BACKGROUND Childhood overweight in Guatemala is now becoming a public health concern. Child-oriented marketing contributes to increase children's food preference, purchase and consumption. This study sought to assess the availability of child-oriented snack foods sold in school kiosks and convenience stores near public schools in Guatemala, to identify the marketing techniques used in child-ori...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In Andalusia there were no studies including a representative sample of children and adolescent population assessing growth and weight increase. Our objectives were to develop reference standards for weight, height and BMI for the Andalusian pediatric population, from 3 to 18 years of age for both genders, and to identify the final adult height in Andalusia. SUBJECTS...

This paper is the fourth in a series of Recommendations on the Theory of Reference Values. The others cover:Part 1. The Concept of Reference Values [1].Part 2. Selection of Individuals for the Production of Reference Values [2].Part 3. Preparation of Individuals and Collection of Specimens for the Production of Reference Values [3].Part 5. Statistical Treatment of Collected Reference Values. De...

Producing robust, certified, traceable reference material for autoantibody testing is a vital element in maintaining the validity of results that are generated in the daily clinical laboratory routine. This is a huge challenge because of the high number of variables involved in the detection and measurement of the autoantibodies. The production of such materials is time consuming and needs rigo...

We envision that a sensor network would be deployed for multiple applications with different preference of range query processing. In that situation, multi-dimensional range query capability is useful since it can flexibly support various applications. We propose, in this paper, a data indexing scheme that improves energyefficiency of such range query for Data-Centric Storage sensor networks. O...

Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) are used in Canada and the United States in planning and assessing diets of apparently healthy individuals and population groups. The approaches used to establish DRIs on the basis of classical nutrient deficiencies and/or toxicities have worked well. However, it has proved to be more challenging to base DRI values on chronic disease endpoints; deviations from t...

Background Neck circumference (NC), emerging as a key morphological index for pediatric obesity, is associated with obesity- and overweight-related detrimental conditions in children. In this study, we aimed to provide the age- and sex-specific percentile reference values for neck circumference of the Iranian children and adolescents. Methods We used the data gathered through the weight disor...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the daily calcium intake of adolescents in schools from Chapecó, Santa Catarina, Southern Brazil, to check if calcium intake is in accordance with the Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI), and to investigate variables associated with daily calcium intake. METHODS Cross-sectional study approved by the Institutional Review Board and developed in 2010. Students of the 8th grade ...

Figure 1. The temporal division of the facial nerve (arrowheads) is seen having an abnormal course over the zygomatic arch (arrows) beneath the elevated skin (a) and SMAS (b). DESCRIPTION A middle-aged woman was undergoing elective rhytidectomy by the senior author using a high superficial musculoaponeurotic (high-SMAS) approach deep plane facelift. After

CUBEStore is a storage manager designed within the CUBESTAR project to fit the special needs of multidimensional applications as found in the area of Statistical and Scientific DataBases (SSDB). Some of the goals being achieved within this project were built-in support for multiple dimensions and good performance for range queries regardless of the dimensionality of the data. The general charac...