BACKGROUND Many children do not meet current UK physical activity (PA) guidelines. Girls are less active than boys throughout childhood, and the age-related decline in PA, particularly from early adolescence, is steeper for girls than for boys. Dance is the favourite form of PA among UK secondary school aged girls. Delivering dance sessions after school could make a significant contribution to ...

In this paper dance is used as an application area, as well as a metaphor for studying how to build digital multimedia libraries that comprise moving images accompanied by sound and other media. The use of protocol analysis is suggested as a knowledge acquisition method for eliciting verbal descriptions of dance. Such descriptions may be used to annotate dance videos to facilitate their storage...

In this paper, we provide a method to generate a perceptually appropriate dance motion for an input music sound track. Our solution extracts musical features from input music and searches for a sequence of perceptually correlated motion segments from a dance motion database. We suggest a set of mapping criteria as well as motion features which are necessary to perform the mapping from music to ...

This investigation is focused on using of Mon dance in Pathum Thani Province’s tradition and has the following objectives: 1) to study the background of Mon dance in Pathum Thani Province; 2) to study Mon dance in Pathum Thani Province; and 3) to study of using Mon dance in Pathum Thani province’s tradition. This qualitative research was conducted in Pathum Thani province (in the central of Tha...

Ten competitive ballroom dance couples performed simulated competitive sequences of Modern and Latin American dance. Heart rate was telemetered during the dance sequences and related to direct measures of oxygen uptake and heart rate obtained while walking on a treadmill. Linear regression was employed to estimate gross and net energy expenditures of the dance sequences. A multivariate analysis...

BACKGROUND We conducted a large-scale transcriptomic profiling of selected regions of the central nervous system (CNS) across three species of honey bees, in foragers that were performing dance behavior to communicate to their nestmates the location, direction and profitability of an attractive floral resource. We used microarrays to measure gene expression in bees from Apis mellifera, dorsata ...

BACKGROUND Many adolescent girls do not engage in sufficient physical activity (PA). This study examined the feasibility of conducting a cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate an after-school dance program to increase PA among 11-12 year old girls in Bristol, UK. METHODS Three-arm, cluster RCT. Three secondary schools were assigned to intervention arm. Intervention participants...

Research indicates that how potential new hires feel they are treated during the recruitment process can have a profound impact on their attitudes toward the recruiting organization (Rynes, Heneman, & Schwab, 1980) and that negative, rather than positive, experiences in recruitment are more likely to affect those applicants (Rynes, Bretz, & Gerhart, 1991). Much recruitment research investigates...

In his 1950 book Bees: Their Vison, Chemical Senses, and Language, Karl von Frisch recounts his decades of research into how honey bees perceive the world, concluding “The bee’s life is like a magic well: the more you draw from it, the more it fills with water.” (von Frisch, 1950). Sixty-five years on, science continues to draw from that magical well, and we have learned a tremendous amount abo...