COVID-19 is a respiratory infectious disease that spreads readily between people, and an urgent issue of passengers’ exposure risk assessment in commercial aircraft has been raised because cabin as confined space may carry transmit the worldwide. In this study, droplets transmission process under different ventilation systems twin-aisle wide-body was studied using CFD simulations infection pass...

OBJECTIVE Variability in the breathing pattern of patients with cancer during radiotherapy requires mitigation, including enlargement of the planned treatment field, treatment gating and breathing guidance interventions. Here, we provide the first demonstration of how easy it is to mechanically ventilate patients with breast cancer while fully conscious and without sedation, and we quantify the...

In this paper we present DESK, an authoring tool for the automatic customisation of the front-end of web applications as a result of changes that users perform in dynamically generated HTML pages. Our authoring tool uses domain knowledge and presentation knowledge stored in PEGASUS, an automatic web page generation system for rendering ontology-driven knowledge. DESK automatically detects the d...

Introduction. We are presenting a rare case of a patient who developed simultaneous tumors in the main parotid gland (MPG) and an accessory parotid gland (APG). The APG tumor was not recognized when the more prominent MPG tumor was excised. We will discuss the clinical features of this case. Case presentation. A 66-year-old woman was referred to our department with a painless right cheek mass. ...

OBJECTIVES This study investigated the association between task-induced stress and fatigue by examining the cardiovascular responses of subjects using different mouse positions while operating a computer under time constraints. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was participated by 16 young, healthy men and examined the use of optical mouse devices affixed to laptop computers. Two mouse positions...