OBJECTIVE As physical activity can improve health and reduce the risk of chronic disease, it is important to understand the contributing factors to physical activity engagement among older adults, particularly those living in rural communities to assist in remaining active and healthy as long as possible. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the socio-ecological facto...

purpose: the rural master plan is one of the most fundamental measures implemented in iran. considering the implementation trend of these plans, their assessment is essential for rural improvement planning. the purpose of this study is to assess the physical, economic and social effects of the master plan in neyshabour county. methodology: this study is an applied study. the research method emp...

BACKGROUND Physical activity has been linked to reduced risk of various cardiometabolic disease, cancer, and premature mortality. We investigated the prevalence and socio-demographic correlates of physical activity among adults in urban and rural communities in South Africa. Methods: This was a cross-sectional survey comprising 1733 adults aged ≥35 years from the Cape Town (urban) and Mount Fre...

It is known that the human visual system, unsurpassed in its ability to reconstruct surfaces, employs different cues to solve this difficult task. The prevailing method in digital photogrammetry is stereopsis. However, texture may provide valuable information about the shape of surfaces. In this paper we employ Laws' method of texture energy transforms to extract texture information from digita...

This work takes part in an industrial project, which aims at decorating 3D plastic objects using Insert Molding technology. The goal of our work is to compute the decoration of 3D virtual objects, using data coming from polymer film characterization and mechanical simulation. To do this, we introduce a new method to link texture mapping and texture synthesis techniques to a physical process. In...

Rural populations face unique challenges to physical activity that are largely driven by environmental conditions. However, research on rural built environments and physical activity is limited by a paucity of rural-specific environmental assessment tools. The aim of this paper is to describe the development and testing of a rural assessment tool: Inventories for Community Health Assessment in ...

INTRODUCTION Previous studies have reported a higher prevalence of obesity among rural Americans. However, it is not clear whether obesity-related behaviors can explain the higher level of obesity among rural adults. The purpose of this study was to examine the differences in obesity-related behaviors across rural-urban adult populations in the USA. METHODS Data were obtained from the 1999-20...

introduction information and communication technology (ict) is now one of the criteria for measuring the economic and industrial development, in a way that it has had significant effects on different aspects of socio-cultural, economic and political life of people and human communities. in this study, the authors have tried to investigate the economic, social and physical effects of ict centers...

background: â  colorectal cancer (crc) is one of the most common invasive cancers responsible for physical and psychosocial morbidity. therefore, quality of life (qol) is an important outcome for these patients. despite advances in understanding qol, the majority of available research is from urban areas. the present study aims to compare qol between urban and rural crc patients. â  materials a...