News tagged with interruptions

Google tips China searchers to hot-button terms

Google on Thursday tuned its search engine in mainland China to tip people off when they try to use characters that evidently prompt censors to derail queries.

Technology / Internet

created 16 hours ago | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Microsoft advocates new WiFi-NC to make use of white spaces in spectrum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Four years ago, the FCC began allowing limited use of the so-called white spaces in the electromagnetic spectrum that is shared by all wireless devices (in the United States). The white spaces ...

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast weblog

Official: Iran oil industry safe after cyberattack

(AP) -- An Iranian official says the country's oil industry is working well despite an attack from hackers and a computer virus that targeted the sector's computer systems.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Doctors interrupted at work give shorter and poorer care to patients

Hospital doctors who are frequently interrupted while working in a clinical environment spend less time on tasks and fail to return to almost a fifth of their jobs in hand, reveals research published ahead of print in the ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wake up, Mom -- study shows gender differences in sleep interruptions

Working mothers are two-and-a-half times as likely as working fathers to interrupt their sleep to take care of others.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Now where was I again?

Although the actual interruption may only last a few moments, the study shows that we then lose more time when we try to find our place and resume the task that was interrupted.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

SIMONE's email feel-good factor

A computer model called SIMONE, for Simulator for Interruptions and Message Overload in Network Environments described in the latest issue of the International Journal of Simulation and Process Modelling, could help solve ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Disruptions in daily routine can adversely affect a couple's conversation

(PhysOrg.com) -- Is the communication in your relationship a little frosty? It may be the little things you're not doing in daily routines are playing a part, says researcher Leanne Knobloch. Things like forgetting to walk ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Study on football: Women get up faster

When women play football (soccer), the individual interruptions, for instance for substitutions or to cheer a goal, are a lot shorter than when men play. In particular after injuries men remain on the ground significantly ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 7

Most prison inmates with HIV do not receive appropriate treatment immediately following release

Approximately 80 percent of HIV-infected Texas prison inmates did not fill an initial prescription for antiretroviral therapy within 30 days of their release from prison, potentially increasing their risk for harmful health ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Early mobilization of patients in ICU improves outcomes

Aside from the obvious and immediate health problems that patients undergoing mechanical ventilation face, those who recover often do so with profound loss of strength and mobility that can impair their daily functioning ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0