scholarly journals SMART APARTMENT DESIGN FOR A LOW MOBILE RESIDENT

2021 ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
Halyna Khavkhun ◽  
Maksym Kostyrka
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cell Formation ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Limited Area ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Functional Zones ◽  
Barrier Free

The article considers the problem of design of a smart apartment as a new level of historical development of small housing. Various aspects of housing cell formation are considered in the scientific works of Bachynska L.G., Gnesya I.P., Gnat G.O. etc.The history of furniture development with the signs of transformation was studied by scientists: Bosyi I.M., Mygal S.P., Z. Dyachun., Vergunova N.S. The purpose of the study is to identify methods of forming the interior of a small residential cell, taking into account the requirements of comfortable living for a small mobile resident. Factors that determine the comfort of the living cell environment and the means to create conditions to ensure a comfortable stay and life in a limited area have been identified. One of the aspects of shaping the interior design of a smart apartment is the use of furniture-transformers. The classification of furniture-transformers according to the level of transformation is carried out: furniture that changes its position without changing the function; furniture that combines several functions; spatial «housing cube». The main directions of architectural and planning organization of smart apartments are identified: hotel-type apartment, studio apartment, apartment with two rooms, and their possibilities for organization of main functional zones. The basic expedient architectural and planning schemes of smart apartments with examples of their zoning, placement of furniture and interior design are developed and given. It was found that to create a barrier-free living environment for a low-mobility resident, the most acceptable schemes are a two-room apartment or a studio apartment, due to the size and square shape of the plan, which allows you to organize movement and access to furniture in a wheelchair. Based on a comprehensive consideration of the requirements for environmental comfort, regulatory requirements for barrier-free space, features of the use of furniture-transformers, compositional techniques of space organization, ergonomics and energy efficiency, the use of new technologies and modern environmental finishing materials, have been developed and implemented in real design smart apartment concept for little mobile resident. The description of project development with the substantiation of the accepted decision is given. According to the results of the study, recommendations for the design of the interior of a smart apartment for a low-mobile resident were formulated, including: «free floor», access and ease of use of furniture, equipment and technical equipment; use of furniture-transformers.

scholarly journals The home-range concept: are traditional estimators still relevant with modern telemetry technology?

2010 ◽  
Vol 365 (1550) ◽  
pp. 2221-2231 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Kie ◽  
Jason Matthiopoulos ◽  
John Fieberg ◽  
Roger A. Powell ◽  
Francesca Cagnacci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Range ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Animal Movement ◽  
Space Use ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Home Ranges ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Utilization Distributions

Recent advances in animal tracking and telemetry technology have allowed the collection of location data at an ever-increasing rate and accuracy, and these advances have been accompanied by the development of new methods of data analysis for portraying space use, home ranges and utilization distributions. New statistical approaches include data-intensive techniques such as kriging and nonlinear generalized regression models for habitat use. In addition, mechanistic home-range models, derived from models of animal movement behaviour, promise to offer new insights into how home ranges emerge as the result of specific patterns of movements by individuals in response to their environment. Traditional methods such as kernel density estimators are likely to remain popular because of their ease of use. Large datasets make it possible to apply these methods over relatively short periods of time such as weeks or months, and these estimates may be analysed using mixed effects models, offering another approach to studying temporal variation in space-use patterns. Although new technologies open new avenues in ecological research, our knowledge of why animals use space in the ways we observe will only advance by researchers using these new technologies and asking new and innovative questions about the empirical patterns they observe.

From Circuit Switched to IP-Based Networks

2009 ◽  
pp. 212-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas M. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Fiber Optics ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Protocol ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Data Services ◽  
The Public ◽  
Telephone System ◽  
E Mail

The founding of the Bell Telephone System, the public switched telephone network (PSTN), has evolved into a highly successful global telecommunications system. It is designed specifically for voice communications, and provides a high quality of service and ease of use. It is supported by sophisticated operations systems that ensure extremely high dependability and availability. Over the past 100 years, it has been a showcase for communications engineering and led to groundbreaking new technologies (e.g., transistors, fiber optics). Yet it is remarkable that many public carriers see their future in Internet protocol (IP) networks, namely the Internet. Of course, the Internet has also been highly successful, coinciding with the proliferation of personal computers. It has become ubiquitous for data applications such as the World Wide Web, e-mail, and peer-to-peer file sharing. While it is not surprising that the Internet is the future for data services, even voice services are transitioning to voice over Internet protocol (VoIP). This phenomenon bears closer examination, as a prime example explaining the success of the Internet as a universal communications platform. This chapter gives a historical development of the Internet and an overview of technical and nontechnical reasons for the convergence of services.

