Improving rates of hand hygiene compliance (HHC) has been shown to reduce nosocomial disease. We compared the HHC for a traditional wall-mounted unit and a novel sanitizer-dispensing door handle device in a hospital inpatient ultrasound area. HHC increased 24.5%-77.1% (P < .001) for the exam room with the sanitizer-dispensing door handle, whereas it remained unchanged for the other rooms. Techn...

OVERVIEW: Door-access control is a physical security system that assures the security of a room or building by means of limiting the access to that room or building to specific people and by keeping records of such accesses. It utilizes an individual-authentication method in order to limit access to specific people. The most widespread authentication method for such systems is based on smart ca...

Hospital isolation rooms are vital for the containment (when under negative pressure) of patients with, or the protection (when under positive pressure) of patients, from airborne infectious agents. Such facilities were essential for the management of highly contagious patients during the 2003 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreaks and the more recent 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic....

OVERVIEW: Door-access control is a physical security system that assures the security of a room or building by means of limiting the access to that room or building to specific people and by keeping records of such accesses. It utilizes an individual-authentication method in order to limit access to specific people. The most widespread authentication method for such systems is based on smart ca...

This paper proposes a novel approach to an RGB-D simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system that uses the vanishing point and door plates in a corridor environment simultaneously for navigation. To increase the stability of the SLAM process in such an environment, the vanishing point and door plates are utilized as landmarks for extended Kalman filterbased SLAM (i.e., EKF SLAM). The va...

Although humans spend a third of their life asleep, their choice of sleeping places has so far been little investigated both theoretically and empirically. We address this issue from the perspective of evolutionary psychology. Our basic assumption is that humans have an evolved preference for safe sleeping places, that is, those that promise protection against potential aggressors and nighttime...

The 1-searcher is a mobile guard whose visibility is limited to a ray emanating from his position, where the direction of the ray can be changed continuously with bounded angular rotation speed. Given a polygonal region P with a speciied boundary point d, is it possible for a 1-searcher to eventually see a mobile intruder that is arbitrarily faster than the searcher within P, before the intrude...

Imagine the following scenario. You are in your overpriced hotel room, reviewing your notes for an important presentation that you will be giving later in the day. The people next door have their television cranked to maximum volume. It is so loud that you can hear the dialogue as well as the gunfire and explosions; it is from Sylvester Stallone's movie Judge Dredd. Despite an earlier request t...

Security remains a top priority for those users in the hotel, even with advent of innovative technological advances. This is because many tragic incidents, such as theft and crime, have occurred unrestricted access. paper proposes an intelligent door access system that would allow hotel guests to authenticate into their rooms without resorting traditional closeness methods. Therefore, research ...