Sentence examples for based on height or from inspiring English sources

In San Francisco, one of two cities in California that prohibits discrimination based on height or weight, for example, a 240-pound aerobics instructor successfully sued Jazzercise Inc., which had refused to grant her a franchise license because she did not conform to the company's policy of instructors "looking fit".

A further improvement in these strategies was observed by Asik and Özcan (2009), who introduced a bidirectional best-fit (BBF) heuristic, sequencing the placement based on height or width of the rectangle.

"Provided these plants do not adversely impact public trees, the City's ability to maintain these trees or violate other regulations regarding parkway plantings (e.g. plants that create line of sight concerns based on height or proximity to an intersection), planting (other than trees) and maintaining the parkway falls under the purview of the adjacent property owner.

A second repeated measures ANOVA for experiment 1 investigated the effects of rule-selection (either specified or freely chosen) based on height or color.

In Michigan and Washington, D.C., where measures banning discrimination based on height and weight or appearance have been in force since the 1970's, numerous suits have been filed.

Sensitivity doesn't discriminate based on height, weight, gender or job description.

In practical terms this might apply to the classification of traits such as obesity in humans, based on height and weight, or schizophrenia based on a cumulative score for a set questionnaire, where a classification threshold needs to be crossed for an individual to be classified as affected.

Fusion approaches vary from simple techniques, such as weighted averaging of input DEMs based on height error maps [3], or terrain derivatives [4, 5], to more complex techniques involving the use of sparse representations [6], frequency domain filtering [7], slope-based Markov random field regularization [8], or k-means clustering [9].

According to the American Obesity Association, 65% of adults in the U.S. are overweight and 31% of the population is obese, which is defined as a person with a Body Mass Index, a measure of body fat based on height and weight, of 30 or greater.

Body surface area was calculated with the Mosteller formula, based on height and weight (at current or previous cycle).

The computer also calculates how much exercise the shopper will have to do to burn off the calories he or she is about to buy, based on height, weight, age, and other factors.