Implications of environmental conditions for health status and biomechanics of freshwater macrophytes in hydraulic laboratories

Extremely hard environmental conditions during firefighting operations cause that scientific-research works are still performed aimed at development of new kind of smart protective clothing, equipped with systems supporting communication and delivering complex data about firefighters’ health status, as well as about conditions in their surroundings. Those systems can support firefighter’s work and contribute to improvement of his safety during operation. However, it is crucial that they meet firefighters’ expectations and are adjusted to their working conditions. Therefore, this publication presents the results of a survey research carried out among firefighters focused on defining their needs in relation to smart protective clothing with the hazards warning system.

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ANALYSIS OF CHANGES IN TRENDS IN THE PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF SCHOOLCHILDREN OF VLADIKAVKAZ

ЗДОРОВЬЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ И СРЕДА ОБИТАНИЯ - ЗНиСО / PUBLIC HEALTH AND LIFE ENVIRONMENT ◽

10.35627/2219-5238/2019-320-11-28-31 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 28-31

Author(s):

N.A. Merkulova ◽

L.V. Gigolaeva ◽

T.M. Butaev ◽

E.N. Mingazova ◽

N.V. Serdyuk

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Environmental Factors ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Physical Development ◽

Lifestyle Changes ◽

External Factors ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Functional Disorders ◽

State Of The Environment

The future of the country is determined by health status of the younger generation. The child body reacts most quickly to all external factors, both positive and negative. According to the indicators of physical development and the health status of the child population, it is possible to judge the socio-hygienic and economic wellbeing, the state of the environment in the region. Indicators of the physical development of children and adolescents are a combination of morphological and functional properties of the organism, characterizing the process of their growth and maturation, endurance to any changes in environmental conditions, lifestyle. In childhood and adolescence, individual indicators of physical development are constantly changing, reflecting the influence of the totality of environmental factors, the nature of nutrition, lifestyle. Changes in morbidity rates are not linear, but there are periods of some decrease in the prevalence of functional disorders and chronic diseases and periods of their rapid increase. The work revealed patterns of changes in the physical development of children and adolescents aged 7 to 17 years, which have occurred during the 2008–2017 period. We have made a prognosis of the changes in the parameters on the further physical development of children and adolescents over the next 10 years.

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ADAPTIVE PHYSICAL CULTURE IN THE SYSTEM OF ADDITIONAL EDUCATION

Перспективные направления в области физической культуры, спорта и туризма ◽

10.36906/fks-2020/01 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

M. V. Antipina ◽

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Developmental Disorders ◽

Social Adaptation ◽

Physical Culture ◽

Disabled People ◽

Persons With Disabilities ◽

Additional Education

Adaptive physical culture is, first of all, exercises aimed at adapting a person with disabilities to environmental conditions. Adaptive physical culture is an adapted program for training disabled people and persons with disabilities that takes into account the peculiarities of their psychophysical development, individual capabilities, and health status and, if necessary, provides correction of developmental disorders and social adaptation of these persons.

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Living in the Shadow of Humanity: Environmental Respiratory Threats to Migrant Backstretch Worker’s Employed at Thoroughbred Racetracks

International Journal for Human Caring ◽

10.20467/1091-5710.18.2.25 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 25-32

Author(s):

Denise Nagle Bailey

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Environmental Factors ◽

Health Risks ◽

Vulnerable Populations ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Contributing Factors ◽

Respiratory Illnesses ◽

Nurse Caring ◽

Health Related ◽

Healthcare Model

Migrant backstretch workers are comprised of a group of itinerant laborers who care for horses across our nation’s racetracks. This vulnerable and marginalized group of individuals engages in an occupation that places them at considerable risk for developing health-related respiratory illnesses as a result of environmental factors. Workers are routinely exposed to equine dander, saliva, waste, and other environmental hazards, which are contributing factors leading to a decreased health status within this population, particularly as they present with increased incidences of allergies, asthma, and dermatological diagnoses. This article considers this unique population within the context of nurse caring and the environment, and explores the critical nature to which caring as an operationalized construct impacts vulnerable populations working in suboptimal environmental conditions that impart cumulative health risks. The theoretical framework guiding this program is Ray’s Transcultural Caring Dynamics in Nursing and Healthcare Model (Ray, 2010).

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Attention-Based Health Monitoring

International Journal of Monitoring and Surveillance Technologies Research ◽

10.4018/ijmstr.2013070105 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 1 (3) ◽

pp. 68-81

Author(s):

Zenonas Theodosiou ◽

Nicolas Tsapatsoulis

Keyword(s):

Health Status ◽

Mobile Device ◽

Health Monitoring ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Medical Center ◽

Experimental Results ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Area Network ◽

Health States ◽

Personal Area Network

The application of mobile technologies for health monitoring has garnered great attention during the last years. The sensors together with a mobile device form a personal area network that monitors the patient’s health status. It gives advice to the patient, adjusts the environmental conditions according to the patient’s needs, and in the case of an emergency, notifies the patient’s doctor or the corresponding medical center. In the current work the authors present a new attention-based architecture for health monitoring emphasizing on the identification of attention seeking and dangerous health states. The experimental results indicate that the proposed architecture responses very fast to the changes of the patient’s biosignals and accurately in decisions concerning the patient’s health status.

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Vibration Isolator System for Electron Microscope

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s042482010017966x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 48 (1) ◽

pp. 182-183

Author(s):

K. Ohi ◽

M. Mizuno ◽

T. Kasai ◽

Y. Ohkura ◽

K. Mizuno ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscope ◽

Magnetic Fields ◽

Environmental Conditions ◽

Vibration Isolator ◽

Air Conditioners ◽

Vibration Isolators ◽

Large Size ◽

Electron Microscopes

In recent years, with electron microscopes coming into wider use, their installation environments do not necessarily give their performance full play. Their environmental conditions include air-conditioners, magnetic fields, and vibrations. We report a jointly developed entirely new vibration isolator which is effective against the vibrations transmitted from the floor.Conventionally, large-sized vibration isolators which need the digging of a pit have been used. These vibration isolators, however, are large present problems of installation and maintenance because of their large-size.Thus, we intended to make a vibration isolator which1) eliminates the need for changing the installation room2) eliminates the need of maintenance and3) are compact in size and easily installable.

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