Recently reported research indicate that forest environments have physiological and psychological relaxing effects compared to urban environments. However, some researchers claim that the stress of the subjects from being watched by others during measurements can affect the measurement result in urban experiments conducted in the center of a street. The present study was conducted to determine ...

BACKGROUND Exposure to food commercials is assumed to be related to children's food preferences and snack food intake patterns. However, surprisingly few studies tested whether watching food commercials actually leads to elevated snack food intake. OBJECTIVE We experimentally tested the side effects of television food commercials on concurrent nonadvertised sweet snack food intake in young ch...

Observing the actions of others has been shown to modulate cortico-spinal excitability and affect behaviour. However, the sensorimotor consequences of observing errors are not well understood. Here, participants watched actors lift identically weighted large and small cubes which typically elicit expectation-based fingertip force errors. One group of participants observed the standard overestim...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship between blood glucose control and the time spent watching television in Norwegian children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes in a population-based study. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A total of 538 children and adolescents from 9 hospitals in the eastern part of Norway participated in the study; 70% of eligible subjects participated. The time spent watc...

BACKGROUND To assess the association of eating meals, and never watching TV while eating meals, with weight status among children, ages 10-12 years across Europe. METHODS 7915 children (mean age: 11.5 years) in eight European countries (Belgium, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland) completed a questionnaire at school. Data on meals eaten the day before qu...

The introduction of watched literals[1], a lazy data structure for satisfiability (SAT) search algorithms, has resulted in great improvements in the run-time of SAT solvers. Watched literals keeps track of two literals remaining in a clause so as to detect when a clause becomes unit or empty. Watched literals is non-trivial to implement in QBF search. Quantified Boolean Formulae (QBFs) are SAT ...

Adhesion level for the proper running of rail wheelset on track has remained a significant problem for researchers in detecting slippage to avoid accidents. In this paper, the slippage of rail wheels has been observed applying forward and lateral motions to slip velocity and torsion motion. The longitudinal and lateral forces behavior is watched with respect to traction force to note correlatio...

Zoonotic pox infections have emerged as an intriguing new problem in infectious medicine addition to the well-known infections.[1] There is a significant hazard public health due spread of monkey throughout Europe.[2] Zoonosis thought be root cause resurgence this odd disease.[1] An increase number reported cases across many nations has startled medical community. Currently, human-to-human tran...