Abstract Exercising and eating healthy are not just an individual choice, but influenced by the social environment. Family members, friends or neighbors influence (un)healthy choices individuals make, yet little is known about other important contacts: colleagues. Many people spend at least 8 hours a day work, mostly surrounded same As third of daily calories consumed in workplace lot time spen...

The purpose of this study is to discuss the effect of the intervention of exercise behavior change plan for high school students on study subjects’ social and psychological factors and exercise stages. This research uses the transtheoretical model as the research framework. One experiment group and one control group were used in a quasi-experimental design research. The experimental group accep...

This is the first part of a two-part paper on the design of intelligent controllers for a class of exercise machines. The control objective is to cause the user to exercise in a manner which optimizes a criterion related to the user’s mechanical power. The optimal exercise strategy is determined by a biomechanical behavior of the individual user, which is assumed to satisfy an affine force–velo...

Studies involving physical exercise and individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) were reviewed. Systematic search procedures identified 18 studies meeting predetermined inclusion criteria. These studies were evaluated in terms of: (a) participant characteristics, (b) type of exercise, (c) procedures used to increase exercise, (d) outcomes, and (e) research methodology. Across the corpus...

| This is Part II of a two part paper on the design of an intelligent controller for a class of exercise machines. The control objective is to cause the user to exercise in a manner that optimizes a criterion related to the user's mechanical power. The optimal exercise strategy is determined by an a-priori unknown biomechanical behavior, called the Hill surface, of the individual user. Conseque...

This is the second part of a two-part paper on the design of an intelligent controller for a class of exercise machines. The control objective is to cause the user to exercise in a manner that optimizes a criterion related to the user’s mechanical power. The optimal exercise strategy is determined by an a priori unknown biomechanical behavior, called the Hill surface, of the individual user. Co...

OBJECTIVE A Protection Motivation Theory (PMT) framework was used to examine whether information about the role of exercise in preventing maternal-fetal disease served as a meaningful source of exercise motivation. DESIGN Pregnant women (n = 208) were randomly assigned into one of three conditions: PMT, attention control, and noncontact control. Women in the PMT group read a brochure about th...

It is well documented that executives granted stock options tend to exercise early and in a few large transactions or “blocks”. Standard risk-neutral valuation models cannot explain these patterns, and attempts to capture the exercise behavior of risk averse executives have been limited to the special case of one option. This paper solves for the optimal exercise behavior for a risk averse exec...