For a number of reasons, hospitals appoint fulltime and part-time physicians to practice medicine within the hospital or its outlying divisions. Such physicians provide a wide variety of primary, specialty, and subspecialty services. Among other advantages for hospitals are a potentially tighter rein on quality control and an increased bed occupancy and revenue at a time when financial issues h...

User behavior is a key to the correct prediction of building performance. Performance is meant here not only in relation to energy consumption, but more importantly to user satisfaction and, in commercial buildings, job performance. The contributions of this paper are static and dynamic models of individual users and user activities in an office environment in relation to building control syste...

UNLABELLED Sarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of unknown etiology with evidence of association with exposure to microbial agents. In June 2006, we investigated a sarcoidosis cluster among office workers in a water-damaged building. In the course of the investigation, we became aware of a high rate of respiratory complaints including asthma and asthma-like symptoms. We conducted case finding...

We model a system which consists of a stream of customers processed through three steps by two resources. The first resource, an investigator, handles the first step, in which she collects information from the customer and decides what work will be done in the second step by the second resource, the back office. In the third step the investigator returns to the customer armed with the additiona...

Sustainable product development is currently of concern by scientists within both academia and engineering. Despite existing literature proposed related to detailed aspects for design for sustainability (D4S), the modeling of life cycle driving forces for D4S in different levels remains insufficient. A morphological analysis (MA) approach was applied to explore the strategies in sustainable pro...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document analyzes issues involved in the transition of "unmanaged networks" from IPv4 to IPv6. Unmanaged networks typically correspond to home networks or small office networks. A companion paper analyzes out t...

It has been gathering great deal of attention to provide personalized services in the home or in the small office. As a necessary technology for it, person recognition by pressure sensors on a chair is described. It exploits the hipprints of users. Such a method makes it possible to automatically login to a computer when the user sits. The recognition rate reached to 99.6% for 5 people and 98.4...

Purpose – Proposes providing an insight about factors affecting business-to-business ecommerce adoption and implementation in small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), highlighting similarities and differences between Danish and Australian SMEs. Design/methodology/approach – The research is based on a wide literature review, focused on proposing a theoretical model of technological, environment...

Buildings are major consumers of primary energy and main contributors to carbon emission. To improve efficiency, it is essential understand the characteristics use in buildings. This study uses an in-use office building with digital systems for monitoring control Trondheim, Norway, as case. Based on data collected from this building, a data-driven analysis was conducted capture electricity diff...

The Legislature required the Controller to contract with actuaries for California's first valuation of unfunded state retiree health liabilities. reported that the state's estimated unfunded liabilities total $48 billion. This report answers key questions concerning the valuation and identifies actions the Legislature could take to address the state's liabilities. Analyst's Office (LAO) is a no...