BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Walking ability poststroke is commonly assessed using gait speed categories developed by Perry et al. The purpose of this study was to reexamine factors that predict home and community ambulators determined from real-world walking activity data using activity monitors. METHODS Secondary analyses of real-world walking activity from 2 stroke trials. Home (100-2499 steps/d...

BACKGROUND To increase participation in physical activity, it is important to understand the factors associated with a child's choice to be physically active or sedentary. The neighborhood and home environments may be related to this choice. PURPOSE To determine whether the neighborhood environment or number of televisions in the home environment are independently associated with child physic...

The proliferation of digital technologies within the home is paving the way for significant enhancements to the user’s entertainment experience. A fundamental aspect of these new experiences is the ability to enjoy rich multimedia content in any location throughout the home, regardless of where the content is physically stored. Today’s home networking technologies provide a solid foundation for...

Although species with large area requirements are sometimes used as umbrella species, their general utility as conservation tools is uncertain. We surveyed the species diversity of birds, butterflies, carabids, and forest-floor plants in forest sites across an area (1,600 km2) in which we delineated large breeding home ranges of Northern Goshawk (Accipiter gentilis). We tested whether protectio...

Is there Seasonal Variation in Nursing Home Acquired Pneumonia? Shelli Farhadian, M.D., Ph.D., Peter Van Ness, Ph.D., M.P.H., Vincent Quagliarello, M.D. Background: Pneumonia is a leading cause of hospitalization among elderly adults, and particularly among nursing home residents. The seasonal variation in nursing home acquired pneumonia is not yet known. Studies to date on seasonal variation i...

The home range dynamics of eleven roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) females were studied from 1995 to 1999 in the Foreste Casentinesi National Park, northern Apennines, Tuscany, Italy. The study area is mountainous with almost complete forest cover (95%) and snow usually falls from late October to April. Data were collected with radio-tracking techniques: the annual and bimonthly home range, the o...

BACKGROUND The choice of geographical unit of analysis in studies of the built environment and physical activity has typically been restricted to the home neighbourhood where only a small proportion of physical activity may actually be undertaken. This study aimed to examine the distance from home at which physical activity takes place and how this varies by personal and neighbourhood character...

Home automation commercial technologies have been deployed as smart grids have extensively grown. Home automation raises the fact that home security needs an abundant amount of attention. In fact, with home automation, all connected appliances are in a critical condition since they are connected to the Internet. The term of cyber security can become an optimal explanation of the most concerned ...

introduction: as the elderly population increases, chronic diseases and disabilities also become more prevalent. home care programs as hospital services supplement, not only can prevent elderly from get worse in their disabilities but also make it easier for governments to manage elderly people's needs therefore, we aimed to determine the home visit services provided for elderly residing i...

Ubiquitous computing, or ubicomp, integrates technology into our everyday environments. Ubicomp fundamentally alters privacy by creating continuous detailed data flows. The privacy challenge is particularly acute in the case of home-based health care where vulnerable populations risk enforced technological intimacy. The promise of ubicomp is also particularly great in the area of home-based ubi...