BACKGROUND A physically active life promotes both physical and mental health, increasing well-being and quality of life. Physical activity (PA) performed outdoors has been found to be particularly good for promoting well-being. However, participation in PA can change during the course of a lifetime. Parenthood has been found to be a life event associated with decreased PA, especially among wome...

Active rules or triggers are widely accepted as powerful mechanisms to implement applications or systems behaviour. Several rule execution models were proposed as extended functionalities for diierent database systems. However, these models lack in exibility and adaptability to speciic database systems or speciic application requirements. In this paper, we propose a generic framework which prov...

In this paper, probabilistic observers are considered for a class of continuous biological processes described by mass-balance-based models. It is assumed that the probability density functions (PDFs) of the uncertain parameters and inputs of the model, as well as the PDFs of the missing initial conditions are known. Then, the PDFs of the unmeasured state variables are obtained, at any time, by...

In the present paper we compare the effectiveness of two alternative meaning access facilitators in a monolingual learner’s dictionary: a Menu system, placed at the top of a monolingual entry; and a Shortcuts system, where the cues are distributed throughout the entry. We test the two entry formats on 90 Polish learners of English at two CEFR levels, A2 and B1. The task which triggers dictionar...

During the last ve years, the object-oriented data model Chimera has served as a focus of numerous research activities within the European cooperation project IDEA. Chimera particularly emphasizes the use of deductive and active rules during object-oriented modeling. Apart from a full application design methodology based on Chimera, a number of tools supporting the diierent phases of this metho...

background: mobile health is one of the new technologies for the utilization of health information. for its successful implementation as well as any other system, we must primarily measure the adoption and use of its factors. the purpose of this study was to systematically investigate published articles about the factors affecting the adoption of mobile health and categorizing the factors affec...

Dispersal is a complex phenomenon affected by multiple factors. Among the factors that influence dispersal in the common lizard (Lacerta vivipara), poor maternal body condition and stress are known to decrease dispersal propensity of juveniles. But the effect of individual factors on dispersal could change when several of them act concurrently or at different developmental stages. Prenatal fact...

a periodic increase in blood pressure (bp) occurs during apneic episodes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (osa). several factors including hypoxemia and an increase in heart rate (hr) were reported to be responsible for this increased bp. to examine the contribution of these two factors in increasing bp, 35 healthy male subjects (mean age±sd= 23.64±3.80) were studied in three experiment...

swot analysis is used extensively as an assessment and planning method, particularly in tourism planning. however, there are little documentations on application of swot analysis in ecotourism. an assessment on systematic use of swot analysis was carried out in the present study to highlight the applicability of the swot technique in detailed investigations. in this study, based on field survey...