...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term cardiac effects of depression and anxiety assessed at a young age, when reverse causation is not feasible. BACKGROUND Most prospective studies found a relatively strong association between depression and subsequent coronary heart disease (CHD). However, almost exclusively, only middle-age or older participants were examined...

The purpose was (a) to study the effect of an 8-week Finnish military basic training period (BT) on physical fitness, body composition, mood state, and serum biochemical parameters among new conscripts; (b) to determine the incidence of overreaching (OR); and (c) to evaluate whether initial levels or training responses differ between OR and noOR subjects. Fifty-seven males (19.7 ± 0.3 years) we...

The Finnish military chaplains’ work focuses on supporting the conscripts’ ethical functioning ability as well overall wellbeing of people in Defence Forces. This article gives chaplains an opportunity to tell their own words what kind issues relate perceptions working a successful religious professional this unique context. research was carried out with multi-method data, that includes electro...

There is a dilemma at the heart of history eighteenth-century married women. Their ‘story’ so closely bound up with considerations gendered authority that, until recently, this has been primary, sometimes only, frame for analysis. It true that patriarchy conscripts and uses women to enable some men reach their full potential privileges. In doing, it simultaneously makes integral functioning soc...

OBJECTIVE Asthma diagnoses recorded in the Danish National Registry of Patients (DNRP) are a misclassified measure of the actual asthma status. We quantified this misclassification and examined its impact on the results of an epidemiologic study on asthma. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING We validated the DNRP asthma diagnoses against records of asthma diagnosed at medical examinations conducted duri...