We are what we eat. Our everyday food choices affect our long-term and short-term health. In the traditional health care, professionals assess and weigh each individual’s dietary intake using intensive labor at high cost. In this paper, we design and implement a diet-aware dining table that can track what and how much we eat. To enable automated food tracking, the dining table is augmented with...

An efficient table lookup decoding algorithm (TLDA) is presented to decode up to five possible errors in a binary systematic (47,24,11) quadratic residue (QR) code. The main idea of the TLDA is based on the weight of syndrome, the syndrome decoder together with a reduced-size lookup table (RSLT), and the shift-search method given by Reed et al. Thus, the size of the lookup table and computation...

The art of visual tracking has been widely studied in the past decades [6]. While most of researches focus on exploring new methods to represent object appearance, little attention has been paid on the description of object motion. In this paper we propose a novel motion model for visual tracking, and in comparison with previous methods, it can better parameterize instantaneous image motion cau...

I USE the term covariants to include invariants, and I write particularly concerning lists of covariants (groundforms) of the binary quintic and sextic, those of quantics of lower degree being few and well known. When the weight of a covariant is spoken of in this article, it must be understood to mean the weight of its first term or "source." The symbol 5ft will denote that covariant of the qu...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of the study was to develop and evaluate a clinical-guideline-based smartphone application ('app') for obesity management. METHODS Obesity-related knowledge and functional requirements were extracted from clinical practice guidelines, a literature review, and consultations with experts. The extracted knowledge was used to design obesity-management algorithms, and the fu...

BACKGROUND Health outcomes throughout the life course have been linked to fetal growth restriction and low birthweight. A variety of measures exist to define low birthweight, with a lack of consensus regarding which predict adverse outcome. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the relationship between birthweight standards and childhood and adult outcomes in term-born infants (≥37 weeks' gestation). SEAR...

Table of contents 1. Main findings 2. Summary 3. Background 4. Infant and perinatal mortality rates 5. Linking birth and death records 6. Cause of infant deaths 7. Age of mother at birth 8. Birthweight 9. Socio-economic status 10. Mother's country of birth 11. Child mortality rates 12. Singleton and multiple births using the 2011 Birth cohort tables 13. Users and uses of infant mortality statis...