An 8-year-old black female with hypertension and insulin resistance presents to the emergency department with a severe headache and fainting episode. She reports that she has had headaches over the past few days that have been treated with ibuprofen, but had sudden onset of a severe headache while standing up giving an oral presentation at school today. Her teacher allowed the patient to sit do...

The development of computer technology has created artifacts that have more complex and intelligent functions. Such artifacts need more sophisticated interfaces than primitive artifacts. In this paper, we discuss which characteristics are appropriate for interfaces with artifacts and propose a concept of active affordance. We describe an autonomous mobile chair that we built as a test bed for a...

These networks are experiencing an exponential rise in the number and activity of users in recent years, leading to problems of scalability and increasing spam. Most OSNs currently impose restrictions on the number of social links that a user can have, in order to reduce strain on the OSN infrastructure and to prevent spammers from contacting large number of users indiscriminately. However, suc...

This is an account of the subjective experiences of some two years of Vipassana or Insight meditation. During the first year this comprised an average of approximately one hour per day and during the second was increased to about two hours, as well as some six weeks of intensive meditation retreats, usually of two weeks duration. These retreats comprised about 18to 20 hours daily of continuous ...

BACKGROUND Accelerometers have been used to determine the amount of time that children spend sedentary. However, as time spent sitting may be detrimental to health, research is needed to examine whether accelerometer sedentary cut-points reflect the amount of time children spend sitting. The aim of this study was to: a) examine agreement between ActiGraph (AG) cut-points for sedentary time and ...

BACKGROUND High amounts of time spent sitting can increase cardiovascular disease risk and are deleteriously associated cardio-metabolic risk biomarkers. Though evidence suggests that accruing sitting time in prolonged periods may convey additional risk, verification using high-quality measures is needed. We examined this issue in adults from the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study...

Diabetes is a group of chronic conditions characterized by high levels glucose (sugar) in the blood. The hallmark Mellitus, which mostly brought on people's daily routines, considered disease. Here, habits refer to those that steer person away from active lifestyle choices and towards sedentary routine with little no activities. Modern life built goal make our lives easy, relaxing, less tiring ...

We examined three intervention methods for their efficacy in preventing aspiration in 25 patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) and 23 patients with degenerative cerebellar ataxia (CA). On videofluoroscopic examination. 13 patients with PD (52%) and 7 patients with CA (30.4%) showed aspiration. In all PD patients and 5 patients with CA, no aspiration was observed after changing the food form. W...

Previous research has shown that computer-based tasks can motivate people with autism and encourage learning. As a computer-based medium, Virtual Environments (VEs) offer a potentially useful tool for social skills training for people with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs). However, there are some concerns over whether people with ASDs can understand, use and interpret the technology appropria...