Prospectus, August 31, 1981

PARKLAND OFFERS CLASSES IN AREA; Welcome to Parkland!; Editors ask help; EMT holds workshop; Registration begins at Parkland; Parkland increases computer facilities; Students trade break for test; Transportation program initiated at Parkland; Communications Divisions offers 3 new courses; PC dedicates Art Gallery; Future plumber creates nameplate; Blondie predicts music will wake up the 1980s; Aerobic dance classes offered; Earn credits by watching television; Exercise classes offered in district; Movies offer alternative to literature; Learn about real estate at Parklandhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1981/1015/thumbnail.jp

Patients' and carers' experiences of interacting with home haemodialysis technology: implications for quality and safety

© 2014 Rajkomar et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).BACKGROUND: Little is known about patients' and carers' experiences of interacting with home haemodialysis (HHD) technology, in terms of user experience, how the design of the technology supports safety and fits with home use, and how the broader context of service provision impacts on patients' use of the technology. METHODS: Data were gathered through ethnographic observations and interviews with 19 patients and their carers associated with four different hospitals in the UK, using five different HHD machines. All patients were managing their condition successfully on HHD. Data were analysed qualitatively, focusing on themes of how individuals used the machines and how they managed their own safety. RESULTS: Findings are organised by three themes: learning to use the technology, usability of the technology, and managing safety during dialysis. Home patients want to live their lives fully, and value the freedom and autonomy that HHD gives them; they adapt use of the technology to their lives and their home context. They also consider the machines to be safe; nevertheless, most participants reported feeling scared and having to learn through mistakes in the early months of dialysing at home. Home care nurses and technicians provide invaluable support. Although participants reported on strategies for anticipating problems and keeping safe, perceived limitations of the technology and of the broader system of care led some to trade off safety against immediate quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: Enhancing the quality and safety of the patient experience in HHD involves designing technology and the broader system of care to take account of how individuals manage their dialysis in the home. Possible design improvements to enhance the quality and safety of the patient experience include features to help patients manage their dialysis (e.g. providing timely reminders of next steps) and features to support communication between families and professionals (e.g. through remote monitoring).Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

Summer Prospectus, July 9, 1981

AREA TAXPAYERS PAYING LESS THIS YEAR; Gifted children learn at Parkland; Students asked to refund money; Students pick alternative to \u27big box noise\u27; Computers used for work or play; Psychedelic music becoming popular; Parkland opens new art gallery; Classified; Annie finds her way to Assembly Hall; Learn to be a better parent; Chanute celebrates 64th anniversary; U of I offers 64-page book on Home Energy Savings ; University of Illinois to study rain shower and thunderstorms; Parkland students on spring honors list; Parkland sponsors trips to Shakespeare Festival; Baseball strike continues unsolved; Parkland trips in jeopardy; Better bars can change campus drinking habitshttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1981/1016/thumbnail.jp

HUD feedback to minimize the risk of cellular phone use and number entry while driving

There has been considerable public debate as to whether people should be allowed to use cell phones while driving. In several countries, this debate has led to restrictions on cell phone use while driving. Japanese data suggests that answering a call might be the most dangerous task, followed by dialing. Several questions were therefore selected for further investigation. 1. How does the dialing device and its location affect task time, errors, driving performance, and ratings of workload? 2. How does the location of the display (especially head-up displays) affect those same measures? 3. For various control-display combinations, how are those measures affected by driving workload? The experiment will be comprised of two distinct portions. In the first portion, subjects will drive a simulator on straight roads (implying controlled workload) while dialing a 10-digit telephone number using 6 device configurations with various displays. During the second test portion, participants will drive a simulator on roads with curves of different radii while entering phone numbers for 3 different device combinations. The following device/location configurations will be examined: (1) 10-key keypad on the steering wheel spoke, (2) 10-key keypad on the center console, (3) joystick on the steering wheel spoke, (4) joystick mounted on the center console, (5) hand held 10- key keypad, (6) a cross key on the touch screen, and (7) a 10 key keypad on the touch screen. These devices will be used for 3 display conditions: (1) head up display, (2) monitor mounted in the center console, or (3) no display.Nissan Research Centerhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/92345/1/102881.pd

