Because the effects of religion or religiosity on physical activity (PA) and sedentary activity (SA) are unknown, weekend accrual of PA and SA was measured among Jewish adolescents (N = 437) attending religious day schools in two large cities in the western United States. Participants completed the Self-Administered Physical Activity Checklist and demographic and religious questionnaire items. ...

Sharma and Rajapurkar (~) while studying the actions of adrenergic neurone blocking drugs on intestinal peristalsis observed that bretyliurn and xylocholine in bigger doses produced a stimulant response on the longitudinal moveme-nts of guinea pig ileum where as guanethidine had no stimulant action (unreported observations). Those observations are in consonance witb tbe observations of Boura an...

The availability of probability or possibility measures for random set (Dempster-Shafer evidence theoretical) structures are highly desirable. Probabilistic conditions involve disjointness or specificity, while possibilistic conditions involve consonance of the underlying focal elements. Consistency results in possibilistic distributions, but not measures, but then a unique approximation is ava...

The article offers some theoretical and historical reflections on the concept of gender as it relates to the notion of assistance. Explores the political dimensions of both concepts and problematizes the dichotomy between the gender-marked realms of the political and the pre-political, a dichotomy that has greatly influenced modern political theory and thought. It examines the modern state's ca...

The present study aims to examine the relationship between cognitive factors and mathematical achievement in primary education. Participants were 103 Portuguese third grade students, aged 8 and 9. All participants completed a battery for working memory (WMTB-C), a test of general intelligence (Raven's Progressive Color Matrices), a selective attention test (d2), and mathematical exercises (arit...

Perceptual knowledge provides a tool for making sound synthesis more efficient. Also for the parametric representations of sound, it is necessary to understand the perception of individual features. This paper reports four listening experiments exploring the perception of vibrato, aiming at guidelines for the control of vibrato parameters in string instrument synthesis. The results suggest that...

Electron degeneracy effects are dominant in ultra-dense plasmas (UDP), such as those found in white dwarfs. These effects can be treated systematically by obtaining an expansion of the screening length in inverse powers of ~. The theory exhibits Thomas-Fermi-like screening in an appropriate regime. In general, our theory leads to an O(1) effect on the enhancement of fusion rates in white dwarfs...

Gingival recession is commonly associated with plaque‐induced inflammation and calculus. A high frenal attachment is more important in gingival recession in the child‐patient. A healthy child‐patient with impeccable oral hygiene presented with localized gingival recession without plaque‐induced inflammation which led to the exploration of other possible etiologies. Multiple factors appeared to ...

Gingival recession is commonly associated with plaque-induced inflammation and calculus. A high frenal attachment is more important in gingival recession in the child-patient. A healthy child-patient with impeccable oral hygiene presented with localized gingival recession without plaque-induced inflammation which led to the exploration of other possible etiologies. Multiple factors appeared to ...

Lupus vulgaris is a variant of cutaneous tuberculosis. Its more destructive and mutilating clinical forms have become rarer in consonance of a general decline of cutaneous tuberculosis. It is rarely seen now in developed countries due to stringent control measures, improved quality of living and effective therapeutic regimens. Misdiagnosis, neglect, or late diagnosis may result in severe, ulcer...