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Record W4210413497 · doi:10.15406/ijcam.2020.13.00489

A journey of a thousand steps … Qigong walks for health

2020· article· en· W4210413497 on OpenAlexaff
Bernie Warren, Candace Hind

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Complementary & Alternative Medicine · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicBiofield Effects and Biophysics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Windsor
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPsychologyPhysical medicine and rehabilitationMedicine

Abstract

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Some of the health benefits of walking ii,iii,iv Many health organisations endorse walking as one of the best forms of daily exercise.Research suggests walking helps: A. Lower the rate of weight gain.a. Reduce body fat.B. Strengthen memory.C. Improve management of conditions such as diabetes, hypertension (high blood pressure), high cholesterol.D. Increase cardiovascular and pulmonary (heart and lung) fitness.a. Reduce risk of heart disease and stroke.E. Reduce joint and muscular pain or stiffness.F. Build stronger bones and improve balance.G. Increase muscle strength and endurance.H. Prevent and/or relieve stress.Conventional Western wisdom suggests that, to gain the maximum health benefits you should walk for at least 30 minutes briskly, meaning that you can still talk but not sing, at least 3times a week.While this may be true, the benefits of walking can accrue from simply getting "off the couch" and going for slower and more leisurely strolls.In addition to the obvious walking practice of simply putting one foot in front of the other, there are many other different styles of walking.v,vi Chinese martial arts practice employs multiple ways of stepping and walking.Underlying these movements is Qigong.While "Qigong" is a modern construct, many of the methods that are used today are derived from age-old Chinese traditions-most notably Taoist & Buddhist longevity (so called immortality) techniques, meditations and martial arts training exercises.These exercises emphasise the cultivation of internal energy by focussing on breathing patterns, physical posture, and coordination which helps stimulate hormone secretion, immune function, and oxygenation of body cells.All of which help to promote health and counter stress and stress related illnesses.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.028
Threshold uncertainty score0.092

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0060.004
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0280.011

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.092
GPT teacher head0.412
Teacher spread0.321 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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