Pedometers are used in many studies because physical activities can be simply assessed using them. In addition to the spring-levered type, piezo-electric pedometers have recently been used. However, their accuracy in children has not been investigated in previous studies. In this study, we investigated the accuracy of spring-levered pedometer and piezo-electric pedometer step counts in comparis...

Obesity has been related to postural instability during static standing. It remains unknown how obesity influences stability during dynamic movements like gait. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the effects of obesity on dynamic gait stability control in young adults during gait. Forty-four young adults (21 normal-weight and 23 obese) participated in this study. Participants walk...

Walking speed was timed for male and female pedestrians on a public sidewalk with fast, slow, or no music playing in the background (n = 20 per condition). Pedestrians in the fast music condition walked more rapidly than those in the other two conditions. Slow music did not reduce walking speed, relative to the no music condition. Walking speed did not differ by gender in any of the three condi...

The enhancement of the heat transfer in stirred tank is a much-desired objective for accelerating certain physical and chemical parameters industrial field. From this basis, an attempt made paper to investigate effect wavy wall on hydrodynamic, thermal, energetic behavior Al2O3-Water nanofluid. has flat bottom, it equipped with anchor stirrer. A hot temperature been imposed wall, agitator assum...

People frequently analyze the actions of other people for the purpose of action coordination. To understand whether such self-relative action perception differs from other-relative action perception, the authors had observers either compare their own walking speed with that of a point-light walker or compare the walking speeds of 2 point-light walkers. In Experiment 1, observers walked, bicycle...

Basierend auf einer internetethnografischen Untersuchung werden in diesem Beitrag symbolische Grenzziehungen der Telegramgruppe DEMOKRATENCHAT beziehungsweise FREIHEITS-CHAT dargestellt. Neben unauffälligen Beiträgen ließen sich darin zum Beobachtungszeitpunkt auch extremistische sowie antisemitische Inhalte beobachten und Trollnachrichten ausmachen. Ziel ist es, mithilfe des Konzepts symbolisc...

Mass transfer during the reaction process is limited in industrial biodiesel manufacture. Therefore, to overcome this problem, a reactor from castor oil transesterified using ZnO nanocatalyst was designed. can be used as catalyst for production due nature of which has high catalytic activity, low material costs and environmentally friendly. This study aims design manufacture zinc oxide (ZnO) na...

This study investigated the temporal characteristics of gait initiation and gait termination. Ten nondisabled adult volunteers and ten people with unilateral transtibial limb loss performed starting and stopping for slow, normal, and fast walking speeds. We used kinematic and anthropomorphic data to determine the body center of mass (BCOM) position of each subject. The BCOM acceleration was der...

A substantial body of evidence points to a cue-based direct-access retrieval mechanism as a crucial component of skilled adult reading. We report two experiments aimed at examining whether poor readers are able to make use of the same retrieval mechanism. This is significant in light of findings that poor readers have difficulty retrieving linguistic information (e.g., Perfetti, 1985). Our expe...

This study recorded basic gait data from 656 healthy primary school-aged children (5-13 years) and 81 young adults (18-27 years) whilst walking over-ground across a level walkway at varying speed. It investigated the effect of gait speed and re-examined the issue of gait maturation. Participants completed 6-8 walks at self-selected slow, free and fast speed along a GAITRite walkway whilst weari...