|
|
|
| Registros recuperados: 25 | |
|
|
| Gallon,D.; Rodacki,A.L.F.; Hernandez,S.G.; Drabovski,B.; Outi,T.; Bittencourt,L.R.; Gomes,A.R.S.. |
| Stretching has been widely used to increase the range of motion. We assessed the effects of a stretching program on muscle-tendon length, flexibility, torque, and activities of daily living of institutionalized older women. Inclusion/exclusion criteria were according to Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (>13), Barthel Index (>13) and Lysholm Scoring Scale (>84). Seventeen 67 ± 9 year-old elderly women from a nursing home were divided into 2 groups at random: the control group (CG, N = 9) participated in enjoyable cultural activities; the stretching group (SG, N = 8) performed active stretching of hamstrings, 4 bouts of 1 min each. Both groups were supervised three times per week over a period of 8 weeks. Peak torque was assessed by an... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Homes for the aged; Muscle stretching exercises; Muscle strength; Flexibility; Activities of daily living. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2011000300009 |
| |
|
|
| Marques,A.P.; Vasconcelos,A.A.P.; Cabral,C.M.N.; Sacco,I.C.N.. |
| We compared the effect of the number of weekly repetitions of a static stretching program on the flexibility, hamstring tightness and electromyographic activity of the hamstring and of the triceps surae muscles. Thirty-one healthy subjects with hamstring tightness, defined as the inability to perform total knee extension, and shortened triceps surae, defined by a tibiotarsal angle wider than 90° during trunk flexion, were divided into three groups: G1 performed the stretching exercises once a week; G2, three times a week, and G3, five times a week. The parameters were determined before and after the stretching program. Flexibility improved in all groups after intervention, from 7.65 ± 10.38 to 3.67 ± 12.08 in G1, from 10.73 ± 12.07 to 0.77 ± 10.45 in G2,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/other |
Palavras-chave: Electromyography; Flexibility; Muscle stretching exercises; Range of motion. |
| Ano: 2009 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2009001000012 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Johnson, Barry L; USGS, Upper Midwest Enviromental Sciences Center; barry_johnson@usgs.gov. |
| In making resource management decisions, agencies use a variety of approaches that involve different levels of political concern, historical precedence, data analyses, and evaluation. Traditional decision-making approaches have often failed to achieve objectives for complex problems in large systems, such as the Everglades or the Colorado River. I contend that adaptive management is the best approach available to agencies for addressing this type of complex problem, although its success has been limited thus far. Traditional decision-making approaches have been fairly successful at addressing relatively straightforward problems in small, replicated systems, such as management of trout in small streams or pulp production in forests. However, this success... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Adaptive management; Decision making; Ecological resilience; Ecosystem management; Flexibility; Replicated systems; Resource management agencies; Stakeholders.. |
| Ano: 1999 |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Wagner, Sven; Chair of Silviculture, TU-Dresden; wagner@forst.tu-dresden.de; Nocentini, Susanna; Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Systems, University of Florence; susanna.nocentini@unifi.it; Huth, Franka; Chair of Silviculture, TU-Dresden; mario@forst.tu-dresden.de; Hoogstra-Klein, Marjanke; Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University; Marjanke.Hoogstra@wur.nl. |
| The issue of rapid change in environmental conditions under which ecosystem processes and human interventions will take place in the future is relatively new to forestry, whereas the provision of ecosystem services, e.g., timber or fresh water, is at the very heart of the original concept of forest management. Forest managers have developed ambitious deterministic approaches to provide the services demanded, and thus the use of deterministic approaches for adapting to climate change seem to be a logical continuation. However, as uncertainty about the intensity of climate change is high, forest managers need to answer this uncertainty conceptually. One may envision an indeterministic approach to cope with this uncertainty; but how the services will be... |
| Tipo: Peer-Reviewed Reports |
Palavras-chave: Climate change; Ecological resilience; Ecosystem services; Forest management strategies; Flexibility; Forest structure; Uncertainty. |
| Ano: 2014 |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Rouze, Heloise; Lecellier, Gael J.; Saulnier, Denis; Planes, Serge; Gueguen, Yannick; Wirshing, Herman H.; Berteaux-lecellier, Veronique. |
| The adaptative bleaching hypothesis (ABH) states that, depending on the symbiotic flexibility of coral hosts (i.e., the ability of corals to “switch” or “shuffle” their algal symbionts), coral bleaching can lead to a change in the composition of their associated Symbiodinium community and, thus, contribute to the coral’s overall survival. In order to determine the flexibility of corals, molecular tools are required to provide accurate species delineations and to detect low levels of coral-associated Symbiodinium. Here, we used highly sensitive quantitative (real-time) PCR (qPCR) technology to analyse five common coral species from Moorea (French Polynesia), previously screened using only traditional molecular methods, to assess the presence of... |
| Tipo: Text |
