We used Student's t-test for quantitative variables, such as age, BMI, PSA level (log transformed), exercise intensity scores and weekly drinking and χ2 tests for ordered categorical variables, such as smoking status (current smoker, ever smoker and non-smoker) and social class (professional, intermediate and manual).
BMD: bone mineral density, ALP: Alkaline phosphatase Effective exercise time-log: transformed effective exercise time = LG10 (old value + 1) ALP-log: transformed ALP = LG10 (old value) Bone mass is a complex trait characterized by multiple determinants, such as gene-environmental interactions [ 25].
Table 6 shows that three variables, i.e., age, transformed effective exercise time, serum albumin level, and age significantly predicted the FN BMD; the standardized coefficients were 0.324 (p = 0.006), 0.278 (p = 0.017), and -0.291 (p = 0.013) respectively.
It is damaging for everyone concerned when daily transactions that ought to be readily verifiable are needlessly transformed into exercises in trust.
Teachers should teach students to apply what they have learned by transforming their exercises into hands-on writing projects.
(II) The exercise is transformed into a Virtual Exercise, in which all the exercise elements are implemented inside a simple virtual environment.
As any gym instructor will tell you, enough repetitions will transform your strength-building exercise into something more aerobic.
— ERIC GRODE My all-time love-hate relationship with a reality show was "The Swan," where women would literally undergo dramatic plastic surgery, unhealthy dieting and exercise to transform themselves in just a few months.
In fact, they actually contaminate the way we think about exercise and transform it from an essential, life-giving activity to guilt-inducing punishment.
Elsewhere, we encounter the artist Mika Rottenberg, whose videos transform mundane tasks into exercises in the strange and the sublime; the graphic designer Frith Kerr, whose Calvinist exterior belies a Rococo imagination; and the designer Tino Seubert, whose benches and chairs offer a front-row seat to great moments in history.
