OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between the neighbourhood food environment and dietary intake among adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional design using: (i) a geographic information system to assess characteristics of the neighbourhood food environment and neighbourhood socio-economic status; (ii) the modified Healthy Eating Index (HEI) to assess participants' overall diet quality; and (ii...

The Internet of Things has contributed to make smarter houses and buildings in the last decades. Different existing works already integrate IoT technologies homes, but end-user needs continuously change researchers must face this challenge identifying platforms fast prototype solutions satisfying these new needs. This paper presents a solution that demonstrates how well-known fast-prototyping l...

T oday’s children are increasingly eating food away from home, including eating at full-service and fast-food restaurants. Concerns have been raised that this increase in eating at fast-food restaurants has taken place at the same time as the increase in obesity across the country. A recent study in the journal found that consuming food from a fast-food restaurant was associated with an increas...

The purpose of building smart home system is some home devices (audio and video equipment, lighting systems, air conditioning control, security systems, digital cinema systems, network appliances, etc.) through smart home network automation, broadband and wireless networks, and we can achieve remote control home devices. The paper proposes application of RFID technology and ontology model in de...

Smart-home conception has emerged in recent years and played a very important part in the formation of future houses. Since the beginning of the smart-home era, home automation benefits have never overshadowed the cost of such systems. One of these costs is that there is always the need for home inhabitants to program the system to perform daily tasks. In this paper we present prototype of a sy...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Increased density of fast food restaurants is associated with increased prevalence of obesity in developed countries. However, less is known about this relationship in developing countries undergoing rapid urbanization and how differences in neighbourhood income affect the patronage of fast food outlets. The purpose of the study is to explore the differences in fast foo...

BACKGROUND Rapid delivery of IV tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) in qualifying patients leads to better clinical outcomes. The American Heart Association has reduced target door-to-needle (DTN) times from 60 to 45 min in the hopes of continued process improvements across institutions. OBJECTIVE To start a quality improvement project called CODE FAST in order to reduce DTN times at our insti...

with the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. as a key component of smart home , electric vehicle(ev) ,increase...

existed electricity grids deliver produced power to the consumer passing through transmission and distribution grids. according to high losses of these grids in transmission level and inexistence of bilateral interaction for simultaneous information exchange, a concept of smart grids were made by capabilities such as consciously participation of consumers in the smart electricity grids, an amou...