Indoor environmental conditions can significantly affect occupants’ health and comfort. These are especially important in educational buildings, where students, teachers staff spend long periods of the day vulnerable to these factors. Recently, indoor air quality has been a focus attention ensure that disease transmission spaces is minimised. In order increase knowledge this field, experimental...

Cross-sectional study, carried out at the outpatient clinic of an oncology hospital. Data were collected from 88 caregivers of cancer patients using the Caregiver General Comfort Questionnaire (GCQ) to assess the caregivers' comfort. The caregivers' GCQ score mean was 203.9; better comfort scores was associated with age, care time and current occupation; positive aspects of comfort were related...

Noise pollution is one of the most important features of architectural spaces having a great impact on the comfort of residents. Therefore, providing appropriate and sustainable solutions for noise pollution control is essential. Today, with the use of man-made synthetic materials, it has been tried to improve the sound performance of buildings. The purpose of this study is to show the characte...

respirators are commonly used to protect workers against workplace airborne contaminants, but this equipment may become a safety hazard by creating discomfort, disorientation and postural instability. although postural stability is critical to workers, especially those working near moving objects or on surfaces where a loss of balance may become life threatening, little attention has been given...

At the level of individual neurons. catecholamine release increases the responsivity of cells to excitatory and inhibitory inputs. We present a model of catecholamine effects in a network of neural-like elements. We argue that changes in the responsivity of individual elements do not affect their ability to detect a signal and ignore noise. However. the same changes in cell responsivity in a ne...

This study aimed to investigate the distracting or masking effects of music tempo and volume, based on subjective evaluation under noise conditions. Two experiments were conducted with 32 participants. In first one, experimental conditions set as follow: (1) sound pressure levels are 45 dB, 60 75 dB; (2) tempos 70 beats per minute (BPM), 110 BPM, 150 BPM; (3) (4) types talkers’ babble, traffic ...

Abstract Italy was the first country in Europe to enter lock-down due COVID-19 pandemic. Most employees have been forced adopt a work at home solution avoid any possibility of spreading virus. The article presents results survey carried out March-June 2020, during lockdown Italy, aimed investigating how people perceive Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) their households working from home. quest...

Privacy has a significant role in formulating the elements of traditional Islamic architecture due to its critical importance law. However, birth modern and contemporary brought by trends rapid urbanization created diminishing sense privacy comfort building users. Besides, there is lack understanding body knowledge about from an architectural perspective. Therefore, present study aims investiga...