PURPOSE The purpose of this sub-analysis was to compare the early recovery of elderly patients following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) by geographic location (urban/rural) on physical functioning and physical activity. METHODS The sample was 124 subjects who had been in the usual care group (or control group) of a randomized controlled trial. Subjects were categorized into geographic ...

The aim was to determine the mechanical resistance and thermal conductivity of adobe bricks in extreme minimum weather conditions, which serve two physical functions: greater compression strength lower for construction rural housing walls Peruvian highlands. study experimental, where soil texture class determined using Bouyoucos hydrometer. An experiment designed with 58 different composition p...

during recent decades, a lot of growing evidences of social, economic and environmental changes mainly observed in the country have led to spatial changes. through technological developments, human beings have significantly detected the natural elements and conditions, have modified the ways of exploiting natural resources and management practices. the need for physical planning has also massiv...

This paper uses theory, simulation, and laboratory experiment, to show that directional illumination, used during the image acquisition process, acts as a directional filter of three dimensional texture. It is shown that the directional characteristics of image texture are not intrinsic to the physical texture being imaged, as they are affected by the direction of the illumination. This result ...

extended abstract 1. introduction in recent decades, especial plan to improve rural housing in 1974 has begun by islamic revolution’s housing foundation. the aims were to improve rural context and the promotion of health, safety, and welfare of rural housing. with regarded to accelerating in possess of providing loans and banking facilities to rural housing sector in the form of various project...

BACKGROUND A sedentary lifestyle among children is becoming increasingly common and has been linked to future risk of degenerative diseases. Urban residence has been suggested to be a contributing factor to a less active lifestyle; however, not all available studies support this link. In the present study we examined the physical activity patterns and sedentary behaviours of children living in ...

We propose a novel approach for a dense texture-based visualization of vector fields on curved surfaces. Our texture advection mechanism relies on a Lagrangian particle tracing that is simultaneously computed in the physical space of the object and in the device space of the image plane. This approach retains the benefits of previous image-space techniques, such as output sensitivity, independe...

BACKGROUND More information is needed to document the prevalence of health risk factors in youth. The purpose of this study is to compare the prevalence of physical inactivity, smoking and overweight/obesity among youth in urban and rural schools. METHODS Data were obtained from a Student Physical Activity and Smoking Survey of 2,697 high school students in four urban schools in Ontario and f...