Design for Dementia

This book describes a two-year collaborative research project between the Helen Hamlyn Centre at the Royal College of Art and Bupa. It explores how better product and environment design can improve quality of life for care home residents with dementia. The design ideas developed are a practical response to the challenge of congnitive decline and can be retrofitted to existing care homes as well as applied to new developments

Advancing Employee Engagement Through the Development and Responsible Use of an Internal Social Media Wiki

The purpose of this Evidence-based practice project is to increase employee engagement on the Surgical Care Unit through the use of social media. The fundamental reason for the project is to increase cohesion among employees by increasing communication, team building, and personal relationships.https://digitalcommons.centracare.com/nursing_posters/1000/thumbnail.jp

Improving Automation Routines for Automatic Heating Load Detection in Buildings

Energy managers use weather compensation data and heating system cut off routines to reduce heating energy consumption in buildings and improve user comfort. These routines are traditionally based on the calculation of an estimated building load that is inferred from the external dry bulb temperature at any point in time. While this method does reduce heating energy consumption and accidental overheating, it can be inaccurate under some weather conditions and therefore has limited effectiveness. There remains considerable scope to improve on the accuracy and relevance of the traditional method by expanding the calculations used to include a larger range of environmental metrics. It is proposed that weather compensation and automatic shut off routines that are commonly used could be improved notably with little additional cost by the inclusion of additional weather metrics. This paper examines the theoretical relationship between various external metrics and building heating loads. Results of the application of an advanced routine to a recently constructed building are examined, and estimates are made of the potential savings that can be achieved through the use of the routines proposed

First Year Product Design Students

As part of the BSc (hons) Degree in Product Design, first year students combined the skills learned in the Communication and Design Modules to work with the Dypsraxia Association of Ireland, to develop concept designs for objects to facilitate everyday living for people with dyspraxia.https://arrow.tudublin.ie/civpostbk/1003/thumbnail.jp

Social factors related to aggressive behavior in children of superior intelligence

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University, 1948. This item was digitized by the Internet Archive