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Assessing the effects of weather conditions on physical activity participation using objective measures
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Chan, Catherine B., Ryan, Daniel A.
Habitual physical activity is an important determinant of health, yet many people are considered to be inactive. Identification of the obstacles to greater participation is necessary for the development of strategies to overcome those obstacles. The weather has been identified as a perceived...
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2006
Wein, R.W., Cumming, S.G., Flannigan, M.D., Krawchuk, M.A.
Lighting, fire is the dominant natural disturbance of the western mixedwood boreal forest of North America. We quantified the independent effects of weather and forest composition oil lightning fire initiation (a detected and recorded fire start) patterns in Alberta, Canada, to demonstrate how...
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Relationship between objective measures of physical activity and weather: A longitudinal study
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Ryan, Daniel A. J., Chan, Catherine B., Tudor-Locke, Catrine
Background The weather may be a barrier to physical activity but objective assessment of this hypothesis is lacking. Therefore we evaluated the effect of temperature, rain or snow, and wind speed on the daily physical activity of adults. Methods This report contains data from 25 males (BMI (mean...