BACKGROUND This mixed-methods study investigated personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors salient to decisions about being active in neighborhoods of different levels of deprivation. METHODS Twenty-five participants age 70 years and older (10 women) with diverse physical activity levels provided data on their weekly activity patterns (using accelerometry) and their perceived barrier...

People with disability are insufficiently physically active for health. This study identified the volume, quality, and findings of research that exposes environmental and personal barriers of physical activity participation for people with neurological conditions. CINAHL, Sport Discus, EMBASE, Medline, and AMED were systematically searched between 1999 and week one 2010 for peer reviewed studie...

This In recent years nearly all companies, agents and organisations use data warehousing systems in order to imprint their clients transactions. Consequently central repositories are build for all significant parts of data that the various business systems collect. Data from a wide range of online transaction processing applications and other sources are selectively extracted and organized on t...

Knowledge is more than the retrieval of sets of information: it is the task of explaining them and contextualizing them and empowering the information to change the face or workings of a corporation. Placed in this sophisticated role, 20th century project managers now find themselves revolutionizing the concept of what information and information management means to themselves and their corpora...

OBJECTIVE Physicians' personal health habits are associated with their counseling habits regarding physical activity. We sought to examine physicians' own barriers to a healthy lifestyle by level of training and gender. METHODS Physicians at a major teaching hospital were surveyed regarding their lifestyle habits and barriers to healthy habits. The frequency of reported barriers was examined ...

Objective: To quantitatively and qualitatively describe specific barriers encountered by Maternal-Fetal Medicine (MFM) subspecialists to providing second-trimester termination by dilation and evacuation (D&E) using a mixed methods approach. Methods: We surveyed all members of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and all faculty and fellows associated with MFM fellowships regarding practice ...

In the future world of ubiquitous computing, wireless devices will be everywhere. Personal area networks (PANs) will enable communications between devices both embedded in the environment and mobile on vehicles and persons. This research determines the future prospects of PANs by examining criteria that will lead to success and barriers to implementation. An initial set of issues in each of the...

Data analysis, in research settings as well as in other settings, is often conducted at a personal scale where a single analyst is responsible for cleaning, transforming, and generally preparing one or more datasets. These datasets are then analyzed, perhaps using a statistical software package or other tool. Although there are many benefits that can accrue from sharing and reusing the intermed...

The impact of interventions to increase physical activity (PA) may vary as a function of participants' barriers to PA. The aim of this paper is to determine whether individual barriers (demographic, physical health, psychological health, neighborhood factors, perceived barriers to PA, social support for PA) moderate treatment effects on increases in PA. Three treatment conditions tested the rel...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this qualitative descriptive study was to explore the perceptions of women living in inner-city Winnipeg, Canada, about barriers, facilitators, and motivators related to their use of prenatal care. METHODS Individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted in person with 26 pregnant or postpartum women living in inner-city neighborhoods with high rates of inadequ...