Key Cards Research Articles

Nanohybrid Ethanol Emitters for Disinfection of Bacteria and Viruses on Contaminated Surfaces

A nanohybrid ethanol emitter (EE) was developed to reduce the risk of bacterial and virus infection via the surface route. The porous EE structure generated from physical aggregation of ethyl cellulose (EC) and sodium stearate (Nast) exhibited a high loading capacity of ethanol of up to 73 wt %, controlled-release performance for longer than 11 h, and high mechanical strength (>20 N). After disinfection tests with contaminated substrate surfaces in a closed box at 25 degrees C for 6 h, EE showed high potential antimicrobial properties against both bacteria and viruses for more than 99.90%. Hence, it can be applied as an effective disinfectant for daily contaminated surfaces frequently touched such as banknotes, coils, key cards, and cloth masks in a closed container system. Moreover, a simple and low-cost process using eco-friendly chemicals for EE preparation offers high potential for large-scale production in the industry.

Audit of pharmacological management of borderline personality disorder as per NICE clinical guidelines CG78

AimsTo audit the current practice of pharmacological management of Borderline Personality Disorder with NICE Clinical guideline [CG78]: Borderline personality disorder:Objectives:23 patient records were analysed in the last 18months with a diagnosis of EUPD to compare current practice against NICE clinical guidance. (2009)Standards:When prescribing 1)Use a single drug.2)Use the minimum effective dose.3)Agree with the person the target symptoms, monitoring arrangements and anticipated duration of treatment. Antipsychotic drugs should not be used for medium, long term treatment.Indication:4)Drug treatment should not be used specifically for borderline personality disorder or for the individual symptoms or behaviour associated. (Repeated self-harm, marked emotional instability, risk taking behaviour and transient psychotic symptoms).5)Short-term use of sedative medication may be considered cautiously as part of the overall treatment plan in a crisis. The duration of treatment should be no longer than 1 week.6)When considering drug treatment, provide the person with written material about the drug. This should include evidence for the drug's effectiveness in the treatment of borderline personality disorder and for any comorbid condition, and potential harm.Review:7)Review the effectiveness and tolerability of previous and current treatments.8)Discontinue ineffective treatments.BackgroundBorderline Personality Disorder is common in psychiatric settings with a reported prevalence of 20%.As per NICE Guidance (CG 78), no medications have been found effective for the longer term treatment of personality difficulties.This audit was carried out to review if patients were offered psychiatric reviews to discuss the medications they are using, the effectiveness of these, and any potential side effects.ResultGood practice compliance of 90-100% was noted where >90% compliance was seen in areas where the effectiveness and tolerability of current and previous medication was reviewed by the clinicians under Structured Clinical Management. Also was noted that antipsychotics were not used for medium to long term in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in the cohort.The following areas were non-compliant with the NICE recommendations where a compliance <79% has been achieved.When prescribing, use a single drug (avoid polypharmacy), agree target symptoms, monitoring and duration, provide written information, discuss evidence for effectiveness in treatment of borderline personality disorder.Partial compliance was achieved (80-89%) with use of sedatives for less than 1 week and discontinuation of ineffective treatment.ConclusionDistribute key cards to clinicians.Provide written information to patients.Re-audit in 6 months.

A quality improvement initiative to reduce hypothermia in a Baby-Friendly nursery - our story of algorithms, K-cards, and Key cards.

Baby-Friendly hospitals encourage rooming-in newborns with mothers. In our institution, we noticed increased incidence of hypothermia following Baby-Friendly designation. We aimed to reduce the incidence of hypothermia in the mother-baby-unit to <15% and to decrease the rate of isolated hypothermia admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) by 20% over two years. After a retrospective review of newborns ≥35 weeks gestation in the mother-baby-unit with hypothermia, we implemented multiple interventions such as nursing education, hypothermia algorithm, Kamishibai cards, and Key cards. Hypothermia incidence in the mother-baby-unit decreased from 20.9 to 14.5% (p < 0.001) and infants requiring NICU admission decreased by 71% (p < 0.001) following all interventions. Apart from nursing education, all interventions led to significant reductions in both outcomes from baseline. Instituting a hypothermia algorithm and utilizing K-cards and Key cards reduces the incidence of hypothermia in the mother-baby-unit and NICU admissions for isolated hypothermia.

