Although many organisms show daily rhythms in their activity patterns, the mechanistic causes of these patterns are poorly understood. Here we show that host plant volatiles affect the nocturnal behavior of the caterpillar Mythimna separata. Irrespective of light status, the caterpillars behaved as if they were in the dark when exposed to volatiles emitted from host plants (either uninfested or...

Participation in leisure activities is an important arena for the positive psychological development of adolescents. The present study set out to examine the relationship between adolescents' satisfaction of the psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy in their participation in leisure activities and their perceived life satisfaction. The aim was to identify the extent to w...

Necessary and sufficient conditions for a GADL to become an ADL are obtained interms of congruence relations and proved that every associative GADL is an ADL.

Occupational therapists working with Mexican and Mexican American populations may encounter traditional healing practices associated with curanderismo within a variety of practice settings. Curanderismo is a term referring to the practice of traditional healing in Latin American (Hispanic) cultures. This article reviews from the literature the different types of traditional healers (curanderos/...

INTRODUCTION. Patients with posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) deficient sometimes experience giving way during stair descending, although they do not usually have disability in performing most of activities of daily living (ADL). This fact suggests that the patients should have adaptation mechanism to lack of posterior stability during the activity. However the mechanics of PCL deficient knee d...

BACKGROUND The nutritional status of the aging individual results from a complex interaction between personal and environmental factors. A disease influences and is influenced by the nutritional status and the functional capacity of the individual. We asses the relationship between nutritional status and indicators of functional capacity among recently hospitalized elderly in a general hospital...

OBJECTIVES to investigate the population impact on functional disability of chronic conditions individually and in combination. METHODS data from 9,008 community-dwelling individuals aged 65 and older from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging (CSHA) were used to estimate the population attributable risk (PAR) for chronic conditions after adjusting for confounding variables. Functional disab...

AC Accuracy ADL Activities of daily living AF Average F-measure CNN Convolutional neural network CPU Central processing unit DBN Deep belief network DT Decision tree HA Hand Gesture HAR Human activity recognition KNN K-nearest neighbors LSTM Longand short-term memory MV Means and variance NB Naive Bayes NF Normalized F-measure OAR Opportunity activity recognition RAM Random access memory ReLU R...

Nutrition is a key element in geriatric health and is important for functional ability. The present study examined the functional status-predictive ability of the Mini-Nutritional Assessment (MNA). We analysed the dataset of the 'Survey of Health and Living Status of the Elderly in Taiwan', a population-based study conducted by the Bureau of Health Promotion of Taiwan. Study subjects (≥65 years...