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Objectives: To examine quantity of exercise and motives for exercise as predictors of men in the military’s health and fitness level. Design: Participants completed a survey to address research questions of interest. Methods: One-hundred and fourteen men who were active duty Air Force members, with a mean age of 31.43 years (SD 1⁄4 7.43) and an average military time in service of 10.66 years (S...

US EPA has included sub-indices of 8-hour average O3 concentration and 24-hour average PM2.5 level into a newly-modified Air Quality Index (AQI). Calculations at air-quality monitoring stations in Taiwan show that the updated AQI system is associated with two to three times higher occurring frequency of days with AQI larger than 100 than that of the widely used Pollution Standard Index (PSI) la...

.............................................................................................................. 113 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 113 Study area, material and methods ........................................................................... 114 Results ........................................