This paper briefly surveys computer vision tools that can be used on surveillance videos for crowd monitoring in order to detect anomalous events and retrieve suspects. Focus is given to methods for action recognition and event detection. (a) Satellite image, indicating the location of the event. c ©Igonográfico, Globo. (b) Still image from the surveillance camera that captured a flying toilet....

Inadequate urban sanitation disproportionately impacts the social determinants of women's health in informal settlements or slums. The impacts on women's health include infectious and chronic illnesses, violence, food contamination and malnutrition, economic and educational attainment, and indignity. We used household survey data to report on self-rated health and sociodemographic, housing, and...

To the Editor—Pathogens can contaminate the environment and cause infections. In hospitals, contamination of the environment is frequent and expected. Toilets in hospitals are an area of concern. The high contamination rates of toilet tap handles or levers for manual flushing are reported in many publications. Toilet seats and handles are commonly found to be contaminated. A good “toilet design...

BACKGROUND Elevators are ubiquitous and active inside hospitals, potentially facilitating bacterial transmission. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of bacterial colonization on elevator buttons in large urban teaching hospitals. METHODS A total of 120 elevator buttons and 96 toilet surfaces were swabbed over separate intervals at 3 tertiary care hospitals on weekdays ...

Objective. To assess the magnitude of intestinal parasitic infection and associated risk factors in Teda Health Centre, Northwest Ethiopia. Method. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Teda Health Centre from February to April, 2011. Stool samples were collected from 410 study participants and analysed by direct wet mount and formal ether concentration techniques. Furthermore, sociodemograp...

A cross sectional study was conducted among 110 female workers of Topaz garment industry, located in Tejgoan industrial area of Dhaka city to find out the occurrence of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI) in relation to their age, education level, marital status, monthly income, nature of job, drinking of water, toilet (micturition) habit, pattern of drug sensitivity and symptoms of UTI. Majority of ...

Clinical confusion, treatment failure and recurrence commonly plague the Management of Otitis Externa. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical attitudes and habits of army general practitioners and to review the recent literature. The results of a questionnaire survey showed that although all the respondents agreed that aural toilet was important, only 50% felt confident in perfor...

This paper examines the microbial quality of treated RBC (Rotating Biological Contactor) and MBR (Membrane Bioreactor) light greywater along a continuous pilot-scale reuse system for toilet flushing, quantifies the efficiency of UV disinfection unit, and evaluates the regrowth potential of selected microorganisms along the system. The UV disinfection unit was found to be very efficient in reduc...

Urologic and gastrointestinal problems in children are of great concern to parents. In most cases, such problems represent no organic disease or serious behavior disorder but nevertheless can cause more serious complications in toilet training than parents recognize. Although bowel and bladder symptoms in otherwise healthy children typically are transient, untreated issues can spiral into physi...