BACKGROUND It is largely unknown how TV use relates to depot-specific adiposity or cardiometabolic risk in children. PURPOSE To examine relationships between having a TV in the bedroom and TV viewing time with total fat mass, abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adiposity, and cardiometabolic risk in children and adolescents. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 369 children and adolescents ag...

ISDB-T International standard is currently adopted by most Latin America countries and is already installed in most TV sets sold in recent years in the region. To support interactive applications in Digital TV receivers, ISDBT defines the middleware Ginga and its declarative language NCL (Nested Context Language). Similar to Digital TV, Digital Radio standards also provide the means to carry in...

Total variation (TV) regularization, originally introduced by Rudin, Osher and Fatemi in the context of image denoising, has become widely used in the field of inverse problems. Two major directions of modifications of the original approach were proposed later on. The first concerns adaptive variants of TV regularization, the second focuses on higher-order TV models. In the present paper, we co...

This paper presents the methods used in a TV Recommender System that helps users in the difficult task of finding an interesting TV program from among the hundreds of channels that we can find nowadays on TV. Our aim is to cover not only user preferences but also user restrictions while watching TV. The recommendations use a hybrid method, combining content based and folksonomy (collaborative a...

ters to move through several stages in order to reach a similar level of understanding as sponsors. Both differences in characteristics and differences in stage of the diffusion process explain the existence of a sponsoradopter gap. Sponsors tend to be innovators who, in addition, are at an advanced stage in their understanding of the systems; adopters can be anything from innovators to laggard...

Objective To characterize the vaginal microbiome and the rate of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the women of Príncipe (São Tomé and Príncipe). Methods Cross-sectional study of 100 consecutive women, invited for a free appointment and cervical cancer screening. A vaginal slide (wet mount microscopy) and a cervical sample (ThinPrep®) (Pap test, high risk human papillomavirus [HR-HPV]...

To determine intrinsic mechanical properties (elastic and failure) of trabecular calcaneus bone, chosen as a good predictor of hip fracture, we looked for the influence of image's size on a numerical simulation. One cubic sample of cancellous bone (9 x 9 x 9 mm(3)) was removed from the body of the calcaneus (6 females, 6 males, 79+/-9 yr). These samples were tested under compressive loading. Be...

The paper manages the tour de force of aggregating intrinsic loss functions with intrinsic (aka reference) priors. Thus, Professor Bernardo presents us with a unified picture of Bayesian analysis as he sees it and it is obviously fitting to see this cohesive perspective appearing in the Valencia 9 proceedings as a kind of third unification! We appreciated very much the paper and our comments wi...

Positron emission tomography in three-dimensional acquisition mode was used to identify the neural populations involved in tactile-visual cross-modal transfer of shape. Eight young male volunteers went through three runs of three different matching conditions: tactile-tactile (TT), tactile-visual (TV), and visual-visual (VV), and a motor control condition. Fifteen spherical ellipsoids were used...

Adopting the critical discourse analysis framework, in general, andFairclough’s (1989) critical text analysis, in particular, the current study aims atexamining 3 aspects of meaning, namely social relations, subject positions, andcontents in the conversation as well as vocabulary and grammar parts of Passages 1(an American textbook) and First Certificate (a British textbook) to find out whether...