OBJECTIVE To determine if accreditation is associated with better resident safety processes and outcomes in 587 Ontario long-term care (LTC) homes. A second area of interest is whether LTC home characteristics influence pursuit of accreditation. FINDINGS Out of five safety areas examined, accreditation was only associated with a lower occurrence of falls. Three of four organizational characte...

• Building codes require about 20 powered safety devices in new U.S. homes. Health and consume 1% of residential electricity. Safety the are typically exempted from efficiency regulations. Per-unit consumption is small, but each home will have many units. Home medical a growing use energy. Miscellaneous electrical loads (MELs) responsible for significant fraction energy buildings. This paper ad...

An improved Laplace transform theory is developed in order to investigate the initial response of a stable slab plasma equilibrium enclosed by conducting walls to a suddenly applied wall perturbation in the so-called Taylor problem. The novel feature of this theory is that it does not employ asymptotic matching. If the wall perturbation is switched on slowly compared to the Alfvén time then the...

Independence in their own homes is desirable for most people but illness and disability in later life may make this impossible unless aids are provided and adaptations made to the home. The cost of these changes may be high. The most recent proposals for revision of the United Kingdom Building Regulations include provision for making all new homes adaptable so that occupants who become disabled...

background and purpose: school, as a reliable place in educating students, has an important role in training. the aim of this study was the assessment of environmental health of primary schools in norabad mamasani city of fars province. materials and methods: in this analytical-descriptive and cross-sectional study, all of 26 primary schools in norabad mamasani city were surveyed by using censu...

Sensor-driven applications, implemented using modern mobile or gaming devices, have great potential in motivating computer science students. Recent industry trends toward including more sensors on devices such as mobile phones, which enable new applications in health monitoring, smart homes, and human safety, among others, indicate that the number of such sensor-driven applications will continu...

New technological advancements allow the Internet to penetrate in embedded computing. IPv6 envisions to merge the physical and the digital world, through the Internet. The Web of Things interconnects the expanding ecosystem of Internetenabled embedded devices, by reusing well-accepted and understood Web principles. In this work, the principles of the Web of Things are employed for the developme...