BACKGROUND When examining the prevalence of physical inactivity by gender and age, women over the age of 25 are at an increased risk for sedentary behavior. Childbearing and motherhood have been explored as one possible explanation for this increased risk. Post natal exercise studies to date demonstrate promising physical and psychological outcomes, however few physical activity interventions h...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether progesterone supplementation alters cervical shortening in women at increased risk for preterm birth. METHODS We performed a planned secondary analysis from a large, multinational preterm birth prevention trial of daily intravaginal progesterone gel, 90 mg, compared with placebo in women with a history of spontaneous preterm birth or premature cervical shorteni...

A previous study (Pushkar 2021) showed a significant non-parametric correlation between the Optimize Energy Performance credit from energy and atmosphere category (EAc7) project size in Leadership Environmental Design for New Construction Major Renovations version 4 (LEED-NC v4) office space projects. However, such an empirical analysis, there are at least two problems: choice parametric statis...

BACKGROUND Computerized dynamic posturography (CDP) has been used to detect balance and stability impairments in adults of all ages. The goal of the current pilot study was to evaluate balance in healthy older adults after a middle-of-the-night awakening and to assess the ability of CDP to measure effects of bedtime zolpidem administration. METHODS Two studies used CDP to evaluate balance in ...

A review of the existing literature relative to the symptom of depression in alcoholism indicated that this symptom apparently had not come under direct investigation. Accordingly, 73 consecutively admitted alcoholics were given the Zung scale, a 20-item self-report depression scale, at the beginning and end of a 21-day treatment period. A descriptive analysis of the data indicated that 70% of ...

BACKGROUND Working at old ages is regarded as a good way to keep one's health according to the idea of productive aging. However, there is not enough evidence yet whether retirement is good or bad, or the kind of effects it has on the health of older adults aged 65 and over. We examined it by using a recent data of Wako city, a suburb area near Tokyo in Japan. METHODS One thousand seven hundr...

Using data from a behavioral structural priming experiment, we test two competing theoretical approaches to argument structure, which attribute different configurations to (in)transitive structures. These approaches make different claims about the relationship between unergatives and transitive structures selecting either a DP complement or a small clause complement in structurally unambiguous ...

BACKGROUND Recent research has highlighted the need for increased evidence regarding the sedentary activity levels of preschoolers. Given the large proportion of time this population spends in various early learning facilities, the exploration of sedentary behaviors within this particular environment should be a priority. The purpose of the study was two-fold: (1) to compare sedentary time of p...

BACKGROUND Arab Americans exhibit higher rates of hypertension and other cardiovascular risk factors relative to national averages. While research suggests some minorities may exhibit increased cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to, and slowed recovery from, stress compared to Whites, which may represent a risk factor for hypertension and cardiovascular disease, this has not been studied in Arab A...