The advancements in sensor and communication technologies drive the rapid developments applications of occupancy indoor environmental monitoring buildings. Currently, installation standards for sensors are scarce recommendations positionings very general. However, inadequate positioning might diminish reliability data, which could have serious impacts on intended such as performance demand-cont...

Timely access to safe hospital care remains a major concern. Target bed-occupancy rates have been proposed as a measure of the ability of a hospital to function safely and effectively. High bed-occupancy rates have been shown to be associated with greater risks of hospital-associated infection and access block and to have a negative impact on staff health. Clinical observational data have sugge...

The existing works point out that smaller organisations have been shown to have different technology adoption patterns than large ones. However, it is unclear whether Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and large organisations take decisions for the adoption of integration technologies by focusing on different factors. Moreover, the literature also shows that there is an absence of theoret...

This paper studies a principal-agent model of the relationship between officeholder and the electorate, where everyone is initially uninformed about the officeholder’s ability. If office-holder effort and ability interact in the determination of performance in office, then an office-holder has an incentive to learn i.e. raise effort so that performance becomes a more accurate signal of her abil...

Coronal loops are the basic elements of the solar corona and are responsible for the totality of the coronal X-ray emission. Loop physics is therefore important to understand the structure, heating, dynamics and evolution of the corona. A well-established and useful approach to study loop physics has been the detailed hydrodynamic modeling of the connned plasma, coupled to the synthesis of obse...

Observations of the large two-ribbon flare on 7 November 2004 made using SOHO and TRACE data are interpreted in terms of a three-dimensional magnetic field model. Photospheric flux evolution indicates that −1.4 × 10 Mx of magnetic helicity was injected into the active region during the 40-hour build-up prior to the flare. The magnetic model places a lower bound of 8×10 ergs on the energy stored...

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Secure hospital beds are vitally important for the assessment and treatment of mentally disordered accused persons. A forensic mental health system with an adequate level of hospital beds is essential for the courts and review boards to carry out of the mental disorder provisions of the Criminal Code. This article describes the results of a study that examined interprovincial differences in the...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the association between clinical need and hospital bed supply and utilization in Russia; and, to investigate these associations in areas where traditional Russian tuberculosis health care systems exist and where the directly observed therapy-short course (DOTS) strategy has been implemented. DESIGN Ecological study using 2002 routine data. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Hos...

Building occupancy profiles are critical in thermal and energy simulations. However, determining an accurate profile is difficult due to its stochastic nature. In most simulations, the occupant activities usually represented by fixed yearly schedules, which often derived from guides other similar sources may not represent simulated building accurately. Therefore, inaccuracy defining can be a so...