To analyze the time spent on physical activity in female and male individuals as a predictor of the absence of functional disability in older adults, a cross-sectional study was conducted with 624 individuals. Receiver Operating Characteristic curves (ROC) were constructed and compared to areas of physical activity by gender and the absence of functional disability. We identified cutoffs of phy...

Methods of determining a child's growth and development which are exact, reliable and also recordable objectively are important in confirming, treating and controlling the effect of treatment in both medicine and dentistry. A roentgenological determination of the skeletal age is generally used in estimating the physical age of a child. In this study, (1) the dental age, which is calculated from...

It may be said that measurement of the levels of health of a given community is highly important for promoting community health activities, regardless of the size of population of the community in question. The author investigated whether or not the physical statistics of schoolchildren in the field of school health were suitable as a health indicator in measuring the levels of health of a comm...

The World Food Summit in 1996 provided a comprehensive definition for food security which brings into focus the linkage between food, nutrition and health. India has been self sufficient in food production since seventies and low household hunger rates. India compares well with developing countries with similar health profile in terms of infant mortality rate (IMR) and under five mortality rate...

Previous studies have found poverty to be related to lower levels of health due to poor health behavior such as unhealthy eating, smoking or less physical activity. Longer periods of poverty seem to be especially harmful for individual health behavior. Studies have shown that poverty has a dynamic character. Moreover, poverty is increasingly regarded as being a multidimensional construct and on...

A number of foot placement strategies for walking have been proposed that make use of widely varying model complexities. Although a number of successful demonstrations have been individually shown in simulation and on physical robots, it is difficult to make a direct performance comparison due to the large differences in hardware, gait generation strategy, control system gains, actuator saturat...

This paper aims at the handling and treatment of nuclear safeguard relevant information by using a linguistic assessment approach. This is based on a hierarchical analysis of a State’s nuclear activities in a multi-layer structure of the evaluation model. After a hierarchical analysis of the State’s nuclear activities on the basis of the IAEA Physical Model, the addressed objective is divided i...

Maximum likelihood-based (ML) receiver structures are derived for the decoding of the downlink control channels in the new long-term evolution (LTE) standard based on multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antennas and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). The performance of the proposed receiver structures for the physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH) and the physi...