With the rapid development of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) transportation infrastructure, flows people between cities have become cornerstone shaping regional integration. Although research studies about movement aroused widespread interest in academia, temporal spatial dynamics daily mobility is sparse, which called heterogeneity cities. This aims to study changes (Heterogen...

Abraham Lincoln is often quoted as having said, “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” This often seems pertinent to the quality and scope of NHS care. An important example is NHS England’s recent summary on acute hospitals’ performance against four of 10 key national indicators for delivering seven day services. The 10 standards were draw...

BACKGROUND Pediatric overweight and obesity has become a major public health problem in China. The goal of this study is to understand overweight and obesity in preschool children in Changsha City in the context of their sleep and physical activity. These results offer feasible proposals to reduce levels of overweight and obesity among preschool children. METHODS A total of 112 preschoolers a...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Sleep patterns of young adults are different from those of other age groups.. This study examined sleep patterns of cadets during their first year at the United States Military Academy. DESIGN This paper presents initial results of a 4-year longitudinal investigation into sleep patterns of college-age men and women. SETTING Data were collected at the United States Military ...

The Malaysian government recently introduced a ban on fast food advertisements targeting children on television. This study reports on data covering 6 months of television food advertising targeting children. Six out of seven of the Nation's commercial television networks participated (response rate = 85.7%). Based on reported timings of children's programmes, prime time significantly differed ...

PURPOSE To identify barriers to attendance for eye examination of schoolchildren. METHODS Cross-sectional study. Students in grades 1-4 in elementary school in Guarulhos (Brazil) were screened and referred for ophthalmic examination in 2006. Facilities offered in this project were: examination arranged during weekends, free transportation, spectacle donation and two different opportunities fo...

Most recommendations are that adults should obtain 7-8 hours of sleep per night, although there are individual differences in self-reported sleep need. Chronotype (preference for early or late sleep timing), in combination with social demands, may affect the ability to obtain adequate sleep. This questionnaire study assessed perceived sleep need and self-reported sleep timing and duration durin...

A method based on sample preparation by solid phase extraction and analysis by liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry was validated and used for simultaneous analysis of cocaine, benzoylecgonine and cotinine in samples collected at the major wastewater treatment plant in the city of Lisbon. The aim was to estimate the consumption of both cocaine and nicotine in this community and establish...

We read the article by SUISSA et al. [1] with great interest. The authors retrospectively looked at all hospitalisations for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation or pneumonia during the period 1990–2007 from the healthcare databases of Quebec, Canada, and found higher mortality for weekend, but not Friday, admissions, relative to Monday–Thursday admissions. Similar weekend ...

This study examined common and unique genetic and environmental influences on weekend drinking and weekday drinking reported by US male and female adult participants (mean age = 43.9). Data from 96 monozygotic and 82 dizygotic twin pairs were used to estimate bivariate biometric models of daily levels of weekend and weekday drinking volume. Weekend and weekday drinking volume scores were calcul...