Convergence of IOT in Tourism Industry: A Pragmatic Analysis

The term IoT commonly used abbreviation of ‘Internet of Things’ is trending and ascertaining the possible disruption in the tourism and hospitality industry. The industry is a complex interaction of several stakeholders and ancillaries working together for the experience of the tourist. It includes host government, local population, attractions, transportation, accommodation, food, and Beverages etc. tightly embodying the local trade, art, craft, festivals, religion, culture and many more. The tourist is the end consumer seeking experience and justifying with his Imagescape. The Imagescape could be different for the same destination in different people’s mind. The destination management companies work in order to continue, refine, or modify the current destination image to increase the tourist flow. With the IoT, Big Data, blockchain technologies, the destination will become a closely monitored space for the behavior of tourists, shopping patterns, visitation to each attraction, time spend and monetarily benefits generated. The reports will lead to well-calculated decision making for destination management and development of tourism and ultimately impacting the GDP growth. The Tourism industry has always been witnessing the changes and has been upgrading its attire accordingly. There was a time when internet overwhelmed the industry with multiple upgradations and now the Internet of things is going to influence the industry and tourist vividly.Tourism has been changing with the shifting technologies for several years and has shown multiple advancements to its operations and processes. Another technological trend of IoT is converting Tourism to the Smart Tourism and IoT is the core technology to transform the tourism industry with the help of cloud computing, mobile communication, blockchain, big data and artificial intelligence aligned to enhance the tourist experience. The hospitality industry is counted mainly on the utmost service standards and their executions with intangible characteristics. In such a complex industry, the innovative technology IoT has begun its influence to seek the customer’s satisfaction, cost saving, and business profit. Apart from the personalized rooms, predictive repair and maintenance the IoT will be enhancing the guest experience as well through the Electronic Key Cards which is sent by the hotel on your mobile phone to access the room directly without wasting their precious time in the reception of hotel. The hotel may also charge the guest as per the removal of beers cans from the mini bar of the room without the additional run through of a staff.The paper is crafted to identify the impacts of IoT on the tourism industry and proposes the model to streamline the industry with tourist’s movement in order to analyze the tourist’s experience completely. The Tourism industry is widespread and includes several stakeholders in overall channel of the tourist circuit. The industry is full of diversities and experiences in diversities. The trending technology may act as a thread to sew all in one comprising the experience and solve the issues of accurate data collection in the tourism industry. Fourth revolution technologies all together making an impact on the working of any domain, and hospitality and tourism industry is one of the front runners in implementing these technologies. The IoT has already started its impact all around the industry and tourism industry is thriving to match the pace to be smartly connected with its guests all the time in hotels transportation or attraction. The technology is still in the early stages of growth and implementation. The paper is divided into three sections of introduction, discussion on influence of Internet of Things technology in different fragments of tourism industry and the impacts of IoT concluded with a proposed model. The model presented in this paper analyzes the impacts of FIR technologies in particular of IOT in tourism domain.

Coordinate Access System for Live Video Acquisition

Biometric systems are the most advanced access technology developed so far in the 21st century. It does not even require to carry key cards or passwords in mind. Today most of the commercial and private entries are protected by biometric recognition systems like fingerprint scans facial recognition, retina scans, voice matching, etc. Even our phones, laptops, and daily access devices are equipped with biometric systems. In banks, the PCs are secured by the combination of passwords and fingerprint scans. Biometric scans are considered the most secure access technology so far. Our paper is to examine whether they are secure? Should we rely on them with our hard-earned money and social identity? Is there any way we can use these services without actually compromising our data and security? Our observation is on our digital identity. Promoting digitization in every department brings our topic in the picture. All our information is saved in our phones, our daily routine, whom we talk, what we purchase, whom we chat, where we travel, etc. Almost every smartphone has biometric fingerprint locks which means our phones have our fingerprint scans in database and with internet blend it’s tethered worldwide. Our fingerprints are connected to our bank accounts, PAN Cards, Passport, and SIM Cards using Aadhar Cards. If someone has our fingerprint they can easily reach our Aadhar Card and through that to all our personal information. Most of the phone companies are Chinese, Korean, German, and American. As per their country policies, they must share their data with the governing authorities. We aim to create a security system without actually using the biometric scans. The system is an advancement of the biometric system but with better accuracy and intelligence. We interface image acquisition tools to live track the red color things. The web camera or inbuilt system lens can be used as the acquisition system. When the red color object is moved in front of the lens it shows the corresponding coordinate of the object shown. We use these x and y coordinate of the objects as the authentication points. If the correct value grant access is 120 ⩽ x ⩽ 122 means the system grants permission only if the value of x=120,121 or 122 is obtained. Now, this is tricky. Even if you know the correct value also, it is very difficult to bring the correct point. Think about if you don’t know the point and it is also possible to make it much difficult by adding y coordinate so if the desired point is x=10, y=12 (10, 12) it is way more difficult. Each point is a possible password candidate and the screen of any device have megapixels where 1 Megapixel=106 pixels. Each pixel is a possible key or password entry. It can keep all our information safe and secure. We use a microcontroller and motor driver connected gate to demonstrate the result.

