This study investigates the efficacy of a health promotion educational program on improving cardiovascular risk factors of weight, Body Mass Index, and waist to hip ratio in 76 predominately African American HIV-infected women. The health promotion educational program was the control group (that focused on improving self-efficacy for nutrition, exercise, stress reduction and women's health beha...

Deploying robots for human-robot interaction (HRI) in industrial settings requires specific considerations for guaranteeing the safety of collaborating humans. In this work, we present a real-time safety system capable of allowing safe HRI with a standard industrial robot at very low distances of separation without the need for robot hardware modification or replacement. In the industrial setti...

Experimental design for human subject research must consider many factors. Who is the end-user? Is this population accessible for user testing? How many conditions will be tested? How many participants are needed? What types of data can be collected? How should the data be analyzed? This paper surveys experiments conducted in human-robot interaction (HRI), assistive technology (AT), and humanro...

The present study was designed to assess the health risk of pesticide residues via dietary intake of vegetables collected from four top agro-based markets of Dhaka, Bangladesh. High performance liquid chromatography with a photo diode array detector (HPLC-PDA) was used to determine six organophosphorus (chlorpyrifos, fenitrothion, parathion, ethion, acephate, fenthion), two carbamate (carbaryl ...

Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) has been gaining considerable attention in HRI research recent years. However, the community lacks a set of shared terminology framework characterizing aspects mixed reality interfaces, presenting serious problems future research. Therefore, it is important to have common terms concepts that can be used precisely descri...

evaluation of periodontal status by cpitn among (35-44) – year – old population in khoramabad (2002) dr. f. haghighati* - dr. sh. salehi** - dr. r. valizadeh*** * - associate professor of periodontics dept. - faculty of dentistry – tehran university of medical sciences. **-assistant professor of periodontics dept. - faculty of dentistry – tehran university of medical sciences. ***- dentist. bac...

conclusions the study concluded that there were certain criteria related to development of obesity during a specific period of childhood and taking certain precautions could be effective in preventing it. results the median age was 10.3 ± 2.1; 47.6% of the children were female and 52.4% of them were male. about 70.2% of the students consumed fast food. it was identified that 67.1% of the studen...

objective: an association between poor oral health and chronic lung disease has recently been reported. the purpose of this study was to explore this potential association between asthma and periodontal disease. materials and methods: this is a descriptive case controlled study. the samples were selected from patients referred to respiratory disease clinic in a hospital in tehran, iran. the stu...