BACKGROUND A lack of physical activity and excessive sitting can contribute to poor physical health and wellbeing. The high percentage of the UK adult population in employment, and the prolonged sitting associated with desk-based office-work, make these workplaces an appropriate setting for interventions to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase physical activity. This pilot study aims to dete...

Workstation cluster computing recently has become an important and successful technique. The communication bottleneck limits this approach to small and medium sized conngurations of up to 30 workstations for most applications. This paper demonstrates that for certain algorithms massively parallel cluster computing using thousands of workstations in the Internet is feasible. It describes structu...

The Temple project has developed an open multi.lingual architecture and software support for rapid development of extensible Machine Translation functionalities. The targeted languages are those for which Natural Language Processing and human resources are scarce or difficult to obtain. The goal is to support rapid development of machine translation functionalities in a very short time with lim...

We present a system for functional parallel computing on distributed memory machines with dynamic load balancing and recovery. Every node can perform any computation and is client and server at the same time. The nodes themself are multithreaded to overlap communication with computation and minimize latency. Furthermore, the calling convention is similar to threads on shared memory machines to ...

This study investigated the efficacy of training a complex skill within an immersive virtual environment. We constructed sensorimotor workstation task and trained participants to operate it with either non-interactive (text, video) method or equivalent workstation. Our results indicate that reality had significantly higher accuracy produced fewer timeouts in than those using methods, demonstrat...

PURPOSE Sit-to-stand workstations are becoming common in modern offices and are increasingly being implemented in sedentary behavior interventions. The purpose of this study was to examine whether the introduction of such a workstation among office workers leads to reductions in sitting during working hours, and whether office workers compensate for any reduction in sitting at work by increasin...