Although many wheelchair users in Korea remodeled their kitchens to solve the inconvenience of using their kitchens, most of them are not satisfied with the results. In relation to this, some people complained about the difficulty in finding proper materials when remodeling kitchens and pointed out that some kitchen elements, remodeled using foreign materials, did not meet the conditions of Kor...

This study investigated risk factors for frequent work-related burn and cut injuries and low back pain (LBP) among kitchen workers including personal, work-related and environmental factors. Subjects were 991 kitchen workers in 103 schools, 17 hospitals and nursing homes, and 6 restaurants in central Japan. A cross-sectional survey was carried out using a structured self-administered questionna...

n the late 1980s, following discussions with clients, legislative bodies and healthcare experts across Canada, Versa Services identified the primary challenges healthcare managers were facing in the delivery of dietary services. • Equipment in many hospital kitchens is outdated and food cannot be stored, prepared, or served in an efficient and sanitary manner. This leads to compromised storage ...

Food is an essential physiological, cultural and social component of human life. How food is produced and consumed has dietary, cultural, environmental, ethical and societal consequences. Despite the central role that food plays within individual lives, public understanding of food and the wider agro-food system varies; much of this existing knowledge is acquired informally in kitchens, homes a...

It is possible to significantly ease kitchen chores with properly sized and appropriately arranged cupboards. In designing kitchen furniture and the optimal depth and the height of storage capacities, accessibility should be taken into consideration. It is known that the optimal storage zone is between 800 and 1100 mm and that there is reduced visibility and accessibility at the level between 1...

Dora, the robot, is trying to find object in its environment. Instead of just exhaustively searching everywhere, Dora is equipped with probabilistic reasoning, representations, and planning to exploit uncertain common-sense knowledge, such as that cornflakes are usually found in kitchens, while also accounting for the uncertainty of sensing in the real-world. Dora demonstrates how to combine ta...

A field trial on the control effect of fipronil poison bait against German cockroaches (Blatella germanica) was carried out at different restaurant types in Sinchon, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Monitoring was performed applying food baited traps for 2 days per week. Reduction rates of German cockroaches by applying fipronil baits were 90.9% at Korean restaurants, 96.4% at Chinese restaurants, and...

The kitchen is a complex and dangerous multi-user work environment that can benefit from augmented reality techniques to help people cook more safely, easily and efficiently. We present Counter Intelligence, a conventional kitchen augmented with the projection of information onto its objects and surfaces to orient users, coordinate between multiple tasks and increase confidence in the system. F...

Fourteen sites evenly divided between the household kitchen and bathroom were monitored on a weekly basis for numbers of faecal coliforms, total coliforms and heterotrophic plate count bacteria. The first 10 weeks comprised the control period, hypochlorite cleaning products were introduced into the household during the second 10 weeks, and a strict cleaning regimen using hypochlorite products w...