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Utilising active play interventions to promote physical activity and improve fundamental movement skills in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Children’s physical activity levels are low and efforts to improve their physical activity levels have proven difficult. Freely chosen and unstructured physical activity (active play) has the potential to be promoted in a variety of settings ...
Avril Johnstone, Adrienne R. Hughes, Anne Martin, John J. Reilly   +3 more
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Social Entrepreneurs and Innovation for the Unemployment [PDF]

, 2019
This research explored the social entrepreneurship factors to reduce the rate of unemployment in North Sumatra Indonesia. Social entrepreneurship is built through four main elements, namely social value, civil society, innovation, and economic activity ...
Sari, A. I. (Ade)
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How young people’s perceptions of their physical education lessons and social skills varied in terms of sociodemographic features. The case of a rural area of China

Frontiers in Education, 2023
The aim of this study was to examine whether motivation, support, basic-needs satisfaction, and social skills in physical education lessons differed among Chinese secondary students from rural areas depending on their sociodemographic profiles.
Laura Primo, Juan González-Hernández, Yin Yang, Cristina Lopez de Subijana   +3 more
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Prevalence, patterns, and determinants of breastfeeding cessation among mothers of children under 24 months in Uganda

BMC Public Health
Background Breastfeeding duration is a critical component of infant and child nutrition, providing immediate and long-term benefits to both children and their mothers.
Florence Nakaggwa, Derrick Kimuli, Norah Namuwenge, Rebecca N. Nsubuga, Hellen Nayebare, Louis Kaboine, Immaculate Baseka, Kenneth Kasule, Sheila Nyakwezi, Solome Sevume, Norbert Mubiru, Barbara Amuron, Daraus Bukenya   +12 more
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Situating emotional experience [PDF]

, 2013
Psychological construction approaches to emotion suggest that emotional experience is situated and dynamic. Fear, for example, is typically studied in a physical danger context (e.g., threatening snake), but in the real world, it often occurs in social ...
Barrett, Lisa Feldman, Barsalou, Lawrence W., Wilson-Mendenhall, Christine D.   +2 more
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An Exploration of the Mechanism of Action of an Equine-Assisted Intervention

Animals, 2019
Though long alluded to, there is now an accumulation of evidence of the vital contribution that emotion makes to learning. Within this broad advance in understanding is a growing body of research emphasising the embodied nature of this emotion-based ...
Ann Hemingway, Sid Carter, Andrew Callaway, Emma Kavanagh, Shelley Ellis   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prevalence and determinants of minimum dietary diversity for women of reproductive age in Uganda

BMC Nutrition
Background Globally, over a billion women of reproductive age (WRA) suffer from some kind of undernutrition micronutrient deficiencies, and/or anemia as a result of inadequate dietary diversity.
Derrick Kimuli, Florence Nakaggwa, Norah Namuwenge, Rebecca N. Nsubuga, Kenneth Kasule, Sheila Nyakwezi, Jimmy Odong, Paul Isabirye, Solome Sevume, Norbert Mubiru, Daniel Mwehire, Fatuma Matovu, Bonnie Wandera, Barbara Amuron, Daraus Bukenya   +14 more
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Socio-Spatial Group Queries for Impromptu Activity Planning

, 2015
The development and integration of social networking services and smartphones have made it easy for individuals to organize impromptu social activities anywhere and anytime. Main challenges arising in organizing impromptu activities are mostly due to the
Chen, Ming-Syan, Huang, Liang-Hao, Lee, Wang-Chien, Shen, Chih-Ya, Yang, De-Nian   +4 more
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Shared-decision-making Behavior in Hospitalized Patients: Investigating the Impact of Patient's Trust in Physicians, Emotional Support, Informational Support, and Tendency to Excuse Using a Structural Equation Modeling Approach

Journal of Patient Experience, 2021
Patient participation in care decisions is facilitated by shared-decision-making (SDM). This study, therefore, aims to explore the impact of patient's trust in physicians, emotional support, informational support, and tendency to excuse on SDM.
Zahra Chegini PhD, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam PhD   +1 more
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Negative Effects of Incentivised Viral Campaigns for Activity in Social Networks

, 2013
Viral campaigns are crucial methods for word-of-mouth marketing in social communities. The goal of these campaigns is to encourage people for activity. The problem of incentivised and non-incentivised campaigns is studied in the paper.
Jankowski, Jarosław, Kazienko, Przemysław, Michalski, Radosław   +2 more
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