In this paper, we address the issue how a computing system can coach people in doing progressive muscle relaxation exercises. Such a system could help many people in dealing with their stress-related problems like poor sleep. We develop a formal model of progressive muscle relaxation, provide examples of typical instantiations of the model and identify how different coaching activities have the...

We previously reported that canine collateral-dependent coronary arteries exhibit impaired relaxation to adenosine but not sodium nitroprusside. In contrast, exercise training enhances adenosine sensitivity of normal porcine coronary arteries. These results stimulated the hypothesis that chronic coronary occlusion and exercise training produce differential effects on cAMP- versus cGMP-mediated ...

Students are in such a competitive busy world that they have to struggle with lot of stressors in their daily life. This may affect their achievement in schools and future life and also lead to psychosomatic illness. So the present study focused on the importance and effectiveness of giving progressive muscle relaxation for students to reduce their academic stress. The result of the study revea...

The aim of this study was to analyze the influence of a biofeedback relaxation training program on anxiety and academic performance. The program consisted of five biofeedback sessions coupled with three training activities focused on deep breathing, guided imagery, and muscle relaxation. The participants were second-year psychology undergraduates from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/E...

The present study aimed at comparing the efficacy of two relaxation techniques on stressed females.30 highly stressed female subjects were selected and randomly assigned to three groups (N=10 each) (a) group 1 receiving galvanic skin resistance biofeedback, (b) group 2 receiving progressive muscle relaxation training, (c) group 3 control. The stress level was determined using Comprehensive Anxi...

Two sessions of relaxation instructions were administered under high and low expectancy conditions. Fifty-four college students scoring high on a self-report measure of anxiety served as subjects. Live and taped abbreviated progressive muscle relaxation instructions and a self-relaxation condition were equally effective in reducing within-session self-report and physiological indices of anxiety...

Despite recent improvements in training methodology, discrete latent variable models have failed to achieve the performance and popularity of their continuous counterparts. Here, we evaluate several approaches to training large-scale image models on CIFAR-10 using a probabilistic variant of the recently proposed Vector Quantized VAE architecture. We find that biased estimators such as continuou...

Heaps, Cristine L., Michael Sturek, Julie A. Rapps, M. Harold Laughlin, and Janet L. Parker. Exercise training restores adenosine-induced relaxation in coronary arteries distal to chronic occlusion. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 278: H1984–H1992, 2000.—We previously reported that canine collateral-dependent coronary arteries exhibit impaired relaxation to adenosine but not sodium nitroprussid...

PURPOSE This study was designed to compare the effects of two different relaxation techniques, namely progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) and autogenic relaxation (AGR) on moods of young soccer players. METHODS sixteen adolescent athletes (mean age: 14.1 ± 1.3) received either PMR or AGR training. Using Profile of Mood States- Adolescents, their mood states were measured one week before relax...