From kamishibai card to key card: a family-targeted quality improvement initiative to reduce paediatric central line-associated bloodstream infections

BackgroundCentral line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are major contributors to preventable harm in the inpatient paediatric setting. Despite multiple guidelines to reduce CLABSI, sustaining reliable central line maintenance bundle compliance remains...

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Hotel key cards: How clean is the first thing guests touch on their way to their rooms?

Hotel key cards: How clean is the first thing guests touch on their way to their rooms?

Combining a survey approach and energy and indoor environment auditing in historic buildings

Purpose – This paper presents an approach where a survey study is combined with energy and indoor environment auditing in the built environment. The combination of methods presented in this paper is one way to obtain a wider perspective on the indoor environment and energy use and also let the people in the building voice their comments on the indoor environment. This is arguably even more important in historic buildings where many of the physical properties are to a higher degree unknown when compared with conventional buildings. The purpose of the paper is to report the experiences from this research project. Design/methodology/approach – A combination of energy and indoor environment auditing and standardized occupant surveys. Findings – The main findings in the paper are related to the good agreement between results from standardized occupant surveys and physical measurements. The possibility to triangulate problems related to poor indoor conditions was shown to be one main advantage of the combined methodology presented in the paper. A standardized survey approach also allows benchmarking, in this case with two groups representing “average” buildings as well as a group representing well-functioning buildings. The use of records from building key cards was also shown to be an effective way of keeping track of activity in the building and thereby distribute internal gains. In addition, the paper reports a linear correlation between activity level and electricity use. Originality/value – The paper shows an effective way to investigate the performance, in terms of energy use as well as indoor environment, of historic buildings in use. This type of approach could benefit property owners, as it both allows benchmarking as well as investigating individual properties before, e.g., a refurbishment.

On damage diagnosis for a wind turbine blade using pattern recognition

With the increased interest in implementation of wind turbine power plants in remote areas, structural health monitoring (SHM) will be one of the key cards in the efficient establishment of wind turbines in the energy arena. Detection of blade damage at an early stage is a critical problem, as blade failure can lead to a catastrophic outcome for the entire wind turbine system. Experimental measurements from vibration analysis were extracted from a 9 m CX-100 blade by researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) throughout a full-scale fatigue test conducted at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and National Wind Technology Center (NWTC). The blade was harmonically excited at its first natural frequency using a Universal Resonant EXcitation (UREX) system. In the current study, machine learning algorithms based on Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), including an Auto-Associative Neural Network (AANN) based on a standard ANN form and a novel approach to auto-association with Radial Basis Functions (RBFs) networks are used, which are optimised for fast and efficient runs. This paper introduces such pattern recognition methods into the wind energy field and attempts to address the effectiveness of such methods by combining vibration response data with novelty detection techniques.

P02-150 - Psychiatric intensive care units - designed for the patient ….designed for the environment

AimsThis poster explores how Psychiatric Intensive Care Units can be designed using “green” technology in order to be environment-friendly whilst also meeting patient needs.MethodAnalysis of the new PICU at Hellesdon Hospital, Norfolk and Waveney Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom. We describe how the architecture has been adapted from the standard mental health unit model to facilitate more intensive supervision. We will also examine the building design features that have been incorporated to ensure the lowest possible carbon footprint.ResultsRollesby Ward (PICU) at Hellesdon Hospital won the Broadland design award 2009. It is a new, purpose built, building that provides a safe, user-friendly unit with en-suite accommodation; and rooms for seclusion, therapeutic activities and one to one sessions. The use of key cards and the layout of the bedrooms and lounge areas maintain patient privacy and dignity. A number of technologies have been used to minimise the building's carbon footprint. These include maximising usage of natural light and ventilation, underground rainwater tanks for flushing toilets, photovoltaic roof panels, and ground source heat pumps. Since the PICU has opened, 62.63 mwh of energy (35.57 tons of carbon) has been saved.ConclusionNew build psychiatric units can successfully incorporate design features that deliver a better patient and therapeutic environment whilst also minimising the consumption of energy and the size of the carbon footprint.

