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45th Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights [PDF]

, 2018
This 45th Activity Report of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR or the Commission), which was presented to the Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in accordance with Article 54 of the African Charter on Human ...
African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights
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Is preference for mHealth intervention delivery platform associated with delivery platform familiarity?

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background The aim of this paper was to ascertain whether greater familiarity with a smartphone or tablet was associated with participants’ preferred mobile delivery modality for eHealth interventions.
Daniel Granger, Corneel Vandelanotte, Mitch J. Duncan, Stephanie Alley, Stephanie Schoeppe, Camille Short, Amanda Rebar   +6 more
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Physical activity and human health

, 2015
Introduction: The dynamic development of the automotive industry, transport, and the media means that human life has become much easier. At the same time, the comfortable living conditions have decreased physical activity.
Paulina Wojciechowska
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Macroeconomic, demographic and human developmental correlates of physical activity and sitting time among South American adults

, 2020
Background: Our aim was to investigate the association of macroeconomic, human development, and demographic factors with different domains of physical activity and sitting time among South American adults.
Gomes T.N., Miranda J.J., Ferrari G., Werneck A.O., Ramírez-Vélez R., Sadarangani K.P., Baldew S.-S., Szwarcwald C.L., Silva D.R., on behalf of the South American Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior Network (SAPASEN) collaborators   +9 more
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Spontaneous cortical activity transiently organises into frequency specific phase-coupling networks

Nature Communications, 2018
Coordination of neural activity between distant brain areas is necessary for cognition. Here, the authors report using MEG that various brain networks show dynamic phase coupling through specific frequency bands in the alpha and delta/theta range ...
Diego Vidaurre, Laurence T. Hunt, Andrew J. Quinn, Benjamin A. E. Hunt, Matthew J. Brookes, Anna C. Nobre, Mark W. Woolrich   +6 more
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The role of stride frequency for walk-to-run transition in humans

Scientific Reports, 2017
It remains unclear why humans spontaneously shift from walking to running at a certain point during locomotion at gradually increasing velocity. We show that a calculated walk-to-run transition stride frequency (70.6 ± 3.2 strides min−1) agrees with a ...
Ernst Albin Hansen, Lasse Andreas Risgaard Kristensen, Andreas Møller Nielsen, Michael Voigt, Pascal Madeleine   +4 more
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The relationships between school children's wellbeing, socio-economic disadvantage and after-school activities: a cross-sectional study

BMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background Lower socioeconomic status is associated with poorer wellbeing among children. Identifying how children participate in after-school activities and how after-school activities are associated with wellbeing may inform interventions to improve ...
Eliza Kennewell, Rachel G. Curtis, Carol Maher, Samuel Luddy, Rosa Virgara   +4 more
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Activity theory: A framework for analysing intercultural academic activity [PDF]

, 2010
This article suggests that Activity Theory (AT) can be applied as a holistic framework to analyse the complex sociocultural issues that arise when academics wish to engage in collaborative activity across institutional and cultural boundaries.
Barnard, Roger, 2245
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
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Human Activity Recognition [PDF]

, 2005
Motion is an important cue for the human visual system Mobiles have fascinated children, Zeno (circa 500 B.C.) studied moving arrows to pose a paradox and Zeke is investigating the human brain devoted to the understanding of motion. In computer vision research, motion has played an important role for the past thirty years.
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