This data article describes the experimental data used in the research article "Incorporating individual differences in human reliability analysis: an extension to the virtual experimental technique" (Musharraf et al., 2017) [1]. The article provides human performance data for 36 individuals collected using a virtual environment. Each participant was assigned to one of two groups for training: ...

We evaluate the association of laminar airflow (LAF) and OR traffic with intraoperative contamination rates. Two sterile basins were placed in each room during 81 cases, one inside and one outside the LAF. One Replicate Organism Detection and Counting (RODAC) plate from each basin was sent for culture at successive 30-minute intervals from incision time until wound closure. At successive 30-min...

Monte and Conie play the famous Three-Door Game. The quiz-team hides the prize behind one of the doors. Conie, who does not know where the prize was hidden, is asked to choose one of the doors as a first guess. Monte, who saw where the prize was hidden, will reveal then one of the doors which does not conceal the prize, but never the door chosen by Conie. Finally, Conie will be offered to eithe...

Abstract. “Concept” is a kind of discrete and abstract state representation, and is considered useful for efficient action planning. However, it is supposed to emerge in our brain as a parallel processing and learning system through learning based on a variety of experiences, and so it is difficult to be developed by hand-coding. In this paper, as a previous step of the “concept formation”, it ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to analyze recent trends in door-to-reperfusion time and to identify hospital characteristics associated with improved performance. BACKGROUND Rapid reperfusion improves survival for patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). METHODS In this retrospective observational study from the National Registry of Myocardial Infarc...

Climatic conditions in the animal occupied zone (AOZ) of a pig room are important for animal health, comfort and performance. Both practical measurements and numerical simulations could be used to assess the climatic conditions in the AOZ. The objective was to test the possibilities for using pig location patterns based on the real time monitoring as a thermal boundary condition in a numerical ...

Introduction: One of the important problems of using high energy linacs is the production of photoneutrons. High energy medical linacs produce secondary neutrons. These phtoneutrons increase patient dose   Materials and Methods: In this study, the effect of plastic trays on spectrum of photoneutrons produced by 18MV linac is investigated using the MCNP4C code...

Door identification is a key problem to be solved during mobile robot navigation. Doors give access to many locations that are defined as goals for the robot. This paper presents an approach to door identification by means of recognition of the door handle. Rather than using the lines defined by the door blades, the region of interest of an image is extracted by means of the Hough transform and...