this study was performed during the abatement of two asbestos-containing materials (acm):baumlite board (cement flat board) and ceiling textile. the concentrations of total dust for personal sampling were 0.28 and 1.70 mg/m3 during baumlite board and ceiling textile abatements, respectively, when calculated with 8-hr time-weighted average (twa). the geometric mean (gm) asbestos concentrations w...

Formal models of indoor space for reasoning about navigation tasks should capture key static and dynamic properties and relationships between agents and indoor spaces. This paper presents a method for formally representing indoor environments, key indoor events that occur in them, and their effects on the topological properties and relationships between indoor spaces and mobile entities. Based ...

With the constant platform fragmentation in the global smartphone and tablet market, providing a multiplatform indoor positioning technology is and ever more complex task. RSSI-based hybrid indoor positioning technologies provide hope for a unified indoor positioning solution with-out the need for calibrating each and every device manually before use. But differing antenna construction, sensor ...

The functional group (FG) composition of urban residential outdoor, indoor, and personal fine particle (PM2.5) samples is presented and used to provide insights relevant to organic PM2.5 exposure. PM2.5 samples (48 h) were collected during the Relationship of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA) study at 219 non-smoking homes (once or twice) in Los Angeles County, CA, Elizabeth, NJ, and Ho...

In this paper, we present a framework to implement a database management extension for indoor moving objects based on a commercial Object-Relational DBMS. As most people are living in indoor spaces, it is valuable to investigate people’s moving trajectories in indoor space so as to develop indoor location-based services. We first present the general idea of managing indoor moving objects via OR...

Many research based on indoor positioning and tracking systems have been developed due to growing interest in location-aware services. Nevertheless, satisfying solutions have not been found with the considerations of both accuracy and system complexity. In fact, an indoor localization system highly accurate, low energy, widely available, and easily deployed has not yet been developed. Hence, th...

At present, the development and application of outdoor navigation is already quite mature. Car navigating system and mobile navigating system have been good to meet people’s requirements to find the path in outdoor. With the development of outdoor navigation system, indoor navigation system is also being paid more attention, especially in an unfamiliar and complex indoor environment. This paper...

This paper proposes a new propagation model to accurately predict outdoor-to-indoor propagation loss. Account is taken of the structural openings along the paths; it is assumed that outdoor-to-indoor paths are possible only through wall openings such as doors and windows. Introducing the angle dependency of the losses with the paths that penetrate the indoor area makes it possible to accurately...

People may have problems in finding their way to destinations in large buildings. This raises a need of designing and constructing indoor navigation systems. However, none of the available indoor navigation models can automatically calculate shortest paths according to the geometric structure of indoor space. The reasons are that those models which use geometric information produce circuitous r...

In this paper, the authors propose a techno-economic comparative analysis between different lighting solutions, using, respectively, floodlight with metal halide lamps, luminaires with fluorescent lamps and LED floodlights. The comparison is aimed to identify general criteria for assessing the techno-economic sustainability of the use of LED lighting for indoor sports facilities, since this sol...