Background & Aims: This study was performed to compare the effects of open and closed chain terminal knee extension exercises on onset latency of vastus medialis obliques (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL), pain and function in subjects diagnosed with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Methods: In a pretest and posttest 5-week intervention study, 26 subjects diagnosed with PFPS and 13 healthy su...

the arya and paris model is a commonly accepted method to translate a particle-size distribution curve into a corresponding soil moisture characteristic curve using scaling parameter (α). the scaling parameter, in the original model of arya and paris (1981), was assumed constant (α=1.38) for all soil texture classes. in recent years, several studies have shown that α is not constant and its qua...

BACKGROUND Nutrition education is not an integral part of either undergraduate or postgraduate medical education. Computer-based instruction on nutrition might be an attractive and appropriate tool to fill this gap. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to assess the degree to which computer-based instruction on nutrition improves factual knowledge and practice behavior of general practitioner (G...

We often encounter pairs of variables in the world whose mutual relationship can be described by a function. After training, human responses closely correspond to these functional relationships. Here we study how humans predict unobserved segments of a function that they have been trained on and we compare how human predictions differ to those made by various function-learning models in the lit...

introduction: concerning about increasing prevalence of overweight rises from some evidence that shows excess weight has an adverse effect on health and longevity. overweight and obesity-related disease, including high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, measles swing, stroke, osteoarthritis, respiratory disease, certain types of cancer, and mood disorder. met...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of the implementation of a patient and family education programme for pressure ulcer prevention in an organisation for home care nursing on guideline adherence and on prevalence and severity of pressure ulcers and to examine the determining factors for the application of measures for pressure ulcer prevention. BACKGROUND Quality improvement progra...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost and health outcomes associated with a new HIV testing strategy that utilizes routine-based clinical reminders. METHODS We conducted an economic analysis of 1) traditional pretest/post-test counseling; 2) counseling and a new clinical reminders system; and 3) only clinical reminder in the veterans' health care system. A payer-perspective decision model was conduc...