Teleoperation means to operate a robot or a system from a distant location. Teleoperation is useful when the operating environment is dangerous, impractical or when achieving a specific vehicle for inspection environment is too expensive. Mobile robots can be considered as an example of teleoperation system because they can be remotely controlled to perform certain specific tasks. This paper is...

BACKGROUND Technical efficiency of hospital services is debated since performance has been heterogeneous. Staff time represents the main resource in patient care and its inappropriate allocation has been identified as a key factor of inefficiency. The aim of this study was to analyse the utilisation of physicians' work time stratified by staff groups, tasks and places of work. A further aim was...

BACKGROUND To ensure the quality of surgical teaching within our graduate entry medical program, a distinctive surgical teaching program has been developed at Sydney Medical School-Central. Spanning 2 years, the program includes lectures, small group surgical clinical tutorials, and formal student surgical grand rounds presentations, plus clinical placements and attendance in operating theaters...

The disaster that low temperature and spare sunlight occurred in North China is a major weather hazards to the sunlight greenhouse vegetable growing. The establishment of disaster warning system of low temperature and spare sunlight for greenhouse is of great significance to the disaster mitigation and prevention. According to the climate characteristics of Hebei Province and regional distribut...

Historically, not-for-profits’ strategic capital plans were heavily oriented toward tangible physical assets (e.g., real estate, property, plant, and equipment, diagnostic/clinical equipment). Today, facing a more complex operating environment, these health systems are more heavily focused on physician acquisition, clinical IT investments, and reengineering their ambulatory strategies to transf...

Energy management solutions and approaches for computer systems are becoming broadly available as energy concerns is becoming mainstream. Many approaches have been proposed to manage the energy consumption of the hardware, operating system, or software layers. The widespread usage of ubiquitous devices and the high coverage of networks (Wi-Fi, 3G) has led to a new generation of communicating an...

We describe in this paper a smart multisensor kernel, given the shape of a wriststrap and able to characterise a current physiological state among a number of ones resulting from a previous analysis, and to transmit those results using a radio link. The main advantage of this product is its adaptability. As examples, we describe two applications which are the remote monitoring of elderly people...

Adaptive systems should be able to adapt to changes that occur in their operating environment without any external human intervention. Software architectures for such systems should be flexible enough to allow components to change their pattern of collaboration depending on the environmental changes and goals of the system, without changing the actual components themselves. This paper describes...

Research has demonstrated that mobile and wireless applications benefit from a knowledge of their operating environment. Examples of contextaware or adaptive applications have been constructed and evaluated with the results being widely disseminated within the research community. However, the field is still sufficiently new that there are currently no standards for describing, disseminating or ...

A series has been developed of closed-system isolators which provide patients with the same effective control of microbial infection as is possible in the laboratory animal. These isolators are used to protect susceptible patients from exogenous infection as well as to prevent the spread of dangerous pathogens from infected patients. The six models of isolators are designed for use in operating...