Motivation as a predictor of dental students’ affective and behavioral outcomes: Does the quality of motivation matter? [PDF]
, 2019 Since the motivation to study and engage in academic activities plays a key role in students’ learning experience and well-being, gaining a better understanding of dental students’ motivations can help educators implement interventions to support ...
Binnie, Vivian I. +2 more
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EEG alpha reactivity and cholinergic system integrity in Lewy body dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy, 2020 Background Lewy body dementia (LBD), which includes dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and Parkinson’s disease dementia (PDD), is characterised by marked deficits within the cholinergic system which are more severe than in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and are ...
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Physical activity is associated with improvements in other lifestyle behaviours
BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2019 Introduction We tested whether physical activity (PA) engagement is subsequently associated with additional health-promoting behaviours in a large-scale, real-world programme leveraging technology and behavioural science to reward healthy lifestyle ...
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Healthy lifestyle interventions in general practice Part 4: Lifestyle and diabetes mellitus
South African Family Practice, 2009 Diabetes mellitus, in particular Type 2 diabetes, can be classified as a chronic disease of lifestyle. A lifestyle intervention programme is therefore an essential component of the primary and secondary prevention (management) of diabetes mellitus.
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Comparison of vitality states of finishers and withdrawers in trail running: An enactive and phenomenological perspective. [PDF]
, 2017 Studies on ultra-endurance suggest that during the races, athletes typically experience three vitality states (i.e., preservation, loss, and revival) at the phenomenological level.
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Healthy lifestyle interventions in general practice Part 6: Lifestyle and metabolic syndrome
South African Family Practice, 2009 Although there is no clarity on the precise definition of the metabolic syndrome, there is consensus that it is a cluster of inter-related risk factors (elevated blood pressure, elevated plasma glucose, atherogenic dyslipidaemia) that are due to mainly ...
Martin P. Schwellnus +5 more
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Healthy lifestyle interventions in general practice Part 7: Lifestyle and hypertension
South African Family Practice, 2009 This article forms the seventh part of the series on the role of lifestyle modification in general practice, with specific reference to hypertension. Hypertension is defined as sustained resting blood pressure (BP) above 140/90 mmHg. Approximately 17% of
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BMC Neurology, 2023 Background Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the fastest growing neurological condition worldwide. Recent theories suggest that symptoms of PD may arise due to spread of Lewy-body pathology where the process begins in the gut and propagate transynaptically via
Hilmar P. Sigurdsson +9 more
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Max flow vitality in general and $st$-planar graphs
, 2018 The \emph{vitality} of an arc/node of a graph with respect to the maximum flow between two fixed nodes $s$ and $t$ is defined as the reduction of the maximum flow caused by the removal of that arc/node.
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Vital Signsʼ Vital Integration
Nursing Management (Springhouse), 2000 Vital signs monitoring systems need to pool information from a variety of bedside devices. Add options like portability and multiple parameters, and you can choose the best one for any setting.
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