PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test a multicomponent intervention to prevent and treat osteoporosis in breast cancer survivors. DESIGN Descriptive, correlational. SETTING Midwestern urban and rural sites. SAMPLE 27 postmenopausal breast cancer survivors between the ages of 42-65 who had completed treatment, except for tamoxifen, and were not candidates for hormone replacement therapy. METHODS Bo...

Abstract: The use of computational resources to assess the physiological potential seeds has attracted attention researchers and professionals in seed sector. aim this study was evaluate vigor cowpea using Vigor-S software (Automated Seed Vigor Analysis System), comparison information provided by traditional tests that are recommended for species. Seven lots cultivar BRS Guariba were used. They...

A vigor-structured model for mountain pine beetle outbreak dynamics within a forest stand is proposed and analyzed. This model explicitly tracks the changing vigor structure in the stand. All model parameters, other than beetle vigor preference, were determined by fitting model components to empirical data. An abrupt threshold for tree mortality to beetle densities allows for model simplificati...

The purposes of this study were to examine symptom patterns and diminished general well-being as negative outcomes and vigor and change as positive outcomes of trait and state anger via two structural equation models. In a school auditorium, a convenience sample of 141 boys and girls, ages 12-14 years, responded to the Trait Anger Scale and the State Anger Scale and to instruments measuring gen...

Developmental science is rich with observations of social interactions, but few available methodological and statistical approaches take full advantage of the information provided by these data. The authors propose implementation of the unified structural equation model (uSEM), a network analysis technique, for observational data coded repeatedly across time; uSEM captures the temporal dynamics...

The present study aimed to verify the caprine semen characteristics during dry and rainy seasons in the Brazilian Northeast, and the influence of these seasons on cooled semen. Seminal volume, concentration, percentage of motile cells, vigor and spermatic morphology, as well as biochemical profile (fructose, citric acid, P, Ca 2+ , Mg, total proteins and phospholipase A2 activity) were analyzed...

The aim of this study was to investigate relationships between pre-competition group cohesion, mood, and performance in a soccer team over the course of a season. A male soccer team in England played eight games and data were analyzed on a game-by-game basis. Participants completed the Group Environment Questionnaire (Carron, Brawley, & Widmeyer, 1985) and Brunel Mood Scale to assess Anger, Con...

This study of 62 dyads of employees (N = 124) examined the crossover of work engagement-a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind that is characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. We hypothesized that work engagement crosses over from an employee (the actor) to his or her colleague (the partner) on a daily basis. The frequency of daily communication was expected to moderate t...

Geographic routing is well suited for large scale sensor networks, because its per node state is independent of the network size. However, due to the local minimum caused by holes/obstacles, the path stretch of geographic routing may degrade up to O(c2), where c is the path length of the optimal route. Recently, a geographic routing protocol based on the visibility graph (VIGOR) showed that a c...