background: cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in the world. the aim of this study was to determine the effect of aerobic exercise on serum inflammatory markers in untrained middle-aged women. methods: nineteen healthy female middle-aged were selected by convenience sampling method and were randomly divided into two experimental (n=11) and control (n=8) groups. the exercis...

purpose the 1-repetition maximum (1-rm) test is the gold standard test for evaluating maximal dynamic strength of groups of muscles. however, safety of actual 1-rm testing is questionable in clinical situations such as type 2 diabetes (t2d), where an estimated 1-rm test is preferred. it is unclear if acceptable test retest reliability exists for the estimated 1-rm test in middle aged t2d patien...

Aging is associated with an attenuated physiological ability to dissipate heat. However, it remains unclear if age-related impairments in heat dissipation only occur above a certain level of heat stress and whether this response is altered by aerobic fitness. Therefore, we examined changes in whole body evaporative heat loss (HE) as determined using whole body direct calorimetry in young (n = 1...

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence suggests that meditative training enhances perception and cognition. In Japan, the Park-Sasaki method of speed-reading involves organized visual training while forming both a relaxed and concentrated state of mind, as in meditation. The present study examined relationships between reading speed, sentence comprehension, and eye movements while reading short ...

PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to characterize the role of aerobic exercise in the gene expression of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) and the β2-adrenergic receptor (ADRB2) in untrained men. METHODS Twenty untrained middle-aged men were randomly assigned to exercise (Exe) and control (Con) groups. The Exe group performed aerobic exercises for eight weeks. ACE mRNA and AD...

A treadmill walking test was developed in order to provide a suitable method of assessing the fitness levels of sedentary middle-aged men (mean age, 44.3 yrs) at submaximal intensity. The incremental stages of the test enabled subjects to terminate the workload whenever undue discomfort was experienced. The test procedure was used in a preliminary experiment to compare the cardiovascular and me...

Nonverbal behaviors play an important role in communication for both humans and social robots. However, adding contextually appropriate animations by hand is time consuming and does not scale well. Previous researchers have developed automated systems for inserting animations based on utterance text, yet these systems lack human understanding of social context and are still being improved. This...