Canadian officials watch SARS-like mystery bug

SARS preparedness checklist for state and local health officials.

A planning checklist for widespread severe acute respiratory syndrome, modeled on an Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) pandemic influenza planning checklist, was developed jointly by ASTHO, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This checklist, distributed May 2003, has been widely used.

Implications of the SARS outbreak for Canadian emergency departments.

Can J Emerg Med 2003;5(5):343-7 These Recommendations were approved by the CAEP Board June 8, 2003. *Chief, Schwartz–Reisman Emergency Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ont.; and Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. †Chief, Emergency Department, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Charlottetown, PEI; and Associate Professor, Departmen...

Elected officials.

Watch What I Watch

This paper presents a high-level overview of Yahoo Research Berkeley’s approach to multimedia research and the ideas motivating it. This approach is characterized primarily by a shift away from building subsystems that attempt to discover or understand the “meaning” of media content toward systems and algorithms that can usefully utilize information about how media content is being used in spec...

Natch - A Watch-like Display for Less Distracting Pedestrian Navigation

Modern Smartphones have enabled navigation system developers to provide their solutions to pedestrians. However, interacting with mobile devices can result in distraction and fragmented attention. We therefore investigated how the navigation systems‟ information presentation can be designed in a less distracting way. We propose a prototype called Natch (short for navigation watch): on a wrist-m...