INTRODUCTION An extensive body of literature is concerned with obese people, risk, and weight management. However, little is known about weight management among people not belonging to the extreme BMI categories. Management of weight among normal-weight and moderately overweight individuals provides us with knowledge about how to prevent future overweight or obesity. This paper investigates bod...

Recently, the deployment of body sensor networks in the human bodies has attracted much attention in intelligent healthcare. To secure the messages exchanged in body sensor networks, many researches develop efficient physiologicalsignals-based key management schemes. However these existing research results have security and practicality problems when they are used to body sensor networks. To ad...

Rectal foreign bodies present a difficult diagnostic and management dilemma because of delayed presentation, a variety of objects, and a wide spectrum of injuries. An orderly approach to the diagnosis, management, and post-extraction evaluation of the patient with a rectal foreign body is essential. This article outlines and describes the stepwise evaluation and management of the patient with a...

naturally all activities are along with risk and uncertainties. project risk has the concept more than the financial concept. in project management, risks are events that can occur during the project implementation and has negative effects on project completion and meeting goals. identification, analysis, prioritizing and having plan for dealing with these events are playing an important role i...

background: most previous research has focused on polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos) characteristics and their association with psychological disorders, such as anxiety and depression. objective: in the present study, our aim was to study whether pcos characteristics are associated with several aspects of psychological well-being namely self-esteem and body satisfaction. materials and methods: th...

Laypeople and healthcare professionals use demographic cues when making pain management decisions. These decisions can negatively affect patient outcomes. This study examined whether laypeople base their pain management decisions in part on pain-related postures and demographic cues. Virtual human (VH) technology was used to research whether sex and race, as well as body posture, influenced pai...