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Physical activity promotion in community pharmacies: pharmacists’ attitudes and behaviours

Pharmacy Practice, 2021
Background: Health systems and their professionals play a key role in the promotion and maintenance of behaviours contributing to increased physical activity levels.
Ruben Viegas , Cristina A. Godinho , Sónia Romano   +2 more
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Dynamic walking features and improved walking performance in multiple sclerosis patients treated with fampridine (4-aminopyridine) [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Impaired walking capacity is a frequent confinement in Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Patients are affected by limitations in coordination, walking speed and the distance they may cover.
A Chetta, A Compston, AD Goodman, AD Goodman, AD Goodman, AD Goodman, Adam J. Cocks, AR Blight, AV Krishnan, BC Kieseier, CT Bever, HB Jensen, Jana Muenssinger, Janina M. Burschka, JM Burschka, JM Burschka, JS Fischer, MD Goldman, Patrick Oschmann, Philipp M. Keune, PM Rossini, RW Motl, RW Motl, RW Motl, S Savci, Sascha Hansen, SR Schwid, Ulrich Hofstadt-van Oy, WI McDonald, William R. Young   +29 more
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Design and Development of a Virtual Reality-Based Mobility Training Game for People With Parkinson's Disease

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
People with Parkinson's disease (PD) commonly have gait impairments that reduce their ability to walk safely in the community. These impairments are characterized, in part, by a compromised ability to turn and negotiate both predictable and unpredictable
James M. Finley, James M. Finley, Marientina Gotsis, Vangelis Lympouridis, Shreya Jain, Aram Kim, Beth E. Fisher   +6 more
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Playing with the dead:transmedia narratives and the Walking Dead games [PDF]

, 2018
This chapter discusses the theory and practice of transmedia narratives within the storyworld created by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore and Charlie Adlard’s comics series The Walking Dead.
Austin, Hailey, Donald, Iain
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Tall willow thickets return to northern Yellowstone

Ecosphere, 2020
Northern Yellowstone National Park provides an example of passive restoration, as wetlands and riparian areas there lost most tall willows in the 20th century, due to intensive herbivory by elk (Cervus canadensis).
Luke E. Painter, Michael T. Tercek
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Randomized controlled trial of a home-based action observation intervention to improve walking in Parkinson disease [PDF]

, 2016
Published in final edited form as: Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2016 May ; 97(5): 665–673. doi:10.1016/j.apmr.2015.12.029.OBJECTIVE: To examine the feasibility and efficacy of a home-based gait observation intervention for improving walking in Parkinson ...
Cronin-Golomb, Alice, Ellis, Terry D., Jaywant, Abhishek, Lin, Cheng-Chieh, Neargarder, Sandy, Roy, Serge   +5 more
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The exoskeleton expansion: improving walking and running economy

Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 2020
Since the early 2000s, researchers have been trying to develop lower-limb exoskeletons that augment human mobility by reducing the metabolic cost of walking and running versus without a device.
G. Sawicki, Owen N. Beck, Inseung Kang, Aaron J. Young   +3 more
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The pervasive crisis of diminishing radiation therapy access for vulnerable populations in the United States, part 2: American Indian patients

Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2018
Introduction: American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) patients with cancer disproportionally present with more advanced stages of disease and have the worst cancer-specific survival rates of any racial/ethnic group in the United States.
Shearwood McClelland, III, MD, Jennifer Leberknight, PhD, B. Ashleigh Guadagnolo, MD, MPH, C. Norman Coleman, MD, Daniel G. Petereit, MD   +4 more
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Use and Perceptions of Pedestrian Navigation Apps: Findings from Bologna and Porto

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
Pedestrian Navigation Applications (PNAs) provide assistance in terms of self-localization, space recognition, and turn-by-turn navigation. The use, motivations and perceptions associated with these applications have been under investigated due to users ...
Fernando Fonseca, Elisa Conticelli, George Papageorgiou, Paulo Ribeiro, Mona Jabbari, Simona Tondelli, Rui Ramos   +6 more
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The walking library: mobilising books, places, readers and reading [PDF]

, 2017
The Walking Library, inaugurated in 2012, has functioned as a mobile laboratory and art project for the ongoing exploration of the relationships between environments, books, reading and writing.
Heddon, Deirdre, Myers, Misha
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