OBJECTIVE To examine whether day napping or short night sleeping is associated with higher risk of diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a prospective study of hours of day napping and night sleeping assessed in 1996-1997 in relation to diabetes diagnosed between 2000 and 2006 (n = 10,143) among 174,542 participants in the National Institutes of Health (NIH)-AARP Diet and Health Stud...

background: diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases worldwide. the number of diabetic patients in iran is estimated 1.5 million. this survey has been conducted to evaluate diabetes and impaired fasting glucose status among 25-64 aged inhabitants of 17th zone of tehran, selected as population lab region. methods: this study is a part of the cardiovascular risk factors survey in the p...

Decayless kink oscillations of an ensemble loops are captured simultaneously by the High Resolution Imager (HRI) Extreme Ultraviolet (EUI) and Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) from 22:58 UT on 5 November to 00:27 6 2021. Oscillations analysed processing image sequences taken two instruments with a motion magnification technique. The around 51 Mm in length, oscillate short periods 1-3 min (1.6...

Background: in order to evaluate educational courses, usually different criteria of student and academic staff are being used. These criteria for students include their number, fields, the ratio of post-garaduate students to all students, and for staff, they are composed of their number, their rank in the academic pyramid, as well as the ratio of students to academic staff classified based on t...

HRI is an excellent candidate for simulator based research because of the relative simplicity of the systems being modeled, the behavioral fidelity possible with current physics engines and the capability of modern graphics cards to approximate camera video. In this paper we briefly introduce the USARsim simulation and discuss efforts to validate its behavior for use in Human Robot Interaction ...

While research in machine ethics has investigated mechanisms for making artificial agents’ decisions more ethical, there is currently not work investigating adaptations to human-robot interaction (HRI) that can promote ethical behavior on the human side. We present the first results from HRI experiments showing that verbal protests and affective displays can promote ethical behavior in human su...

As part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency/National Science Foundation study on human–robot inter­ action (HRI), over sixty representatives from academia, govern­ ment, and industry participated in an interdisciplinary workshop, which allowed roboticists to interact with psychologists, sociolo­ gists, cognitive scientists, communication experts and human–com­ puter interaction speci...

The emerging field of study that is human-robot interaction continues one of the main goals of general robotics research: to create robots that can serve as effective helpmates to humans. Building on the work modeling and acting in physical environments that have led to great successes in navigation and other lower level capabilities, HRI takes on an even more difficult challenge: that of model...

There is an emerging “aging phenomenon” worldwide. It is likely that we will require the introduction of assistive technologies that can assist caregivers in the exercise of elderly care. Such technologies should be designed in ways that promote high levels of human dignity and quality of life through the aging process. Social Assistive Robots (SARs) demonstrate high potential for complementing...