OBJECTIVES To investigate whether life event stress was associated with greater psychological distress and poorer quality of life in older individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), in comparison with their counterparts without COPD. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PARTICIPANTS A population-based sample (N=497) of individuals aged 65 and above with COPD (postbronchodilatat...

Flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs) have the potential to eliminate the I/O bottlenecks in data-intensive applications. However, the large performance discrepancy between Flash reads and writes introduces challenges for fair resource usage. Further, existing fair queueing and quanta-based I/O schedulers poorly manage the I/O anticipation for Flash I/O fairness and efficiency. Some also suppre...

Airway clearance techniques (ACT) contribute to a high burden of care for young people with Cystic Fibrosis. Adherence ACT, along other medications is known improve outcomes. Monitoring objective adherence challenging no available devices currently on the market. Playphysio® presents an opportunity make ACT more engaging user whilst simultaneously providing insight clinicians into behaviour the...

Although previous research indicates that parental child feeding practices are one component of a bidirectional relationship between children and parents, little is known about how child temperament operates in this relationship. The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between child temperament and parental feeding practices and attitudes using a sibling design. By collecting...

OBJECTIVES To assess the impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in adult cystic fibrosis (CF) patients of chronic infection with the Liverpool Epidemic Strain (LES) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Psa). DESIGN Cohort study. PARTICIPANTS Adult CF patients attending a single CF centre. SETTING Outpatient clinic. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES HRQoL measures of adult CF patients chronically in...

On Flash-based solid-state disks (SSDs), different I/O operations (reads vs. writes, operations of different sizes) incur substantially different resource usage. This presents challenges for fair resource management in multi-programmed computer systems and multi-tenant cloud systems. Existing timeslice-based I/O schedulers achieve fairness at the cost of poor responsiveness, particularly when a...

INTRODUCTION The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among children has become a major public health problem in Malaysia. Parents play an important role in child feeding especially among younger children. METHODS A study was conducted to evaluate the beliefs, attitudes and practices in child feeding among parents of normal weight, as well as overweight and obese primary school chi...

INTRODUCTION A cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the familial and socio-environmental predictors of overweight and obesity among 1430, 9-12 year-old primary school children and their parents in Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. METHODOLOGY Body weight and height were measured and body mass index was calculated. Modified Child Feeding (CFQ) and Determinants of Adolescent Social Well-be...

OBJECTIVE Maternal child-feeding practices have been linked to overweight in several studies. Overweight is a prevalent condition in Hmong preschool children in the United States, therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether maternal child-feeding attitudes and practices were associated with overweight in Hmong preschool children. DESIGN The Child-Feeding Questionnaire (CFQ) ...

BACKGROUND In the past, the first goal of schizophrenia treatment was to reduce psychotic symptoms, mainly positive symptoms. Recently, as a result of an emphasis on patient needs, the concept of quality of life (QoL) has been brought into the treatment. The goal has therefore changed from the alleviation of symptoms to improvement of the patient's satisfaction with social activities. Self-eval...