OBJECTIVES Fatigue is typically associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), but recent studies suggest that it is also a problem for patients with stroke. While a direct comparison of fatigue in, e.g., Stroke and MS is desirable, it is presently not easily possible because of different definitions and assessment tools used for the two conditions. In the present study, we therefore assessed fatigue...

BACKGROUND No reports have been published about age-related sperm malformations in varicocele patients. AIM To investigate the distribution of abnormal sperm characteristics in adolescents, adults and older men with varicocele. SETTING AND DESIGN Records of semen analysis of 143 men aged 14 to 53 years who had evident left-sided varicocele detected by physical examination and confirmed by d...

Understory shrubs are frequently attacked by insect herbivores. However, very little is known regarding possible interactions between light condition, defoliation (D) and fine root vitality (% live roots) and metabolic activity, and whether different plant strategies (compensation, trade-off and equilibrium) to defoliation depend on individual species light requirements. To explore the response...

BACKGROUND A major contributor of early exit from work is a decline in health with increasing age. As healthy lifestyle choices contribute to better health outcomes, an intervention aimed at an improved lifestyle is considered a potentially effective tool to keep older workers healthy and vital, and thereby to prolong labour participation. METHODS Using the Intervention Mapping (IM) protocol,...

OBJECTIVE Evaluation of the effectiveness of a workplace health promotion program on employees' vitality, health, and work-related outcomes, and exploring the influence of organizational support and the supervisors' role on these outcomes. METHODS The 5-month intervention included activities at management, team, and individual level targeting self-management to perform healthy behaviors: a ki...

In remote sensor system, sensor hubs have the restricted battery power, so to use the vitality in a more productive manner a few creator's created a few strategies, yet at the same time there is have to decrease the vitality utilization of hubs. In this paper, we presented another method called as 'Partition and Rule strategy' to unravel the scope dividing so as to open the system field into su...

MANY OF those who share an interest in the life sciences today, perhaps most, would agree with the claim that vitalism is obsolete. Some prominent biologists now use ‘vitalism’ as a derogatory label associated with lack of intellectual rigour, anti-scientific attitudes, and superstition (see, e.g., Dawkins, 1988). Other scientific commentators treat the term more seriously, but equally arrive a...

this survey is conducted with the purpose of studying factors effective in vitality of residential complexes. this is an important subject because through recognition of the reciprocal relation between human being and environment -as far as vitality is concerned- various attitudes and approaches can be recognized and on the other hand, for the purpose of explaining the concept of vitality in th...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to determine the effect of group exercise frequency on health related quality of life in institutionalized elderly. METHODS One hundred participants were recruited for voluntary participation from five aged care facilities, with inclusion being based on the outcome of a medical assessment by a sports physician. A quasi-experimental design was used to compare the e...