Saturday, 27 August 2016

Is There a Double Jogging Stroller That Fits Through Doors?

by KIMBERLY DYKE

Double jogging strollers can mean more freedom for a parent who wants to head outdoors with two kids in tow. Jogging strollers feature strong frames and rugged tires made to roll smoothly over hard or uneven terrain. A compact jogging stroller is an excellent choice for a parent who wants to walk just as easily through the door at the local market as he or she does along the nature trail in the park.

When shopping for a double jogging stroller, keep in mind where you are primarily going to use the stroller. A compact jogging stroller will better suit your needs if you will be doing any strolling indoors. The standard width for an exterior door in the United States is 36 inches, and interior door widths can measure from 28 to 36 inches. Measuring your stroller before you buy it will ensure that you will be able to pass through the doors to most stores, offices and other locations with ease.

Though new double jogging stroller models are added to the market every year, several models are narrow enough to fit through most doorways. The Tyke Tech X3 Sport Double Stroller is 30 inches wide and is suitable for jogging. To jog with the 30-inch-wide BOB Revolution SE Duallie, simply put the stroller in fixed-wheel position. The Mountain Buggy Plus One is a mere 25 inches wide when open, and features an in-line design suitable for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends waiting until your baby is at least 6 months old before placing him in a jogging stroller. He should be able to support his head and sit up on his own. Children younger than 6 months can ride in a jogging stroller if it features a secure harness or positioning options especially for small babies. To give your baby a more comfortable ride while you are jogging, provide neck support, recline the seat and stick to smooth surfaces. Babies over a year old can better handle bumpy trails and uneven surfaces.

Most double strollers can handle up to 100 pounds, including two children, stroller accessories and other items like diapers and snacks. For smooth travel, it is best to distribute weight evenly in the stroller. Rugged, wide-set wheels and a sturdy, lightweight metal frame offer the safest foundation for a double jogging stroller. Other safety features should include a hand or foot brake, five-point safety harnesses and a wrist strap to keep the stroller from rolling away. Parents should secure all straps and test the brakes before going out with children in the stroller. Also be sure to properly inflate the tires to levels detailed in the owner's manual or on the tires themselves.

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Information on Instep Safari Swivel Jogging Stroller

by ANDREA DIXON

Jogging strollers are specifically designed to allow the parent to run while pushing the stroller. The InSTEP Safari Swivel Jogging Stroller is a great option for parents who enjoy nature and recreational jogging and would like to include their children in these activities.

The InSTEP Safari Swivel Jogging Stroller comes in both a single and double verstion. It has a 12 inch front wheel that swivels and 16 inch rear wheels. The stroller features a storage basket, rubberized slip resistant handle, parent and child trays that each hold two cups and a plush seat with shoulder pads and a five-point harness.

The single stroller is 31.5 pounds, the double stroller is 34 pounds and both are made of a durable steel frame. The maximum seat capacity for a single child is 50 pounds. The single stroller is 23 inches wide and 49 inches long. Folded, the single stroller measures at 22.75 by 24.5 by 25 inches and the double stroller measures 33.5 by 33 by 21 inches.

The suggested retail price for this jogging stroller is $249. It is easily maneuvered over rough terrain. The under-seat basket is roomy and can hold belongings that may be needed on a jog or walk through the park. There is a removable padded seat that can be easily washed, along with a reclining seat. The five-point harness, mesh bug screen, retractable sun canopy and front wheel lock all help to ensure the safety of the child.

This jogging stroller is infant car seat compatible with a number of different models, including the Graco SnugRide, Snugride 32 and Safe Seat, Chicco Key Fit and Key Fit 30, Peg Perego Primo Viaggio SIP 30/30, Combi Shuttle, Centre Series and Connection, Evenflo car seats, Britax Companion and Cosco car seats. The car seat rests on the child tray and is secured to the stroller using included straps. All infant car seats are sold separately.

Jogging strollers can be used for strolls around the neighborhood, walks in the city and running in the park. It has a sturdy frame and adequate suspension to accommodate rough terrain yet is easy to maneuver around obstacles. Most stroller manufactures recommend waiting until the child is at least 6 months old before using a jogging stroller.

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At What Age Can a Baby Ride in a Jogging Stroller?

by TANYA KONERMAN

Making your baby part of your daily workout routine can be fun and can help to strengthen the bond you share. But it’s important first to learn when she will be old enough to have the neck, head and spinal control necessary to prevent injury, as well as how to choose a safe stroller designed specifically for the rigors of jogging with a baby.

