Over the short history of infection control practice, a mere quarter century, those of us in the profession have witnessed, developed, and adapted to continuous change. In spite of responding to this rapid change, we are constantly urged to reevaluate what we are doing, as well as how we are doing it. We continue, challenged with new ideas, new processes, and new information. Indeed, even some ...

Abstract Over the last decade, potential and prospects for using robotics various construction activities have increased, particularly dangerous work areas such as roof construction, in hazardous environments, improving productivity while shielding workers from strenuous accidents. As there been concerns about human factors collaborating with humans on worksites, ergonomics human-robot teams’ r...

Abstract Introduction: Death is defined as the permanent loss of all signs of life at any time after birth (Irrevocable disappearance of all vital signs after birth). Unnatural deaths seem to be either suspicious or  unexpected. Deaths that occur suddenly and their causes need to be investigated, are termed unnatural deaths. According to the death certificate contents of Ministry of...

In the last decade, Daubechies orthogonal wavelets have been successfully used in many signal processing paradims. The construction of these wavelets via two channel perfect reconstruction filter bank requires the identification of necessary conditions that the coefficients of the filters and the roots of binomial polynomials associated with it should exhibit. In this paper, a subclass of polyn...

The actual research trends in robotics and automation in construction industry (RAC) are much different in comparison with the last decade. While during the 90s the R&D activities were focused in the development of new robotic systems (most of them teleoperated) and in existing machinery automation, the actual efforts are concentrated more in the software integration, sensory data acquisition a...

Over the past decade, evidence has accumulated indicating that, during development, the construction of synapses--the sites of communication between neurons--might rely on the utilization of preassembled sets of synaptic proteins, which have already accumulated in the axon and are highly mobile, before getting recruited to the sites of contact with the postsynaptic neuron. In this review, we di...

Many stability results in the theory of stochastic hereditary systems and their applications were obtained by construction of appropriate Lyapunov functionals. One general method of Lyapunov functionals construction was proposed and developed by the authors during last decade for stability investigation of deterministic and stochastic functional-differential and difference equations. In this pa...

The construction of Mapper has emerged in the last decade as a powerful and effective topological data analysis tool that approximates and generalizes other topological summaries, such as the Reeb graph, the contour tree, split, and joint trees. In this paper we study the parallel analysis of the construction of Mapper. We give a provably correct algorithm to distribute Mapper on a set of proce...

The recent Egan report on the UK construction industry has concluded that “integrated construction process” holds the key to further improvement in efficiency and productivity. In the last decade or so, considerable R&D efforts have been devoted to the integration issues in numerous research initiatives. A range of technologies of different levels of maturity have emerged from these studies, in...