'Real world' offers data to enhance safety of ambulance transport of children
...hat the potential for injury to children and other occupants should the vehicle crash during transport is "alar...cal personnel and patient relatives. The number of occupants per vehicle, including the patient, ranged from three to seven. Of patients transported on a gur...... building materials, furnishings, cleaning agents, occupants and a myriad of other sources, Khalifa says. We are spending more and more time in an indoor environment that is often unhealthy, and we need to come up with innovative ways to make that environment healthy. That is the reason for establishing the EQ...High tech movies reveal information transfer within cells
...like bubbles, bumping and fusing together when the occupants of two rooms need to come together. Now, Dartmouth Medical School biochemists have devised a high tech way to watch, in living color, how these bubbles fuse, and what they have seen upends prior assumptions about the ways cell components transfer ch...Smaller households fuel global housing boom and threaten biodiversity, study finds
...ly in hotspot countries. Had the average number of occupants per household remained constant during that 15-year period, there would have been 155 million fewer households in hotspot countries in 2000, the authors concluded. ''Ignoring population growth, reduction in household size alone is projected to add 23...Peoples' household dynamics crucial to biodiversity
... households worldwide and the declining number of occupants in a household affects biodiversity and resource consumption. The paper, entitled "Effects of household dynamics on resource consumption and biodiversity," takes a new look at population dynamics. It explores how increases in the number of household...Advances in prosthetic, orthopedic, and audiologic diagnostic tools
...ced the risk of submarining or the tendency of the occupants pelvis to slip under their lap belt in a front-end crash. Findings will inform wheelchair and seating manufacturers to key design issues in developing transit wheelchairs. Instrumented glove improves measurement of hand movement pg. 179 Investigato...Ultraviolet irradiation in ventilation systems could reduce office sickness
...of an 11 148square-meter office building with 1000 occupants would cost US$52 000, and$14 000 per year for energy, maintenance, and bulb replacement (estimatesfrom manufacturer). For every worker, the estimated $52 for initial and $14for yearly operating costs compare favourably with the estimated yearlylosses...