BACKGROUND Greater time spent screen-viewing (SV) has been linked to adverse health outcomes. The aim of this study was to examine whether parental SV time is associated with child SV time on week and weekend days. METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 1078 children aged 5-6 and at least 1 parent. Child and parent SV was reported for weekday and weekend days. Logistic regression examined whether ...

We write A ≤T B to denote that A is Turing-reducible to B; A is Turing-reducible to a problem B if given an oracle for B, one can compute answers to A. In this case we will show taht if we can compute correct answers for CV Pγ , we can use this to compute the γ-shortest vector of some fixed lattice. Note that the decision formulation of CV P is NP-hard while (the natural decision version of) SV...

Background Heart failure (HF) is a condition characterized by increased filling pressures in the left ventricle due to altered cardiopulmonary blood flow. However, there are no clinically available non-invasive quantitative methods to measure filling pressures in HF. The pulmonary blood volume variation (PBVV) indexed to stroke volume (SV) by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) could be a novel no...

This paper describes new procedures for processing data acquired with 4C seismic sensors distributed as horizontal arrays on the seafloor and seismic sources positioned either at the sea surface or on the seafloor. Two types of images can be produced from 4C seismic data: a P-P image and a P-SV (converted-shear) image. For P-P imaging, the large elevation difference between deep-water seafloor ...

BACKGROUND Decreased left ventricle ejection fraction (LVEF) is a predictor of poor late outcome in patients with mitral regurgitation (MR). The relationship between pre-operative forward stroke volume (SV) and right heart parameters and perioperative outcome in patients with MR has been little studied. METHODS Forty patients with severe organic MR, unsuitable for mitral valve repair, who und...

Vermicompost produced from sugarcane bagasse (SBV) or sawdust (S) were substituted at a range of different concentration in soilless bedding plant container medium, as a peat: vermiculite: perlite (6:3:1), to evaluate their effects on the growth of Dieffenbachia amoena in the greenhouse. Dieffenbachia amoena was grown in container medium PE: VE: P (6:3:1), in that peat substituted with 0%, 10%,...

We determined the effects of augmented expiratory intrathoracic pressure (P(ITP)) production on cardiac output (Q(TOT)) and blood flow distribution in healthy dogs and dogs with chronic heart failure (CHF). From a control expiratory P(ITP) excursion of 7 +/- 2 cmH2O, the application of 5, 10, or 15 cmH2O expiratory threshold loads increased the expiratory P(ITP) excursion by 47 +/- 23, 67 +/- 3...

PURPOSE No method has been established to evaluate the dissociation between subjective and objective vertical positions with respect to the self-awareness of postural deformity in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The purpose of this study was to demonstrate, from the relationship between an assessment of the dissociation of subjective and objective vertical positions of PD patients and a...

Noninvasive techniques have been devised to estimate cardiac output (Q) during exercise to obviate vascular cannulation. However, although these techniques are noninvasive, they are commonly not nonintrusive to subjects' spontaneous ventilation and gas-exchange responses. We hypothesized that the exercise stroke volume (SV) and, hence, Q might be accurately estimated simply from the response pa...

We consider inventory systems of “perishable” goods. Perishable goods cannot be carried from one period to another. Examples of perishable goods include newspaper, Christmas tree, and many grocery items like milk and banana. Here, a period could be one day, or one week, or any time frame that is appropriate in the application context. Suppose that a retailer sells a particular perishable produc...