This paper describes three different types of real-time optical tracking systems developed at the MIT Media Laboratory for use as expressive human-computer interfaces in music, dance, and interactive multimedia performances. Two of these, a multimodal conducing baton and a scanning laser rangefinder, are essentially hardware-based, while the third is a computer vision system that can identify a...

We evaluated the annual rate (cases/10,000 hospitalizations) of pediatric hospitalizations with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI; International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision, clinical modification code 008.45) in the United States. We performed a time-series analysis of data from the Kids' Inpatient Database within the Health Care Cost and Utilization Project during 1997-2006 and...

Case report An overview of our 2011-2013 experience retrieved several common mistakes of CDI management (e.g. almost 51% of CDI patients received combined therapy with metronidazole and vancomycin, less than 25% colectomies for cases with toxic megacolon, several secondary cases in patients hospitalized in the same room with a non-diagnosed CDI patient). We have chosen to present eight “pearls”...

To quantify the effect of hospital and community-based transmission and control measures on Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), we constructed a transmission model within and between hospital, community, and long-term care-facility settings. By parameterizing the model from national databases and calibrating it to C. difficile prevalence and CDI incidence, we found that hospitalized patients...

This paper describes the design and development of an interactive multimedia simulator for pre-operational setup procedures on a computer numerically controlled turning center. This is part of an effort to develop training tools to supplement the online education program offered at the University of Houston. The benefits of such a simulator is that it acts as a computer based training tool for ...

For the last twenty years, many researchers interested in language acquisition have quantified the receptive and productive vocabulary of infants using CDIs – checklists of words filled in by the caregiver. While it is generally accepted that the caregiver can reliably say whether the infant knows and/or produces a given word, we lack an estimate for words that are not listed on CDI. In this st...

Fluoroquinolones are one of the most commonly prescribed antibiotic classes in the United States and up to 81% of inpatient utilization has been deemed inappropriate. Our study, recently published in Antimicrobial Agents of Chemotherapy, aimed to determine the impact of respiratory fluoroquinolone education and restriction on utilization, appropriateness of quinolone-based therapy, and CDI rate...

As most mature markets enter the fray, emerging markets in Asia offer an opportunity for global brands to embrace. One of the critical decisions for these firms is how many intermediaries should be used in emerging markets. Although determinants affecting market entry and distribution intensity have been proposed by the literature, emerging market background and channel setting context could be...

Multimedia environments are utilised to construct presentation systems, introducing some advanced interactive features. Aspects of this research involve the organisation, presentation and interaction of complex industrial case-study data, arising from Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations and experimental trials (multimedia streams and static instances). Also, the development of rheological c...

The incidence, severity, and associated costs of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) infection (CDI) have dramatically increased in hospitals over the past decade, indicating an urgent need for strategies to prevent transmission of C. difficile. This article describes a multifaceted collaborative approach to reduce hospital-onset CDI rates in 35 acute care hospitals in the New York metropolita...