OBJECTIVE To examine whether physician-patient communication in multi-bedded rooms differs from communication in single rooms during ward rounds. METHODS Ward rounds in single-bedded patient rooms and ward rounds in four-bedded rooms were audiotaped and analyzed with an adapted version of MIARS. The researcher completed an observational checklist of each encounter. We measured: the duration o...

Psychoacoustic research in the field of concert halls has revealed that many aspects concerning listening perception have yet to be totally understood. On the one hand, the objective room acoustics of performance spaces are reflected in parameters, some standardized and some not, but these are related to a limited number of perceptual attributes of human response. In general, these objective pa...

Sequential spaces are a spatial system comprising series of single connected in sequence by openings. They not uncommon the built environment and have similar acoustic characteristics with long coupled spaces. To explore sound attenuation reverberation such spaces, nine situ measurements were conducted to examine effects imposed four factors, namely, opening on separating partition, number part...

Marine micro- and macroorganisms are well known to produce metabolites with high biotechnological potential. Nearly 40 years of systematic prospecting all around the New Caledonia archipelago and several successive research programs have uncovered new chemical leads from benthic and planktonic organisms. After species identification, biological and/or pharmaceutical analyses are performed on ma...

cultures, a chemical laboratory, a micrographic installation, incinerating furnaces, &c. A clinic, with operating theatres and anaesthetising and sterilising annexes, an X-ray department, two wards of 10 beds each, two dispensaries and a laboratory for the study of tropical, social and professional diseases, will be annexed to the Institute. There will also be a hall for lectures and classes ac...

In engineering practice, investment activities related to the construction of a building are still limited idea linear cradle grave (C2G) economy. The aim study is determine ecological and economic benefits inherent in reuse structural elements hall using Cradle (C2C) looped circular economy Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). As rule, multiple circulation materials from which model buildings made was...