Policies from non-health sectors have considerable impacts on the food environment and in turn on population nutrition. Health impact assessment (HIA) methods have been developed to identify the potential health effects of non-health policies; however, they are underused both within and outside the health sector. HIA and other assessment methods and tools can be used more extensively in health ...

The checkers program Chinook has earned the right to challenge for the World Checkers Championship. The experiences gained in developing the program and preparing for the match illustrate several important obstacles to successfully mounting a challenge to the human World Champion. These points appear to be directly applicable to chess, and the checkers experience may well be a preview of what i...

Abstract Public interest litigation is a mechanism of intervention in matter that concerns the public. It could be about human rights, government policy, or some other issue present challenge to public life. important because it presents hope powerless and offers justice where there might not previously have been opportunity. The aim recognise injustice give voice members society who means arti...

BACKGROUND Fatigue affects 33-77% of stroke survivors. There is no consensus concerning risk factors for fatigue post-stroke, perhaps reflecting the multifaceted nature of fatigue. We characterized post-stroke fatigue using the Fatigue Impact Scale (FIS), a validated questionnaire capturing physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of fatigue. METHODS The Stroke Outcomes Study (SOS) prosp...

objectives: skeletal-muscular disorders affect the biomechanics of the human body, especially the lower extremity, with a negative effect on the biomechanics of exercise. the main aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of fatigue on the kinematic variables of knee joints during countermovement jumps in female students of physical education with valgus knee deformity.  methods: fifteen sub...