According to BabyCenter.com, your newborn has little head control because her neck muscles and motor skills are weak and undeveloped. As she grows stronger and works her muscles more, she will eventually be able to sit up on her own. She will also develop the neck and head control necessary for handling faster movement without the risk of damage to her spine or head. The age for these accomplishments will vary.

Determining when your baby is developmentally ready to join you for a run is essential for her safety. Jogging strollers do not recline, so your baby will be sitting fully upright during your jog. Therefore, she must have full head control before it is safe for her to join you as you run. While many jogging stroller manufacturers recommend your child should be at least 6 months old, others recommend waiting until she is at least 8 months old to be sure, according to ConsumerSearch.com. Experts at Consumer Reports recommend waiting even longer, until your baby is 1 year old, because of the jostling involved and to prevent the possibility of suffocation due to her head falling forward and restricting her breathing. Talk to your pediatrician for guidance on when your 6- to 12-month-old is ready, to make sure your baby’s neck control is strong and she can handle the movement. Then do some research to find a safe stroller.

Jogging strollers differ from regular strollers in a few ways, but most importantly, jogging strollers are designed to handle the speed and roughness your baby will experience while you jog on streets, sidewalks or other paths, keeping her secure and stable. A jogging stroller is also different from an all-terrain stroller according to ConsumerSearch.com, and both regular and all-terrain versions should never be used for jogging as they are not designed properly for the type of movement involved in running and could lead to injuries for you and your baby.

When choosing a jogging stroller, be sure to check for features designed to keep you and your baby safe. According to WhatToExpect.com, first make certain your stroller has the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association seal assuring you it meets strict standards. Look for a fixed front tire that does not swivel, which allows your stroller to continue moving straight forward as you jog, and a five-point safety harness for top stability and security. Check for well-inflated tires, good suspension and effective shock absorbers, as well as features like hand brakes and a wrist strap to prevent the stroller from getting away from you on hills.

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Dietary Supplements for Puffy Eyes

by MAURA BANAR

Puffy eyes, also known as bags under your eyes, can be caused by aging, which leads to a weakening of the muscles surrounding the area. Additionally, the Mayo Clinic explains that puffy eyes can be caused by inadequate amounts of sleep, allergies or retention of water in tissues. Regardless of the cause, puffy eyes are cosmetically annoying and can be accompanied by other symptoms such as watery eyes, itching and sneezing, particularly when caused by allergies. Certain dietary supplements might help treat the underlying cause of puffy eyes and reduce their appearance. Check with your doctor before using any dietary supplement.

Vitamin C is an antioxidant that might help improve the effectiveness of your immune system. According to the Linus Pauling Institute, research examining vitamin C's ability to boost immunity has produced mixed results. It adds, however, that vitamin C plays an important role in the production of collagen, which is responsible for the structure of cells. Collagen helps maintain the firmness of your skin and might improve the strength of the cells under your eyes, decreasing sagging. If your puffy eyes are due to allergies, vitamin C might help decrease your body's release of histamines, which can cause swelling under the eyes.

Like vitamin C, vitamin E acts as an antioxidant in the body, removing potentially harmful byproducts of metabolism called free-radicals. Additionally, the University of Maryland Medical Center, or UMMC, says a deficiency of vitamin E can lead to muscle weakness. This can affect the muscles that surround your eyes, causing sagging and pooling of fluids. Vitamin E is also important for the health of your eyes, including the surrounding tissues. When combined with vitamin C, explains UMMC, vitamin E can decrease inflammation around the eyes caused by a condition known as uveitis.

Celery seeds are extracted from the mature celery plant and are further concentrated through extraction of the seeds. The resulting substance, explains the UMMC, has natural diuretic properties that draw water out of the tissues of your body. This effect might help decrease puffy eyes caused by the retention of water in the tissues around your eyes. Celery seed extract also has anti-inflammatory properties that might decrease swelling under the eyes. Check with your doctor before using celery seed extract because it might interact with some medications such as diuretics.

