The present study investigated the current state of unnecessary children food allergy accommodation and the medical efforts to confirm the existence of food allergies in school lunch service kitchens in Okinawa, Japan, including kitchens accommodating food allergy students by requiring medical documentation at the start and during provisions being made (Double Diagnosis), requiring medical docu...

0.1016/j.foar.2013 Higher Education P 3729. rishnendra.iitd@g r responsibility of Abstract In most applications, such as urbanism and architecture, randomly utilizing given spaces is certainly not favorable. This study proposes an explicit algorithm for utilizing the given spaces inside a rectangle with satisfactory results. In the literature, connectivity is not considered as a criterion for f...

In gray tree frogs, the duration of males' mating calls is correlated with enhanced genetic fitness among offspring (A. M. Welch et al., Reports, 19 June, p. 1928). Perhaps the same genes that enable some frogs to sustain longer calls also confer a survival advantage to their young (E. Pennisi, Research News, 19 June, p. 1837). If so, this may be an example of a more general, but underappreciat...

In order to investigate the peculiarities of the radon situation in workplaces located inside buildings, compared with the radon situation in dwellings, long-time recordings of radon, attached radon progeny and unattached radon progeny concentrations (Po, Pb, Bi) have been carried out at several categories of workplaces (e. g. offices, public buildings like schools and hospitals, different room...

OBJECTIVES Cooks have increased morbidity and mortality. A high turnover has also been reported. We aimed to elucidate work environment and work sustainability in Norwegian cooks. MATERIAL AND METHODS A questionnaire inquiring about working conditions and work participation was sent to 2082 cooks who had qualified from 1988 onwards. Of these, 894 responded. Time at work was analyzed with Kapl...

The concentration and composition of PAHs emitted from biomass cooking fuel were characterized in a rural non-smoking household in northern China. Twenty-two parent PAHs (pPAHs), 12 nitro-PAHs (nPAHs), and 4 oxy-PAHs (oPAHs) were measured in the kitchen, bedroom, and outdoors during both summer and winter. The most severe contamination occurred in the kitchen in the winter, where the daily mean...

This paper presents a model for visual focus of attention recognition in the Ambient Kitchen, a pervasive computing prototyping environment. The kitchen is equipped with several blended displays on one wall and users may use information presented on these displays from multiple locations. Our goal is to recognize which display the user is looking at so that the environment can adjust the displa...