Epidemic levels of inactivity are associated with chronic diseases and rising healthcare costs. To address this, accelerometers have been used to track levels of activity. The Fitbit and Fitbit Ultra are some of the newest commercially available accelerometers. The purpose of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of the Fitbit and Fitbit Ultra. Twenty-three subjects were fitt...

In addition to the third parties’ presence during incidents of violence, they often serve as witnesses to criminal events. They may call the police, provide information that helps to solve crimes, clarify the characteristics of the incident, or bear some responsibility for the commencement or escalation Third parties were present during two-thirds of all violent victimizations between 1993 and ...

In one of the most ambitious forms of environmental decision-making, representatives of interested parties – environmentalists, developers, farmers, loggers, miners, etc. are charged with the responsibility of developing a set of public policies that is acceptable to all of them. Although this approach has become increasingly popular, and has been widely discussed in the academic literature, li...

nowadays, in order to apportion the risk and to avoid the vessels' delay, most of the voyage charters include provisions, either explicit or tacit, which binding the charterers to carry out loading and discharging operation in a designated time limit (laytime), urge them,in case of delay,to pay the owners an agreed amount (ie. demurrage).though, liability for demurrage rests with the chart...

The DNSSECbis data model has key introduction follow the delegation chain, thus requiring a zone’s parent to become secure before a zone itself can be secured. Ultimately this leads to non-deployability since the root zone will probably not be secured any time soon. We describe an early deployment aid for DNSSECbis whereby key introduction can be done via cooperating third parties. key words: D...

introduction: evaluation of students’ learning in clinical education system is one of the most important and challenging issues that facilities in this field have been facing. the present study aimed to evaluate the role of feedback during evaluation in increasing emergency medicine residents’ clinical skills. method: the present experimental study was performed on all second year emergency med...