this study examined the relationship between physical fitness and self–esteem in non – physical education students. 109 female and 225 male students who took general physical education course (1). the students completed cooper – smith questionnaire and their scores of general physical education course. the mean score of physical fitness for male students was 17.4 and for female students 19.1. t...

in this paper, a new alternative method for order reduction of high order systems is presented based on optimization of multi objective fitness function by using harmony search algorithm. at first, step response of full order system is obtained as a vector, then, a suitable fixed structure considered for model order reduction which order of original system is bigger than fixed structure model. ...

In male baboons, social instability is known to increase concentrations of glucocorticoids (GCs), a class of steroid hormones associated with the vertebrate stress response. The stress response may be particularly marked among male chacma baboons, whose social groups often demonstrate a strong mating skew and high rates of infanticide. Here we test this prediction and explore additional correla...

People from all over the world tend to travel to KSA for seeking better jobs in a variety of fields i.e. skilled and unskilled. As per requirement of Saudi Government, all the employees must get themselves screened for HIV; HCV and HBV from the Medical Centers registered with Saudi Consulates in their respective countries prior to endorsement of visa for entering the kingdom. Once these potenti...

This paper describes an approach to using GP for image analysis based on the idea that image enhancement, feature detection and image segmentation can be re-framed as filtering problems. GP can discover efficient optimal filters which solve such problems but in order to make the search feasible and effective, terminal sets, function sets and fitness functions have to meet some requirements. We ...

Background International resuscitation guidelines emphasize performance of high quality chest compressions. In out-ofhospital cardiac arrest Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) play an important role in delivering chest compressions. Delivery of chest compressions is physically demanding and the quality of chest compressions is related to the fitness of the rescuer. Physical fitness may decreas...

Occupational health promotion is an effective tool to improve the state of health of employees. As part of occupational health promotion in the German Bundeswehr, top-ranking military executives are offered a medical examination and training programme. Health-related data is collected as a basis for training and lifestyle counselling. This data was subjected to a retrospective evaluation in ord...

A 20-year-old, healthy man, who four years earlier had lost a kidney in a skiing accident, applied for a medical fitness certificate for service on board German flag vessels. Under reference to national and international regulations he was initially turned down, but attained permission to sail on appeal. We discuss the justification of denying persons with a single, well-functioning kidney the ...

Medical examination for physical nuiesa for the public service, the army, the navy, the air force and the industry has become a specialists study. Standards have been laid down for recruitment from time to time based on the experience gained. The army, the navy and the air force necessarily have very high standards of physical fitness. In routine examination for physical fitness, the height, we...

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