One of the crucial features of double-blind, placebocontrolled food challenge test (DBPCFC) is sufficient blinding of the allergenic food. Blinding is important to avoid any bias during the food challenge. Neither the patient nor the health care professionals involved in the test should be able to identify when the placebo or active test food are being administered. Only if this is guaranteed, ...

The problem of assessing, managing and forecasting air pollution (AP) has been in the top of the environmental agenda for decades, and contemporary urban life has made this problem more intense and severe in terms of quality of life degradation. A number of computational methods have been employed in an effort to model and simulate air quality (AQ). Air pollution is related to various substance...

Additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing has been playing a very important role in the sector recent decades. The AM basic process is meant to produce an object layer by and many advantages that include occurrence of only minimal production waste during easy manufacture even most geometrically complex materials. However, there are challenging decision-making situations for its users, example,...

As the number of mobile users in cellular systems increases, the user mobility becomes the dominating factor for guaranteeing quality of services (QoS). In order to support QoS for mobiles in cellular systems, the concept of accumulated user mobility is combined with the handoff algorithm to reduce the amount of reserving channels (codes) for handoff calls and increase the total carried traffic...

Traditional mask-beginning design flow of micro device is unintuitive and fussy for designers. A hierarchical design method and involved key technologies for features mapping procedure are presented. With the feature-based design framework, the model of micro device is organized by various features in different designing stages, which can be converted into each other based on the mapping rules....

Picky eating (‘fussy’ or ‘choosy eating’) is a common behavior in preschool children, which may persist into late childhood and adolescence [1-4]. It is usually classified as part of a spectrum of ‘feeding difficulties’ where it is the most common form at one end, with severe eating disorders at the other end [5]. There is no consensus yet on a single definition of picky eating but most definit...

Previous research suggests that fussy temperament in infancy predicts risk for later antisocial behavior (ASB) in childhood and adolescence. It remains unclear, however, to what extent infant fussiness is related to later ASB through causal processes or if they both reflect the same family risk factors for ASB. The current study used two approaches, the comparison of siblings and bivariate biom...