scholarly journals Proactive Approach for Safe Use of Antimicrobial Coatings in Healthcare Settings: Opinion of the COST Action Network AMiCI

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merja Ahonen ◽  
Anne Kahru ◽  
Angela Ivask ◽  
Kaja Kasemets ◽  
Siiri Kõljalg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antimicrobial Coatings ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
Proactive Approach ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Action Network ◽  
The Cost

scholarly journals “Just So You Know, It Has Been Hard”: Food Retailers’ Perspectives of Implementing a Food and Nutrition Policy in Public Healthcare Settings

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2053
Author(s):  
Kristy Karying. Law ◽  
Claire Elizabeth. Pulker ◽  
Janelle Diann. Healy ◽  
Christina Mary. Pollard
Keyword(s):  
Nutrition Policy ◽  
Public Healthcare ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Voluntary Standards ◽  
Policy Success ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Food Retailers ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Public Health Practitioners

Mandated policies to improve food environments in public settings are an important strategy for governments. Most Australian governments have mandated policies or voluntary standards for healthy food procurement in healthcare facilities, however, implementation and compliance are poor. A better understanding of the support required to successfully implement such policies is needed. This research explored food retailers’ experiences in implementing a mandated food and nutrition policy (the Policy) in healthcare settings to identify barriers, enablers, and impacts of compliance. Three 90-min workshops facilitated by two public health practitioners were undertaken with 12 food retailers responsible for operating 44 outlets across four hospitals in Perth, Western Australia. Workshop discussions were transcribed non-verbatim and inductive thematic content was analyzed. Three main themes were identified: (1) food retailers had come to accept their role in implementing the Policy; (2) the Policy made it difficult for food retailers to operate successfully, and; (3) food retailers needed help and support to implement the Policy. Findings indicate the cost of implementation is borne by food retailers. Communications campaigns, centralized databases of classified products, reporting frameworks, recognition of achievements, and dedicated technical expertise would support achieving policy compliance. Feasibility assessments prior to policy implementation are recommended for policy success.

Quality control plan for road bridges – overview of COST Action TU1406 WG3 final report

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matej Kušar ◽  
Poul Linneberg ◽  
Joao Amado ◽  
Snežana Mašović ◽  
Nikola Tanasić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Control Plan ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Group 3 ◽  
Arch Bridges ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Damage Processes

<p>The main objective of the COST Action TU1406 is to develop a guideline for the establishment of Quality Control plans for roadway bridges. The guideline is based on conclusions of Working groups 1 and 2 of the Action and is further developed with the contributions and findings of members of Working group 3. The paper presents the overview of the developed framework, where gradual damage processes as well as sudden events are being addressed in evaluation of Key Performance Indicators. The proposed framework relies on data from design and construction phase, as well as from results from visual inspections that are used for an assessment of safety and serviceability - the primary concerns of bridge managers. Special attention is aimed at possible Failure modes and related bridge Vulnerable zones. These are, for instance high moment regions, high shear regions and constructions joints, but can also be zones of bridge conceptual weaknesses. Since there are differences in design and materials for various bridge types, the suitability of the framework is tested separately for girder/frame bridges and arch bridges. Due to the specifics of sudden events, the application of the framework is given separately from gradual damage processes. Emphasis is given on flooding and scour as these are the most common culprits of bridge failures. The steps in the implementation of the framework are briefly shown and an illustrative example is presented.</p>

Expanding Role of Telephone Systems in Healthcare

2017 ◽  
pp. 564-598
Author(s):  
Jing Shi ◽  
Ergin Erdem ◽  
Heping Liu
Keyword(s):  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Patient Acceptance ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Healthcare Settings ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Centered Care ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Telephone Systems

The telephone systems in healthcare settings serve as a viable tool for improving the quality of service provided to patients, decreasing the cost, and improving the patient satisfaction. It can play a pivotal role for transformation of the healthcare delivery for embracing personalized and patient centered care. This chapter presents a systematic review of new developments of healthcare telephone system operations in various areas such as tele-health. Current research on topics such as tele-diagnosis, tele-nursing, tele-consultation is outlined. Specific issues associated with the emerging applications such as underreferral, legal issues, patient acceptance, on-call physician are discussed. Meanwhile, the architecture and underlying technologies for healthcare telephone systems are introduced, and the performance metrics for measuring the system operations are provided. In addition, challenges and opportunities related with improving the healthcare telephone systems are identified, and the potential opportunities of optimizing these systems are pointed out.

