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OA-Graphs: Orientation Agnostic Graphs for improving the legibility of simple visualizations on horizontal displays
(2011-04-07)Horizontal displays, such as tabletop systems, are emerging as the de facto platform for engaging participants in collaborative tasks. Despite significant efforts in improving the interactivity of information on such ... -
Oasis in the sky, a roof garden for Sek on Tai elderly persons' housing
(1997-05-01)This practicum explores the utility of the mostly barren and desert-like roof space of our residential buildings. The concept is to reclaim an otherwise uninhabited roof top and transform it into a pleasant and enjoyable ... -
Obese individuals’ perceptions of health and obesity and the lived experience of weight loss, gain, or maintenance over time
(HindawiAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2014)Background: Obesity is associated with conditions that may affect Canadians’ health status and strain the health care system. Obese individuals are subjected to stigmatization. Most public health programs to date promote ... -
Obesity and loading during lifting
(2013-08-22)Background Obesity is associated with an increased risk of back pain, attributed to elevated mechanical load. Back injury risk is also determined by movement patterns (kinematics) and physiological factors (exertion, muscle ... -
Obesity as an Early Symptom of the AMIS Syndrome
(Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2014-10-28)We review evidence that the AMIS (Absence of Meal-induced Insulin Sensitization) syndrome describes a paradigm fundamental to development of obesity. The hypoglycemic response to a pulse of insulin is doubled after a meal ... -
Obesity education for front-line healthcare providers
(2018-11-23)Abstract Background To assess the effect of an interprofessional educational activity on professional skills, attitudes, and perceived challenges toward obesity management ... -
Obesity stigma reduction
(2008-09-10)The prevalence of overweight and obesity is on the rise. Being overweight or obese is associated with serious medical, psychological, and social consequences. The main social consequence of being overweight or obese is ... -
Object localization in weakly labeled images and videos
(IEEESpringer International PublishingIEEE, 2014-05)We consider the problem of localizing objects in weakly labeled images/videos. An image/video (e.g., Flickr image and YouTube video) is weakly labeled if it is associated with a tag describing the main object present in ... -
An object-oriented approach to generate mechanical assembly sequences
(1998-05-01)A mechanical assembly is a composition of parts interconnected to form a stable unit. The mechanical assembly sequence problem is to find a feasible, cost-effective sequence of tasks to perform the assembly. This problem ... -
Object-oriented modeling framework for water resources policy analysis
(1998-05-01)The objective of this research is to develop a new framework for water resources policy analysis. The new framework utilizes object-oriented programming, as a state-of-the-art methodology. The research addresses the ... -
Object-oriented program testing using formal requirements specification
(1997-05-01)Research on object-oriented paradigm has been mainly focussed on developing object-oriented programming languages and object-oriented analysis design tools. Recently, other aspects of object-oriented software life cycle ... -
Object-oriented software metrics
(1999-05-01)Quality assurance is one of the important non-functional software requirements which many software products fail to satisfy. Current software market is driven mostly by urgency and competition. This poses a erious problem ... -
An objectbase schema evolution approach to Windows NT security
(2000-05-01)A security model s ould be designed in such a way that it is transparent to the users, and at the same time easy to maintain and manage even if a very complex security model is required to ensure its proper functions. ...