Palavras-chave: Corals; French polynesia; Clade B; Symbiodinium; QPCR; Flexibility; Generalist; Faithful clade. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00365/47652/47683.pdf |
| |
|
|
| Michele, Moretto; Gianpaolo, Rossini. |
| The main aim of the paper is to highlight the relation between flexibility and vertical integration. To this purpose, we go through the selection of the optimal degree of vertical disintegration of a flexible firm which operates in a dynamic uncertain environment. The enterprise we model enjoys flexibility since it can switch from a certain amount of disintegration to vertical integration and viceversa. This means that the firm never loses vertical control, i.e., the ability to produce all inputs even when it buys them in the market. This sort of flexibility makes for results which are somehow contrary to the Industrial Organization recent literature and closer to the Operations Research results. In this sense we provide a bridge between the two approaches... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Vertical Integration; Outsourcing; Entry; Flexibility; L24; G 31; C61. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/36759 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| BurnSilver, Shauna; Mwangi, Esther. |
| This paper leverages datasets and results from two separate studies carried out across eight Kajiado group ranches and offers a unique opportunity to look at emergent pre- and post-subdivision trends from an interdisciplinary framework that combines ecological, political, and human-ecological research perspectives. It provides insights into the following issues: the loss of flexibility and mobility for Maasai herders’ dues to subdivision, the nature of collective activities that individuals pursue after subdivision, and the emergence of pasture sharing arrangements. NDVI profiles show that forage options for individual herders decrease dramatically under privatization, but rebound somewhat when parcels are shared between households located adjacent to each... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Kajiado; Mobility; Flexibility; Pastoralism; Collective Action; Subdivision; Group Ranches; Livestock Production/Industries. |
| Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/47825 |
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Robison, Lindon J.; Schmid, A. Allan; Siles, Marcelo E.. |
| Social capital in the past two decades has emerged as a dominant paradigm in the various social science disciplines. However, its adoption by the different social science disciplines has led to multiple and often conflicting definitions of social capital. Some differences in the definition of social capital can be explained because scientists have included in the definition expressions of its possible uses, where it resides, and how its service capacity can be changed. This paper defends the social capital metaphor by pointing out that social capital has many important capital-like properties including service potential, durability, flexibility, substitutability, opportunities for decay (maintenance), reliability, ability to create other capital forms,... |
| Tipo: Working or Discussion Paper |
Palavras-chave: Social capital; Cultural capital; Human capital; Physical/financial capital; Service potential; Durability; Flexibility; Substitutability; Decay (maintenance); Reliability; Investment (disinvestment); Institutional and Behavioral Economics. |
| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/11649 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
| Buysse, Jeroen; Van der Straeten, Bart; Claeys, Dakerlia; Lauwers, Ludwig H.; Marchand, Fleur L.; Van Huylenbroeck, Guido. |
| To explain over- and underuse of available quota, Buysse et al. (2007) have integrated the shadow cost of the quota constraint in a quota flexibility function in a positive mathematical programming model. This method and central hypothesis, formulated and tested for the case of Belgian sugar beet farms, is in current paper extended and confirmed for the cases of Flemish dairy quota and manure emission rights. Despite the different organisation, objectives and implementations of the diverse quota systems, the results are similar. A higher utilisation of quota is significantly driven by the quota rent, but farm characteristics are also important and the effect declines with increasing quota rent. Regardless the quota, the dairy quota flexibility behaviour of... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Quota; Flexibility; Positive Mathematical Programming; Farm model; Common Agricultural Policy; Agricultural and Food Policy; Demand and Price Analysis; Research Methods/ Statistical Methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/6640 |
| |
|
|
| Han, Zhi-cheng; Li, Xiao-xiang; Li, Zhi-xian. |
| According to the household consumption data of urban residents in Guangxi Statistical Yearbook in the year 2009, the ELES (Extended Linear Expenditure System) is used to analyze the consumption structure, the propensity to consume, and the consumer flexibility of urban residents in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China in the year 2008. Result shows that urban residents in Guangxi has relatively low propensity to consume. And their consumption, especially the middle and low-income families, is mostly concentrated in food, cloth, lodging and other basic necessities of life, which account for more than a half of their income. Based on this, corresponding suggestions are put forward to enlarge the consumption demand of urban residents in Guangxi, such as... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Consumption structure; ELES Model; Propensity to consume; Flexibility; China; Agribusiness. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/108404 |
| |
| Registros recuperados: 25 | |
|
|
|
