Open kitchens have been designed for many small residential units in tall buildings in Southeast Asia. This open design, without enclosing the kitchen with fire resisting walls has failed to comply with building fire safety codes in places like Hong Kong. Performance-based design was adopted to determine fire safety provisions. Gas cookers with flames are not allowed. Additional fire protection...

The creation of a robot chef represents a grand challenge for the field of robotics. Cooking is one of the most important activities that takes place in the home, and a robotic chef capable of following arbitrary recipes would have many applications in both household and industrial environments. The kitchen environment is a semistructured proving ground for algorithms in robotics. It provides m...

Culture and social relations play a significant role in the formation of the structure of vernacular housing of any region, especially in the Islamic countries where privacy has a considerable effect on the vernacular culture, and consequently, on the house’s structure. Among the house spaces, the kitchen is more affected than other spaces by such issues so that its relations pattern with other...

We propose a scalable multiple-output generalization of unscented and extended Gaussian processes. These algorithms have been designed to handle general likelihood models by linearizing them using a Taylor series or the Unscented Transform in a variational inference framework. We build upon random feature approximations of Gaussian process covariance functions and show that, on small-scale sing...

BACKGROUND To assess whether domestic kitchen hygiene is an important contributor to the development of diarrhoea in the developed world. METHODS Electronic searches were carried out in October 2006 in EMBASE, MEDLINE, Web of Knowledge, Cochrane central register of clinical trials and CINAHL. All publications, irrespective of study design, assessing food hygiene practices with an outcome meas...

Low birth weight is a key public health problem in many developing countries, including Sri Lanka. Indoor air pollution from tobacco smoke and kitchen-fuel smoke are among the major contributors to low birth weight, factors of which there are little awareness of in Sri Lanka. We evaluated the effect of passive smoking and kitchen-fuel smoke exposure on birth weight. Seventy-six pregnant women w...

Kitchen indoor environment is not always satisfied due to unfavourable thermal condition and poor air quality in domestic cooking especially for Chinese-style residential kitchen (CRK). Traditional CRKs are only equipped with a range hood natural make-up from window openings or cracks. Thus, this paper made numerical simulation study under three make-ups. Three kinds of conditions were selected...

This study aims to analyze the development of concept "Cloud Kitchen" or "Dark "Virtual in DKI Jakarta. In addition, exploration each brand is carried out so that potential can be seen. Empowerment Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) also needs considered as one motives for cooperation Actually, cloud kitchen not a new thing Jakarta its surroundings. Currently, there are at least 7 play...