Many individuals do not engage in sufficient physical activity due to low perceived benefits and high perceived barriers to exercise. Given the increasing incidence of obesity and obesity related health disorders, this topic requires further exploration. We used the Exercise Benefits/Barriers Scale to assess perceived benefit and barrier intensities to exercise in 200 non-exercising female univ...

BACKGROUND Patients in the therapeutic environment worry about their health and therapy; they are away from their usual social activities, and these entire put a great deal of stress on them, and delay their therapy by affecting their immune system and reducing their spiritual power. OBJECTIVES The present study seeks to investigate the effect of gender, age, and nationality of children on th...

Northern Ireland has a deeply divided education system with demarcation most notable along ethno/religious and social class lines. The former is largely attributable to the historical organisation of schools estate based on religion, latter associated academic selection that filters children into grammar non-selective post-primary according their performance in tests taken during final year pri...

This article discusses cultural barriers to women’s participation and success in the labor market developing countries. I begin by discussing relationship between economic development female employment argue that norms help explain large differences among countries at same level of development. then examine several gender-related social constrain present examples policies aimed overcoming these...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether social media, specifically Facebook, is an effective tool for improving contraceptive knowledge. METHODS English-speaking women aged 18-45 years receiving care at an urban academic center obstetrics and gynecology clinic were included and randomized to a trial of standard contraceptive education and pamphlet (n=74) compared with standard contraceptive education ...

the paper presents the results of an investigation on the acoustic performance of vertical profile parallel barriers with quadratic residue diffuser tops and faces. a 2d boundary element method (bem) is used to predict the barrier insertion loss. the results of rigid and with absorptive coverage are also calculated for comparisons. using qrd on the top surface and faces of all vertical profile ...

the present research seeks to answer the fundamental question of how the belief in the plot of conspiracy as a cultural barrier to the achievement of the Iranian society of political development has worked. In this research, using the documentary, historical and analytical method, the sociological analysis of the influence of the belief in the plot of conspiracy in the failure of the Iranian so...

most common hypotheses of seizure initiation are increased neural excitation, decreased inhibition or both. but, the conditions that lead to these activation states not to be clear yet. recent studies challenge traditional concepts and indicate new evidence that a key epileptogenic process may actually begin in the blood vessel. seizures could be initiate by a variety of insults to the brain, s...