The Dangers of Dining

The faculty dining room.

The Dining Freemasons

We continue the popular theme of offline security by considering how computer security might be applied to the challenges presented in running a secret society. We discuss membership testing problems and solutions, set in the context of security authentication protocols, and present new building blocks which could be used to generate secret society protocols more robustly and generically, inclu...

The Interactive Dining Table

Copyright is held by the author/owner(s). CHI’13, April 27 – May 2, 2013, Paris, France. ACM 978-1-XXXX-XXXX-X/XX/XX. Abstract Large-scale interactive surfaces are nearly ubiquitous in research labs and showrooms around the world today. However, unlike other recent interaction technologies such as smartphones, they have not yet found their way into people’s everyday lives. Possible reasons incl...

Possible Dangers of Tracheobronchial Suctioning

یکی از مراقبت های روزمره که در بخش های ICU انجام می شود، خارج کردن ترشحات مجاری تنفسی بوسیله ساکشن تراکئوبرونکیال می باشد. بیمارانی به این کار نیاز پیدا می کنند که اختلالی در رفلکس معمولی سرفه داشته باشند مثل مبتلایان به بیماریهای تنفسی و عصبی یا بیمارانی که به علت استفاده از ماشین تنفس مصنوعی ونتیلاتور) مجبورند از داروهای متوقف کننده رفلکس سرفه و یا شل کننده ها استفاده کنند. این پروستیجر از طر...

The dangers of radiophobia

Deep fear of nuclear radiation is widespread, yet research on radiation’s biological effects finds that the level of alarm far exceeds the actual danger. This “radiophobia” has roots in the fear of nuclear weapons, but has been significantly reinforced and inflamed by accidents at nuclear power plants. Radiophobia does far more harm to human health than the radiation released by nuclear acciden...