which affect 60-80% of residents with dementia. Responsive behaviours are commonly treated with antipsychotic medications, and they compromise well-being of residents as well as staff. Our multidisciplinary team seeks to develop technological solutions to help minimize agitated and aggressive behaviours by creating familiar and appropriate activities that allow residents with dementia opportuni...

This paper discusses the responsive sound installation Reeds. The Melbourne International Festival of the Arts commissioned the Reeds project in 2000, for exhibition on the Ornamental Lake at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne. It consists of twenty-one large floating sculptures, modeled to represent clusters of river reeds in immaculate man-made plantings. Each reed pod contained a collectio...

The Interprofessional Resource Centre (IRC) was based on an extensive literature search and a provincial consultative process that involved administrators, health care providers, educators, preceptors, and alternative and complementary health care providers from different disciplines. Information from the literature review was synthesized into a logic model that served as a preliminary outline ...

Considerable amount of work has been directed towards the development of optimal glucose-responsive devices for insulin release. Hydrogel-based devices offer a wide range of parameters that can be tuned to obtain easy control of the insulin release properties. Taking advantage of their unique swelling and release properties, we may be able to achieve the desirable steady state and dynamic natur...

In a group of healthy young male volunteers a worsened tolerance to oral glucose in the afternoon after a four-hour fast was reversed by a 12-hour fast. The latter also produced consistent mild hypoglycaemia from two and a half to four hours after the glucose loading irrespective of the time of day.

At present, canola meal is primarily streamlined into the animal feed market where it is a competitive animal feed source owing to its high protein value. Beyond animal feed lies a potential game-changer with regards to the value of canola meal, and its opportunity as a high quality food protein source. An economic and sustainable source of protein with high bioavailability and digestibility is...

when a distribution network consisting of distributed generations (dgs) is disconnected from upstream network, the system may be exposed to severe power imbalance. in order to prevent the damage of power plants, frequency relays operate and remove dgs from the network. in contrast to traditional methods, the main objective in new methods is to keep dg units in service in the islanded distributi...

With the development of integrated energy systems (IES), traditional demand response technologies for single that do not take customer satisfaction into account have been unable to meet actual needs. Therefore, it is urgent study (IDR) technology energy, which considers consumers’ willingness participate in IDR. This paper proposes an management optimization method community IES based on user d...

Recently, there has been considerable interest in the fluctuation theorem (FT). The Evans-Searles FT shows how time reversible microscopic dynamics leads to irreversible macroscopic behavior as the system size or observation time increases. We show that the argument of this FT, the dissipation function, plays a central role in nonlinear response theory and derive the dissipation theorem, giving...