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... VIII FUNCTIONAL AND BEHAVIORAL MEASURES OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS Part VIII begins with a discussion in Chapter 23 of the use of involuntary muscle contraction for nutritional assessment. With muscle function analysis (MFA)
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... sleeping and waking activity and collects data to calculate sleeping and waking time, and the Vigilance Monitor, which combines the aforementioned measurement capabilities with vigilance assessment and intervention capability. The Vigilance Monitor is unobtrusive, has a fairly low cost, and can be programmed to provide data on several variables concurrently while monitoring a number of subjects simultaneously.

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