Specific spatial environments are often indicative of where certain actions may take place: In kitchens we prepare food, and in bathrooms we engage in personal hygiene, but not vice versa. In action recognition, contextual cues may constrain an observer's expectations toward actions that are more strongly associated with a particular context than others. Such cues should become particularly hel...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the association between practice of physical activity and the perception of the community environment among adults. METHODS A cross-sectional study of 890 adults carried out in Ermelino Matarazzo district in São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil, 2007. The dependent variables were the practice of at least 150 minutes per week in leisure time physical activity and walking for com...

OBJECTIVE We conducted a multicenter retrospective survey of patients poisoned by synthetic chemicals (SCs) in Japan. METHODS Letters were sent to 467 emergency facilities requesting participation in the study, and questionnaires were mailed to facilities that agreed to participate. Patients The study participants were patients who were transported to emergency facilities between January 2006...

OBJECTIVES Many adolescents admitted to detention facilities have serious mental and physical health problems. Little is known about policies for the delivery of mental and physical health care in these settings. Our objective was to describe current health care policies in U.S. detention facilities. METHOD Telephone interviews were requested from 83 juvenile detention facility administrators...

The author investigated the status of barrier-free facilities of urban rail transit station in China. Due to the physical factors, the senior and disability population fail to utilize urban traffic facilities, like ordinary persons. Also, children, women of pregnancy, and those who have mobility difficulties, and those who bear heavy loads are also not able to conveniently use urban traffic fac...

This paper evaluates the association between economic environment in the districts of Madrid (Spain) and physical inactivity, using income per capita as indicator of economic environment. The analysis included 6,601 individuals aged 16 to 74 years. The measure of association estimated was the prevalence odds ratio for physical inactivity by income per capita. After adjusting for sex, age, and i...

Collecting, sorting, transporting, and delivering the nation’s mail to every household and business across the country—from Alaska to Puerto Rico—is an enormous task. To accomplish this task, the Postal Service uses a physical infrastructure that includes more than 38,000 post offices and contract units, 282 automated processing centers, 63 airport mail facilities, 21 bulk mail centers and a nu...

Most experiments are carried out in “ground” facilities which can generate non-equilibrium flows. These facilities generally require important equipment and investment. The essential purpose is to create high enthalpy gas flows undergoing more or less intense perturbations (shock wave, rapid expansion...), so that, physical and chemical processes evolve on a time scale equal to or longer than t...

BACKGROUND To investigate socioeconomic patterning of physical activity resources in Copenhagen. METHODS We used multivariate logistic regression analysis to examine the association between physical activity-supportive resources [public open space (POS), cycling and walking paths, sports facilities, and intersection density] and neighborhood sociodemographic indicators (low education, recent ...