Objectives: Premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are exposed to environmental risks that may cause developmental problems i. The present study aimed to investigate the predictive effect of individual and environmental factors on the motor performance of low birth weight preterm infants. Methods: This cross-sectional study was performed in the neonatal clinic of Shahid A...

With the population of network usage, it is possible to connect home appliances with each other. The basic demand is to connect home appliances easily with less user intervening and home network is an complex environment which comprises several network architecture including ethernet, wireless network, or power-line etc.. Therefore, integrating heterogeneous environment in home network to reduc...

There is a growing literature concerning the role of the home math environment in children's math development. In this study, we examined the relation between these constructs by specifically addressing three goals. The first goal was to identify the measurement structure of the home math environment through a series of confirmatory factor analyses. The second goal was to examine the role of th...

OBJECTIVE To review the characteristics of unintentional injuries and their impact on children and adolescents. SOURCES OF DATA Articles published between 2000 and 2005 in the MEDLINE, EBSCO, Proquest, SciELO, BVS and Google Scholar databases were selected. The authors used the keywords unintentional injuries, injuries, safe home, burns, falls, drowning, scorpions, snakes, poisoning, child, a...

From the St Mark’s Family Medicine Residency Program, Salt Lake City. The decision to leave rural practice and return to academia has been the most difficult one in all my life. This essay reflects on experiences and people that go through my mind as I move through the hospital on morning rounds. A once suicidal nurse is now getting remarried, another carries a scar that I feel responsible for,...

Smart environments are becoming a reality in our society and the number of intelligent devices integrated in these spaces is increasing very rapidly. As the combination of intelligent elements will open a wide range of new opportunities to make our lives easier, final users should be provided with a simplified method of handling complex intelligent features. Specifying behavior in these environ...

This paper reviews the goals of the Domoweb project and the solutions adopted to achieve them. As a result we enjoy a great support to develop smart home techniques and solutions. As a consequence of the acquired experiences a Smart home model is proposed as a division of four main categories. In relation with the smart home model, we show the essential features a smart environment prediction a...

Context-based security is an approach for modeling adaptive security solutions based on the situation of use of the system. Security policies in this approach are not static as it used to be in traditional systems. The security actions to be taken are based on the knowledge of the combination of various factors such as the location of the user, the surroundings, time, temperature etc making the...

The growth in popularity of smart environments has been quite steep in the last decade and so has the demand for smart health assistance systems. A smart home-based prompting system can enhance these technologies to deliver in-home interventions to a user for timely reminders or a brief instruction describing the way a task should be done for successful completion. This technology is in high de...

Smart homes provide many research challenges, but some of the most interesting ones are in dealing with data that monitors human behaviour and that is inherently both spatial and temporal in nature. This means that context becomes all important: a person lying down in front of the fireplace could be perfectly normal behaviour if it was cold and the fire was on, but otherwise it is unusual. In t...