London's Little Theatres

Theatres of the Future

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Decision-making in operating theatres

Acoustic Design of Theatres Applying Genetic Algorithms

An optimization system based on genetic algorithms (GAs) simulating an evolutionary feedback for the design of theatres was developed. The first GA model was an optimization of the walls and the ceiling of a hall of the wide-shoebox type. The second model was an optimization of reflectors for a fan shaped outdoor theatre. The final results show that the optimized forms from both models are comp...

Ensuring cleanliness in operating theatres.

High cleanliness of a hospital environment is necessary to ensure safe working conditions for the medical staff, a correct process of hospitalization and to protect hospital visitors, an aspect rarely mentioned. A supply of air cleaned in highly-effective air filters to hospital wards with air conditioning systems and exhaust of infected air will help in maintaining the required standards of cl...

Little languages: little maintenance?

So-called little, or domain-specific languages (DSLs), have the potential to make software maintenance simpler: domain-experts can directly use the DSL to make required routine modifications. At the negative side, however, more substantial changes may become more difficult: such changes may involve altering the domain-specific language. This will require compiler technology knowledge, which not...