Introduction / objectives Bach Mai tertiary hospital is a 1900 bed facility in Viet Nam. Previous hospital hand hygiene programs proved unsuccessful which prompted the director to launch an intensive hand hygiene campaign on 5 May 2009 to reduce health-care associated infection (HAI) using World Health Organization (WHO) tools. We would like to present the results and challenges of the Bach Mai...

Methods Efforts have focused on hand hygiene improvement using a three-pronged approach: 1) raising awareness of HCAI among health professionals and solutions for its prevention; 2) securing political commitment at governmental level to make HCAI prevention a health priority; 3) developing a range of technical tools to support hand hygiene programmes at the facility level, according to the WHO ...

Robots are used to perform tedious work in more and more of today’s industrial applications. Traditionally robots are used in applications with well structured and extremely predictable environments like that of a production line. In the last few years new trends within industrial automation has arisen. One trend is to move from mass production to production of customized products [1] which dem...

ions are provided by many data-parallel tools that allow users to write parallel programs conveniently. Different tools provide different abstractions depending on their models. Many parallel application tools’ developers have common motivations and goals toward optimizations. To compete with hand-written code in performance, they try to optimize the tool, so that the produced parallel applicat...

In the late 1960s, Brian Berry attempted to envision the rapidly changing American landscape, looking at its metropolitan development and space economy thirty years into the future. As a policy advisor to a number of U.S. government committees, he was especially interested in the developmental implications of satellite communications and computer networks. The tools at hand for his work include...

There are various designs of tools and equipment used for harvesting the crops and threshing it separately. Sickles, hand tools and reapers for grain crops and diggers for tuber crops and rhizomes, operated with different power sources are used. Combine harvesters, both tractor mounted and self-propelled, are being very widely used for different grain crops. Functional requirements and principl...

This paper presents a set of tools supporting the construction of nearly every compiler phase. Design goals of this tool box have been practical usability, significantly reduced effort for compiler construction, and high quality of the generated compilers. Especially efficiency should be competitive to hand crafting. Currently modules in the target languages C and Modula-2 can be generated. Fir...

Nowadays, technology-enhanced learning systems can be build on learning management systems (LMS) or personal learning environments (PLE). On one hand, LMS provide administrative services (admissions, registration, etc.), trace tools of learners activities accessible for teachers, and serveral tools (discussion forums, file sharing, management of assignements, learning activities, chat, etc.). T...

Extending the body with a tool could imply that characteristics of hand movements become characteristics of the movement of the effective part of the tool. Recent research suggests that such distal shifts are subject to boundary conditions. Here we propose the existence of three constraints: a strategy constraint, a constraint of movement characteristics, and a constraint of mode of control. We...