BACKGROUND Obesity is a major public health issue; however, only limited evidence is available about effective ways to prevent obesity, particularly in early childhood. Romp & Chomp was a community-wide obesity prevention intervention conducted in Geelong Australia with a target group of 12,000 children aged 0-5 years. The intervention had an environmental and capacity building focus and we hav...

There is a rcsurgence of discussion concerning the accuraCl' and approrriareness of the word assi~tant in the career title Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant. The dis, cussions focus on a possible title change. The rationale is th,1[ because certified occupational therapy assistants (reportedly) rrovide occupational rherapy independently. the name change would enhance the profession when ...

A complete method is proposed to compute a certified, or ambient isotopic, meshing for an implicit algebraic surface with singularities. By certified, we mean a meshing with correct topology and any given geometric precision. We propose a symbolic-numeric method to compute a certified meshing for the surface inside a box containing singularities and use a modified Plantinga-Vegter marching cube...