Evaluating the Relationship Between Law Enforcement and School Security Measures and Violent Crime in Schools

School crime is a vital concern, not only for students and faculty, but for administrators, policy makers, criminal justice personnel, and concerned citizens. Efforts to reduce crime and violence at schools have led many schools to adopt preventative strategies aimed at reducing actual crime and fear of crime. These measures include partnering with local police departments and implementing school resource officers, installing video cameras and closed circuit television systems, utilizing weapon-detection systems (e.g., metal detectors), and blocking/restricting access to school facilities with entry-control devices (e.g., electronic key cards). Recognizing these efforts and the limitations of prior research investigating school crime and safety measures, the current study examined the relationship between law enforcement (public or private) and school security measures on the incidence of violence and serious violence in schools using a nationally representative sample. Several key findings emerged. In pa...

“Dark Chill in the Persian Gulf” – Iran's Conventional and Unconventional Naval Forces

This article reviews the sustained growth of Iran's naval forces in the past two decades. It closely examines the Islamic Republic’s navy's war-waging capacity in the Persian Gulf, its new unconventional fighting philosophy, force imperatives, doctrinal underpinnings, combat objectives, and the implications that this might have on shipping and oil trade in the Persian Gulf. Experts have long speculated that Iran is developing its asymmetric capabilities aimed at paralysing the Persian Gulf and the eventual expansion of its sphere of influence. Interfering with the supply of oil would raise oil prices sharply and would certainly stall the still moderate global economic recovery, thereby plunging the world again into a global recession. Analysis shows that the modernisation of its naval forces might be the clearest indication that Iran may well be systematically developing the means to do so. This is brought home starkly by the beefing up of the Revolutionary Guards' Navy and its “swarming” capabilities. With a newfound assertiveness and aggressive tactics, the Iranian naval forces are now challenging the dominant force in the Persian Gulf – the US Navy. And even though the success of such an approach at this stage appears unlikely, they may still hold some key cards, to be able to pose a credible and effective threat.

The Confluence of a Career: Virtual Droughts, Shared-Vision Planning, and Climate Change

This lecture was given by Richard Palmer after receiving the 2006 Julian Hinds Award. First, let me thank Bill Werick for his much too kind introduction. Bill is given to exaggeration. Second, I want to express to you the pride I feel having been selected to receive the 2006 Julian Hinds Award. In the past the award has been given to many very outstanding individuals, and it is not clear that I deserve membership in that club. I can only note my incredible luck in being surrounded by exceptionally talented mentors, colleagues, and graduate students during the past 30 years. These people shared their time and intellect with me, encouraged me to continue when I was on the right track and redirected me when I wasn’t. This award is certainly due to the opportunities these people have helped me recognize. My talk this morning conveys three themes that have figured significantly in my professional activities during the past 30 years: interactive, computer-aided decision making, shared vision planning and global climate change. But, before beginning my talk, I want to acknowledge three institutions. The Johns Hopkins University is where I was given the opportunity to perform my graduate work in water resources and where I met so many outstanding people, including Abel Wolman, Reds Wolman, Jared Cohon, Charles ReVelle, Robert Hirsch, Kenneth Potter, James Smith, and David Eaton; The Institute of Water Resources of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, specifically, Bill Werick and Gene Stakhiv who provided me with both support and guidance for many years; and the University of Washington that has been my home institution for the past 27 years and where I have been trained by my students and colleagues. My three themes begin with the idea of interactive, computeraided decision making. Some people in this room are like me, their careers began when “computers and computing” implied a deck of key punch cards and time spent waiting for your program’s error messages. When I entered graduate school my primary interest was in water supply management. With the help of Paul Eastman and Dan Sheer, I was able to interest water research agencies in northern Virginia, suburban Maryland, and Washington, D.C. to support research at The John Hopkins University to analyze supply options for the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The Corps of Engineers had created a water supply plan that called for the construction of 16 reservoirs in the Potomac River to augment D.C.’s water supply. As part of my Ph.D. dissertation, I applied a linear programming model to demonstrate that conjunctive management of the existing reservoirs and the construction of two reservoirs would provide all the water needed for many years. The model’s assumptions included “cooperative management” of the system. There was nothing “interactive” about my model. I loaded a deck of computer cards into a card reader, communicated this information via slow phone lines to

