In today’s educational environment a student is required to do class work with the school furniture (benches and desks) for at least four to six hours per day. The existing furniture designs have been in use in most of the classrooms of rural school in the state of West Bengal for the last few decades or so. But it is noticed that in most of the cases, anthropometric dimensions of the body of t...

Silence can be harmful to patients, their loved ones, and doctors within the contexts of illness and bereavement. I draw from my experience with my son's illness and death to discuss five forms of silence--the silence around the experience of critical illness; the silence between life and death; the silence of doctors; the silence of the dead, and the silence of the ill--and of speech that may ...

Abstract - Augmented reality (AR) technology has potential to revolutionize the way we interact with and visualize world around us. One area where this great is in field of furniture design home decor. The goal Reality Furniture project develop a platform which allows users virtually preview their own environments using AR technology. Using smartphone or other AR-enabled device, will be able se...

Transportation has become an increasingly important part of the Canadian furniture industry supply chain. Even when different furniture companies ship to the same regions, the same cities and/or the same furniture retailers, coordination between two or more companies is rare. Recently, interest in collaborative transportation planning to support coordination has intensified as important potenti...

Ergonomically unsuitable school furniture is frequently considered one of the major causes of severe posture problems in adulthood. This study was designed to determine the ergonomic suitability of educational furniture in the lecture theaters at the University of Ibadan to serve as a case study. Sample of convenience was used to select participants for this study. The lecture theaters were sel...

Notes Unless otherwise indicated, the years referred to in this report are calendar years. The estimates for the next 10 years were generated using the Congressional Budget Office's March 2012 baseline projections of Medicare spending, and the analysis of longer-term effects was based on the agency's June 2012 long-term projections of Medicare spending. (Those were the most recent projections a...

In the vertebrate spinal cord, cerebrospinal fluid-contacting neurons (CSF-cNs) are GABAergic neurons whose functions are only beginning to unfold. Recent evidence indicates that CSF-cNs detect local spinal bending and relay this mechanosensory feedback information to motor circuits, yet many CSF-cN targets remain unknown. Using optogenetics, patterned illumination, and in vivo electrophysiolog...