The video game heritage is being preserved especially on the Web: comments, screenshots, sounds, videos, etc. But one important element is missing: the environment in which we play (game atmosphere) is one of our strongest memories. This article describes an investigationbased method to record game atmospheres, the four atmospheres we are archiving (one bedroom, one living room, and two game ro...

rooms, living-rooms, dormitories and playgrounds for the two sexes are quite distinct, the children only seeing each other in the dining-room?a large room in which they occupy different sides, with a broad gangway in the middle separating them?and in chapel. The food, including milk, is the same for both, and comes from the same source: an important fact, seeing that the diphtheria outbreak was...

We studied whether contextual information regarding an observer’s location within a familiar scene could influence the identification of objects. The context was provided by a 3D virtual living room, which allowed natural familiarization of the scene and objects together with a high level of interactivity. Results of initial self-orientation judgments obtained in the room showed observers could...

CONTEXT Millions of individuals habitually expose themselves to room light in the hours before bedtime, yet the effects of this behavior on melatonin signaling are not well recognized. OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that exposure to room light in the late evening suppresses the onset of melatonin synthesis and shortens the duration of melatonin production. DESIGN In a retrospective anal...

BACKGROUND There are a number of supported housing options for people with severe mental illness (SMI), but limited knowledge about residents' experiences. The aim of this study was to explore how people with SMI experienced sheltered housing consisting of both a private fully equipped apartment and a shared accommodation room for socializing. METHODS Fourteen people with SMI living in shelte...

Many parents of children with epilepsy fear that their child might be seriously hurt by seizures and the fear is even worse if parents are unable to observe children’s seizures during sleep. If children have a room of their own, the parents will frequently peep in to observe the child’s sleep, but more often the child is made to sleep in the parents’ room or bed. Recently we have advised parent...

Structure-borne noise is an important aspect of offshore platform sound field. It can be generated either directly by vibrating machineries induced mechanical force, indirectly by the excitation of structure or excitation by incident airborne noise. Therefore, limiting of the transmission of vibration energy throughout the offshore platform is the key to control the structureborne noise. This i...

hypersensitivity reactions to natural rubber latex have increased recently, especially among people with high exposure to latex allergens. hypersensitivity reactions to latex are related to many conditions like occupational asthma. our study was performed to determine the prevalence of hypersensitivity to natural rubber latex and potential food cross reactions in operation room personnel in shi...

This paper presents an experimental evaluation of the accuracy and runtime of several combinations of algorithms for keypoints detection and description. The algorithms are used to localize a person in a room as the first step of a computer vision based fall detection system, part of an Ambient assisted living (AAL) solution.

We report the case of a 50 year old clerk with chronic extrinsic allergic alveolitis due to a wreath of feathers from his dead budgerigar hanging in his living-room. Diagnosis was confirmed by serum precipitins, bronchoalveolar lavage and open lung biopsy. It is important to recognize unusual sources of exposure in this disease.