INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES The MOVI physical activity program has been shown to reduce adiposity and to improve serum lipid profiles in schoolchildren. However, MOVI may have not achieved its maximum potential effectiveness, as increased physical activity on weekdays may have been offset by more sedentary behavior at weekends. We therefore developed the MOVI-2 program, which includes physical ...

The monitoring of oxyanions in waters, presents significant challenges due to their relatively low concentrations, and a characteristically changeable/unstable/reactive geochemistry with high spatial and temporal turnover. This results in a very heterogeneous pattern of mobility and bioavailability, which is difficult to capture reliably and in a cost effective manner. The diffusive gradients i...

The main concern of thi s paper i s t he det ect i on of double-cont act con gur at i ons f or s ome pol ygons movi ng i n t r ans l at i on i n a pol ygonal envi r onment . We r s t es t abl i s h s ome gener al pr oper t i es about s uch con gur at i ons , and gi ve condi t i ons of exi s t ence of doubl econt act s f or two or t hr ee object s . We deduce an al gor i t hm det ect i ng s uch ...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity has become an alarming worldwide increasing public health problem. The earlier adiposity rebound occurs, the greater the risk of becoming obese during puberty and adolescence. It has been speculated about the potential influence of vigorous physical activity on modifying the age of onset of adiposity rebound. Moreover, studies aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of ...

In this paper, we present an architecture for presentation, access and exchange of information in a mobile computing environment. In the project MOVI, a new approach is developed which enables applications on mobile computers for exchange and visualization of multimedia objects with applications on stationary database servers via the

We present the development and characterization of a combination of a micro-orifice volatilization impactor (MOVI) and an ion trap mass spectrometer (IT/MS) with an atmospheric-pressure chemical ionization (APCI) source. The MOVI is a multi-jet impactor with 100 nozzles, allowing the collection of aerosol particles by inertial impaction on a deposition plate. The pressure drop behind the nozzle...

Children obesity is considered a serious public health problem around the world. In Spain, the prevalence of overweight/obesity is reaching alarming figures, exceeding 35% of the children. Several hypotheses suggest that the energy balance model does not fit very well when analyzing the causes of the current obesity epidemic and, although genetics seems to explain up to 30% of the likelihood to...

Encapsulation of molybdenum oxide MoO3 into ordered mesoporous silica materials is demonstrated using different synthetic routes. Either supramolecular polyoxometalates of the “Müller type” or Na2MoO4 were used as precursors. Molybdenum oxide (MoO3)-silica hybrid materials were characterized using nitrogen-sorption experiments, transmission electron microscopy, small-angle X-ray scattering, and...

This project focused on the management of the various visualisation methods and on the implementation of audio features in the MediaCycle framework. Two different kinds of visualisation methods has been defined, either to represent the collection of media as a two-dimensional map or as a tree.