Ensuring the facilitation students comfortable learning activities depends on couple of underlying factors and appropriate school furniture is one of the key factors. Idiosyncratically, the management of these schools could hardly pay attentions on this and have needful measure in practice due to couple of constrains like financial, technical capacities etc. As, students spend their 80% of scho...

We propose an interactive modeling framework to create 3D furniture models with interactive parts from a single image. Given a real furniture image, we first infer the potential structure of the furniture based on the labeled bounding box of each part. Then a novel interaction guided modeling algorithm is employed to make each part to be movable. With the interaction graph and user labeling, ou...

To meet the demand of online collaborative design, a Web-based Collaborative Working Environment (CWE) has been developed. An approach to enhance sustainable furniture design by utilizing the CWE is proposed. In this paper, the CWE framework is briefly presented, which consists of upperware, middleware and resource layers; then three key aspects of sustainable furniture design by utilizing the ...

Innovation is considered fundamental for the survival and sustainability of furniture manufacturers in Greece and Europe at least. The paper presents a draft summary of the techno-economic analysis of a nonincremental furniture innovation called GSF as an acronym of green and smart furniture. It regards a smart and purely ecological main entrance furniture piece with incorporated intelligent fu...

Founded in 1970 by Don Feckle, Hafford Furniture began as a small furniture manufacturer based out of Beaumont, Texas. Hafford originally sold office furniture to businesses in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, but, by 1978, was supplying furniture to businesses throughout the entire South. By 1980, Hafford was the third largest furniture manufacturer in the United States, supplying a variety of ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of minor injuries and to study the wound care practices of school children. DESIGN A fortnightly follow up of urban (n = 112) and rural (n = 110) high school children was done in Chandigarh and rural Haryana between 1990-1992. Initial point prevalence survey was followed by fortnightly follow up survey involving interview for assessing incidence and wound c...

The advent of modernity in Iran weakened many structures and practices, including social hangouts in cities; therefore, the public was cynical about this space. While hangouts, as a third-place and public space in a city, promote social capital, vibrant centers, and citizenship education, Tehran Daneshjoo Park, as a public space with an urban scale and physical and social features, can also be ...

Cause specific mortality was investigated among 36 622 members ofa national furniture workers' union who were first employed in unionised shops between 1946 and 1962. Overall mortality for each race and sex group was less than expected when compared with United States death rates (white men SMR = 0-8, black men SMR = 0 7, white women SMR = 0-8, black women SMR = 0 5); however, raised risks were...