objective: noise pollution is one of the most important situations requiring a solution by the contemporary world. the national institute for occupational safety and health has identified noise as one of the ten leading causes of work-related diseases and injuries. dentists and dental auxiliaries are exposed to different noise levels while working in dental offices or laboratories. the purpose ...

INTRODUCTION Sustainable service delivery is a major challenge in the HIV response that is often not adequately addressed in project implementation. Sustainable strategies must be built into project design and implementation to enable HIV efforts to continue long after donor-supported projects are completed. CASE DESCRIPTION This paper presents the experiences in operational sustainability of...

A joint project between the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and the Rank Xerox Research Centre in Cambridge has been looking at ways of using digitised video from television cameras in user interfaces for computer systems. The DigitalDesk is built around an ordinary physical desk and can be used as such, but it has extra capabilities. A video camera is mounted above the desk, pointi...

Origins Of The Technology Wire Wrapping is a technology that has been with us for over fifty years, and is still going strong in various telecommunications and electronics applications. It was originally developed in the late 1940’s by Bell Labs in the U.S.; they needed to develop a new system of interconnection of the copper cabling in their local exchange facilities, also known as Central Off...

There is merit in considering the lead papers within a context of the current social and political landscape, the status of our healthcare system and the role of public policy to drive change. In doing so, it becomes clear that the notion of workplace must extend beyond what has been traditionally confined to physician offices and healthcare facilities, and the traditional workforces within. Un...

A graphically based, computerized report generation program has been developed and deployed at a dozen nuclear medicine facilities. The system is based on the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI) and has been designed to be easy to learn and use. The system allows the nuclear medicine practitioner to generate reports for any nuclear medicine or nuclear cardiology procedure without transcrip...

The North Shore-LIJ Health System is the third-largest nonsectarian health system in the country. Created in 1998, the health system’s laboratory model consists of a strategically located core lab that uses total laboratory automation and offers consolidated testing, a rapid response lab in each of the system’s 18 hospitals, a standardized LIS, and standardized laboratory instrumentation. The c...