Showing papers by "All Saints' College published in 2006"
TL;DR: Ionisers may have a role in the prevention of Acinetobacter infections and no change in MRSA colonisation/infection was observed compared with the 5 month control period.
Abstract: To determine effect of negative air ions on colonisation/infection with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Acinetobacter species in an intensive care unit. Prospective single-centre cross-over study in an adult general intensive care unit. 201 patients whose stay on the unit exceeded 48 hour's duration. Six negative air ionisers were installed on the unit but not operational for the first 5 months of the study (control period). Devices were then operational for the following 5.5 months. 30 and 13 patients were colonised/infected with MRSA and Acinetobacter spp., respectively, over 10.5 months. No change in MRSA colonisation/infection was observed compared with the 5 month control period. Acinetobacter cases were reduced from 11 to 2 (p = 0.007). Ionisers may have a role in the prevention of Acinetobacter infections.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how the home represents a physical setting and a matrix of social relationships, and discuss how this matrix proves especially complex for individuals engaged in home-based work, particularly when aligned with notions of leisure choices and constraints.
Abstract: The range of paid work carried out within the home suggests that a growing number of home‐working individuals will find themselves in distinctive positions in relation to the flows and interconnections of the space–time compression. This has potentially significant consequences for their experience of leisure. This article discusses how space and place within the home are contested issues that manifest in different ways across time. Consideration is made on the fluid nature of the spatial boundaries within the home environment and the impact this has upon the notion of the home as a site of, and for, leisure. The article explores how the home represents a physical setting and a matrix of social relationships, and discusses how this matrix proves especially complex for individuals engaged in home‐based work, particularly when aligned with notions of leisure choices and constraints.
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TL;DR: Butler and Bugeja as discussed by the authors, Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age. London: I.B. Taurus, 2004. £47.50 (hbk), £16.95 (pbk). 214 pp.
Abstract: Margaret Butler, Film and Community in Britain and France: From La Règle du Jeu to Room at the Top. London: I.B. Taurus, 2004. £47.50 (hbk), £16.99 (pbk). 252 pp. Michael Bugeja, Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in a Technological Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. £24.99 (hbk), £10.99 (pbk). 226 pp. Amy Maria Kenyon, Dreaming Suburbia: Detroit and the Production of Postwar Space and Culture. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2004. $24.95 (pbk). 214 pp.