The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of self-reported perceived stress at work and home on the levels, variation and co-variation of ambulatory blood pressure (BP), pulse rate (PR) and urinary catecholamine, cortisol, and aldosterone excretion measured at work, home and during sleep in women employed outside the home. The subjects of the study were 134 women (mean age 34.4 +/- 9...

These days, the concept of Smart Home or Ubiquitous Home Network System is becoming more popular. It is anticipated that Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Mobile RFID technologies would play a major role in such an environment. At the outset this paper describes some of the RFID-based applications that are applicable to smart home environment. We then identify the security threats and s...

BACKGROUND Despite the well-replicated relationship between the home literacy environment and expressive vocabulary, few studies have examined the extent to which the home literacy environment is associated with the development of early vocabulary ability in the context of genetic influences. This study examined the influence of the home literacy environment on the longitudinal covariance of ex...

introduction study of environmental behavior and the factors affecting it, is one of the most fundamental issues of interest to researchers in the interdisciplinary fields including environmental field. in this regard, the basic objective of this paper is to study of environmental behavior spillover. one of the determinant factors of forming behavior in the field of environment is “place”. indi...

The application scenario for the ubiquitous home environment is proposed in this paper. The scenario is made using smart home appliances and an intelligent agent. The smart home appliances can communicate with each other through sensor networks and share the context via a home server. The intelligent agent autonomously learns preference of the house owner by analyzing the context data, and cont...

This study was done to validate the screening tool Home Screening Questionnaire (HSQ) against the gold standard Home Observation for the Measurement of Environment (HOME) inventory, using diagnostic test evaluation. Both HOME inventory and HSQ were administered by separate observers, with children less than 3 years of age, among 200 families belonging to 14 anganwadi areas. There was a high sen...

Virtual Home Environment (VHE) lets users use the same set of selected services and a personal customized user interface when roaming in other networks or using different terminals. Authentication of the user and service providers is important as access to user profiles has to be tightly controlled. There are different methods for user authentication, in mobile systems a token/password combinat...