To implement adequate preventive measures in a hospital, the number and nature of occupational exposures to blood must be known. In the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre a standardised procedure was used to assess all reported occupational exposures to blood from 2003 to 2010. 1601 incidents were reported of which 66% were needlestick accidents. Thirty-five percent of the incidents concerned pe...

The representation paradigm used by a cognitive architecture helps to determine the kind of processes that it can perform more efficiently. Vector LIDA is a variation of the LIDA cognitive architecture that employs high-dimensional Modular Composite Representation (MCR) vectors as its main representation model and Integer Sparse Distributed Memory as its main memory implementation technology. T...

Disclaimer: Mention of any company or product does not constitute endorsement by NIOSH. Employers of health care workers should implement the use of improved engineering controls to reduce needlestick injuries: • Eliminate the use of needles where safe and effective alternatives are available. • Implement the use of devices with safety features and evaluate their use to determine which are most...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the surgical outcomes and to determine indicators of the necessity of surgical intervention. Twelve consecutive patients harboring symptomatic sacral perineural cysts were treated between 1995 and 2003. All patients were assessed for neurological deficits and pain by neurological examination. Magnetic resonance of imaging, computerized tomography, an...

Based on a case study conducted at a public institution for higher education, the article investigates the dynamics of the scientific field of stem cell research. Basic research projects with adult and embryonic stem cells (experiments in cell culture or an animal model) and tissue bioengineering were surveyed. Fieldwork included ethnographic observation and interviews with researchers (graduat...