of Thesis Presented to the Graduate School of the University of Florida in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of the Degree of Master of Science. ANALYSIS OF KNEE MECHANICS DURING THE SQUAT EXERCISE: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FEMALES AND MALES By Francis Arlington Forde May 2005 Chairman: John Chow Major Department: Applied Physiology and Kinesiology The purpose of this study was to analyze the ...

BACKGROUND The complex mechanism of nicotine dependency makes it challenging to evaluate dependence or progress towards dependence. The aim of this study was to estimate nicotine dependence levels and identify determinants of dependence among Chinese rural-urban migrants. METHODS Multi-stage systematic sampling was used to select 4,198 rural-urban migrants aged 18 years or older from three me...

A corpus of 750 product reviews extracted from Amazon.com was analyzed for specific lexical, grammatical, and semantic features to identify differences between satirical and non-satirical Amazon.com product reviews through a statistical analysis. The corpus contained 375 reviews identified as satirical and 375 as non-satirical (750 total). Fourteen different linguistic indices were used to meas...

BACKGROUND Around the world, beans and rice are commonly consumed together as a meal. With type 2 diabetes increasing, the effect of this traditional diet pattern on glycemic response has not been studied fully. METHODS We evaluated the glycemic response of bean and rice traditional meals compared to rice alone in adults with type 2 diabetes. Seventeen men and women with type 2 diabetes contr...

This study aims to analyze the radec learning model for scientific literacy and outcomes. The type of research used in this is Quantitative (quasi experiment). subjects were students class V with a total 70 consisting two classes (VA VB). instruments form instruments, namely tests, questionnaires, observation documentation. Data analysis techniques carried out, descriptive tests (mean, median, ...

This research is motivated by problems in different villages, development and society welfare are based on the distribution of village funds. makes governments dependent central government funding. study intends to determine (1) effect Village Fund Allocation with development. (2) influence between society. (3) Development welfare. In this approach used quantitative, while survey method study. ...

BACKGROUND Low back pain is one of the most frequent work related injuries in all occupations. Back school programs are therapeutic interventions directed towards treatment, prevention and rehabilitation of backaches. The purpose of this study was to (1) evaluate the test-retest reliability of the modified version of the Body Mechanics Evaluation Checklist (BMEC) and (2) examine the effectivene...

Regardless of its form, the coingestion of cocaine (COC) and ethanol is still a very important problem in drug abuse. The formation of the transesterification byproduct, cocaethylene (CE), which has lower LD50 has led to the idea that the combination of the two drugs is more toxic (lethal) than just cocaine individual response and that smaller concentrations of the drug concentration should be ...

The influential papers on the effect of credit constraints on growth and international trade (Rajan and Zingales, 1998; Manova, 2013) tend to assume that asset tangibility and the share of external borrowing are exogenous industry characteristics, which are timeand country-invariant. In the finance literature, however, the share of external borrowing is viewed as endogenous and dependent on the...

The purpose of the study is to examine healthy eating habits of the population of Serbia through three dimensions: knowledge, problems, and feelings as well as to determine whether there are any differences between genders and among different age-groups. The research instrument was an Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ) which consisted of 35 items. There were 382 respondents involved in the study...