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From:The Southern Review (Vol. 48, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe boats leaned back toward the boardwalk as the wind and wake rocked them and tilted the masts that shone like pewter. The dark looked laminated over the distant beach-house lights while the gulls, closer in, clamored...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 59, Issue 1-2) Peer-Reviewedfrom ON WALKING ON HUMBOLDT Between 1799 and 1804 splendid in forms cast the color all through Alexander von Humboldt largely in birds sometimes a vivid blue got lost in the sky, walked over 6,000 miles through Central...
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From:Diabetes Forecast (Vol. 45, Issue 3)One of the simplest, healthiest, and most inexpensive ways to exercise is walking. It's the kind of exercise that will fit into almost anyone's schedule, and you don't have to join a health club. Other than purchasing a...
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From:Biomechanics (Vol. 14, Issue 8)Byline: Jordana Bieze Foster The ground reaction force patterns associated with a short leg walker do not normalize when a heel insert is used in the shoe of the unaffected limb to alleviate limb length discrepancy,...
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From:PT in Motion (Vol. 4, Issue 4)Women who live in neighborhoods with sidewalks, low crime, and resources such as shops and recreation centers are more likely to meet weekly guidelines for physical activity by walking, running, or bicycling, according...
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From:Lung India (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ramanathan. Ramanathan, Baskaran. Chandrasekaran Background: Six-min walk test (6MWT), a simple functional capacity evaluation tool used globally to determine the prognosis and effectiveness of any...
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From:Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 8, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedByline: Xinguang. Wang, Nicholas. O'Dwyer, Mark. Halaki Walking is a complex task which includes hundreds of muscles, bones and joints working together to deliver smooth movements. With the complexity, walking has...
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From:Canadian Journal of Public Health (Vol. 103, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjectives: To date, only a few studies have attempted to study the processes by which community design and the built and social environments affect individual physical activity, especially in children. Qualitative...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 26, Issue 43) Peer-ReviewedIt struck me the other day as I struggled to keep up with a long-legged friend that I resembled a poodle scuttling along beside its owner. While he was walking, I was running. All I needed was a lead. But it wasn't...
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From:Australian GeographicPeer-ReviewedByline: John Pickrell YOUTHFUL AND RUDDY-FACED, our walking guide Anna Reddington gestured through alpine yellow gums and a break in the cloud to the dolerite columns and spires marking the plateau of Tasmania's 1386...
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From:Poetry (Vol. 197, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedwalking person who has sky flowing--by one who beside is as if being backward by walking in life of people? but of one being 'defenseless' by the huge--is elating which is time. 'I was by a bigger...
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From:Annals of Thoracic Medicine (Vol. 1, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Hatem. Al Ameri BACKGROUND: Six minutes walk test (6MWT), is a sub-maximal exercise test, used as a clinical indicator of the functional capacity, in patients with cardiopulmonary diseases. Its safety,...
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From:School Library Journal (Vol. 50, Issue 2)LATE LAST SUMMER, BRENDA EVANS, THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARIAN AT Madison-Jefferson County Public Library in Madison, IN, asked volunteer Louise Kant if she was interested in reviving an old book-buddy program. Kant was...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 81, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedIn the United States, 56% to 83% of amputations occur in people with diabetes, and the most common causal factors are peripheral sensory neuropathy and neuropathic ulceration.[1,2] Fifteen percent of individuals with...
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From:The Western Journal of Medicine (Vol. 175, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWalking can burn more calories than jogging People may burn more calories by abandoning the pretense of "going for a run" and going for a walk at the same speed instead (J Sports Med Phys Fitness 2001;40:297-302). A...
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From:Practice NurseRehabilitation schemes for patients with heart problems are taking a step in the right direction. The Walking the Way to Health Initiative (a partnership between the British Heart Foundation and the Countryside Agency)...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 76, Issue 1)Kathryn Davis, The Walking Tour, Houghton Mifflin Kathryn Davis is on to something big and bold in The Walking Tour, and she has found fresh, vital ways to say it. Center and edge will switch places in the book,...
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From:Alternatives Journal (Vol. 26, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe act of walking is both a joy and a rebellion On a brilliant winter's day, I go walkabout in a forest north of Lakefield, Ontario. There are tangles of dogwood, cedars and fallen logs to get through and just...
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From:Social Policy (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewedby John Lewis with Michael D'Orso, Simon & Schuster, 1998, 496pp., $26.00. John Lewis, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the early to mid-1960s, now serves as a Congressman from...
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From:Physical Therapy (Vol. 79, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe purpose of this study was to determine the relationships between 3 walking categories and the percent predicted maximal force (PPMF) of hip and knee flexors and extensors and ankle dorsiflexors. The sample group...