If you are experiencing puffy eyes due to lack of adequate sleep, melatonin might help regulate your sleep-wake cycle. The UMMC says melatonin might help people with insomnia, particularly if it is caused by jet lag or overnight shift work. Melatonin appears to restore a balanced sleep-wake cycle by helping some people fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer and be more alert when awake. Improving the quality of your sleep might help decrease the under-eye puffiness that is caused by sleep disruption.

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Can You Get Rid of Under-Eye Bags With Supplements?

by JAIME HERNDON

Under-eye bags, or puffiness under the eyes, is a common occurrence as you age, says MayoClinic.com. Tissues around the eyes weaken with age, and fat that supports the eyes can migrate into the lower eyelids along with fluid, causing bags. They can also occur due to fluid retention, lack of sleep, allergies or heredity. These bags are typically just a cosmetic concern and not a symptom of a medical condition. There are herbal supplements that may help you manage these symptoms, but they may not work for everyone. Talk with your doctor before using any supplements to make sure they are safe for you to consume.

Take a vitamin C supplement or apply a vitamin C skin lotion to your under-eye bags. According to Medline Plus, this vitamin is necessary for making collagen, which helps with skin elasticity. It is also an antioxidant, which can prevent cell damage caused by free radicals and may help fight the aging process of cells.

Take a valerian supplement if you suffer from insomnia. MayoClinic.com states that getting enough sleep can help reduce under-eye bags, but if you are unable to sleep, a natural sleep aid may help. Valerian has been used for thousands of years to treat insomnia and anxiety, and is an alternative to prescription sleep aids. The University of Maryland recommends taking 250 to 600 mg, one to two hours before bedtime.

Take 250 to 600 mg daily, in divided doses, of quercetin. According to the University of Maryland, quercetin contains anti-inflammatory properties, which can help reduce the appearance of under-eye bags. It is also an antihistamine, which helps fight allergy symptoms. MayoClinic.com says that some under-eye bags are caused by allergies.

Before using any herbal supplements, talk with your doctor to make sure they are safe for you to take. Tell her about any other medications or supplements you are taking, to avoid any adverse interactions.

Applying a cool compress to your under-eye bags may help reduce the puffiness of the bags, suggests MayoClinic.com.
Sometimes surgery or skin treatments like peels, are treatment options for under-eye bags. If the bags really bother you, talk with your doctor to see if these treatments are appropriate for your situation.

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Adapting maize production to drought in the Northeast Farming Region of China

Published Date

July 2016, Vol.77:47–58, doi:10.1016/j.eja.2016.03.004

Title

Adapting maize production to drought in the Northeast Farming Region of China

Author

Xiaogang Yin^a,b

Jørgen E. Olesen^b

Meng Wang^a

Kurt-Christian Kersebaum^c

Huang Chen^d

Sanmohan Baby^b

Isik Öztürk^b

Fu Chen^a,^,

aCollege of Agronomy, China Agricultural University and Key Laboratory of Farming system, Ministry of Agriculture of China, Beijing 100193, China
bDepartment of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Blichers Allé 20, DK-8830 Tjele, Denmark
cInstitute of Landscape Systems Analysis, Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Str. 84, 15374 Müncheberg, Germany
dDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA

Received 21 December 2015. Revised 7 March 2016. Accepted 8 March 2016. Available online 11 April 2016.

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Farmers have adopted various adaptation strategies to cope with drought in maize production in different seasons in NFR.
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Our study indicates that maize yield was highly depend on soil conditions, and adaptation measures, like maize variety diversification, drought resistant varieties, conservation tillage and irrigation, have significant positive effects on maize yield in mitigating drought affects.
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Farmer household characteristics, like the size of maize acreage and irrigation access, and policy support, including information service, financial and technical support, would significantly promote farmers to adopt adaptation strategies to cope with drought.

