Background: Orexin neurons drive arousal and motivated behaviors in response to stress. The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of eight weeks of pilates training on serum levels of orexin and insulin resistance in overweight children. Materials and Methods: 20 overweight children (10 - 13 years old) were selected from volunteers using purposive sampling, and randomly divided into t...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of favorite-text on iranian intermediate efl learners’ vocabulary development. sixty learners from nour-al-mahdi english institute participated in the present study. having been homogenized by oxford placement test (opt), they were randomly assigned into two groups of 30, control and experimental. then both groups sat for a pre-test which was a...

  Introduction : Previous studies have revealed that doing exercise plays an important role in anxiety reduction. Due to the high rate of anxiety in diabetic patients, the present study has been designed with the aim to investigate the effects of Pilates exercises on anxiety reduction in patients with of diabetes type II.   Methods : In this clinical trial study, 70 women suffering from diabete...

Introduction:One of the most important stages of life is the elderly time when noticing the need of the olds is a social necessity. The main objective of this study is considering the effect of 12 weeks of chosen Pilates exercise on the quality of life in healthy nonathletic people. Method:This Quasi-experimental study was conducted on 40 old nonathletic men who were randomly chosen from a gro...

vocabulary as a major component of language learning has been the object of numerous studies each of which has its own contribution to the field. finding the best way of learning the words deeply and extensively is the common objective of most of those studies. however, one effective way for achieving this goal is somehow neglected in the field. using a variety of activities such as games can r...

Background & Objective: Irisin is myokine, that is secreted by acute exercise activity from the muscle and increases energy consumption. The purpose of this study was to determine the response of irisin serum and insulin resistance to acute pilates training sessions pilates training in obese sedentary women. Materials & Methods: This research is a semi experimental study with pre-and post-test ...