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Objectives: To examine quantity of exercise and motives for exercise as predictors of men in the military’s health and fitness level. Design: Participants completed a survey to address research questions of interest. Methods: One-hundred and fourteen men who were active duty Air Force members, with a mean age of 31.43 years (SD 1⁄4 7.43) and an average military time in service of 10.66 years (S...

US EPA has included sub-indices of 8-hour average O3 concentration and 24-hour average PM2.5 level into a newly-modified Air Quality Index (AQI). Calculations at air-quality monitoring stations in Taiwan show that the updated AQI system is associated with two to three times higher occurring frequency of days with AQI larger than 100 than that of the widely used Pollution Standard Index (PSI) la...

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Panagrellus redivivus produced 24-methyl-23-dehydrocholesterol as 4.0% of the 4-desmethylsterols when propagated in a medium containing campesterol as the dietary sterol. The re-examination of previous data revealed that Caenorhabditis elegans produced 1.8% 24-methyl-23-dehydrocholesterol when propagated in medium containing campesterol. 24-Methyl-23-dehydrocholesterol was not detected when the...

Minor Ha activity, consisting of small brightenings and small, surgelike spikes, was observed to take place above an active center at the solar limb in good time-association with small fluctuations in the soft X-ray background flux, suggesting that even small dynamical events seen optically are associated with coronal heating. The ratio of Ha flux to soft X-ray flux in some of the surges was ap...

Accelerated curing results, obtained after only 24 hours, are used to predict the 28 day strength of concrete. Various accelerated curing methods are available. Two of these methods are compared in relation to the accuracy of their predictions and the stability of the relationship between their 24 hour and 28 day concrete strength. The results suggest that Warm Water accelerated curing is prefe...