Overview of Policies, Guidelines, and Standards for Active Assisted Living Data Exchange: Thematic Analysis

JICA Thematic Guidelines on Nursing Education (Overview)

Computer Vision for Active and Assisted Living

The field of computer vision has been growing steadily and attracting the interest of both researchers and the industry. Especially in the last decade, enormous advances have been made with regard to automated and reliable recognition of image or video content, such as face, object and motion recognition [1–3] and gesture and activity recognition [4, 5]. Additionally, recent advances in 3D scen...

Overview and discussion of electronic exchange standards for technical information

Nowadays more and more information is being exchanged electronically. Reasons for this include a higher degree of cooperation between information suppliers and users, an increasing demand for speed (of production and modification, and reduction of time to market), and cost reduction. On the technology side, the advent of the electronic highway enables effective and efficient electronic informat...

Flexible classification standards for product data exchange

One essential part of e-business is the exchange of product data between business partners. Classifications have been developed as a means to clearly describe the semantics of product descriptions. They provide schema elements like properties and classes and define their semantics by some formal relationships and some textual (informal) definitions. This chapter gives an overview about the mode...

Estimated energy expenditures for school-based policies and active living.

BACKGROUND Despite overwhelming evidence of the health benefits of physical activity, most American youth are not meeting the 60 minutes per day recommendation for moderate- to vigorous-intensity physical activity (MVPA). Policy changes have the potential to bring about substantial increases in physical activity in youth, within school and community settings. PURPOSE The purpose of this study...