OBJECTIVE. Effective disinfection of hospital rooms after discharge of patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is necessary to prevent transmission. We evaluated the impact of sequential cleaning and disinfection interventions by culturing high-touch surfaces in CDI rooms after cleaning. DESIGN. Prospective intervention. SETTING. A Veterans Affairs hospital. INTERVENTIONS. During a ...

Exhibitions draw people to libraries. They encourage visitors engage with objects and media in a public space provide opportunities for discovery within the library’s collection. Not every library has resources create original exhibitions, however. Traveling which arrive ready set up existing space, can alleviate some of labor involved creating exhibitions while providing same benefits library....

This paper describes an interdisciplinary project on room acoustics. The main goals of this project is to identify and analyse the relevant acoustical parameters for small rooms used for music production – concert halls, studios, lecture rooms, movie theatres, etc. – and, using modern methodologies for software development, build computational tools to evaluate and manipulate these parameters. ...

the objective of this paper is to present a new method for protecting the lives of residents in catastrophic earthquake failures of unreinforced masonry buildings by introducing some safe rooms within the buildings. the main idea is that occupants can seek refuge within the safe rooms as soon as the earthquake ground motions are felt. the information obtained from the historical ground motions ...

The Artbotics program is a collaboration between artists and computer scientists which uses robotics technologies to teach computer science to undergraduates and high school students. Project-based courses culminate in public exhibitions at a local museum. This paper describes the curriculum developed for the course, the technology used and lessons learned.