BACKGROUND Interruption of enteral nutrition (EN) in the intensive care unit (ICU) occurs frequently for various reasons including feeding intolerance and the conduct of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. However, few studies have investigated the details of EN interruption practices including reasons for and duration of interruptions. There is no standard protocol to minimize EN interrupti...

Deregulation of electricity market in the middle 90’s changed power distribution in Finland to more business oriented direction although the network business remained as regulated natural monopoly. According to the Electricity Market Act, the distribution companies have general obligations, e.g., to develop their electricity distribution networks and to have moderate distribution pricing. When ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the problem of studying interruption in healthcare. METHODS Review of the interruption literature from psychology, human-computer interaction; experimental studies of electronic prescribing and error behaviour; observational studies in emergency and intensive care. RESULTS Primary task and interruption variables which contribute to the outcomes of an interruption includ...

This paper presents the performance analysis results of a short line fault interruption of a gas circuit breaker, particularly a self-blast type breaker. Hot gas flow analysis was carried out using a CFD calculation combined with the arc model and nozzle ablation. To evaluate the interruption performance, the index function was defined using the pressure in the heating chamber and the density a...

Previous studies have revealed that interruption induces disruptive influences on the performance of cognitive tasks. While much research has focused on the use of multimodal channels to reduce the cost of interruption, few studies have utilized haptic information as more than an associative cue. In the present study, we utilized a multimodal task interruption scenario involving the simultaneou...

human presence and accordingly establishing suitable condition for social interactions are important factors in shaping urban spaces. caring to different aspects of improving environmental qualities especially perception aspect and ease of perception from the environment with legibility improvement is an element that was emphasized from the base of urban design. the role of time, commence of da...