The appearance  of a consume society in the result of giving a Hint to body and physical features and consequently very important. Body is also very important for social acceptability and people try to arrange their bodies and physical features according to their social codes. Body modification like, make up, surgery, losing weight, slimming, sporting and body care is called body management. T...

BACKGROUND For patients with chronic respiratory failure or sleep breathing disorders, adaptation and training are important prerequisites for successful home noninvasive ventilation (NIV) and CPAP. In Europe, management of NIV/CPAP is sometimes performed by physiotherapists (PTs). However, their role within the NIV/CPAP management team is not well defined. OBJECTIVE To describe the implement...

A uniform water or feed consumption pattern is required for assessment of changes in pig health and well-being. Water consumption rate was measured and monitored continuously in pigs from 4 to 11 weeks of age. The study comprised three herds and 18 batches of pigs each with 400-900 animals. The management system was “all-in all-out”. Water consumption was measured electronically and data were t...

Reducing fuel consumption is a major goal for the aviation community due to environmental concern and fuel price uncertainty. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is currently developing and implementing Air Traffic Management (ATM) technologies to ensure reliable operational performance that is robust to delays caused by congestion and weather. These technologies will reduce planned and u...

In this paper an optimal controller is proposed for a self-balancing electrical vehicle called Segway PT. This vehicle has one platform and two wheels on the sides and the rider stands on the platform. A handlebar, as a navigator, is attached to the body of Segway, with which the rider controls the vehicle. Since Segway uses electrical energy produced by batteries, resource consumption manageme...

OBJECTIVES To describe alcohol drinking patterns among participants in Katutura, Namibia, and to evaluate brief versions of the AUDIT against the full AUDIT to determine their effectiveness in detecting harmful drinking. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was conducted in four constituencies and 639 participants, 18 years or older, completed a sociodemographic survey and the AUDIT. The effectiv...

BACKGROUND The AUDIT-C is an extensively validated screen for unhealthy alcohol use (i.e. drinking above recommended limits or alcohol use disorder), which consists of three questions about alcohol consumption. AUDIT-C scores ≥4 points for men and ≥3 for women are considered positive screens based on US validation studies that compared the AUDIT-C to "gold standard" measures of unhealthy alcoho...

City lighting represents an important part of the maintenance and energy budget for many towns. For these reasons, it is important to monitor and manage the energy consumption in order to reduce the consumption with a low impact to the users. The proposed system allows monitoring and managing the lighting to reduce consumption and the cost of the maintenance and management. The system was teste...

Battery life is a major issue for any mobile equipment, and reducing energy consumption via energy management in 3G LTE user equipment (UE) will be essential for the delivery of a variety of services. Discontinuous transmission (DTX) and reception (DRX) have been designed to facilitate power management, but they can provide energy savings only via proper tuning. Relevant work in the literature ...

OBJECTIVES We identified to what extent the Department of Defense postdeployment health surveillance program identifies at-risk drinking, alone or in conjunction with psychological comorbidities, and refers service members who screen positive for additional assessment or care. METHODS We completed a cross-sectional analysis of 333 803 US Army active duty members returning from Iraq or Afghani...