background: the purpose of the present study was (a) to assess the relationship between physical activity and the intensity and duration of menopausal symptoms, (b) to investigate the relationship between physical activity and the four domains of health-related quality of life (hrqol) and (c) to assess the relationship between physical activity and chronic diseases. methods: this descriptive-an...

Context-aware Systems (CASs) are becoming increasingly popular and can be found in the areas of wearable computing, mobile computing, robotics, adaptive and intelligent user interfaces. Sensors are the corner stone of context capturing however, sensed context data are commonly prone to imperfection due to the technical limitations of sensors, their availability, dysfunction, and highly dynamic ...

With the fast-pacing deployment of wireless sensor network(WSN) services, service ranking becomes more and more important. However, current service ranking methods mostly ignore the physical-level quality variation, making service ranking inaccurate. To address this problem, in this paper we propose a novel QoS-based ranking approach for WSN services, which employs the physical-level context aw...

Context dependencies are one of the major problems in future ubiquitous computing environments. In this paper we introduce Genetic Relation of Contexts (GRC), a lightweight distributed algorithm to analyze interdependencies of context data in an efficient decentralized manner. We present first results of the evaluation of the system, proposing a relevant increase in context quality by the use o...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the role of marital quality in the physical health of mature adults. METHOD Participants were from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States aged 50+ years who were in their first marriage. Five dimensions of marital quality and four indicators of physical health were used. RESULTS Regression analyses indicated that marital quality indices...

The purposeofthispaper is to examinethe impacts ofphysical contextson theefficacy oflocalmosques. The main question of thisresearchis: “What istherelationship betweenphysical context (including:number and space share per head of mosque in neighborhood, functional radius of mosque, the location of local mosque, local adjacent land uses and finally legibility and identity of local mosque in...

The paper presents an overview of Quality of Service (QoS) definitions, and reviews approaches to identifying quality requirements for audio and video quality in the context of novel multimedia services. We advocate an approach that maximizes ecological validity. It is important to recruit participants from the expected user population, create realistic tasks and using real material, and use an...