With the increased use of electric and electronic equipment in our offices, our daily exposure to electromagnetic fields has become increasingly complex due to the great variety of the frequency content of the fields. Today focus has shifted from monitors as the dominating sources of electromagnetic fields to other electronic equipment, cabling, nearby substations, power lines and stray current...

Joint ventures among telecommunications firms have become increasingly common in recent years. These joint ventures have occurred in almost all areas of telecommunications including information services, manufacturing, and mobile service. The firms involved in the collaboration have often been domestic U.S. corporations, such as AT&T and GTE, or international corporations, such as GPT (General ...

In November 2003, after receiving a discrimination complaint from a county employee, the Los Angeles County Office of Affirmative Action Compliance sent a memo to all its equipment vendors asking that they stop using the words “master” and “slave” in reference to computer hardware and other equipment.{1} The memo read in part: “Based on the cultural diversity and sensitivity of Los Angeles Coun...

This is the final project report for the NSF Division of Network and Communications Research and Infrastructure Grant NCR-93-01002, funded from June 1993. It is also a quartely project report for DARPA Information Technology Office Contract DABT 63-95-C-0046 The principal goal in the combined research program is the continued improvement in analysis, design, implementation, deployment and manag...

The number of patients with implantable electronic devices (IEDs) is growing as indications for a myriad of cardiac and neurological disorders that cannot be managed using medication alone expand. These devices include gastric and cardiac pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, cochlear implants, and a range of stimulators of the deep brain, vagal nerve, sacral nerve, phrenic nerve...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Recently there has been a renewed interest in office based laparoscopy sterilization utilizing local anesthesia with conscious intravenous sedation. The safety of performing the procedure outside of a hospital environment has been questioned. The author attempts to determine the incidence of major complications with a review of the literature and a retrospective chart ...

We have assembled a system using a personal computer workstation equipped with standard office software, an audio system, speech recognition software and an inexpensive radio-based wireless microphone that permits laboratory workers to enter or modify data while performing other work. Speech recognition permits users to enter data while their hands are holding equipment or they are otherwise un...

This rule updates and makes revisions to the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) prospective payment system (PPS) for calendar year (CY) 2014. This rule also sets forth requirements for the ESRD quality incentive program (QIP), including for payment year (PY) 2016 and beyond. In addition, this rule clarifies the grandfathering provision related to the 3-year minimum lifetime requirement (MLR) for Du...

Objectively assessing respiratory health in longitudinal social science surveys would involve collecting pulmonary function measures on research participants, either in clinic settings or at home. These measures include indicators of volume (e.g., maximal amount of air blown in the first second of a forced exhalation) and airflow (maximal speed air is exhaled during a forced exhalation). Equipm...

OBJECTIVE Although the frequency of pediatric office medical emergencies has been investigated in a retrospective manner, there have been no prospective studies. We examined how often pediatricians in a small rural state encountered medical emergencies in the office setting. This study included an in-office educational program and the donation of resuscitation equipment to study participants. ...