Schools have been identified as ideal settings for health promotion (HP) among children, adolescents and school staff. Most European countries have established strategies to implement HP into their school system, however, little is known about these national strategies and how effective they have been. School HP implementation concerns processes of adoption, adaptation and operation of a comple...

Tele-immersion is a new medium that enables a user to share a virtual space with remote participants, by creating the illusion that users at geographically dispersed locations reside at the same physical space. A person is immersed in a remote world, whose 3D representation is acquired remotely, then transmitted and displayed in the viewer’s environment. Tele-immersion is effective only when th...

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In this paper, we consider multiprocessor implementation of real-time recursive digital signal processing algorithms. The objective is to devise a periodic schedule, and a fully static task assignment scheme to meet the desired throughput rate while minimizing the number of processors. Toward this goal, we propose a notion called cutofs time. We prove that the minimumprocessor schedule can be f...

To appear in Information Systems real-time database system is a database system in which transactions have explicit timing constraints such as deadlines. Apart from satisfying the database consistency constraints, transaction executions must also satisfy these timing constraints. The goal of transaction and query processing in real-time databases is to maximise the number of successful transact...

We present a method to estimate the time-to-impact (TTI) from sequence of images. The is based on detecting and tracking local extremal points. Their endurance within between pixels measured, accumulated, used achieve TTI. This method, which improves an earlier proposal, entirely different ordinary optical flow technique allows for fast low-complex processing. inspired by insects, have some TTI...

have spent fortunes on ERP software and implementation only to find that business performance has not improved at all. These large investments and negative ROIs have created a whirlpool of controversy, rampant company politics and even a number of lawsuits. The trade press has reported many negative ERP stories, and even annual reports have pointed the finger at ERP for lower-than-expected earn...

We propose here a number of enhancements to the RFC 2289 One Time Password System (or S/KeyTM). The enhancements take into account the vulnerabilities of RFC 2289 as well as the practical usage issues in deploying this standard for modern day 2-factor authentication. More significantly, with the introduction of a user-originated “bias”, the enhancements allow for various user-end implementation...

In this paper the real time virtual dress-up system has been proposed. The proposed system consists of multiple tasks including extraction of different body parts, torso detection, resizing input dress images and dress up using blending and re-blending techniques over the subject. The coexistence of different clothing and cluttering backgrounds is the main difficulty for accurate body extractio...

A real-time implementation of a 2.4 Kbps mixed excitation linear prediction (MELP) speech-coding algorithm on a 20 MIPS TMS320C44 digital signal processor is described. The main emphases of the paper are on efficient coding and optimization strategies in computationally intensive modules by exploiting fast memories and registers of the C44 instruction set. Although the implementation is based o...