Stethoscope diaphragms are frequently colonized by bacteria. This cross-sectional study described the frequency and factors associated with reporting ever cleaning stethoscopes among 408 medical students and doctors at a medical college and 2 teaching hospitals in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. A minority of the respondents (37.7%) reported having ever cleaned their stethoscope. Following normal clinica...

BACKGROUND We investigated the associations between traditional and environmentally preferable cleaning product exposure and dermal, respiratory, and musculoskeletal symptoms in a population of custodians. METHODS We analyzed associations between symptoms and exposure to traditional and environmentally preferable cleaning product exposure among 329 custodians. RESULTS We observed increased ...

We demonstrate XClean, a data cleaning system specifically geared towards cleaning XML data. XClean’s approach is based on a set of cleaning operators. Users may specify cleaning programs by combining operators using the declarative XClean/PL language, which is then compiled into XQuery. We plan to show XClean in action on several scenarios based on real-world data. A graphical user interface s...

The past efforts made on the corn cleaning dynamics were reviewed. Based on Discrete Element Method model, a simulation method for corn cleaning dynamics was then proposed, composing the following design factors: 1. 2-D discrete model and its related factors; 2. parities and magnitude of computation, consideration of the two factors upon application; 3. test platform design. The implementation ...

We demonstrate XClean, a data cleaning system specifically geared towards cleaning XML data. XClean’s approach is based on a set of cleaning operators. Users may specify cleaning programs by combining operators using the declarative XClean/PL language, which is then compiled into XQuery. We plan to show XClean in action on several scenarios based on real-world data. A graphical user interface s...