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Using a Studio-Academic Partnership to Advance Public Health Within a Pragmatic Yoga Setting

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2019
Objectives: To explore community-based yoga studio practitioners’ psychosocial variables, behaviors, and studio satisfaction. Methods: Concurrent mixed-methods study consisted of a survey for demographic variables and psychosocial variables of interest ...
Samantha M. Harden, Abby M. Steketee, Rachel Kelliher, Keala A. Mason, Nicole Fitzwater Boyle   +4 more
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Repetitive Low-Intensity Vestibular Noise Stimulation Partly Reverses Behavioral and Brain Activity Changes following Bilateral Vestibular Loss in Rats

Biomolecules, 2023
Low-intensity noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) can improve static and dynamic postural deficits in patients with bilateral vestibular loss (BVL).
Max Wuehr, Eva Eilles, Magdalena Lindner, Maximilian Grosch, Roswitha Beck, Sibylle Ziegler, Andreas Zwergal   +6 more
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Historical descriptions of nystagmus and abnormal involuntary eye movements in various ancient cultures

Science Progress, 2023
Original texts and expert translations from various ancient cultures covering a time span from the 2 nd millennium BC to the ninth century AD were searched for historical observations of involuntary eye movements.
Johannes Gerb, Thomas Brandt, Doreen Huppert   +2 more
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Prefrontal cortical activation measured by fNIRS during walking: effects of age, disease and secondary task [PDF]

PeerJ, 2019
Background Cognitive processes are required during walking to appropriately respond to environmental and task demands. There are now many studies that have used functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to record brain activation to investigate ...
Paulo H.S. Pelicioni, Mylou Tijsma, Stephen R. Lord, Jasmine Menant   +3 more
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Combining traditional nutrient load analysis with storm hydrograph separation reveals concealed patterns in event-driven nutrient export in a rural headwater catchment [PDF]

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
Flushing and dilution are major phenomena of solute export dynamics during precipitation events in headwater catchments but are hard to predict, even if catchment properties are well known.
L. Ditzel, C. Spill, M. Gassmann
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Spatial Orientation Impairment in Patients With Bilateral Vestibulopathy and Persistent Postural–Perceptual Dizziness

Brain and Behavior
Background Two chronic forms of dizziness—bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP) with a loss of vestibular input, and functional dizziness with normal vestibular function—present with the key symptom of postural and gait imbalance.
Vivien Oertle, Sandra Becker‐Bense, Thomas Brandt, Marianne Dieterich, Johannes Gerb   +4 more
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Noisy Galvanic Stimulation Improves Roll-Tilt Vestibular Perception in Healthy Subjects

Frontiers in Neurology, 2018
It has recently been demonstrated that noisy galvanic vestibular stimulation (nGVS) delivered as imperceptible white noise can improve balance control via the induction of stochastic resonance.
Aram Keywan, Max Wuehr, Cauchy Pradhan, Klaus Jahn, Klaus Jahn   +4 more
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Experimental Study on the Seismic Performance of Pre-Inserted Prefabricated Shear Walls

Buildings
The pre-inserted method for precast shear walls involves casting concealed beams at floor slabs between upper and lower structures, with precast concrete supports spaced at intervals.
Quanbiao Xu, Shenghang Yang, Benyue Li, Mingwei Xu, Mingshan Zhang   +4 more
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Guidance for otolaryngology health care workers performing aerosol generating medical procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 2020
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus responsible for Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has a predilection for infecting the mucosa of the upper and lower airways.
Marc J. W. Lammers, Jane Lea, Brian D. Westerberg   +2 more
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Confronting the United Nations’ Pro-growth Agenda

The Journal of Population and Sustainability
In this article, we enjoin the United Nations (UN) to forge a path out of our plight of multiple environmental and social crises. With other analysts, we identify ‘overshoot’ – the state in which humanity has substantially outpaced Earth’s capacity to ...
Nandita Bajaj, Eileen Crist, Kirsten Stade   +2 more
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