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2019

Mothers’ eating style’s influence on their feeding practices and on their children’s appetite traits

Authors
Viana, V; Almeida, P; Guardiano, M; Silva, D; Oliveira, B; Guerra, A;

Publication
The Psychologist: Practice & Research Journal

Abstract
Background: Overweight and obesity in children and adolescents has become an important public health concern in the last decades. To study the way mothers and children’s behavioral factors interact with each other, influencing eating and body weight, may provide information to be used in preventive and treatment strategies.Goals: To study the association of mothers’ eating style on their feeding behavior and on their children’s eating behavior.Methods: Cross-sectional observational study with a non-probabilistic sample of mother and child dyads (from three schools). Mothers’ eating behavior (assessed with Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire scale; DEBQ) was classified and they were grouped into three eating styles: restrictive, emotional-external or neutral styles. Mothers’ feeding restriction, pressure to eat and concern about child’s weight were assessed (through the Child Feeding Questionnaire; CFQ). Finally, mothers classified their child’s appetite behaviors (with the Children’s Eating Behaviour Questionnaire; CEBQ).Results: Overall, participated 279 mothers, aged between 23 and 59 years (Mean= 38.03 years, SD=5.09) and respective children (n=279), aged between 6 and 13 years (Mean= 9.43 years, SD= 1.35), 140 of those were females (50.2 %). Associations between mothers’ eating style, their feeding behaviors and children’s appetite traits showed that restrictive and emotional-external eating mothers had higher scores of CFQ and CEBQ items related with obesity, when compared to neutral eating style mothers. Mothers’ feeding restriction and children’s weight concern associated positively with children’s food approach behaviors (enjoyment of food, food responsiveness, emotional over-eating), and negatively with food avoidance behaviors (satiety responsiveness and slowness in eating). On the contrary, pressure to eat associated positively with food avoidance behaviors and negatively with food approach behaviors. Mother´s concern about child weight and feeding restriction were positively associated with CEBQ subscales that reflect food approach and negatively associated with subscales that reflect food avoidance. Pressure to eat had the symmetric associations. Discussion: Results support the hypothesis of the transmission of eating behaviors that promote obesity from mothers to children, and have implications both for prevention and children and adolescents’ obesity treatment. Therefore, mothers should be a part of the intervention when treating their children obesity

2019

Exploring Video Game Searches on the Web

Authors
Mansouri, B; Zahedi, MS; Campos, R; Farhoodi, M;

Publication
COMPANION OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB CONFERENCE (WWW 2019 )

Abstract
As video games arc developing fast, many users issue queries related to video games in a daily fashion. While there Were a few attempts to understand their behavior, little is known on how the video game-related searches are done. Digesting and analyzing this search behavior may thus be faced as an important contribution for search engines to provide better results and search services for their users. To overcome this lack of knowledge and to gain more insight into how video game searches are done, we analyze in this paper, a number of game search queries submitted to a general search engine named Parsijoo. The analysis conducted was performed on top of 372,508 game search records extracted from the query logs within 253,516 different search sessions. Different aspects of video game searches are studied, including, their temporal distribution, game version specification. popular game categories, popular game platforms, game search sessions and clicked pages. Overall, the experimental analysis on video game searches shows that the current retrieval methods used by traditional search engines cannot be applied for game searches, thus, different retrieval and search services should be considered for these searches in the future.

2019

Document in Context of its Time (DICT): Providing Temporal Context to Support Analysis of Past Documents

Authors
Jatowt, A; Campos, R; Bhowmick, SS; Doucet, A;

Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 28TH ACM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION & KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (CIKM '19)

Abstract
Old documents tend to be difficult to be analyzed and understood, not only for average users but oftentimes for professionals as well. This is due to the context shift, vocabulary evolution and, in general, the lack of precise knowledge about the writing styles in the past. We propose a concept of positioning document in the context of its time, and develop an interactive system to support such an objective. Our system helps users to know whether the vocabulary used by an author in the past were frequent at the time of text creation, whether the author used anachronisms or neologisms, and so on. It also enables detecting terms in text that underwent considerable semantic change and provides more information on the nature of such change. Overall, the proposed tool offers additional knowledge on the writing style and vocabulary choice in documents by drawing from data collected at the time of their creation or at other user-specified time.

2019

Second Workshop on User Interfaces for Spatial and Temporal Data Analysis (UISTDA2019)

Authors
Wakamiya, S; Jatowt, A; Kawai, Y; Akiyama, T; Campos, R; Yang, ZL;

Publication
PROCEEDINGS OF THE 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT USER INTERFACES: COMPANION (IUI 2019)

Abstract
The 2nd workshop on User Interfaces for Spatial-Temporal Data Analysis (UISTDA2019)(1) took place in conjunction with the 24th Annual Meeting of the Intelligent Interfaces community (ACM IUI2019) in Los Angeles, USA on March 20, 2019. The goal of this workshop is to share latest progress and developments, current challenges and potential applications for exploring and exploiting large amounts of spatial and temporal data. Four papers and a keynote talk were presented in this edition of the workshop.

2019

Heuristics for scheduling jobs in a permutation flow shop to minimize total earliness and tardiness with unforced idle time allowed

Authors
Schaller, J; Valente, JMS;

Publication
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS

Abstract
This paper considers the problem of scheduling jobs in a permutation flow shop with the objective of minimizing total earliness and tardiness. Unforced idle time is considered in order to reduce the earliness of jobs. It is shown how unforced idle time can be inserted on the final machine. Several dispatching heuristics that have been used for the problem without unforced idle time were modified and tested. Several procedures were also developed that conduct a second pass to develop a sequence using dispatching rules. These procedures were also tested and were found to result in better solutions.

2019

Branch-and-bound algorithms for minimizing total earliness and tardiness in a two-machine permutation flow shop with unforced idle allowed

Authors
Schaller, J; Valente, J;

Publication
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH

Abstract
The two-machine permutation flow shop scheduling problem with the objective of minimizing total earliness and tardiness is addressed. Unforced idle time can be used to complete jobs closer to their due dates. It is shown that unforced idle time only needs to be considered on the second machine. This result is then used to extend a lower bound and dominance conditions for the single-machine problem to the two-machine permutation flow shop problem. Two branch-and-bound algorithms are developed for the problem utilizing the lower bound and dominance conditions. The algorithms are tested using instances that represent a wide variety of conditions.

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