The Apgar score has played a crucial role in the delivery room assessment of newborn babies since 1953, 2 but this system has its limitations and is prone to interobserver variation. 4 Moreover, scoring definitions in textbooks vary slightly and no specific guidelines are available for scoring intubated babies. We studied variations between observers and focussed on the scoring of respiratory e...

Visitors’ criticisms demand a shift from passive, encyclopaedic exhibitions with curatorial authority, to ones that engage visitors and place them at the centre of focus. This has ignited change in approaches exhibition design. One is employment immersive together strong storytelling, which can create memorable experiences redefine visitor experience. study investigates design production proces...

The Exhibitions of Impact (EOI) special issue American Behavioral Scientist consists six articles from authors in communication studies and rhetoric, public health, medicine bioethics, memory studies, art therapy. Each article profiles some exhibition or memorial related to a pressing social issue, including gun violence, racist terrorism, domestic religious fundamentalism, corporations selling...

Background Most states in the U.S. permit hotels to allow smoking in some guest rooms, and only five (Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota, Vermont, and Wisconsin) require that all hotel and motel rooms be 100% smoke-free (State and local 100% smokefree hotel and motel guest room laws enacted as of July 3, 2017). Little is known, however, about how hotels' smoking policies have been implemented. Thi...

INTRODUCTION In order to assess the relationship between the concentrations of airborne fungi and particles, particle counting was combined with fungal air sampling in several rooms of a hospital. METHODS Concentrations of ≥0.5μm particles (P05) and ≥1μm particles (P1) were measured using a particle counter; fungal air sampling was performed with volumetric air samplers, which impacted air on...

BACKGROUND The built environment significantly affects the healthcare experiences of patients and staff. Healthcare administrators and building designers face the opportunity and challenge of improving healthcare experience and satisfaction through better environmental design. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to evaluate how a novel environmental intervention for imaging rooms, which in...

meSch has the goal of designing, developing and deploying tools for the creation of tangible interactive experiences that connect the physical dimension of museums and exhibitions with relevant digital cross-media information in novel ways. In particular, meSch will deliver a platform to enable curators, artists, designers and cultural heritage professionals in general to create smart objects a...

This work consists of integrating programming paradigms such as multi-agent systems and rule-based reasoning into a multimedia creation and display platform for interactive artistic creation. It has been developed in order to allow artists to build dynamic and interactive exhibitions based on pictures and sounds and featuring self-evolving and autonomous configurations.