Interactive behavior change technology (IBCT) has shown great promise for people with diabetes as a supplemental resource that will support them as they take health actions to manage their disease and work to prevent long term complications. IBCT may include the use of pervasive devices (such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants and sensing devices), as well as pc based and internet ba...

The scaling behavior of the so-called boson peak in glass-formers and its relation to the elastic properties of the system remains a source of controversy. Here the boson peak in a binary reactive mixture is measured by Raman scattering (i) on cooling the unreacted mixture well below its glass-transition temperature and (ii) after quenching to very low temperature the mixture at different times...

− A series of polyethylenes was obtained by modification of two commercial high-density polyethylenes. The organic peroxide concentrations and irradiation dosis used are below the critical ones that produce molecular networks. The molecular weights of the polymers increase, and the molecular weight distribution gets wider, as the concentration/dose increases. These results are a consequence of ...

CONTENT Providers typically rely on health information and their professional status to convince patients to change. Health-behavior theories and models suggest more effective methods for accomplishing patient compliance and other behavior change related to treatment regimens. Behavior modification stresses the remediation of skill deficits or using positive and negative reinforcement to modify...

in this paper the response modification factor due to ductility and saved strength of cylindrical concrete elevated and ground tanks is obtained using finite element method and nonlinear push over analysis considering the lateral effective modes of tanks. to modeling the behavior of the tank materials, the five parameters william-warnke and prefect elastoplastic models are used for concrete and...

OBJECTIVE To determine clinical features and outcome in dogs and cats with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). DESIGN Retrospective study. ANIMALS 103 dogs and 23 cats. PROCEDURES Records of patients with OCD were analyzed for clinical features, medication used, extent of behavior modification, and outcome. RESULTS Most dogs affected with OCD had been obtained from breeders. Male dogs ...

BACKGROUND Reproductive years represent a major proportion of women‟s life. This review focuses on recommended nutritional considerations, physical activity pattern as well as the effect of nutrition education (NE) on behavior modification and health outcomes of women of reproductive age using either single-level, multiple-level or community-level interventions. METHODS For this narrative rev...

In this article we examine four objections to the genetic modification of human beings: the freedom argument, the giftedness argument, the authenticity argument, and the uniqueness argument. We then demonstrate that each of these arguments against genetic modification assumes a strong version of genetic determinism. Since these strong deterministic assumptions are false, the arguments against g...