BACKGROUND Despite public health guidelines to limit sedentary behavior, many young children spend large amounts of time sedentary (eg, screen and sitting time) during waking hours. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to test the feasibility and efficacy of a parent-focused, predominantly text message-delivered intervention to support parents to reduce the amount of time their children ...

Introduction: Adolescence is marked as a critical period of human life because the rapid physical and sexual growth. Technological advances in recent decades have increased interaction adolescents with screen-based technologies. The unhealthiest diets all age groups, most do not meet national guidelines for activity. Objectives: To assess activity, dietary pattern screen time among urban to fin...

The use of mammography film-screen is limited in general radiography. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of mammographic film-screen and standard film-screen systems in the detection of small bone fractures. Radiographs were taken from patients' extremities and neck areas using mammography film-screen and standard film-screen (n=57 each). Fourteen other radiographs were ...

BACKGROUND Previous studies suggest that preschoolers from low socioeconomic backgrounds engage in more screen time. Still, the factors in the social and physical home environment driving these differences in preschool children's screen time are poorly understood. This study examines potential home environment mediators in the associations between parental educational level and preschoolers' sc...

Background: Parents’ behaviors, practices, beliefs, and attitudes greatly influence children’s active play behavior; however, little research has examined these parental influences on preschool children’s sedentary behavior (SB). Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between parental influences on preschool SB.Methods:One hundred eighty-six parents of preschoolers co...

This paper compares the effect of a robot’s and on-screen agent’s recommendations on human decision making using a quantitative evaluation method. We are interested in whether a robot’s physical body produces some differences in the effect or not. Previous research investigated the advantage of a physical body; however, the advantage was not clarified quantitatively and there was not enough evi...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the degree to which genetic and environmental influences affect individual differences in sedentary behavior throughout adolescence. DESIGN Cross-sectional twin-family design. SETTING Data on self-reported sedentary behavior from Dutch twins and their nontwin siblings. PARTICIPANTS The total sample consisted of 5074 adolescent twins (aged 13-19 years) and 937 sibl...

Industrial clusters are promoted by policy and generally viewed as good for growth and development, but both clusters and policies may also enable noncompetitive behavior. This paper studies the presence of non-competitive pricing in geographic industrial clusters. We develop, validate, and apply a novel screen for collusive-like behavior. We derive the screen from the solution to a partial car...

introduction: alloimmunization is a reaction of the immune system to foreign antigens. for prevention of alloantibody formation, performing of type and screen test is necessary on a patient's blood specimen as part of pre-transfusion testing. materials and method: in this cross-sectional study, type and screen test done for 1420 patients with elective surgery for detection of alloantibody in im...