Prospectus, March 26, 1981

PC GRADUATE TRANSFORMS A HOBBY INTO A FLOURISHING BUSINESS THAT HAS BECOME VERY SUCCESSFUL; Woman\u27s Place is always there; Letter to the Editor: Conley doesn\u27t see point; Handicapped Awareness Week next week; Profile Bingo begins April 5 at 3 p.m.; Classifieds; Attention; PATH Presents: The Other Side of the Mountain; WPCD airs \u27Community Health Interests\u27; The old relics: still nice to see; Conley catches up on music during break; Motorcycles are becoming popular \u27second cars\u27; Office careers contest April 25; Arobics may be the perfect thing for you; \u27X-Rays and You\u27 featured; Here come the tornadoes!; Campus Question: Do you think marijuana should be legalized?; \u27Don\u27t ruin your feet,\u27 says Reaoe: Get good running shoes; Learn what you meed to: go to the PC Career Center; Parents learn how to make games; Television Production offered next semester; Cobras look impressive already; Baseball team returns seven lettermen; Technology is everywhere: Even in the cameras; Women\u27s Softball Schedule And Roster; Women\u27s Roster; Park district has volleyball registration; Soccer! Soccer meeting todayhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1981/1023/thumbnail.jp

Introducing a Hybrid Method of Radiative Transfer for Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics

A new means of incorporating radiative transfer into smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) is introduced, which builds on the success of two previous methods - the polytropic cooling approximation as devised by Stamatellos et al (2007), and flux limited diffusion (e.g. Mayer et al 2007). This hybrid method preserves the strengths of its individual components, while removing the need for atmosphere matching or other boundary conditions to marry optically thick and optically thin regions. The code uses a non-trivial equation of state to calculate temperatures and opacities of SPH particles, which captures the effects of molecular hydrogen dissociation, atomic hydrogen ionisation, He0 and He+ ionisation, ice evaporation, dust sublimation, molecular absorption, bound-free and free-free transitions and electron scattering. The method is tested in several scenarios, including: (1) the evolution of a 0.07 solar mass protoplanetary disc surrounding a 0.5 solar mass star; (2) the collapse of a 1 solar mass protostellar cloud, and (3) the thermal relaxation of temperature fluctuations in a static homogeneous sphere.Comment: 11 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in MNRA

Stellar Encounters: A Stimulus for Disc Fragmentation?

An interaction between a star-disc system and another star will perturb the disc, possibly resulting in a significant modification of the disc structure and its properties. It is still unclear if such an encounter can trigger fragmentation of the disc to form brown dwarfs or gas giant planets. This paper details high resolution Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulations investigating the influence of stellar encounters on disc dynamics. Star-star encounters (where the primary has a self-gravitating, marginally stable protostellar disc, and the secondary has no disc) were simulated with various orbital parameters to investigate the resulting disc structure and dynamics. This work is the first of its kind to incorporate realistic radiative transfer techniques to realistically model the resulting thermodynamics. The results suggest that the effect of stellar encounters is to prohibit fragmentation - compressive and shock heating stabilises the disc, and the radiative cooling is insufficient to trigger gravitational instability. The encounter strips the outer regions of the disc (either through tidal tails or by capture of matter to form a disc around the secondary), which triggers a readjustment of the primary disc to a steeper surface density profile (and a flatter Toomre Q profile). The disc around the secondary plays a role in the potential capture of the secondary to form a binary. However, this applies only to orbits that are parabolic - hyperbolic encounters do not form a secondary disc, and are not captured.Comment: 16 figures, 2 tables, accepted for publication in MNRA

Prospectus, February 25, 1981

MARIJUANA LEGALIZED? DIFANIS SAYS YES.; PC ROTC program big success with 500% increase; \u27Woman to Woman\u27 Workshop tonight at 7 p.m.; Week in Review: World, Nation; Letters to the Editor: Student feels strongly towards draft, Ah hah! Widloski makes first mistake; 1st Ms. Parkland; EMT holds workshop on tornadoes; Student Government notes; BSA tells us of their week of events; Deering speaks at PACT.; Diane Propst and Cancer: Dying is Not Dead; Did you know that..?; Student Government Presents: Michael Spiro; Holbrook puts on a sparkling performance; Reggae music popular; The Tavern to be presented at Parkland this weekend; Child Abuse becomes more of a problem in C-U area.; Do you want a cute pup? There is a place where you can find one.; Women\u27s Forum presents Toxic Shock ; Circle K always willing to help society; Classifieds; Photo contest offers great opportunity; Cobras whup Kaskaskia; Illness hits Cobra women: lose badly to Vincennes; Bench Warmer: Cobra confidence shows!; Cobra track team finish second in state; Good teams in spotlight; Cobras trounce Kaskaskia; Dunson, Pratt spark late game rally: Cobras edge Kankakee; Fast Freddy Contest; DeYoung the master this weekhttps://spark.parkland.edu/prospectus_1981/1026/thumbnail.jp