BACKGROUND The built environment significantly affects the healthcare experiences of patients and staff. Healthcare administrators and building designers face the opportunity and challenge of improving healthcare experience and satisfaction through better environmental design. OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to evaluate how a novel environmental intervention for imaging rooms, which in...

The objective of this study is to contribute the discussion on impact dwelling satisfaction aspects (size, standard, layout, appearance/aesthetics, well-being, cost and area/neighbourhood) perceived indoor environmental quality (thermal comfort, air quality, with daylight acoustic comfort) occupants’ overall satisfaction. This article uses data from Swedish National Survey, BETSI (2007/08). res...

The paper summarizes research for generating explanations from environmental models. We make use of the corresponding representation of the environmental models as constraint satisfaction problems. We show how this representation can be used directly to derive explanations. During the whole paper we use a coarse model which represents the relationship between the ground-level ozone concentratio...

This paper analyzes the relationships between the values and dispersion of residential properties and the environmental-health quality of their locations. It constructs residents’ health-adjusted lifetime-utility function by combining satisfaction from consumption over the lifespan with risk to life from living in an environmentally unhealthy location. It employs this utility function to analyz...

In today’s highly competitive business environment, online business-to-business (B2B) banking services offer efficient, reliable, securable, and convenient financial services for customers. However, research has paid scant attention to quantifying the value of online B2B banking and identifying the factors that drive it from the employees’ perspective. Hence, this study explores value creation ...

Few studies have identified the organizational characteristics that are associated with the transfer of research-based treatment techniques into practice. One potentially fruitful concept is absorptive capacity, referring to an organization's ability to seek and utilize information, which may be positively associated with the use of innovative treatment techniques. This paper examines the assoc...