Challenges of Semantic 3D City Models

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Billen ◽  
Anne-Françoise Cutting-Decelle ◽  
Claudine Métral ◽  
Gilles Falquet ◽  
Sisi Zlatanova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
3D City Models ◽  
Semantic Enrichment ◽  
Technical Paper ◽  
Information Models ◽  
Urban Models ◽  
The Cost ◽  
City Models

This technical paper is a contribution to the identification of current challenges of semantic 3D city models. They are presented in four parts, namely 3D enriched city models and their connection with urban information models and smartcities, urban models integration, urban analyses and data. This work is an output of the COST Action TU0801 “Semantic Enrichment of 3D city models for sustainable urban development”.

Ambient seismic noise suppression in COST action G2Net

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Velimir Ilić ◽  
Alessandro Bertolini ◽  
Fabio Bonsignorio ◽  
Dario Jozinović ◽  
Tomasz Bulik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Seismic Noise ◽  
Noise Suppression ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Ambient Seismic Noise ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Life Challenge

&lt;p&gt;The analysis of low-frequency gravitational waves (GW) data is a crucial mission of GW science and the performance of Earth-based GW detectors is largely influenced by ability of combating the low-frequency ambient seismic noise and other seismic influences. This tasks require multidisciplinary research in the fields of seismic sensing, signal processing, robotics, machine learning and mathematical modeling.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In practice, this kind of research is conducted by large teams of researchers with different expertise, so that project management emerges as an important real life challenge in the projects for acquisition, processing and interpretation of seismic data from GW detector site. A prominent example that successfully deals with this aspect could be observed in the COST Action G2Net (CA17137 - A network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Machine Learning) and its seismic research group, which counts more than 30 members.&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;In this talk we will review the structure of the group, present the goals and recent activities of the group, and present new methods for combating the seismic influences at GW detector site that will be developed and applied within this collaboration.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;This publication is based upon work from CA17137 - A network for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics and Machine Learning, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;

Perspectives for Planning Approaches in Promoting Underground Built Heritage - COST Action Underground4value

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Smaniotto Costa ◽  
Tatiana Ruchinskaya ◽  
Konstantinos Lalenis
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Collaborative Relationships ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
The Public ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Planning Approaches

&lt;p&gt;The COST Action 18110 Underground4value (http://underground4value.eu) aims to advance knowledge on how to guarantee continuity of use and significance of underground historic fabric. It is collecting information, experiences and knowhow to base the development of research and training. The Action focusses on underground regeneration, revitalisation of the public realm and skills development for people concerned with underground heritage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This contribution centres the attention of the Working Group on Planning Approaches. It also looks at the role of local authorities, as enablers and facilitators, in coordination, use &amp;#160;and management of underground built heritage. In this framework underground built heritage is considered as a social resource with integrated programmes of physical, economic and social measures, backed by strategic stakeholder dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On the one hand, this contribution discusses the structure and goals of the WG, as it pays attention to the necessary complementarities between functional approaches &amp;#8211; at the level of regions and city &amp;#8211; and social and cultural approaches involving citizens&amp;#8217; engagement and empowerment &amp;#8211; at the local level. This WG aims to provide a reflection on sustainable approaches to preserve the underground built heritage and, at the same time, to unfold the case by case approach for potential use of underground space. On the other hand, to achieve its objectives the WG on Planning Approaches is setting together potentials and constraints in the efforts to make better use of underground heritage. This contribution, therefore, sheds lights on the preliminary results of the WG. It is centred on the learned lessons, challenges and barriers - from a planning science perspective - that experts met in their efforts to tackle Underground Built Heritage. Achieving this goal makes the call for an educational paradigm shift - as the Action is not only interested in compiling the results, rather on experiences that can be analysed and learned. This requires a dynamic understanding of knowledge, abilities and skills, towards creating more effective coalitions of &amp;#8216;actors&amp;#8217; within localities, by developing structures, which encourage long term collaborative relationships. Enabled by the gained knowledge, the WG will define the best tailored ways to forward this knowledge for planners and decision-makers.&lt;/p&gt;

Nanosafety forum for young scientists: a meeting report

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Pietroiusti ◽  
Lang Tran ◽  
Luisa Campagnolo
Keyword(s):  
Meeting Report ◽  
Cost Action ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Young Researchers ◽  
The Eu

AbstractIn October of 2014, a meeting jointly organized by the EU Nanosafety Cluster and the COST Action TD 1204, was held on the beautiful island of Ortygia in Syracuse (Sicily). The meeting was specifically conceived to give the opportunity to young researchers in the field of nanotoxicology to present and discuss the results of their research. Presentations were divided into eight sessions over 2 days, reflecting the eight working groups of the Nanosafety Cluster. This report gives a description of the meeting activities and a summary of the data presented there.

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