This study compared differences in both maladaptive beliefs and attitudes about sleep between African American (heareafter referred to as black) men at risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and those without OSA risk. METHODS A convenience sample of 120 community-dwelling men provided sociodemographic, health and sleep data. A validated questionnaire was used to identify men at high risk for...

VOLUME 37 • AUGUST 2012 • www.mrs.org/bulletin © 2012 Materials Research Society Plasmonics: Converting photons into the nanoscale Recently, photonic technologies have become universal in global data communications. 1 The unprecedented data bandwidths, ever falling power consumption requirements, and reduced cost margins of on-chip photonics 2,3 have established a photonic roadmap for scaling d...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to investigate the prevalence and factors associated with short sleep duration in adolescents from Maravilha - Santa Catarina (SC), southern Brazil. METHODS The sample consisted of 516 adolescents aged 10-19 years of both genders. Issues associated with short sleep duration and difficulty falling asleep, chronotype, daytime sleepi-ness, physical activity, sedentary ...

A study was conducted which aimed to determine whether varying attractiveness and character integrity significantly affected the severity of the crime which participants associated with defendant portraits. Participants were shown attractive and unattractive portraits that were paired with a positive, negative or no-character statement. It was predicated that both variables would have effects o...

The mixed cold-hot dark matter cosmological model (CHDM) with Ωtot = 1 and a falling power-law initial spectrum of Gaussian adiabatic perturbations (n > 1) is tested using recent obserbational data. It is shown that its fit to the data becomes worse with the growth of n− 1, and may be considered as unreasonable for n > 1.1 for all possible values of the Hubble constant. Thus, the CHDM model wit...

OBJECTIVES To determine predictors of fear of falling in older Mexican Americans over time. DESIGN Longitudinal study. SETTING Community-dwelling residents throughout California, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. PARTICIPANTS Community-dwelling Mexican Americans aged 72 and older participating in the Hispanic Established Populations for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly from ...

background: considering progressive increase in the senile population and increasing number of parkinson patients (pp) and their movement disorders, researchers are searching for some non-medicinal strategies (i.e. corrective exercises) to promote the efficiency of physical performance and quality of life (qol) among pp. the aim of this study was to assess the fear of falling (fof) and qol foll...

Fear of falling (FOF) creates a psychological barrier to performing activities for many older adults. The negative impact of fear of falling increases risk of curtailment of activities, future falls, and injury. The specific aim for this study was to investigate the relationship between two fear of falling measures used in clinical research, the FOF Likert scale and Falls Self Efficacy Scale-In...