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Parenting Styles, Feeding Styles, Feeding Practices, and Weight Status in 4–12 Year-Old Children: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Childhood is a critical period in the development of obesity. Eating patterns established early in life track into later life. Therefore, parental approaches to feeding in their general parenting style, feeding styles, and specific feeding practices will have a profound impact on how children eat and grow. A systematic research review following PRISMA guidelines was conducted to identify, discuss and integrate recent research investigating the relationship between parenting styles, feeding styles, feeding practices, and body mass index (BMI) in children. Medline (Ovid), PsycINFO, Web of Science, and Food Science and Technology Abstracts were systematically searched using sensitive search strategies. Studies were limited to papers published in English between 2010 and February 2015 with participants aged 4–12 years old with outcomes including obesity, change in weight, or BMI. The search yielded 31 relevant quantitative peer-reviewed papers meeting all inclusion criteria: seven longitudinal, 23 cross-sectional, one randomized control trial. Associations between parenting style and child BMI were strongest and most consistent within the longitudinal studies. Uninvolved, indulgent or highly protective parenting was associated with higher child BMI, whereas authoritative parenting was associated with a healthy BMI. Similarly for feeding styles, indulgent feeding was consistently associated with risk of obesity within cross-sectional studies. Specific feeding practices such as restriction and pressure to eat were linked to BMI, especially within cross-sectional studies. Where child traits were measured, the feeding practice appeared to be responsive to the child, therefore restriction was applied to children with a high BMI and pressure to eat applied to children with a lower BMI. Behaviors and styles that are specific to the feeding context are consistently associated with child BMI. However, since obesity emerges over time, it is through longitudinal, carefully measured (through questionnaire and observation) studies which take account of child appetite and temperament that the association between parenting style, feeding style, specific feeding practices, and child obesity will be understood.
The Global Market for Olive Oil: Actors, Trends, Prospects and Research Needs

Olive oil is possibly the single globally consumed and traded product most closely linked to the Mediterranean; non-Mediterranean countries account for less than 2.5 per cent of world production. The paper addresses recent trends in the olive oil world market and the current structure of trade. With respect to existing analyses, its value added is in the level of detail at which the analysis of current trade is conducted, in particular by considering bilateral olive oil trade flows disaggregated with respect to its quality. The main conclusion reached is that the key factors for the future of the market are developments in demands and in the imperfectly competitive structure of the industry, while supply factors and expected changes in trade policies, although relevant, are likely to play a less important role.
Inequality and the Crisis: A Causal Inference Analysis

A new database for the calculation of quarterly income inequality measures was established for 11 economies from Central, East and Southeast Europe for the period of 1st quarter 2000 to 4th quarter 2011. Based on the large panel of the acquired quarterly Gini coefficients an ‘Acemoglu-style’ causal inference analysis on the impact of the global financial crisis on economic growth and income inequality in transition economies was performed. The results suggest that at least in the short and medium run the growth model of transition economies switched to an industrial, export-led growth model as foreign capital flows dried up. While in the private sector wage dispersion further continued to increase during the boom just as during the economic break-down, the public sector acted inequality reducing both in the period of plenty as well as in the age of austerity.
Volunteer Computing Simulation using Repast and Mason

Volunteer environments usually consist of a large number of computing nodes, with highly dynamic characteristics, therefore reliable models for a planning of the whole computing are highly desired. An easy to implement approach to mo- delling and simulation of such environments may employ agent-based universal simulation frameworks, such as RePast or MASON. In the course of the paper the above-mentioned simulation frameworks are adapted to support simulation of volunteer computing. After giving implementation details, selected results concerning computing time and speedup are given and are compared with the ones obtained from an actual volunteer environment.
Diminished Thrombogenic Responses by Deletion of the Podocalyxin Gene in Mouse Megakaryocytes

