OBJECTIVES The Tooty Fruity Vegie (TFV) project was a multi-strategic, school-based intervention aimed at preventing the large decline in fruit and vegetable intake that typically starts during primary school. METHODS During 1999 and 2000, TFV was implemented in 10 volunteer primary schools across the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales. Surveys were conducted, in late 2000, with childr...

Airbus, the European aircraft manufacturer has started a program for developing the biggest aircraft ever built: the Airbus A380 which will be able to carry 550 passengers on two decks in the three classes version (Figure 1). The six components of the airplane (two wings, rear, central and front fuselages, and horizontal tail plane) are to be produced in different European cities (Figure 2). Th...

Every four years, the 10 national teams members of the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) compete for one of the slots available to South America in the final phase of the FIFA World Cup. The qualifying phase consists of a double round robin tournament, played in 9 match-days, with every team playing twice on each match-day. The overall tournament is spread throughout 2 years, so ...

Strong motion records are the original input data for earthquake engineering studies and earthquake resistant building codes. Records originating from both, analogue and modern digital instruments should be subjected to processing in order to derive credible engineering parameters, such as spectral ordinates. A number of processing procedures have been proposed by many researchers through the p...

Wireless Body area networks have its applications in healthcare applications like remote monitoring of vital signs of patients in hospitals. Due to the increasing population an change of lifestyle health problems are getting worse. Due to busy schedule people does not have time to visit the doctor. Sometimes in case of emergency doctors are not available. WBAN technology also helps the old peop...

by studying the evolution history of budgeting systems, you may discern three stages: in the first stage, controlling role of budget is regarded its major function. in the second stage, budget is considered as a means for management improvement. in the third stage, the role of budget is considered in economic planning, implementation of programs and government performance management. after worl...

Project management is a practice based profession. Just knowing the project management principles does not make a person a successful project manager. It is more important to assess how the candidate applies the project management principle in practice than merely knowing the theoretical aspects of project management. Project Managers play a critical role in the organization. They are responsib...

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