BACKGROUND Omaha, an urban Nebraska community, represents 26% of the state's population. Activate Omaha, formed in 2003, addressed the obesity epidemic caused by physical inactivity and poor infrastructure to support active living in the community. INTERVENTION Activate Omaha's efforts focused on a strategic social-marketing campaign, using baseline and annual data for guidance. Complementary...

Object recognition systems today see the world as a collection of object categories, each existing as a separate isolated entity. They exist in a closed world, never expecting to come across a new and unfamiliar object. This bleak view of the world leads to brittle systems that are limited to recognizing a few predefined categories such as airplanes, bicycles, and potted plants. Instead, we ado...

For more than a decade, Vehicle-to-X communication has been a flicker of hope in the urge to make our roads safer. Numerous research projects advanced the underlying technology. Many technological hurdles were taken such as reliable sensor-based detection of local dangers, e.g., traffic jams. However, researchers have only recently begun to systematically investigate suitable user interfaces fo...

Due to the gap in understanding board leadership and specifically, board shared leadership, this article aims at proposing some antecedents of the emergence of board shared leadership. This article incorporates three bodies of literature: Team effectiveness, team leadership, and board management. Based on integrating several theoretical perspectives, nine propositions are developed in relation ...

Electrical assisted bicycles (e-Bikes) represent an emerging sustainable mode of transport for future smart cities. Several designs issues impact policy in several countries such as the UK, Europe and USA. As e-bike usage continues to grow, so too will need further research, order provide necessary data inform industrialists what cycling features matters a wider, diverse adoption this transport...

Bicycle scheduling is the essential strategy for balancing demand public bicycle system (PBS). Existing literature pays more attention to bike models and their solutions, but seldom discusses dispatch area depot center. Reasonable dockless optimal location in service were discussed from existing shared operation data this paper. We proposed a feasible framework including trip network segmentati...