Cinematography. Production and presentation. Auditoria and control rooms.

Hospital ward environments contain various types of microorganisms, in which fungal agents are one of the main contaminants that may cause hospital-acquired infections. Regarding this, the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of nanosilver paint on reducing fungal contaminants of indoor air in an educational, research, and treatment center. Two rooms in the hematology ward were selected. One room was painted using usual paint (control room) and the other room was painted with paint containing nanosilver particles (experimental room). One hundred and twelve samples were collected using active (Anderson BioSampler) and passive (settle plate or open plate) air sampling techniques. The samples were incubated for 3–7 days at 35°C, and the positive fungal cultures were examined according to morphological and microscopic characteristics. Following active sampling, the mean and standard deviation of the number of colony-forming units (CFU/m3) of fungi colonies in the experimental and control rooms were 29.21 ± 17.99 and 22.50 ± 10.02 before intervention and 13.79 ± 6.20 and 31.07 ± 21.1 after intervention, respectively. Following passive sampling, the number of CFU/plate in the experimental and control rooms was 6 and 0 before and 1and 1 after intervention, respectively. The use of the nanosilver paint was effective in reducing air fungal contamination. Moreover, the active sampling method was more sensitive to measuring the concentration changes for fungal bioaerosols.

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Human Factors Dimensions in the Evolution of Increasingly Automated Control Rooms for Near-Earth Satellites

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128202600213 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 155-159 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Christine M. Mitchell

Keyword(s):

Human Factors ◽

Space Flight ◽

Space Shuttle ◽

Command And Control ◽

Automated Control ◽

Nasa Goddard Space ◽

Ground Support ◽

Goddard Space Flight Center ◽

Control Rooms ◽

And Control

NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center provides both the control and ground support for all of NASA's unmanned near-earth satellites and the communications for manned missions (e.g., the space shuttle). Recently, Goddard has become very concerned with the human factors aspects of their current and proposed command and control environments, particularly those which are being considered for increased application of automation. This paper describes current activities as well as proposed research.

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