Background Analyzing actigraphy data using standard circadian parametric models and aggregated nonparametric indices may obscure temporal information that be a hallmark of the impairment in psychiatric disorders. Functional analysis (FDA) overcome such limitations by fully exploiting richness revealing important relationships with mental health outcomes. To our knowledge, no studies have extens...

BACKGROUND While health literacy has gained notice on a global stage, the initial focus on seeking associations with medical conditions may have overlooked its impact across generations. Adolescent health literacy, specifically in dentistry, is an underexplored area despite the significance of this formative stage on an individual's approach to healthy lifestyles and behaviors. OBJECTIVE The ...

Task parallelism is ubiquitous in modern applications for event-based, distributed, or reactive systems. In this type of programming, the ability to cancel a running task arises as a critical feature. Although there are a variety of cancellation techniques, a comprehensive account of their characteristics is missing. This paper provides a classification of task cancellation patterns, as well as...

The present study evaluated the effectiveness of an intervention intended to improve academy players’ performance under pressure. Male soccer players (n = 82; mean age 14.12 years, SD 2.28) completed a baseline pressure task producing scores (A) for decision making and skill execution. By completing task, received training (PT) (Wood & Wilson, 2012). Players were then randomly allocated group 4...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to assess stress coping strategies employed by patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) and determine whether these approaches were associated with other psychopathological features. Ineffective stress coping strategies can have a variety of unhealthy consequences fueling psychopathology just as psychopathology can also have an impact ...

OBJECTIVES Psychological well-being predicts favorable cardiovascular outcomes, but less evidence addresses biological mediators underlying these effects. Therefore, associations among well-being and metabolic syndrome (MetSyn) were examined in a national sample. METHODS Survey of Midlife in the US participants (MIDUS; n = 1205) provided survey assessments of hedonic (positive affect, life sa...

BACKGROUND Reducing systolic blood pressure (BP) is of major benefit to patients with isolated systolic hypertension, but lowering normal diastolic BP may be harmful in terms of cardiovascular risk. Effects of different drugs on systolic BP, diastolic BP, and pulse pressure are therefore of interest. METHODS The NatriliX SR versus CandEsartan and amLodipine in the reduction of systoLic blood ...

Viewing a series of aversive pictures prompts emotional reactivity reflecting sustained defensive engagement. The present study examined the effects of a concurrent visual task on autonomic, somatic, electrocortical, and facial components of this defensive state. Results indicated that emotional activation was largely preserved despite continuous visual distraction, although evidence of attenua...

the aim of this study was to compare the effects of three types of balancetraining: single task, dual task under fixed priority instructional set (fp) and dualtask under a variable priority instructional set (vp) on the balance of the elderly.the participants were 36 elderly over 65 years old from kerman province whowere randomly divided into three groups (each 12 subjects) based on burg pretes...