Embedded systems are proliferating at an amazing rate. To be successful these systems must be tailored to meet many cost, time to market, performance, and dependability constraints. Building and tailoring embedded systems by using domain speciic components has promise. However, in composing components the most diicult issues are ensuring that non-functional properties such as real-time performa...

In recent years, exciting technological advances have been made in development of flexible electronics. These technologies offer the opportunity to weave computation, communication and storage into the fabric of the every clothing that we wear, therefore, creating intelligent fabric. The implications of seamlessly integrating a large number of communicating computation and storage resources, ma...

OBJECTIVE Children described as having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder often demonstrate inability to sustain visual attention during classroom fine motor activities. This study investigated the effect of wearing a weighted vest (deep-pressure sensory input) on children's on-task behavior in the classroom. METHOD Four students with documented attention difficulties and hyperactivity ...

OBJECTIVES A three year drowning prevention campaign focused on increasing the use of life vests among children 1-14 years old. An evaluation was conducted to determine campaign awareness, change in ownership and use of life vests by children, and predictors of life vest use. SETTING King County, Washington. METHODS Four telephone surveys were conducted with parents before, during, and afte...

Introduction: Combining 5 g/kg body mass (BM) of ice slurry ingestion with a cooling vest (mixed-method cooling) between exercise bouts has been shown to reduce rectal temperature (Tre) and improve time-trial (TT) performance in the heat. While small surface area-to-body ratio (AD/BM) lowered rates using cold-water immersion, it remains unknown whether AD/BM affects magnitudes alterations physi...