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PREC 2019: Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching

Exercising is strongly recommended for prevention and treatment of pathologies with high prevalence such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and diabetes. The World Health Organization (WHO) states that insufficient physical activity is one of the leading ...

IEEE2019

The upper limit of cardiorespiratory fitness associated with longevity: an update

Johannes Burtscher

In 2013, mortality reductions with improving cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) have been suggested to persist until 13 METs. More recently, accumulating evidence from large-scale studies suggests that mortality from all causes decreases with increasing CRF l ...

AMER INST MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES-AIMS2019

The Adapted Lifestyle-Integrated Functional Exercise Program for Preventing Functional Decline in Young Seniors: Development and Initial Evaluation

Wei Zhang

Background: The Lifestyle-integrated Functional Exercise (LiFE) program is an intervention integrating balance and strength activities into daily life, effective at reducing falls in at-risk people >= 70 years. There is potential for LiFE to be adapted to ...

KARGER2019

Protocol for the PreventIT feasibility randomised controlled trial of a lifestyle-integrated exercise intervention in young older adults

Kamiar Aminian, Anisoara Ionescu

Introduction The European population is rapidly ageing. In order to handle substantial future challenges in the healthcare system, we need to shift focus from treatment towards health promotion. The PreventIT project has adapted the Lifestyle-integrated Ex ...

BMJ2019

Mitochondrial oxidative capacity and NAD(+) biosynthesis are reduced in human sarcopenia across ethnicities

Patrick Descombes, Sylviane Métairon, Sonia Karaz, Sofia Moco, Tanja Sonntag, Lei Feng

The causes of impaired skeletal muscle mass and strength during aging are well-studied in healthy populations. Less is known on pathological age-related muscle wasting and weakness termed sarcopenia, which directly impacts physical autonomy and survival. H ...

Springer2019

Territoires apprenants, la pédagogie à l’épreuve du terrain

Guillaume Simon Joseph Drevon, Luc Marc Gwiazdzinski

Autour du terme générique « territoire apprenant », se déploient actuellement des dispositifs « géo-pédagogiques » partenariaux, hybrides, in vivo, in situ et hors les murs. Dans un contexte favorable à la « territorialisation de l’activité éducative », à ...

2018

Robust ECG Denoising for eHealth Applications

Guglielmo Frigo

Portable monitoring devices have provided an important cost-effective solution in the development of eHealth applications, providing opportunities for population-wide promotion of physical activity. Monitoring heart profile parameters during extensive acti ...

IEEE2018

Predicted responses of a large-scale Pseudomonas putida KT2440 kinetic metabolic model to several single-gene knockouts are consistent with experimental observations

Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Ljubisa Miskovic, Milenko Tokic

P. putida emerged as one of the most promising production hosts for a wide range of chemicals, due to its fast growth with a low nutrient and cellular energy demand, considerable metabolic versatility, ability to grow in wide range of chemicals, suitabilit ...

2018

Prediction of patient-reported physical activity scores from wearable accelerometer data: a feasibility study

Martin Jaggi, Inès Bahej

Many diseases are characterized by limitations in mobility, including a wide range of musculoskeletal and neurological conditions. Reduced mobility impacts a patients ability to perform activities of daily living, which in turn reduces health-related quali ...

2018

Enhanced Respiratory Chain Supercomplex Formation in Response to Exercise in Human Skeletal Muscle

Johan Auwerx, Carlos Canto Alvarez, Xu Wang, Pooja Jha, Chiara Greggio

Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of multiple metabolic complications. Physical activity is known to increase mitochondrial content in skeletal muscle, counteracting age-related decline in muscle function and protecting against metabolic and cardiova ...

Cell Press2017

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