Podocalyxin (Podxl) is a type I membrane sialoprotein of the CD34 family, originally described in the epithelial glomerular cells of the kidney (podocytes) in which it plays an important function. Podxl can also be found in megakaryocytes and platelets among other extrarenal places. The surface exposure of Podxl upon platelet activation suggested it could play some physiological role. To elucidate the function of Podxl in platelets, we generated mice with restricted ablation of the podxl gene in megakaryocytes using the Cre-LoxP gene targeting methodology. Mice with Podxl-null megakaryocytes did not show any apparent phenotypical change and their rates of growth, life span and fertility did not differ from the floxed controls. However, Podxl-null mice showed prolonged bleeding time and decreased platelet aggregation in response to physiological agonists. The number, size-distribution and polyploidy of Podxl-null megakaryocytes were similar to the floxed controls. Podxl-null platelets showed normal content of surface receptors and normal activation by agonists. However, the mice bearing Podxl-null platelets showed a significant retardation in the ferric chloride-induced occlusion of the carotid artery. Moreover, acute thrombosis induced by the i.v. injection of sublethal doses of collagen and phenylephrine produced a smaller fall in the number of circulating platelets in Podxl-null mice than in control mice. In addition, perfusion of uncoagulated blood from Podxl-null mice in parallel flow chamber showed reduced adhesion of platelets and formation of aggregates under high shear stress. It is concluded that platelet Podxl is involved in the control of hemostasis acting as a platelet co-stimulator, likely due to its pro-adhesive properties.
Activation of Nrf2 Protects against Triptolide-Induced Hepatotoxicity

Triptolide, the major active component of Tripterygium wilfordii Hook f. (TWHF), has a wide range of pharmacological activities. However, the toxicities of triptolide, particularly the hepatotoxicity, limit its clinical application. The hepatotoxicity of triptolide has not been well characterized yet. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) in triptolide-induced toxicity and whether activation of Nrf2 could protect against triptolide-induced hepatotoxicity. The results showed that triptolide caused oxidative stress and cell damage in HepG2 cells, and these toxic effects could be aggravated by Nrf2 knockdown or be counteracted by overexpression of Nrf2. Treatment with a typical Nrf2 agonist, sulforaphane (SFN), attenuated triptolide-induced liver dysfunction, structural damage, glutathione depletion and decrease in antioxidant enzymes in BALB/C mice. Moreover, the hepatoprotective effect of SFN on triptolide-induced liver injury was associated with the activation of Nrf2 and its downstream targets. Collectively, these results indicate that Nrf2 activation protects against triptolide-induced hepatotoxicity.
2-Channel RF front-end design for K-band automotive multi-channel radar in 0.18 μm CMOS technology

In this paper, we present an on-chip K-band RF front-end including 2-channel transmitter and 2-channel receiver for vehicular multi-channel radar applications using a 0.18 μm CMOS process. The transmitter is composes of a 3-stage driver amplifier (DA), two power dividers (PD), and two 2-stage DAs. Each receiver includes commonly a low noise amplifier (LNA), a mixer, a balun, a variable driver amplifier (VDA), and a low pass filter (LPF) excluding a variable gain amplifier (VGA). The receiver presents a gain of 23.5 dB at 24.15 GHz and an input-referred 1 dB compression point of −19 dB. The receiver gain can be increased up to 60 dB by VGA. The transmitter shows gains of 9.8 dB and 4.4 dB for output ports at 24.15 GHz and an output saturated power of 6.3 dBm. The designed RF transceiver chip has a size of 2280 μm × 1920 μm while consuming 174 mA with a supply voltage of 1.8 V.
Improved performance compressed sensing based pulse Doppler radar

In this paper, we present improved performance compressed sensing (CS) based pulse Doppler radar. CS is an emerging sampling technique which uses very few number of samples to reconstruct original signal. Improvement in performance is achieved using Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) method with Fourier dictionary at low signal to noise ratio (SNR). OMP is an iterative and fast reconstruction method while Fourier dictionary is used to transform the original signal from time domain to Fourier domain. A significant reduction of sampling frequency by a factor of 360 is achieved at SNR as low as 10 dB, while preserving essential signal information. Low signal reconstruction error leads to good detection performance using Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test (GLRT), a detector based on ratio of probabilities of detection and false alarm. Simulation results demonstrate usefulness of the ideas presented.
The Impact of Electronic-Trading on the Relative Informational Efficiency of Index Futures Market

