BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major public health concern in the United States. We developed an annual training course, Nutrition and Public Health, A Course for Community Practitioners (NPH), to address the identified training needs of state staff responsible for designing and implementing the Well-Integrated Screening and Evaluation for Women Across the Nation (WISEWOMAN) progr...

The Brazilian Journal of Physical Therapy (BJPH) has consolidated its course, continuously reaching for new goals. Its achievements are the result of intense work and commitment on the part of many professionals who, under the guidance of competent chief editors in line with the Journal’s objectives, conquered the status it holds today as the main periodical in its field, not only in Brazil, bu...

Two patients presented with congenital basilar invagination manifesting as progressive myelopathy. Both patients underwent surgery using a neuronavigation-assisted transoral-transpharyngeal approach. The Brain-LAB Vector Vision navigation system was used for image guidance. The registration accuracies were 0.9 and 1.3 mm. After decompression, posterior stabilization was performed. Both patients...

Explicitly representing aspect interactions is vital so that they can be shared and used in the course of system evolution. As a consequence, guidance can be given to the software developer and automated support for handling interactions becomes possible. In this paper, we propose to use default logics for modeling context-dependent aspect interference. We motivate and illustrate our work by an...

BACKGROUND Promoting breastfeeding is a central aim of child health care. It is critical to develop approaches that are inexpensive, effective, and suitable across cultural and socioeconomic groups. OBJECTIVE To study the effect of training perinatal-neonatal nursing and medical staff in breastfeeding guidance on the duration of breastfeeding in a middle-income urban population. METHODS Thi...

Traditional approaches to mobile robot guidance have utilised an internal model of the environment constructed from sensor data in order to plan a course of action. Although this approach has been challenged by behaviour-based robotics (e.g., Brooks, 1991), the creation of "smart perceptual instruments" that attempt to directly couple perception and action has been seriously addressed by the ec...

Tunnel construction method using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) is commonly adopted for building underground infrastructure, such as railways, roads, sewers, or utility pipelines. TBM tunnelling entails precise guidance of the machine in the underground space, as well as effective construction management and project control. The research aims to address critical engineering and management proble...

For the NARVIS project two critical stages of minimal invasive spinal trauma surgery have been identi ed that can be improved with advanced visualization of imaging data. The stages port placement and pedicle screw placement require anatomical imaging data in order give the surgeon su cient information for performing his task. Port placement is a very early stage of the procedure that determine...

The water cycle in the western United States changed dramatically over glacial cycles. In the past 20,000 years, higher precipitation caused desert lakes to form which have since dried out. Higher glacial precipitation has been hypothesized to result from a southward shift of Pacific winter storm tracks. We compared Pacific Ocean data to lake levels from the interior west and found that Great B...

The objective of this paper is to identify the incentives and barriers to marriage among cohabiting women, especially disadvantaged mothers who are targets of welfare reform. We use the newly released cohabitation data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979-2000), which tracks the partners of cohabiting women across survey waves. Our results support several conclusions. First, coh...