background: anxiety, depression, and other adverse psychological reactions are often observed in elderly hypertensive patients. appropriate exercise is a safe form of adjuvant therapy without causing side effects among these patients, with consistent effects on patients’ mental health. in this study, a collective exercise intervention experiment was conducted to evaluate the mental health of el...

Objective: Reducing white adipose tissue is an important strategy for treatment of obesity and its related metabolic disorders. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of endurance exercise and adenosine consumption on the expression of selected genes of thermogenic pathway in the visceral adipose tissue of obese male rats. Materials and Methods: Twenty male wistar rats were fed ...

Agency has been central to modern conceptions of politics but it is a complicated and contested idea that seems to have fallen into both theoretical and historical crisis. I explore the underlying ideas that have grounded it, as well as some recent historical and theoretical challenges. I respond by advocating an ontological agnosticism regarding who or what exercises agency and suggest a spect...

Simulation exercises as a training tool for enhancing preparedness for emergency response are widely adopted in disaster management. This paper addresses current scenario design processes, proposes an alternative approach for simulation exercises and introduces a conceptual design of an adaptive scenario generator. Our work is based on a systematic literature review and observations made during...

Active learning has become an important part of effective computer science pedagogy. Active learning helps to keep students engaged in the learning process and is useful at all levels of computer science education from introductory courses on programming through more advanced upper level topics and graduate level coursework. In this paper, we present an active learning exercise that we develope...

This section of the workbook provides the description of the MT evaluation exercise that is proposed to the workshop participants, including the specification of the metrics for MT evaluation that the participants are suggested to use at the workshop. 1. A Collective Hands-on Exercise

BACKGROUND Anxiety, depression, and other adverse psychological reactions are often observed in elderly hypertensive patients. Appropriate exercise is a safe form of adjuvant therapy without causing side effects among these patients, with consistent effects on patients' mental health. In this study, a collective exercise intervention experiment was conducted to evaluate the mental health of eld...

The capacity to exercise control over the nature and quality of one's life is the essence of humanness. Human agency is characterized by a number of core features that operate through phenomenal and functional consciousness. These include the temporal extension of agency through intentionality and forethought, self-regulation by self-reactive influence, and self-reflectiveness about one's capab...

The effects of exercise on cognitive processes have been mainly approached, in recent years, through the study of reaction time tasks (Delignières, Brisswalter & Legros, 1994; Legros, Delignières, Durand & Brisswalter, 1992; Paas & Adam, 1991). These studies have shown that exercise led to a decrement of simple reaction time, but to an enhancement of choice reaction time, especially with collec...