The relation between fatness and aspects of psychological status was investigated in a representative sample (339 men and 400 women) of a middle-aged suburban population. A significant positive relation was found between substantial obesity and low levels of anxiety (in men and women) and depression (in men).

In this paper we propose the Real-Time HCCA (RTH) scheduler, to support Quality of Service (QoS) in an IEEE 802.11e network using the Hybrid Coordinator Function (HCF) Controlled Channel Access (HCCA) function. RTH provides each admitted flow with real-time QoS guarantees. In addition, we evaluate the performance of RTH, with and without the QAck 802.11e option, in terms of the admission contro...

The 802.11e working group has recently proposed innovative functionalities in order to support delay-sensitive multimedia applications, such as real-time voice and video, in Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). In particular, the 802.11e proposal introduces: (1) the Hybrid Coordination Function (HCF), which is an improved channel access method aimed at allocating the first-hop WLAN bandwidth t...

H. Xue, D. Yu, S. Shah, C. Guetter, M-P. Jolly, O. Simonetti, P. Kellman, and J. Guehring Imaging and Visualization, Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ, United States, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States, CMR Research and Development, Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc., Chicago, IL, United States, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Heal...

I describe an open-source R package, multimark, for estimation of survival and abundance from capture-mark-recapture data consisting of multiple "noninvasive" marks. Noninvasive marks include natural pelt or skin patterns, scars, and genetic markers that enable individual identification in lieu of physical capture. multimark provides a means for combining and jointly analyzing encounter histori...

Five annual capture-mark-recapture surveys on Jasus edwardsii were used to evaluate the effect of sample size and fishing effort on the precision of estimated survival probability. Datasets of different numbers of individual lobsters (ranging from 200 to 1,000 lobsters) were created by random subsampling from each annual survey. This process of random subsampling was also used to create 12 data...

Over the past twenty years, we have learned a great deal about the ways in which pervasive forces of transformation have enveloped the citizens and states of the former Soviet bloc. The analytic rubric of "postsocialism" has played a crucial role in this body of scholarship by enabling conversation and comparison among diverse studies spread across a massive region of the world. It is increasin...

In this paper we discuss how cognitive science may contribute to understanding the concepts of situatedness and situated play. While situatedness has become something of a catch-all term, it actually has several different meanings, ranging from “higher” social-cultural forms to “lower” sensori-motoric activities. We also discuss an often overlooked, but crucial aspect of situatedness, which is ...