After an uncomplicated term delivery, a newborn infant experienced a life-threatening even a few minutes after being born. Few such events have been described before, they may be due to suffocation; minor changes in surveillance can probably prevent these potentially devastating events.

The commission to make some changing rooms under a strict economy of means is resolved with minimum project that, except where strictly necessary, does not modify the pre-existence. This radical premise generates an architecture based on continuity that manifests itself several levels, which allows conversations have been started during training be continued and maintained until departure, gene...

Each of the Minerva houses has a seminar room that is equipped with a limited amount of technology. In keeping with the President's initiative to build a close relationship between academic and student life, the rooms are available to both students and faculty to use. each room contains a motorized projection screen, a ceiling-mounted data projector, and a DVD/VCR combo unit. A panel in the roo...

With modern technology, intraoperative computed tomography scans are being used in neurosurgical operative rooms. A case of severe head trauma is reported to underline how intraoperative computed tomography can improve the treatment of traumatic lesions, without changing the operative setup, with safety for patients and surgeons. The ability to perform an intraoperative computed tomography scan...

We propose a form of group communication, called channeled multicast, for active rooms and other scenarios featuring strict real-time requirements, inherently unreliable communication, and a continuously changing set of contextaware autonomous systems. In our approach, rooted in multi-agent and team programming, coordination and cooperation are supported via “social awareness” and overhearing. ...