AIM Compliance with infection control practices is the key to quality care and excellence in dentistry. Infection control remains one of the most cost-beneficial interventions available. However, implementing control procedures requires full compliance of the whole dental team. The aim of our study was to measure the compliance in daily clinical practice. METHODS The compliance with infection...

Muhammad Rehan Ahmed (2011): Compliance Control of Robot Manipulator for Safe Physical Human Robot Interaction. Örebro Studies in Technology 45, 122 pp. Inspiration from biological systems suggests that robots should demonstrate same level of capabilities that are embedded in biological systems in performing safe and successful interaction with the humans. The major challenge in physical human ...

A questionnaire study was conducted with truck drivers to help understand driving and compliance behaviour using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Path analysis examined the ability of the TPB to explain the direct and indirect factors involved in self-reported driving behaviour and regulation compliance. Law abiding driving behaviour in trucks was related more to attitudes, subjective nor...

Compliance checking is becoming an inevitable step in the business processes management life cycle. Languages for expressing compliance requirements should address the fundamental aspects of process modeling, i.e. control flow, data handling, and resources. Most of compliance checking approaches focus on verifying aspects related to control flow. Moreover, giving useful feedback in case of viol...

Driven by recent trends, effective compliance control has become a crucial success factor for companies nowadays. In this context, compliance monitoring is considered an important building block to support business process compliance. Key to the practical application of a monitoring framework will be its ability to reveal and pinpoint violations of imposed compliance rules that occur during pro...

BACKGROUND The objectives of this study were to document retailer opinions about tobacco control policy at the point of sale (POS) and link these opinions with store level compliance with sales and marketing provisions of the Tobacco Control Act. METHODS This study conducted interviews of 252 tobacco retailers in three counties in North Carolina and linked their opinions with in-person observ...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Raimo Nikkilä Name of the doctoral dissertation Automated control of compliance with production standards in precision agriculture Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Automation and Systems Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 84/2013 Field of research Informati...

The objective of this study was to assess current treatment patterns, blood glucose test strip usage, and treatment compliance in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in primary care centers in Spain, and to assess factors related to glycemic control. We conducted a retrospective chart review of patients with T2DM and measured treatment compliance using the Morisky-Green questionnaire....

BACKGROUND Poor compliance with antihypertensive medication is assumed to be an important reason for unsatisfactory control of blood pressure. Poor compliance is difficult to detect. Each method of measuring compliance has its own strengths and weaknesses. The aim of the present study was to compare patient compliance with antihypertensive drugs as measured by two methods, electronic monitoring...