Little is known regarding levels and source strength of carbonaceous aerosols in Scandinavia. In the present study, ambient aerosol (PM10 and PM2.5) concentrations of elemental carbon (EC), organic carbon (OC), waterinsoluble organic carbon (WINSOC), and water-soluble organic carbon (WSOC) are reported for a curbside site, an urban background site, and a suburban site in Norway in order to inve...

Freight parking operations occur amid conflicting conditions of public space scarcity, competition with other users, and the inefficient management loading zones (LZ) at cities’ curbside. The dynamic nature freight operations, static LZ provision regulation, accentuate these specific peak times. This generates supply–demand mismatches infrastructure. These have motivated development Smart that ...

This paper presents Free Parking System (FPS), a system for assigning free curbside parking spaces to drivers in the cities. FPS has two components: a mobile app running on the drivers’ smart phones that submits parking requests and guides drivers to their parking spaces, and a server that manages the parking assignment process. Unlike existing parking systems, FPS is cost-effective as it does ...

Asynchronous medical care has increased in utilization, patient interest, and industry demand. While E-consults have been discussed extensively the literature, there are rare examples of a multispecialty implementation within large health system. Here, we describe our experience implementing an internal E-consult program for asynchronous, nonurgent communication between ambulatory specialists p...

The Pediatric ID Consultant section provides brief reviews of topics relevant to the day-to-day practice of pediatric infectious diseases. The reviews are placed in context by a short vignette, followed by one or more questions which are addressed. Pediatric infectious diseases physicians are often asked by medical colleagues to provide recommendations for management of a patient without the be...