Requests for reprints should be addressed to Brian MacWhinney, Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Our thanks to Ferenc Dudás and Miklos Kovács for their assistance in running the experiments and to Károly Halmai for technical assistance. This work was supported by Grant HD17790 from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmen t to Br...

BACKGROUND Recent national attention to obesity prevention has highlighted the importance of community-based initiatives. State health departments are in a unique position to offer resources and support for local obesity prevention efforts. COMMUNITY CONTEXT In North Carolina, one-third of children are overweight or obese. North Carolina's Division of Public Health supports community-based ob...

BACKGROUND Public health faces major challenges to building state and local infrastructure with the capacity to address the underlying causes of chronic disease. We describe a structured statewide approach to providing technical assistance for local communities to support and develop health promotion capacity. CONTEXT Over the last two decades, the North Carolina Statewide Health Promotion pr...

OBJECTIVES Personal and equipment assistance are often used to reduce disability. This study predicts use of assistance, type of assistance, and its efficacy (improvement with assistance) for disabilities in personal care and household management tasks. METHODS U.S. community-dwellers aged 55+ are studied using the 1994-1995 National Health Interview Survey Disability Supplement. Three types ...

the least developed and developing countries constitute two third of the members the world trade organizations (wto). these groups of countries have different views and concerns on international trade issues. as far as development is concerned, they have different needs and their economic system is often weak and fragile and therefore, they need extra protection. the wto agreements contain spec...

Consistent with the National Energy Policy Act of 1992 (NEPACT), the State of Washington recently adopted a Non-Residential Energy Code (NREC), based on ASHRAE/Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Standard 90.11989. This process encompassed significantly more effort than simply adopting the entire Standard 90.1. Evaluations indicated less than satisfactory compliance with the previous code, a...

s / Porto Biomed. J. 2017;2(5):176–246 221 of PT2020, to INNOVMAR (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035, NOVELMAR), supported by NORTE 2020, under PORTUGAL 2020, through ERDF. To Dr. S Cravo for technical assistance.

Acknowledgment I thank Selex ES and SESM for supporting my PhD's scholarship. Also, I express my gratitude to Dr. Alfonso Farina for his technical support during my research activities, the continuous assistance, encouragement and kindness demonstrated during these three years.

s / Porto Biomed. J. 2017;2(5):176–246 221 of PT2020, to INNOVMAR (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035, NOVELMAR), supported by NORTE 2020, under PORTUGAL 2020, through ERDF. To Dr. S Cravo for technical assistance.

s / Porto Biomed. J. 2017;2(5):176–246 221 of PT2020, to INNOVMAR (NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000035, NOVELMAR), supported by NORTE 2020, under PORTUGAL 2020, through ERDF. To Dr. S Cravo for technical assistance.