BACKGROUND Metabolic syndrome poses an increased global burden of disease and causes immense financial burden, warranting heightened public health attention. The present study assessed the prevalence and severity of cardiometabolic risk among foreign-born versus US-born blacks, while exploring potential gender-based effects. METHODS A total of 1035 patients from the Metabolic Syndrome Outcome...

This article describes a simple and inexpensive modem intended to link end users at 76.8kBit/s to the high speed backbone network. The modem can be connected to standard PC’s using the Universal Serial Bus (USB).

The capture of communications data between computers and devices with embedded controllers such as digital cameras or MP3 players is becoming more and more necessary as communications protocols become more complex. It is frequently necessary to examine a log of the data exchanged between two devices when error checking or debugging new devices, when testing or developing device drivers, and whe...

This paper presents the design and development of a low cost Data Acquisition System (DAS) using PIC12F675 microcontroller for real time temperature and humidity monitoring. The designed DAS has 4 analog input channels having 10-bit resolution and was interfaced through the serial port of the PC. A precision integrated temperature sensor and an instrumentation-quality RH (Relative Humidity) sen...

The wireless universal serial bus (WUSB) connects personal computers (PCs) to their peripherals and the consumer-electronics (CE) in people’s living home networks. A wireless body area network (WBAN) allows the integration of intelligent, miniaturized, low-power sensor nodes that monitor body functions and the surrounding environment. In this paper, we propose a method for multi-hop network ext...

This paper presents the design and development of a low cost Data Acquisition System (DAS) using PIC12F675 microcontroller for real time temperature and humidity monitoring. The designed DAS has 4 analog input channels having 10-bit resolution and was interfaced through the serial port of the PC. A precision integrated temperature sensor and an instrumentationquality RH (Relative Humidity) sens...

In this paper we address the planning problem of a robot searching for multiple residents in a retirement home in order to remind them of an upcoming multi-person recreational activity before a given deadline. We introduce a novel Multi-User Schedule Based (M-USB) Search approach which generates a high-level-plan to maximize the number of residents that are found within the given time frame. Fr...

As personal computing becomes more popular and affordable, the availability of peripheral devices is also increasing rapidly. However, these peripheral devices can usually only be connected to a single machine at time. The ability to share peripheral devices between computers without any modification of existing computing environments is, consequently, a highly desirable goal, as it improves th...

The problem of securing data present on USB memories and SD cards has not been adequately addressed in the cryptography literature. While the formal notion of a tweakable enciphering scheme (TES) is well accepted as the proper primitive for secure data storage, the real challenge is to design a low cost TES which can perform at the data rates of the targeted memory devices. In this work, we pro...

In this paper we suggest improved IKE key exchange protocol combined with the Computer Security USB Key device to solve the problems in using IKE and IKE v2 protocol.