Motivators and barriers to exercise in college students compared to faculty and staff.

: Compare the barriers and motivators to exercise in faculty/staff compared to students. : Students and faculty/staff who were enrolled or employed at a college in Pennsylvania were emailed a link to a 91-question online Qualtrics survey. : The survey collected demographic information as well as physical activity habits and included the Barriers to Being Active Questionnaire, Motivations for Physical Activities Measure, and Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire.

Block-pulse integrodifference equations.

We present a hybrid method for calculating the equilibrium population-distributions of integrodifference equations (IDEs) with strictly increasing growth, for populations that are confined to a finite habitat-patch. This method is based on approximating the growth function of the IDE with a piecewise-constant function, and we call the resulting model a block-pulse IDE. We explicitly write out analytic expressions for the iterates and equilibria of the block-pulse IDEs as sums of cumulative distribution functions.

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceptions of health, well-being, and college experience in Division III student-athletes.

Determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on student-athletes. Participants (n = 238) were Division III student-athletes (18-24yrs) enrolled at a Pennsylvania State University campus during the Fall 2020 semester. Student-athletes were emailed a link of a 43-question survey which was deployed using Qualtrics®.

Impact of a short-term low calorie diet alone or with interval exercise on quality of life and oxidized phospholipids in obese females.

The objective of this study was to test if a low-calorie diet plus interval exercise (LCD+INT) reduced oxidized and non-oxidized phospholipids in relation to improved weight-related quality of life (QoL) to a greater extent than an energy-deficit matched LCD in obese females. Subjects (age: 47.2 ± 2.

Effect of presurgical aerobic exercise on cardiometabolic health 30 days after bariatric surgery.

We evaluated the effect of preoperative standard medical care (SC) vs. unsupervised aerobic exercise combined with SC (EX + SC) on cardiometabolic health and quality of life (QoL) 30 days after bariatric surgery. Bariatric patients (n = 14, age: 42.