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María Victoria Palop-Montoro, Emilio Lozano-Aguilera, Milagros Arteaga-Checa, Víctor Serrano-Huete, Juan Antonio Párraga-Montilla and David Manzano-Sánchez
Background: Sleep is an important phenomenon to restore the body, both physically and emotionally, providing a state of balance in the person. It has been proven that adequate sleep at night is one of the main needs of older people in order to maintain a...
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Perpetua Modjadji, Mulalo Caroline Salane, Kebogile Elizabeth Mokwena, Tshimangadzo Selina Mudau and Peter Modupi Mphekgwana
In view of the epidemic proportions of obesity in South Africa and its relationship to cardiometabolic diseases, such as hypertension, a cross sectional study was conducted to investigate the utility of obesity indicators for predicting hypertension amon...
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Catarina C. Santos, Susana Soares and Mário J. Costa
Participants from across the age span participate in water fitness sessions. This challenges instructors to create proper exercise prescriptions. The aim of this study was to understand the effect of age on force production and symmetry during water exer...
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Guilherme da Silva Rodrigues, Karine Pereira Rodrigues, Mariana Luciano de Almeida, Andressa Crystine da Silva Sobrinho, Natalia Yumi Noronha, Cicero Jonas Rodrigues Benjamim, Sabrina da Silva, Jhennyfer Aline Lima Rodrigues and Carlos Roberto Bueno Júnior
Background: Combined (CT) and multicomponent training (MT) presents several benefits for aging individuals. However, the literature does not provide evidence on which of the two physical training models can better enhance improvements in physical capacit...
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Tzyy-Ling Chuang, Malcolm Koo, Mei-Hua Chuang, Chun-Hung Lin, Chin-Huan Huang and Yuh-Feng Wang
The effect of a vegetarian diet on bone health remains controversial. This retrospective medical record review compared changes in bone mineral density (BMD) and trabecular bone score (TBS) between vegetarian and non-vegetarian middle-aged and older wome...
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Nik Nairan Abdullah,Mohd Shahril Ahmad Saman,Nor Aini Mohd Noor
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An ageing population is a public health challenge, affects most countries. Health screenings are able to detect diseases at the earliest stage. A cross-sectional study in December 2014 conducted among 643 older women who randomly interviewed using struct...
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Manish Shirgaokar, Aditi Misra, Asha Weinstein Agrawal, Martin Wachs, Bonnie Dobbs
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Ride-hailing services such as Lyft and Uber can complement rides offered by family, friends, paid providers, and public transit. To learn why older adults might wish to use ride-hail, we conducted an online survey of 2,917 California respondents age 55 a...
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Orpha Cilliers, Johan Strydom
Women business ownership is cardinal for long-term economic growth. Research provides divergent reasons for the difference in the characteristics of SMMEs owned by women and those owned by men. In this study, a quantitative survey was conduct...
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Dagmar Weberova,Milo? Hitka,Lenka Lizbetinova
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Work motivation depends not only on the sector of employment but also on factors such as age and gender. Today women play an important role in employment and their participation in economic life is constantly increasing. Performance incentives such as fi...
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Xiaoxue Liu, Chuanhua Yu, Yongbo Wang, Yongyi Bi, Yu Liu and Zhi-Jiang Zhang
Background: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus is rapidly increasing in China, but the secular trends in incidence and mortality remain unknown. This study aims to examine time trends from 1990 to 2017 and the net age, period, and cohort effects on diab...
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Tae-Kyun Na, Sun-Ho Lee and Jae-Yeon Yang
This study aims to analyze the moderating effect of gender on the relationship between technology readiness and willingness to continue using self-service kiosks in fast-food restaurants among middle-aged and older consumers. We conducted a survey from 1...
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This study aimed to determine the difference in postnatal confinement practice between two different generations. It was an unmatched cross-sectional study involving 200 women. Women aged less than 50, and 50 years old or more, were grouped as younger an...
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Carmen W. H. Chan, Kai Chow Choi, Rosa S. Wong, Ka Ming Chow, Winnie K. W. So, Doris Y. P. Leung, Wendy W. T. Lam and William Goggins
Under-screening may increase the risk of cervical cancer in middle-aged women. This study aimed to investigate cervical cancer screening behaviour and its predictors among women aged 50 years or above. A population-based sample of 959 women was recruited...
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Gizelle Willows, Darron West
Behavioral finance shows us that individuals do not always behave rationally, owing to certain behavioural biases. A certain bias known as overconfidence has been found to incite increased trading frequency which in turn, reduces the overall return earne...
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Hajime Iwasa, Hiroki Inagaki, Yukie Masui and Yasuyuki Gondo
Personality is one of the fundamental factors in determining longevity. We used a 14-year mortality surveillance to investigate the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and all-cause mortality among older adults dwelling in a Japanese com...
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Ivan Benemerito, Erica Montefiori, Alberto Marzo and Claudia Mazzà
Musculoskeletal models (MSKMs) are used to estimate the muscle and joint forces involved in human locomotion, often associated with the onset of degenerative musculoskeletal pathologies (e.g., osteoarthritis). Subject-specific MSKMs offer more accurate p...
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Magdalena Madra-Sawicka, Joanna Paliszkiewicz and Jeretta Horn Nord
This paper aims to identify the most important social media purposes of usage by responding women?s attitudes according to age and the economic stage of development of their respective country. Research was done through an online survey in 2017?2018 foll...
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Hyun-Jun Hyung, Han Ul Yoon, Dongwoon Choi, Duk-Yeon Lee and Dong-Wook Lee
Because the internal structure, degree of freedom, skin control position and range of the android face are different, it is very difficult to generate facial expressions by applying existing facial expression generation methods. In addition, facial expre...
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Nuno Pena, Carla Curado
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This paper reports a qualitative study on the effectiveness of an e-learning framework (IPTEACES) for Insurance Broker Training Program Certifications, using a sample of 3,726 trainees from 16 different corporations from insurance and banking industries ...
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Nanna Yr Arnardottir, Nina Dora Oskarsdottir, Robert J. Brychta, Annemarie Koster, Dane R. Van Domelen, Paolo Caserotti, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Johanna E. Sverrisdottir, Erlingur Johannsson, Lenore J. Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason, Tamara B. Harris, Kong Y. Chen and Thorarinn Sveinsson
In Iceland, there is a large variation in daylight between summer and winter. The aim of the study was to identify how this large variation influences physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB). Free living PA was measured by a waist-worn acceler...
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