There is a growing interest among healthcare managers and designers in moving towards a ‘patient-centred’ design of health and care facilities by integrating patient perceptions and expectations of the physical environment where care takes place. Increased interests in physical environments can mostly be attributed to our improved understanding of their role in patients’ health outcomes and sta...

Low-floor buses represent a significant improvement in accessible public transit for passengers with limited mobility. However, there is still a need for research on the inclusive design of transit buses to identify specific low-floor bus design conditions that are either particularly accommodating or challenging for passengers with functional and mobility impairments. These include doorway loc...

OBJECTIVES To describe a unique specialized seating delivery model for children with disabilities that focuses on cost containment and environmental preservation. To determine whether this delivery model achieves cost containment. DESIGN A retrospective cost analysis using data from billing records and annual statistical reports of the specialized seating program, for the 2004 to 2009 billing...

background: musculoskeletal symptoms are the main cause of loss of working time, and increase in labor costs. poor posture is the most important risk factor for work-related musculoskeletal symptoms. this study aimed at evaluating the role of ergonomic risk factors in different surgical (open surgery, laparoscopy, and microsurgery) in the frequency or resonance frequency of musculoskeletal symp...

introduction: spinal malalignment is a common problem in the present societies and forward head posture is one of the most common dysfunction in cervical region. the purpose of the present study is to evaluate effect of stabilization exercises in improving of forward head posture. materials and methods: twenty six female students with forward head posture in age range of 20-27 years old partici...

1 Fig. 1. Fully distributed 3-way videoconferencing that preserves the relative seating geometry as a face-to-face meeting. Such an arrangement will guarantee that the gaze between meeting participants will be faithfully maintained.