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Studies of Western populations demonstrate a relationship between dietary patterns and cardiovascular-related risk factors. Similar research regarding Chinese populations is limited. This study explored the dietary patterns of Chinese older adults and their association with cardiovascular-related risk ...
Major injury events occur in every type of workplace, large and small, sophisticated or otherwise. Those performing maintenance (Reason, 1990), construction and installation services are especially at risk after consideration is given to transportation, farm, forestry and fishing (BLS, 2013). While ...
The number of elderly people increases quickly in many countries, under the global population aging situation. It is an upsetting fact that many elderly people are suffering from the dementia, which seriously obstructs their independent living and travel. It is a pervasive problem that the demented ...
In this paper we focus on improving the performance of people detection algorithm on fish-eye images in a safety system for heavy machines. Fish-eye images give the advantage of a very wide angle-of-view, which is important in the context of heavy machines. However, the distortions in fish-eye images ...
This paper describes a view-based wearable personal navigation system. We have been developing a view-based outdoor localization method which has been proven to be robust to changes of weather and seasons and can be operational even when sufficient GPS signals is not available. The system is composed ...
In this paper an approach for optimal boundary control of a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) is presented. The parabolic PDE is the heat equation for thermal conduction. A technical application for this is the freezing of fish in a vertical plate freezer. As it is a dominant phenomenon ...
Vegetables, fruits and fish are very sensitive to variations in environmental conditions. To avoid a significant waste of goods during transportation the temperature and the humidity have to be set close to a predetermined point by the cooling unit of the container. Continuous and precise monitoring ...
Pharmacy students at the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar must research and write a thesis to graduate. Thésards who took topics in analytical chemistry and toxicology describe their thesis work as a temporary opportunity to perform ‘street-level’ public health research that they regard as ‘relevant’ ...
The guidance of axons to their correct targets is a critical step in development. The C. elegans pharynx presents an attractive system to study neuronal pathfinding in the context of a developing organ. The worm pharynx contains relatively few cells and cell types, but each cell has a known lineage ...
Caging can offer robustness to uncertainties in grasping. If a robotic hand is designed based on the idea of caging, it would probably work well with noisy perception devices and low-quality control. This paper takes into account these merits and designs and implements a gripping hand based on the idea ...
Many groups of agents exhibit emergent collective behaviors. The environment in which the agents operate is one determinant of the resulting behaviors. This work shows how automatic enumeration of environments enables exploration of various collective behaviors that perform useful group functions (e.g. ...
Part of the U.S. Coast Guard's mission is to monitor vessels and their operators for compliance with a large body of safety and fisheries regulations. Recently the Coast Guard has devised a system called OPTIDE, which aims at improving operations efficiency by ranking vessels via a risk score computed ...
We present an approach for building a participatory grass roots data-aware environment (DAE) to be used in socio-economic planning and development. As an illustration, we present the design and implementation of a DAE for a community of ten villages in a highly resource constrained drought prone area ...
There is growing evidence that heterozygosity–fitness correlations (HFCs) are more pronounced under harsh conditions. Empirical evidence suggests a mediating effect of parasite infestation on the occurrence of HFCs. Parasites have the potential to mediate HFCs not only by generally causing high stress ...
Background The bovine rumen hosts a diverse and complex community of Eukarya, Bacteria, Archea and viruses (including bacteriophage). The rumen viral population (the rumen virome) has received little attention compared to the rumen microbial population (the rumen microbiome). We used massively parallel ...
Background The relationship between fish health and muscle growth is critical for continued expansion of the aquaculture industry. The effect of immune stimulation on the expression of genes related to the energy balance of fish is poorly understood. In mammals immune stimulation results in major transcriptional ...
Glucocorticoids serve important regulatory functions for many physiological processes and are critical mediators of the stress response. The stress response is a set of bodily processes aimed at counteracting a state of threatened homeostasis. Proper stress response is critical for the survival of an ...
Mutual insurance is a kind of non-profit insurance that is mutually aided by the producer, which is different from the commercial insurance. This paper, based on the empirical perspective, analyses the influence on fishery mutual insurance given by the subsidy policies from the fishermen participating ...
The results of integrating photovoltaic (PV) cells and solar thermal components are found attractive. This type of solar collector is known as a hybrid-PV system or photovoltaic/thermal (PV/T) solar collector. In the development of a PV/T solar collector, mathematical model and simulation play important ...