Empirical Investigation of Work-Related Social Media Usage and Social-Related Social Media Usage on Employees' Work Performance.

The trend of using social media in the workplace is now becoming ubiquitous. Along witbenefits, social media also has negative consequences. Employees use social media for both work and social purposes.

Assessing the risk for falls among Portuguese community-dwelling stroke survivors. Are we using the better tools? Observational study.

Unlabelled: This study assesses the estimation of the risk for falls among community-dwelling stroke survivors referred for ambulatory physiotherapy and explores factors that affect the risk.

Methods: Observational, cross-sectional with nested case-control study, of individuals, referred to physiotherapy less than 12 months after stroke and able to walk independently. Berg Balance Scale, Timed Up and Go Test, and the Motor Assessment Scale were applied.

Assessing the Impact of Green Hiring on Sustainable Performance: Mediating Role of Green Performance Management and Compensation.

The global need to preserve ecology has propelled the green movement across the globe. An emerging managerial challenge for all organizations is to protect natural resources by reducing their negative impact on the environment and increase sustainable performance. Greening is the need of the age to conserve natural resources.

Better balance: a randomised controlled trial of oculomotor and gaze stability exercises to reduce risk of falling after stroke.

Objective: To assess the effect of a domiciliary program of oculomotor and gaze stability exercises on the incidence of falls and risk of fall in stroke survivors.

Design: Two-arm, non-blinded parallel randomized controlled trial.

Subjects: Stroke survivors older than 60 years, with positive Romberg test and autonomous gait after the stroke.

Is a combined programme of manual therapy and exercise more effective than usual care in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain? A randomized controlled trial.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of a combined intervention of manual therapy and exercise (MET) versus usual care (UC), on disability, pain intensity and global perceived recovery, in patients with non-specific chronic neck pain (CNP).

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Outpatient care units.

Gait profile score identifies changes in gait kinematics in nonfaller, faller and recurrent faller older adults women.

Background: Quantification of differences in gait kinematics between young and older adults provides insight on age-related gait changes and can contribute to the investigation of risk of falls. Gait Profile Score (GPS) is an index that indicates gait quality, using kinematic gait data, but so far it has not been used in an elderly population without neurological conditions.

Research Question: Is the Gait Profile Score (GPS) an index that shows reliability for use in old adults? Does this index detect changes in gait quality observed by kinematic data between nonfaller, faller and recurrent faller older adults?

Methods: Forty-nine women (mean age 72,43 ± 6,44; 27 faller and 22 nonfaller) were included in the study.

Effects of oculomotor and gaze stability exercises on balance after stroke: Clinical trial protocol.

Highlights: Balance problems after stroke are an important risk factor for falling.The inability to maintain balance decreased potential for recovery.This trial assesses the effect of oculomotor and gaze stability training on balance.

Dominance of pressure natriuresis in acute depressor responses to increased renal artery pressure in rabbits and rats.

Increasing renal artery pressure (RAP) activates pressure diuresis/natriuresis and inhibits renal renin release. There is also evidence that increasing RAP stimulates release of a putative depressor hormone from the renal medulla, although this hypothesis remains controversial. We examined the relative roles of these antihypertensive mechanisms in the acute depressor responses to increased RAP in anaesthetized rabbits and rats.