Correspondence to Dr Matt P Wise; [email protected] BMJ Open Respiratory Research is now entering its second year as an open access journal. Our aim when the journal was launched was to facilitate the rapid publication of high-quality research from all areas of respiratory medicine including respiratory science and critical care. As an open access periodical, we have the opportunity to li...

OBJECTIVE Sedentariness is associated with weight gain and obesity. A treadmill desk is the combination of a standing desk and a treadmill that allow employees to work while walking at low speed. DESIGN AND METHODS The hypothesis was that a 1-year intervention with treadmill desks is associated with an increase in employee daily physical activity (summation of all activity per minute) and a d...

USE OF THE KEYBOARD AND THE mouse as key interface devices to the computer has led to much debate concerning their role in development of injuries to the nerves in the upper limbs, particularly carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS). The proposed mechanism for this relationship is regional compression or nerve stretching, which has been confirmed in animal models, but no models exist concerning the effec...

The aim of my PhD research is focused on Text Mining (TM), one major school in Knowledge Discovery in Data (KDD), and in particular the classification / categorization of documents utilizing novel algorithms for the identification of hidden patterns, rules, regularities and trends within these documents. Two significant techniques of Data Mining (DM), another well-known KDD school, are involved...