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Developing Shopping and Dining Walking Indices Using POIs and Remote Sensing Data

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Walking is one of the most commonly promoted traveling methods and is garnering increasing attention. Many indices/scores have been developed by scholars to measure the walkability in a local community.
Yingbin Deng   +6 more
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Study of Pseudoresistance during Water Walking in Augmented Reality

open access: yes, 2023
Lack of exercise affects health and the quality of life. Walking is a suitable remedy for sedentary lifestyles. Therefore, in this study, we developed a walking exercise system that employs augmented reality technology and pseudoresistance sensations to ...
Sakaguchi, Saki   +5 more
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INDUCTION OF SPAWNING IN THE TROPICAL WALKING CATFISH (Clarias batrachus) BY CONTROLLING WATER LEVEL AND TEMPERATURE

open access: yesBiotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2011
This experiment was carried out to confirm  the role of water level  and water temperature in inducing the spawning of tropical walking catfish. Mature males and females reared under 23 - 25 °C, were paired and induced to spawn by controlling water ...
M. ZAIRIN JR., K. FURUKAWA, K. AiDA
doaj   +1 more source

Walking, drawing, designing. Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell’s drawing stick and eighteenth-century landscape gardens

open access: yesRi-vista: Ricerche per la Progettazione del Paesaggio, 2022
For the German landscape gardener Friedrich Ludwig von Sckell (1750-1823) walking was a method to design landscapes for visitation and inhabitation, in other words, for both walking and staying.
Sonja Dümpelmann
doaj   +1 more source

Comparison the effects of an active recovery period with three different water temperatures in blood lactate & heart rate changes after a maximal activity [PDF]

open access: yesفیزیولوژی ورزش و فعالیت بدنی, 2011
Background: One of the major barriers to successful and optimal implementation of exercise activities is fatigue, which is an inevitable consequence of strenuous activities.
اسماء طاهری   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Walking on the edge: Mechanical determinants of energy metabolic cost of shallow water walking in humans

open access: yes, 2022
The terrestrial human walking is an example of adapting design and function to minimize energy expenditure through the pendulum-like mechanism. When humans walk in water environment, two forces are added to the gravitational and ground reaction forces ...
Leonardo Alexandre Peyré-Tartaruga   +3 more
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Myelin status is associated with change in functional mobility following slope walking in people with multiple sclerosis

open access: yesMultiple Sclerosis Journal - Experimental, Translational and Clinical, 2018
Background The level of myelin disruption in multiple sclerosis patients may impact the capacity for training-induced neuroplasticity and the magnitude of therapeutic response to rehabilitation interventions.
EM King   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The energy costs of wading in water

open access: yesBiology Open, 2014
Studies measuring the energy costs of wading in water have been limited to higher walking speeds in straight lines, in deep water. However, much foraging in water, by both humans and other primates, is conducted in the shallows and at low speeds of ...
Lewis G. Halsey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of walking aids on estimating physical activity using a tri-axial accelerometer in frail older adults

open access: yesBMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine, 2021
Objectives This study aimed to compare the estimation error of physical activity level (PAL) estimated using a tri-axial accelerometer between an independent walking group and an assisted walking group with walking aids.Methods Subjects were 6 older ...
Takayuki Abe   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

My Walk to Water

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2016
The author reflects on her experiences gathering water using jerrycans secured with ropes secured to the head, and the need for water scientists to consider transport weight in discussing access to water. She comments that women from the Maasai tribe in Narok, Kenya would carry 25-liter jugs weighing around 50 pounds and taking up to two hours a trip ...
openaire   +3 more sources

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