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...patient look at a graphic on her clipboard as he answered. The graphic was a 10cm line with numbers like a ruler, as well as upside down smiley faces depicting progressively greater discomfort - the VAS (visual analog pain scale). Patients are supposed to tell our nurses how much pain they feel by pointing to a spot along the line...
...retrofitting a factory with new wiring whose installation can cost 10 times what the measurement gauge itself does. Many new devices can't be wired into a central system because of the way factories are laid out, so data are often gathered by someone walking around with a clipboard...
...host to mainly new dancers, although some in the Bronze and Silver categories had more experience. Teams were assessed based on nine dances arranged in four styles: Standard, Smooth, Rhythm, and Latin. Over 300 couples from the greater Boston area registered to participate in the competition. Clipboard-bearing judges in black suits patrolled the floor’s perimeter as the six-hour competition waltzed on and every round whittled down its competitors by about half. Some of the dances went through four sets of cuts to reach the six-couple finals. “What...
...found Intel, the company that first made the microprocessors that enabled the computer, which enabled practically everything we do today--except, perhaps, tending to the sick. "In a modern ICU, there is data acquisition on top of data acquisition, and the data-collection method is a clipboard," says Grove, eliciting a chuckle from the crowd. "Show me one more industry where that's how it works...
...past two days, Ali Al Tawil has been trudging around the rubble of Haret Hreik, a Shi'a neighborhood in southern Beirut, wearing a Hizballah yellow vest and matching baseball cap that says "Jihad of Construction." Armed with only a clipboard, Al Tawil is one of about 1,500 Hizballah civil engineers who have fanned out across the country to survey the damage from over a month of war with Israel. For now, they are simply recording which buildings have been damaged, slightly damaged or obliterated. More detailed surveys will soon follow to determine what repairs need to be done...