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[...]an airport could install a hologram-based humanoid service robot every 50 meters to assist passengers and deal with common questions like arrival information and directions to check-in counters in all common languages. According to our expe- rience, however, often less than 12 months are required for payback of projects in successful implementations. * Mitigate potential risks of robot deployment x Organizations need to mitigate potential anxieties related to customer-facing service robots such as algorithm aversion, perceived loss of the human touch and consumer privacy. Specific decisions that managers need to make include whether, for instance, biometrics or data from social media accounts will be collected, whether variables will be used to build indices or financial scores to support decision-making, such as for approving loans and setting interest rates and when the information will be deleted from the company's database, e.g., on a bounced payment. Waist-high and dressed with coattails, they can fulfill guests' diverse needs by delivering an extra towel, a snack, a toothbrush and more. * At airports, robots are used to scan boarding passes and help passengers find the right departure gate.
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Pregnancy, Quadruplet , Twins, Monozygotic , Adult , Amnion/pathology , Female , Humans , Medical Illustration , Placenta/pathology , PregnancyABSTRACT
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus causing the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, is not only highly infectious but can induce serious outcomes in vulnerable individuals including dental patients and dental health care personnel (DHCPs). Responses to COVID-19 have been published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Dental Association, but a more specific response is required for the safe practice of oral and maxillofacial radiology. We aim to review the current knowledge of how the disease threatens patients and DHCPs and how to determine which patients are likely to be SARS-CoV-2 infected; consider how the use of personal protective equipment and infection control measures based on current best practices and science can reduce the risk of disease transmission during radiologic procedures; and examine how intraoral radiography, with its potentially greater risk of spreading the disease, might be replaced by extraoral radiographic techniques for certain diagnostic tasks. This is complemented by a flowchart that can be displayed in all dental offices.