Furniture form innovation and human–machine comfort evaluation model based on genetic algorithm by Yifan, Bai, Kamarudin, Khairul Manami, Alli, Hassan

“…Customers are no longer content material to buy fixtures in bulk, preferring as an alternative to choose pieces that are extra suitable to their own necessities and people in their homes, to higher fulfill primary demands and cope with problems like cramped quarters. …”
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The Properties of Whiteness by Williams, Darien Alexander, Delgado, Laura Humm, Cameron, Nicholette, Steil, Justin

“…Drawing on archival analysis of documents regarding early 20th-century municipal segregation ordinances and legal analysis of court decisions regarding property and land use law, this study makes three primary contributions to the literature. First, it homes in on the origins of a persistent thread of a racialized collective right to exclude at the neighborhood scale, exercised by White residents through some of the United States’ earliest land use regulations. …”
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How Much Does It Really Cost? A Dynamic Approach to Building Retrofit Costs for Decarbonization Pathways by Kirkeby, Amanda

“…Several cost models are applied to a case study of 13,000 residences in Oshkosh, WI to predict costs for homeowners to retrofit their homes with three different upgrade packages. A willingness to pay analysis is then performed with upfront cost predictions from different models, illustrating the impact a more robust cost model may have in providing more realistic predictions of an upgrade strategy’s techno-economic success. …”
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Dissonances in care: childhood, well-being, and the politics of welfare in Japan by Chapman, CR

“…Japanese child welfare is a disaggregated system; I emphasize polyvocality to illuminate the nuances between varied spaces of care practice, ranging from casework agencies to the side streets of group homes. Caseworkers prioritized objectivity by eschewing rapport with children, psychologists valued a professional, lived relationship, and caregivers esteemed strong affective bonds irrespective of proximity. …”

A service evaluation of the implementation of a novel digital intervention for hypertension self-monitoring and management system in primary care (SHIP): protocol for a mixed metho... by Smith, A, Tucker, KL, Barnes, RK, Drakesmith, CW, Agwunobi, A, Bateman, PA, Forbes, A, de Lusignan, S, Ford, GA, Fujiwara, T, Hobbs, FR, Koshiaris, C, Mant, J, McKinstry, B, Pollock, S, Rice, C, Yang, Y, McManus, RJ

“…Informed by the non-adoption, abandonment, scale-up, spread, and sustainability (NASSS) framework, our analysis will identify the challenges to successful implementation and sustainability of the digital intervention in routine clinical practice and in patients’ homes. Ethics and dissemination: The analyses of pseudonymised data were assessed by the sponsor (The University of Oxford) as service evaluation not requiring individual consent and hence did not require ethical approval. …”

Eliciting and honouring end-of-life care preferences : a multiple methods study on place of death by Tan, Woan Shin

“…“Home” is not just a physical compound. It is our natural habitat where meaningful and intimate time with our loved ones can be shared. …”
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Performance study of routing protocols for wireless sensor network applications - 1 by Heng, Tian Hao

“…A program was created to summarize the data collected to produce the route establishment time, packet delivery ratio and the packet delay parameters for one, two and three hops. Test results were then analysed and recommendations for future works were given.…”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Individual-level data (demographic, socio-economic, and health characteristics) were combined with exposure to healthy and unhealthy food environments measured with geolocations of food outlets (obtained through ground-truth surveys) within 300 m buffer zones around participants' homes. Multivariate regression models were used to assess association of exposure to healthy and unhealthy food environments on waist circumference, BMI, and probability of obesity for the total sample and stratified by sex and income. …”
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Trends and Determinants of Location of Death Due to Colorectal Cancer in the United States by Sonal, Swati, Jain, Bhav, Bajaj, Simar S., Dee, Edward C., Boudreau, Chloe, Cusack, James C., Kunitake, Hiroko, Goldstone, Robert, Bordeianou, Liliana G., Cauley MD, Christy E., Francone, Todd D., Ricciardi, Rocco, Qadan, Motaz, Berger, David L.

“…There was a gradual decrease in deaths in hospital, nursing home, or outpatient facility/emergency department over time and an increase in deaths at home and in hospice. …”
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Enabling basic motion behaviors on irobot create by Du, Xinxin.

“…Robotics has archived a great success in industrial manufacturing applications, however, for home use, there is still a lot to be improved. iRobot Create is a special robot development platform designed by iRobot Company. …”
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After neonatal care, what next? A qualitative study of mothers’ post-discharge experiences after premature birth in Kenya by Maluni, J, Oluoch, D, Molyneux, S, Boga, M, Jones, C, Murila, F, English, M, Ziebland, S, Hinton, L

“…For mothers of premature babies, the transition home from hospital is marked by challenges and uncertainties. …”

Design and development of tool for transferring and drilling perpendicular pattern hole by Ng, Gaston Jian Shan

“…In recent years, more people are motivated to conduct home improvements themselves either for economic reason or the need for customization. …”
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‘When I open it, I have to drink it all’: push and pull factors shaping domestic alcohol consumption during the COVID-19 pandemic UK Spring 2020 lockdown by Conroy, Dom, Nicholls, Emily

“…Introduction: The closure of licensed venues during the COVID-19 pandemic meant that most alcohol has been consumed at home during lockdown periods in the UK, a phenomenon which remains under-researched despite the public health implications. …”
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Design and build a Microsoft product or software for Microsoft Imagine Cup 2018 (C) : integrated elderly care system by Fong, Thomas Guo Zhen

“…A small computer (Raspberry Pi) equipped with camera and microphone is used as a sensor and a remote controller in the elderly home to capture events of interest, to trigger the notifications to be sent to the mobile application and to control access to the home. …”
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Concise Colour : Medical Dictionary / by Martin, Elizabeth A., editor 643591

“…Containing nearly 12,500 clear and concise entries, covering all aspects of medical science, this dictionary is an indispensable reference for both medical students and those working in the medical and allied professions, and an invaluable home medical guide for the general reader.…”

An investigation on consumers' preferences for parcel deliveries: applying consumer logistics in omni-channel shopping by Wang, Xueqin, Wong, Yiik Diew, Shi, Wenming, Yuen, Kum Fai

“…Furthermore, a multinomial logistic regression is performed to assess consumers' choice mode of delivery among five alternatives, that is attended home delivery, unattended home delivery, automated self-collection locker, attended pickup point and click-and-collect. …”
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BUUKS : children’s furniture by Lee, Ariel Yen

“…Targeting children from ages 7 to 10, BUUKS is a furniture set that fits in a home or classroom setting. It features a chair designed ergonomically to improve posture while occupied. …”
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Easy CCTV by Zeng, Glenn Zhaosong

“…Easy CCTV is a project on home security for the unique housing environment of Singapore. …”
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Self-poisoning with paracetamol in England: short report of characteristics of individuals and their overdoses according to source of tablets by Brand, F, Bale, E, Tsiachristas, A, Hawton, K

“…Most had used paracetamol which was available in the home (77%). Those who purchased paracetamol for the act took double the number of tablets compared with those who used paracetamol available in the home (37 v. 18), had higher suicidal intent (mean BSI: 11 v. 7) and more often required treatment with N-acetyl cysteine (71% v. 43%). …”

Development of iBeacon application 3 by Choar, Choong Leong

“…In our present day, increasingly we witness the adoption and innovation automation system in commercial such as “Smart Factory” and at home which is commonly referred as “Smart Home”. …”
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