Refine
Year of publication
Document Type
- Article (404) (remove)
Has Fulltext
- yes (404)
Is part of the Bibliography
- no (404)
Keywords
- Heavy Ion Experiments (20)
- Hadron-Hadron Scattering (11)
- Hadron-Hadron scattering (experiments) (11)
- LHC (9)
- Heavy-ion collision (6)
- ALICE experiment (4)
- Collective Flow (4)
- Jets (4)
- Quark-Gluon Plasma (4)
- ALICE (3)
Institute
- Physik (379)
- Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) (298)
- Informatik (259)
- Medizin (18)
- Informatik und Mathematik (3)
- Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK-F) (2)
- ELEMENTS (2)
- Hochschulrechenzentrum (2)
- Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität (2)
- Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft (2)
In the context of workplace health promotion, physical activity programs have been shown to reduce musculoskeletal diseases and stress, and to improve the quality of life. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of using the “five-Business” stretch training device for office workers on their quality of life. A total of 313 office workers (173m/137f) participated voluntarily in this intervention–control study with an average age of 43.37 ± 11.24 (SD) years, 175.37 ± 9.35 cm in height and 75.76 ± 15.23 kg in weight, with an average BMI of 24.5 ± 3.81 kg/m2. The participants completed the stretch training twice a week for approximately 10 minutes for a duration of 12 weeks. The SF-36 questionnaire was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention at baseline and after 12 weeks. Significantly improved outcomes in mental sum score (p = 0.008), physical functioning (p < 0.001), bodily pain (p = 0.01), vitality (p = 0.025), role limitations due to physical problems (p = 0.018) and mental health (p = 0.012) were shown after the stretching training. The results suggest that a 12-week stretching program for office desk workers is suitable to improve significantly their health-related quality of life.
The free energy of TAP-solutions for the SK-model of mean field spin glasses can be expressed as a nonlinear functional of local terms: we exploit this feature in order to contrive abstract REM-like models which we then solve by a classical large deviations treatment. This allows to identify the origin of the physically unsettling quadratic (in the inverse of temperature) correction to the Parisi free energy for the SK-model, and formalizes the true cavity dynamics which acts on TAP-space, i.e. on the space of TAP-solutions. From a non-spin glass point of view, this work is the first in a series of refinements which addresses the stability of hierarchical structures in models of evolving populations.