PURPOSE To examine associations among individual, social, and environmental barriers and children's walking or cycling to school. DESIGN Exploratory cross-sectional study. SETTING All eight capital cities in Australia. SUBJECTS. Parents (N=720) of school-aged children (4-13 years; 27% response rate; 49% parents of boys). MEASURES Multivariate-adjusted odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence i...

Several experiences in international environmental cooperation and assistance are examined to understand how communication across differing traditions, legal systems, cultures, history, and language has impacted joint efforts to develop stronger environmental regimes. The article concludes that efforts to build more effective environmental protection regimes in support of both domestic and inte...

To improve the nutritional status of children and adolescents, it is critical to identify the barriers to the implementation of nutrition education in schools. We carried out a cross-sectional study by analyzing data from 121 subjects (45 nutrition teachers and 76 school dietitians). Among the personal, environmental and systematic barriers, the top four barriers to the implementation of nutrit...

BACKGROUND Physical activity in the elderly is influenced by aspects of aging that cause personal, mental, environmental, and social changes. Increases in factors that are barriers to activity cause physical energy expenditure to decrease. OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to survey the relationship between energy expenditure in metabolic equivalent units (MET) and factors that are ...

DESIGN Qualitative study. GPs were interviewed after analysing two audiotaped cardiovascular consultations. SETTING Primary health care. SUBJECTS A sample of 15 GPs who audiotaped 22 consultations. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Barriers hampering GPs from following the guideline. RESULTS Data saturation was reached after about 13 interviews. The 25 identified barriers were related to the risk t...

Genomic imprinting is an epigenetic phenomenon causing parent-of-origin specific differential expression of maternally and paternally inherited alleles. While many imprinted genes have been identified in plants, the functional roles of most of them are unknown. In this study, we systematically examine the functional requirement of paternally expressed imprinted genes (PEGs) during seed developm...

bioactive products from snail slime of “helix” specie have potential applications in preventing and/or treating several human diseases and in cancer diagnosis. however, the poor pharmacokinetics characteristics of these natural compounds limit their use. nanotechnology offers promising solutions for the enhanced formulation of these molecules through the synthesis of nanosized drug delivery sys...

OBJECTIVE Describe the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of U.S. obstetricians on the topic of prenatal environmental exposures. STUDY DESIGN A national online survey of American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) fellows and 3 focus groups of obstetricians. RESULTS We received 2,514 eligible survey responses, for a response rate of 14%. The majority (78%) of obstetricians a...