Abstract

Maize (Zea mays L.) is the most prominent crop in the Northeast Farming Region of China (NFR), and drought has been the largest limitation for maize production in this area during recent decades. The question of how to adapt maize production to drought has received great attention from policy makers, researchers and farmers. In order to evaluate the effects of adaptation strategies against drought and examine the influences of policy supports and farmer households’ characteristics on adopting decisions, a large scale household survey was conducted in five representative maize production counties across NFR. Our survey results indicated that using variety diversification, drought resistant varieties and dibbling irrigation are the three major adaptation strategies against drought in spring, and farmers also adopted changes in sowing time, conservation tillage and mulching to cope with drought in spring. About 20% and 18% of households enhanced irrigation against drought in summer and autumn, respectively. Deep loosening tillage and organic fertilizer are also options for farmers to resist drought in summer. Maize yield was highly dependent on soil qualities, with yields on land of high soil quality approximately 1050 kg/ha and 2400 kg/ha higher than for normal and poor soil conditions, respectively. Using variety diversification and drought resistant varieties can respectively increase maize yield by approximately 150 and 220 kg/ha under drought. Conservation tillage increased maize yield by 438–459 kg/ha in drought years. Irrigation improved maize yield by 419–435 kg/ha and 444–463 kg/ha against drought in summer and autumn, respectively. Offering information service, financial and technical support can greatly increase the use of adaptation strategies for farmers to cope with drought. However, only 46% of households received information service, 43% of households received financial support, and 26% of households received technical support against drought from the local government. The maize acreage and the irrigation access are the major factors that influenced farmers’ decisions to apply adaptation strategies to cope with drought in each season, but only 25% of households have access to irrigation. This indicates the need for enhanced public support for farmers to better cope with drought in maize production, particularly through improving access to irrigation.

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Drought

Maize production

Adaptation strategies

Household characteristics

Policy support

The Northeast Farming Region of China

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Effect of oil sands process-affected water on toxicity of retene to early life-stages of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Published Date

July 2016, Vol.176:1–9, doi:10.1016/j.aquatox.2016.04.009

Title

Effect of oil sands process-affected water on toxicity of retene to early life-stages of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

Author

Hattan A. Alharbi^a

Garrett Morandi^a

John P. Giesy^a,b,c,d,e,^,

Steve B. Wiseman^a,^,

aToxicology Centre, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada,
bDepartment of Veterinary Biomedical Sciences, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
cZoology Department, Center for Integrative Toxicology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
dSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China
eState Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of the Environment, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China

Received 8 February 2016. Revised 9 April 2016. Accepted 11 April 2016. Available online 12 April 2016.

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Retene, but not OSPW, caused edema and expression of CYP1A in J. medaka embryos.
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Effects of retene were greater in embryos co-exposed to retene and OSPW.
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OSPW might have increased exposure and uptake, but inhibited metabolism, of retene.
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Effects of OSPW on toxicity of retene were attenuated by aging of OSPW.

Abstract

Toxicity of oil sands process-affected water (OSPW) to aquatic organisms has been studied, but effects of co-exposure to OSPW and polycyclic-aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which are an important class of chemicals in tailings ponds used to store OSPW, has not been investigated. The goal of the current study was to determine if organic compounds extracted from the aqueous phase of relatively fresh OSPW from Base-Mine Lake (BML-OSPW) or aged OSPW from Pond 9 experimental reclamation pond (P9-OSPW) modulated toxic potency of the model alkyl-PAH, retene, to early life-stages of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes). Embryos were exposed to retene by use of a partition controlled delivery (PCD) system made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) until day of hatch. Incidences of pericardial edema and expression of CYP1Awere not significantly greater in larvae exposed only to dissolved organic compounds from either OSPW but were significantly greater in larvae exposed only to retene. Expression of CYP1A and incidences of pericardial edema were significantly greater in larvae co-exposed to retene and 5 × equivalent of dissolved organic compounds from BML-OSPW compared to retene alone. However, there was no effect of co-exposure to retene and either a 1 × equivalent of dissolved organic compounds from BML-OSPW or 5 × equivalent of dissolved organic compounds from P9-OSPW. While there was evidence that exposure to 5 × equivalent of dissolved organic compounds from BML-OSPW caused oxidative stress, there was no evidence of this effect in larvae exposed only to retene or co-exposed to retene and a 5 × equivalent of dissolved organic compounds from BML-OSPW. These results suggest that oxidative stress is not a mechanism of pericardial edema in early-life stages of Japanese medaka. Relatively fresh OSPW from Base Mine Lake might influence toxicity of alkylated-PAHs to early life stages of fishes but this effect would not be expected to occur at current concentrations of OSPW and is attenuated by aging of OSPW.

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Alkyl-PAH

Orbitrap

Ultra-high resolution mass spectrometry

Tailings pond

Bitumen

Naphthenic acids

Edema

Surfactant

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Adapting maize production to drought in the Northeast Farming Region of China

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Effect of oil sands process-affected water on toxicity of retene to early life-stages of Japanese medaka (Oryzias latipes)

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