Model Predictive HVAC Control with Online Occupancy Model [PDF]
, 2014 This paper presents an occupancy-predicting control algorithm for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems in buildings. It incorporates the building's thermal properties, local weather predictions, and a self-tuning stochastic occupancy model to reduce energy consumption while maintaining occupant comfort.
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Reliability reconsidered: Cronbach's alpha and paediatric assessment in occupational therapy [PDF]
, 2009 Background / aim: Using reliable outcome measures is a necessity for the occupational therapy profession in enabling valid assessments of clients. Although Cronbach’s alpha is the most widely applied index of internal consistency reliability, there are
Spiliotopoulou, G
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High Sensitivity real-time VOCs monitoring in air through FTIR Spectroscopy using a Multipass Gas Cell Setup [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Human exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) and their presence in indoor and working environments is recognized as a serious health risk, causing impairment of varying severity. Different detecting systems able to monitor VOCs are available in the market, however they have significant limitations for both sensitivity and chemical discrimination
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Bernardino Ramazzini, three hundred years after his death, Padua (Italy), October 18th, 2014 [PDF]
, 2015 open2noThe year 2014 has marked the tercentenary from the death of Bernardino Ramazzini (1633-1714), universally credited as the founder of Occupational Health (5, 9, 10, 11).
Riva, Michele Augusto, Zampieri, Fabio
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Developing and analysing a curriculum map in Occupational- and Environmental Medicine [PDF]
, 2010 Background: During the last 5 years a fundamental curriculum reform was realized at the medical school of the Ludwig Maximilians University. In contrast to those efforts, the learning objectives were not defined consistently for the curriculum and ...
Fischer, Martin R. +4 more
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HeartBEiT: Vision Transformer for Electrocardiogram Data Improves Diagnostic Performance at Low Sample Sizes [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The electrocardiogram (ECG) is a ubiquitous diagnostic modality. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) applied towards ECG analysis require large sample sizes, and transfer learning approaches result in suboptimal performance when pre-training is done on natural images.
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Occupational health for an ageing workforce: Do we need a geriatric perspective? [PDF]
, 2006 10.1186/1745-6673-1-8Journal of Occupational Medicine and ...
Koh, D., Koh, G.C.-H.
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Profesionalni kontaktni dermatitis kod stomatologa i stomatoloških tehničara [PDF]
, 2016 Since the working medical personnel including dentists and dental technicians mainly use their hands, it is understandable that the most common occupational disease amongst medical personnel is contact dermatitis (CD) (80%-90% of cases).
Gaby Novak-Bilić +6 more
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Temporary and permanent unfitness of occupational divers. Brest Cohort 2002–2019 from the French National Network for Occupational Disease Vigilance and Prevention (RNV3P) [PDF]
, 2020 Background: In France, the monitoring of professional divers is regulated. Several learned societies (French Occupational Medicine Society, French Hyperbaric Medicine Society and French Maritime Medicine Society) have issued follow-up recommendations for
Dewitte, Jean-Dominique +4 more
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Achieving Positive Benefits for Chronic Pain: Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Occupational Therapy [PDF]
, 2008 Complementary and alternative medicine can fit into the occupational therapy practice framework to prepare chronic pain patients for participation in occupational performance. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies can be used preparatory
Keffeler, Cheryl A.
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