With their ease of installation, infrastructureless mode of operation and flexible deployment style, Video Surveillance Sensor Networks (VSSNs) provide more opportunities than legacy surveillance methods for applications such as habitat monitoring and border surveillance. We argue that events created in the coverage area of a VSSN are the application level messaging units and propose to employ ...

Objectives. This study was conducted to determine whether maternal quality of life (QOL) and breastfeeding difficulties influence the continuation of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF). Methods. In a survey, 358 consecutive pregnant women filled out a quality of life questionnaire in the third trimester of pregnancy and the breastfeeding experience scale at 4 weeks postpartum. We assessed breastfeed...

Objetivos: determinar la correlación entre medidas del tercer molar inferior y mandibulares.
 Materiales métodos: en este estudio descriptivo fueron analizados los siguientes diámetros longitudes inferior: longitud ocluso-apical (LOA), ocluso-cérvico-vestibular (LOCV), ocluso-cérvico-lingual (LOCL), diámetro mesio-distal (DMD) vestíbulo-lingual (DVL). Por otro lado, las mandibulares obteni...

BackgroundAlthough exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) is highly emphasized by the experts, nulliparous women do not adhere to this behavior at a desirable level. Since it seems that mothers’ beliefs and values play an important role in their adherence to these behaviors, the present study, aimed to perform a careful analysis of the behavior and evaluation of factors associated with the EBF in nullip...

Precise autonomous navigation remains a substantial challenge to all underwater platforms. Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) and Doppler Velocity Logs (DVL) have complementary characteristics and are promising sensors that could enable fully autonomous underwater navigation in unexplored areas without relying on additional external Global Positioning System (GPS) or acoustic beacons. This paper ...

Aquaculture net cage inspection and maintenance is a central issue in fish farming. Inspection using autonomous underwater vehicles promising solution. This paper proposes laser-camera triangulation for pose estimation to enable following an vehicle. The laser 3D data experimentally compared doppler velocity log (DVL) active farm. We show that our system comparable performance DVL distance angu...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between the degree of compliance with the ten steps of the Breastfeeding-Friendly Primary Care Initiative (BFPCI) and the prevalence of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) in infants younger than six months in the city of Rio de Janeiro. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study conducted in a representative sample of 56 primary health care units of this municipa...

The hormone ethylene regulates a wide range of plant developmental processes and EBF (EIN3-binding F-box) proteins were shown to negatively regulate the ethylene signalling pathway via mediating the degradation of EIN3/ EIL proteins. The present study reports on the identification of two tomato F-box genes, Sl-EBF1 and Sl-EBF2 from the EBF subfamily. The two genes display contrasting expression...

For an underwater Strapdown Inertial Navigation System/Doppler velocity log (SINS/DVL) integrated navigation system, the short-term failure of DVL may lead to loss reliable external information from DVL, which will cause SINS errors accumulate. To circumvent this problem, paper proposes a predictor based on fuzzy multi-output least squares support vector machine (FMLS-SVM) predict measurements ...