ABSTRACT BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Massage is described as an effective complementary therapy for relieving muscle tension and pain. The aim of this study was to verify the benefits quick massage on pressure pain tolerance threshold (PPT). METHODS: A randomized clinical in which 40 professors participated were randomly divided into control (CG) experimental (EG) groups. They assessed level sho...

Recent pockets of rural innovation illustrate the mutual benefits that result when rural and remote (rural/remote) health researchers enter into active collaborations with decision-makers and other community-based stakeholders (eg advocacy groups) to address the health needs of rural/remote communities. Ideally, collaborations bring together ‘different perspectives and competencies to produce n...

This article describes health information systems used for children in a variety of settings (eg, clinical care, public health, emergency medicine systems, and schools) and their current ability to exchange information. The potential benefits from linking these systems are considered, as well as the barriers to linkage. In addition, an example of efforts linking information systems together is ...

Learning the structure of dependence relations between variables is a pervasive issue in statistical literature. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) can represent set conditional independencies, but different DAGs may encode same and are indistinguishable using observational data. Equivalent be collected into classes, each represented by partially known as essential (EG). Structure learning directly...

Previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of fractal tones and Widex Zen Therapy (WZT) when used in conjunction with amplification, but there have been no studies on the use of fractal tones alone (eg, without amplification) for tinnitus sufferers who do not require or wish to consider amplification. Results from this study strongly support the use of Zen alone, and of the integrated WZT ...

Final Report: Combustion of High Molecular Weight Hydrocarbon Fuels and JP-8 at Moderate Pressures (Research Area 1: Mechanical Sciences) Report Title The objective of this research is to characterize combustion of high molecular weight hydrocarbon fuels and jet-fuels (in particular JP-8) and surrogates of jet-fuels in laminar non-uniform flows at elevated pressures upto 2.5 MPa. Experimental a...