This study examines the impact of migration to electronic trading on the relative informational efficiency between an index futures contract and the underlying cash index. The recent move to electronic trading of the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index futures contract provides an opportunity to study how the change affects the effective bid and ask spread in the futures market and the dynamic relationship between the futures and the underlying cash index. Our findings suggest that the migration reduced the effective spread of futures contract. In addition, the information flow from futures to the cash index is strengthened while the instantaneous feedback between futures and cash markets is weakened after the migration. The instantaneous feedback and futures to cash feedback information flow are strengthened in a falling market. However, consistent with the literature, a trading migration from floor to electronic trading reduces the release of lumpy information, which tends to reduce the feedback from futures to cash market. The Impact of Electronic-Trading on the Relative Informational Efficiency of Index Futures Market
Research on Small Object Detection and Tracking Based on Particle Filter

The problem of tracking small objects poses a number of challenges, which dues to the ambiguity of the observations and the presence of partial or complete occlusions. In this paper an efficient method of tracking before detecting for small object is proposed in the low signal to noise ratio image sequences under complex background. In the tracking phase, we introduce auxiliary particle filter to obtain particle collection, which is according to noise sample set. In the detecting phase, we make use of target trajectory search and make a decision based on energy accumulation. We use detection based on neighborhood decision algorithm. In order to reduce the detection of reproducibility and false, a method of special centroid extraction based on the small target is proposed. The experimental results show that this method is able to obtain trajectories of the target rapidly and significantly increase the detection efficiency based on the running trajectories.
Co-movement and Integration among Developed Equity Markets

In contrast to the existing focus on intertemporal global integration, this paper examines equity market integration from the dual perspectives of the global-regional dichotomy and the equity market regime structure. Results are obtained using an exact Kalman filter with common regimes and GARCH innovations. According to the findings, market volatility during periods of low global and European volatility tends to be dominated by idiosyncratic shocks. In contrast, common factors are generally dominant for medium-level global and European shocks. Finally, although the importance of the common factors has risen, there is no clear evidence of a global or European integration trend.
Best Practice Approaches for Characterizing , Communicating , and Incorporating Scientific Uncertainty in Climate Decision Making

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The increasing availability of individual-level data has raised the standards for measurability and accountability in digital advertising. Using a massive individual-level data set, our paper captures the effectiveness of display advertising across a wide range of consumer behaviors. Two unique features of our data set that distinguish this paper from prior work are: (i) the information on the actual viewability of impressions and (ii) the duration of exposure to the display advertisements, both at the individual-user level. Employing a natural experiment enabled by our setting, we use difference-indifferences and corresponding matching methods as well as instrumental variable techniques to control for unobservable and observable confounders. We empirically demonstrate that mere exposure to display advertising can increase users’ propensity to search for the brand and the corresponding product; consumers engage both in active search exerting effort to gather information through search engines as well as through direct visits to the advertiser’s website, and in passive search using information sources that arrive exogenously, such as future display ads. We also find statistically and economically significant effect of display advertising on increasing consumers’ propensity to make a purchase. Furthermore, we find that the advertising performance is amplified up to four times when consumers are targeted earlier in the purchase funnel path and that the longer the duration of exposure to display advertising, the more likely the consumers are to engage in direct search behaviors (e.g., direct visits) rather than indirect ones (e.g., search engine inquiries). We also study the effects of various types of display advertising (e.g., prospecting, retargeting, affiliate targeting, video advertising, etc.) and the different goals they achieve. Our framework for evaluating display advertising effectiveness constitutes a stepping stone towards causally addressing the digital attribution problem.
Automatic sleep apnea detection using fuzzy logic

The obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is one of the most important sleep disorders characterized by obstruction of the respiratory tract and cessation in respiratory flow level. Currently, apnea diagnosis is mainly based on the Polysomnography (PSG) testing during sleeping hours, however, recording the entire signals during nights is a very costly, time-consuming and difficult task. The goal of this study is to provide and validate an automatic algorithm to analyze four PSG-recordings and detect the occurrence of sleep apnea by noninvasive features. Four PSG signals were extracted from oxygen saturation (SaO2), Transitional air flow (Air Flow), abdominal movements during breathing (Abdomen mov.) and movements of the chest (Thoracic mov.). We describe a fuzzy algorithm to compensate the imprecise information about the range of signal loss, regarding the expert opinions. Signal classification is implemented minute-by-minute and for 30 labeled samples of MIT/BIH data sets (acquired from PhysioNet). The obtained data from 18 apnea subjects (11 males and 7 females, mean age 43 years) were categorized in three output signals of apnea, hypopnea and normal breathing. The proposed algorithm shows proficiency in diagnosing OSA with acceptable sensitivity and specificity, respectively 86% and 87%.
An algebraic/analytic method for reconstruction from image correspondences

A method for the reconstruction and motion problems is presented, under the assumption that a number of point correspondences in a pair of images are known. A geometric and algebraic theory is based on invariance properties of point configuration under affine and projective transformations. In particular, a characterization of those image pairs which correspond to the same point configuration in an unknown scene is given. An algorithm along these lines is presented, yielding complete sets of solutions to the reconstruction problem. A main idea is to exploit the affine structure of the problem, and work with relative locations, before turning to the metrical structure and absolute locations. It turns out that relative depth information can be achieved at a low computational cost (Less)
An evaluation on the design of non-ISO vehicle icons

Effective in-vehicle icons are used to convey quick and complete understanding of information to drivers for safe driving; however, misunderstood icons may result to worse. Former studies were able to point out the ineffectiveness (in terms of matching accuracy) of non-ISO vehicle icons. This study was conducted to fill in the gap in literature that addresses the need for redesigning ineffective non-ISO icons for improvement in terms of the said performance measure. Subjective rating in terms of familiarity, concreteness, complexity, and semantic distance of the icons was also evaluated to get an explanation on their objective performance. 20 non-ISO icons were screened from a particular vehicle model in the Philippines and were evaluated using a matching accuracy test that was programmed for easy facilitation of the evaluation and were answered by 98 respondents (50% Novice and 50% Expert drivers). Of these, 6 icons performed below the ISO standard of 66.7% matching accuracy. These underperforming icons were redesigned using guidelines and suggestions from related literature. This study was able to produce significant improvements both in the matching accuracy and subjective rating of the underperforming icons. Driving proficiency, familiarity, concreteness, and semantic distance were identified to be significant factors that affect the matching accuracy of the test subjects.
Stratified Programming Integrated Development Environment (SPIDER)

This paper describes the functionality required for a development environment that supports stratified programming (SP), a novel software development method that we have proposed recently [1, 2]. In this paper we discuss the case when program strata are controlled outside the programming language and present the main features of the SPIDER environment for strata creation and SP program execution. The central part of the development environment is a source code editor, whose specific strata manipulation functions are described in detail in the paper. An example of stratified XSL/XSLT code is also included to illustrate the main concepts of stratified programming.
HTTPEP: a HTTP Performance Enhancing Proxy for Satellite Systems

Broadband satellites enable Internet access for remote communities and niche markets such as ships and airplanes. However, their inherent characteristics, such as long delays and limited resources, significantly degrade the end- user's web browsing quality-of-experience. In this paper, we propose a novel HTTP Performance Enhancing Proxy (PEP) that accelerates web-browsing and improves the utilization of satellite resources. We describe HTTP optimizations, which enable this acceleration. We show that, optimizing the transport layer to the communication mechanism of a HTTP PEP gives further benefits in terms of a reduction in bandwidth usage and computing resource utilization. Our performance evaluation shows an average reduction in Web page-load latency of up to 27%.