Aim: To determine the efficacy of an Aqua-AeroFit, a Water-Based Exercise program, on cardiorespiratory endurance patients with psychiatric conditions in selected rehabilitation centers. Methods: This study had quasi-experimental design 30 participants assigned to water-based exercise program and land-based program. All were center. The water consisted Aqua jogging for 10 mins, Aqua-Aero Zumba ...

This paper describes the structure of the LAND USE SCANNER model, a GIS based model developed to generate spatial forecasts for various types of land use for a large number of grids. The model basically allocates land according to bid prices for various types of land use. The possibility of government intervention in land use is taken into account among others by adding aggregate constraints. T...

Backgrounds/Aims: Prior to 1969, athletes were advised to avoid drinking during exercise. At least 4 subsequent events led to the adoption of a radically different approach. By 1996, all exercisers were advised to drink ‘as much as tolerable’ in order to insure that they did not lose any weight during exercise – the ‘zero percent dehydration’ doctrine. This advice requires that athletes drink e...

The case study by WENGER and RUSSI [1], of pulmonary oedema occuring during aqua jogging, is interesting. Aqua jogging certainly lowers the burden to joints and tendons as compared with land running. Conversely, running or cycling at sustained intensity may lead to higher burden to lung tissue in water than on ground. In water, the exercising mechanical strain [2] is strengthened by congestion ...

to investigate the effect of vitamin e supplementation on the response of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (icam-1) to exhaustive exercise, 16 active men were selected and divided into supplementation and placebo groups based on vo2max. the subjects in each group completed 65 minutes of exhaustive exercise after14 days of supplementation. blood samples were collected before supplementation and...

We present a new bilateral agent-based land market model, which moves beyond previous work by explicitly modeling behavioral drivers of land-market transactions on both the buyer and seller sides; formation of bid prices (of buyers) and ask prices (of sellers); and the relative division of the gains from trade from the market transactions. We analyze model output using a series of macro-scale e...

*Support for this paper was provided by Cooperative Agreement 43-3AEM-3-80137 between USDA and the University of Illinois. It does not represent the official views of either institution. This draft has benefitted from discussions with Ken Chomitz, Peter Feather, Charles Hallahan, Ralph Heimlich, Laurian Unnevehr, and participants in seminars at IFPRI, the World Bank, Resources for the Future, U...