New erase head for thermal rewritable media

Thermal rewritable technology has been around for nearly a decade but market acceptance has been much slower than anticipated in the US. The rewritable usages are often seen in Japan and Europe for such applications as loyalty/points cards, hotel guest door key cards, train system pre-paid passes and ski passes.There is a new application being promoted in Japan which combines RFID and thermal rewritable technologies. One of the major obstacles in RFID today is the cost of media - if the media can be reused, the per-usage cost can go down. The electronic data on the memory chip can be updated very easily while visual data such as alpha-numeric and bar code information update is difficult once it is printed with conventional printing technology. This is where rewritable technology comes in. A new application is for the RFID label with thermal rewritable capability.One of key components in thermal rewritable technology is the eraser. The presentation is about the newly developed 6-inch version thermal erase head in order to accommodate the new application's requirements. Erase head can be heated on demand, while other traditional erasing devices such as heat rollers have to be kept hot always.

Protecting identity documents by microstructure color differences

The development of plastic card printers has led to the widespread use of identity documents printed on plastic cards, such as ID cards, driving licenses and access key cards. This paper presents a new security feature based on a technique for embedding a personalized microstructure into an image. This microstructure takes the form of a pattern embedded into the original photograph as a succession of balanced chromatic shifts. The amplitude of these shifts may be tuned so as to make the pattern fully apparent or just noticeable under normal viewing conditions. Since the chromatic shifts cancel each other out in any macroscopic portion of the image, the global appearance of the protected image remains intact. The embedded microstructure may be adapted to each instance of the protected identity document. For example, it can repeat textual information already present elsewhere on the document, or it can include a code derived from data specific to the document holder. Furthermore, this information may be made fully readable without requiring special revealing means. Such identity documents exhibit an intrinsic resistance against imitation, tampering and substitution.

Keys and Hotel Security

Locks and keys have been around since at least 2,000 B.C., but inns and taverns in the United States and elsewhere rarely used them until around the mid-1 820s. Then, advances in lever-lock systems and, ultimately, Linus Yale's invention in 1840 of the modern cylinder lock made guest-room security using locks and keys practical and affordable and, in the eyes of guests, nonnegotiable. At the same time, the rise of hotel burglaries-especially in the second half of the 19th century-made locks and security increasingly necessary. By the early 1900s innkeepers had hit on the idea of using key tags as advertising mechanisms, and before long a vast array of creative, practical, and exotic key tags were leaving their marketing impressions on travelers. At the very least, in the United States a key tag allowed the forgetful guest who carried a hotel key home to drop the key in the nearest mailbox for safe and postage-paid transit back to the hotel. (In Europe, key tags often were so large and cumbersome that a guest couldn't possibly walk out of the hotel with it by accident.) Ultimately, however, the industry recognized that even the simplest hotel identifier posed some security risk to the person bearing the key, and many hotels dropped that practice altogether. Finally, along came affordable computer technology and programmable key cards, which today are used in most large and brand-name lodging properties. A collection of keys from different eras and properties is on display in Mineola, New York, at the headquarters of Hospitality Valuation Services.

Executive dysfunction in depression: The Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

This study compared dysphoric undergraduates with controls on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test. The task is to match a series of cards to key cards varying in colour, shape and number, according to correct/wrong feedback. The groups differed in the efficiency with which they were able to use feedback to match cards appropriately, and shift between the different sorting categories. The dysphoric subjects were poorer in the matching task, and also showed slight impairment in describing the sorting categories accurately in a post-task interview. The implications of the findings for our understanding of depression are discussed.

Key Cards for Chemists

An academic branch library was able to reduce hours drastically by issuing key cards to the faculties it served. A year-long survey and count of patrons tracked the library use habits of faculty members, with the result that hours could be cut when faculty were less likely to use the library, but without altogether denying them the opportunity to use the collections at their convenience. A key card monitor identifies patrons personally, an advantage over standard keys which can be copied and used anonymously.

The Identification of Coniferous Woods by their Microscopic Structure.

SUMMARY. The first part of the paper describes a multiple-entry card key to coniferous woods. The features employed, which were only selected after extensive investigation, are illustrated and described. Data on over one hundred of the more important tree species of forty genera are given in tabulated form suitable for ready reference and for transference to key cards. In the second part of the paper, the composition, distribution, and wood anatomy of the seven families of Coniferae are briefly dealt with, and under each genus the diagnostic features and methods of identifying the individual species are indicated with particular reference to timber-producing species. Some discrepancies in the existing botanical classification are apparent from this anatomical study. A select bibliography on coniferous wood anatomy is appended, and also a combined index and check-list.