Exploring Personal Healthcare with the Help of Two Large European Framework Programs for Healthcare

2010 ◽  
pp. 918-938
Author(s):  
Harald Reiter ◽  
Joerg Habetha
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Management ◽  
European Research ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Personal Healthcare

Personal healthcare enables prevention and early diagnosis in daily life and is centered on the patient. There is a need for a new personal healthcare paradigm in the treatment of chronic diseases. This will be achieved by new technologies that are currently explored (e.g., in European Research projects such as MyHeart and HeartCycle). These projects develop technologies and application concepts for the (self-)management of chronic diseases in patients’ homes with special emphasis on usability and ease-of-use (e.g., wearable sensors and processing units that can even be integrated into the patient’s clothes). These technologies allow empowering patients, fostering self-management and therefore reducing cost, and improving patients’ quality of life.

Cloud Computing

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuleeporn Changchit
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Five Factors ◽  
Perceived Security

Cloud computing has become increasingly popular among users and businesses around the world, and education is no exception. Cloud computing can bring an increased number of benefits to an educational setting, not only for its cost effectiveness, but also for the thirst for technology that college students have today, which allows learning and adopting to these new technologies easier for them. This study aims at investigating how cloud computing is perceived by college students and which factors have a tendency to encourage or discourage them to accept the cloud computing as part of their course curriculum. The results in this study reveal that all five factors, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived security, perceive speed of access, and perceived cost of usage are factors that play an important role in encouraging students to accept cloud computing as part of their core curriculum.

scholarly journals Study on Interior Space Optimization of Green Affordable Housing in Cold Region

2020 ◽  
Vol 165 ◽  
pp. 04011
Author(s):  
Junyan Dong ◽  
Bomin Zheng ◽  
Yupi Fu ◽  
Kechao Li
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Indoor Space ◽  
Space Design ◽  
Optimization Principle ◽  
The Status ◽  
Changchun City

With the construction of a large number of affordable housing and the development of green buildings, the design of green affordable housing has become a new concern and research topic in China’s residential architectural design, and the interior design of affordable housing has become a top priority. This article takes Changchun city as an example, through the research of affordable housing in Changchun, visit, found the main problems existing in the status quo, in view of the problems put forward housing interior space design optimization principle, and according to the design principles of indoor space scale, provides a good green indoor living environment for green residential tenants in cold areas.

Research and Application of the New Technologies on Blast Furnace at Shougang Qiangang Plant

2011 ◽  
Vol 402 ◽  
pp. 151-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fu Ming Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Blast Furnace ◽  
High Temperature ◽  
High Efficiency ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Technical Equipment ◽  
Gas Temperature ◽  
Bag Filter ◽  
Large Blast ◽  
Blast Stove ◽  
Hot Blast

In recent years great progress is made in technical equipment of large blast furnace in China. A series of new process, technologies and equipment, integrated and developed on our own, are applied on newly built large blast furnaces and have been proved to be highly effective. After more than 20 years’ development and innovation of the bell-less top equipment designed and developed on our own, it has reached the advanced level in the world in terms of equipment reliability and service life; fully-dry impulse bag filter dedusting technology of BF gas, which is also developed on our own, has gained technical breakthroughs in terms of optimized system design, gas temperature control, pneumatic conveying of dedusting fines; the integrated innovative high-efficiency long-life high-temperature technology, through applying high-temperature preheating technology of combustion air, improving heat transfer efficiency of hot blast stove and optimizing structure of the hot blast stove system, enables the blast temperature to reach 1250°C with BF gas as fuel.

scholarly journals What do clinicians want? Understanding frontline addiction treatment clinicians’ preferences and priorities to improve the design of measurement-based care technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin S. Tauscher ◽  
Eliza B. Cohn ◽  
Tascha R. Johnson ◽  
Kaylie D. Diteman ◽  
Richard K. Ries ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Addiction Treatment ◽  
Clinical Decision Making ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Sorting Task ◽  
Multiple Use ◽  
Card Sorting ◽  
Measurement Based Care ◽  
Treatment Settings

