OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of parenting distractions on supervising behaviors in relation to child risky behaviors. METHODS Forty preschool-aged children and their parents were randomly assigned to occupy a simulated home living room for 45 min with the parent involved in either (a) no planned distraction, (b) a telephone call distraction, (c) a TV show distraction, or (d) a computer as...

In this article some problems in road safety are described, which have been detected by the Ombudsman of Peru, as part of its role of public administration supervisor, amongst these problems we mention: lack of and inadequate elaboration of the statistics on road traffic accidents, the inconsistency of the National Council for Road Security and the lack of responsibility of the local and region...

SWARM is a new concept we propose to create dynamic robotic networks that are able to perform complex tasks in a dynamic environment. To achieve this we will combine and extend the state of the art in the fields of ambient intelligence, distributed computing and robotic swarms.