Abstract Background Measurement-based care (MBC) is the practice of routinely administering standardized measures to support clinical decision-making and monitor treatment progress. Despite evidence of its effectiveness, MBC is rarely adopted in routine substance use disorder (SUD) treatment settings and little is known about the factors that may improve its adoptability in these settings. The current study gathered qualitative data from SUD treatment clinicians about their perceptions of MBC, the clinical outcomes they would most like to monitor in MBC, and suggestions for the design and implementation of MBC systems in their settings. Methods Fifteen clinicians from one publicly-funded and two privately-funded outpatient SUD treatment clinics participated in one-on-one research interviews. Interviews focused on clinicians’ perceived benefits, drawbacks, and ideas related to implementing MBC technology into their clinical workflows. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and coded to allow for thematic analysis using a mixed deductive and inductive approach. Clinicians also completed a card sorting task to rate the perceived helpfulness of routinely measuring and monitoring different treatment outcomes. Results Clinicians reported several potential benefits of MBC, including improved patient-provider communication, client empowerment, and improved communication between clinicians. Clinicians also expressed potential drawbacks, including concerns about subjectivity in patient self-reports, limits to personalization, increased time burdens, and needing to learn to use new technologies. Clinicians generated several ideas and preferences aimed at minimizing burden of MBC, illustrating clinical changes over time, improving ease of use, and improving personalization. Numerous patient outcomes were identified as “very helpful” to track, including coping skills, social support, and motivation for change. Conclusions MBC may be a beneficial tool for improving clinical care in SUD treatment settings. MBC tools may be particularly adoptable if they are compatible with existing workflows, help illustrate gradual and nonlinear progress in SUD treatment, measure outcomes perceived as clinically useful, accommodate multiple use cases and stakeholder groups, and are framed as an additional source of information meant to augment, rather than replace, existing practices and information sources.

Information and communication technology use within occupational therapy home assessments: A scoping review

2018 ◽  
Vol 82 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kayla Ninnis ◽  
Maayken Van Den Berg ◽  
Natasha A Lannin ◽  
Stacey George ◽  
Kate Laver
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Therapy ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Barriers To Use

Introduction Home assessments conducted by occupational therapists can identify hazards and prevent falls. However, they may not be conducted because of limited time or long distances between the therapist’s workplace and the person’s home. Developments in technologies may overcome such barriers and could improve the quality of the home assessment process. Method This scoping review synthesises the findings of studies evaluating information and communication technology use within occupational therapy home assessments. Results Fourteen studies were included and revealed the two main approaches to technology use: the development of new applications and the use of existing and readily available technologies. Facilitators and barriers to use were also identified. Facilitators included usefulness, ease of use and the potential for cost-effectiveness. Barriers to use included poor usability, unsuitability for some populations and perceived threat to the role of occupational therapy. The synthesis revealed that traditional in-home assessments conducted by therapists are more sensitive in identifying hazards. Conclusion The availability of new technologies offers potential to improve service delivery; however these technologies are underutilised in clinical practice. Technologies may offer advantages in the conduct of home assessments, especially regarding efficiency, but have not yet been shown to be superior in terms of patient outcome.

Clinical Performance of a New Transparent Chlorhexidine Gluconate Central Venous Catheter Dressing

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Olson ◽  
James M. Heilman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Central Venous Catheter ◽  
Vascular Access ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Insertion Site ◽  
Venous Catheter ◽  
Chlorhexidine Gluconate ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Central Venous ◽  
Or Education

Abstract As the sciences of vascular access and infection prevention rapidly advance healthcare professionals are often faced with new technologies designed to help, but which are often so complicated to use that they cause unforeseen problems. As a vascular access team at a major mid-western hospital, we evaluated the ease-of-use and the performance characteristics of a new transparent catheter dressing, 3M Tegaderm CHG IV Securement Dressing® (3M Health Care™, St. Paul, MN) containing the antimicrobial chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG), with a variety of central venous catheters insertion sites in comparison to a standard non-antimicrobial dressing Tegaderm® (3M Health Care™, St. Paul, MN). Following IRB approval, sixty-three consenting patients were enrolled and randomized; 33 in the CHG antimicrobial dressing group and 30 in the standard dressing group. Thirty six patients had peripherally inserted central catheters (PICCs), 20 had intrajugular insertions (IJ), and 7 had subclavian insertions. The new 3M Tegaderm CHG IV Securement Dressing® (3M Health Care™, St. Paul, MN) was evaluated for its ability to permit visualization of the insertion site, ease of use, ease of using correctly, ability to secure the catheter and absorb exudates and remain transparent. The new 3M Tegaderm CHG IV Securement Dressing® (3M Health Care™, St. Paul, MN) was found to be as easy to use in central venous catheter care clinical practice as the standard of care non-antimicrobial transparent adhesive dressing. No additional training or education was required to properly use it. This dressing was applied and removed like standard transparent adhesive dressings, but offered many advantages over standard dressings. Advantages include that it is antimicrobial, handles moderate bleeding, remains transparent and appears to offer greater catheter securement than the Tegaderm® (3M Health Care™, St. Paul, MN) standard dressing. The CHG gel pad also conformed well to the catheter.

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