BACKGROUND Atopic dermatitis (AD) is common among pre-school children in Shanghai. This study aimed to identify the risk factors for childhood AD from the perspectives of home environment, demographics and parents-grandparents' atopic disease. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Shanghai in April-June, 2010. Preschool children's parents or guardians were invited to participate a ...

background: design of school furniture is one of the contributing factors to back pain among pupils. research has implicated that mismatch between school furniture and body size may be regarded as a causative factor for muculoskeletal disorders amongst pupils. to investigate the fitness between school furniture and pupils this study was designed and implemented in hamadan city, west of iran. me...

BACKGROUND There are few studies on associations between children's respiratory heath and air pollution in schools in China. The industrial development and increased traffic may affect the indoor exposure to air pollutants in school environment. Moreover, there is a need to study respiratory effects of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and emissions from new building materials in homes in China...

Nursing home residents with dementia face challenges in adapting to a new living environment and feeling at home. Due to communicative limitations, people with dementia after often left out of design processes. The aim of this study is to investigate the housing needs in relation to the interior design on the object level and design level. Based on the principles of practice development, seven ...

Web-Based VR Technology So-Yeon Yoon, Ph.D. & Ji Young Cho University of Missouri, Columbia ABSTRACT PURPOSE AND CONTEXT This research is a web-based investigation utilizing advanced computer/network technology in order to understand factors considered for furniture purchase and furniture style preference. In interior design, specifically for residential environments, furniture has significant ...

Interior design is the study of designing and arranging living space in an aesthetically pleasing way. Sometimes interior design may involve furnishing a brand new, empty home; but in most cases, interior design implies adding new components to an already furnished living space, such as adding a new sofa in the living room, or changing the wallpaper of the kitchen. Interior design includes the ...

I would first like to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for awarding me this honour, of which I had never even dreamt. I was born in 1940, the son of a furniture craftsman in the city of Nagoya, in Japan. My father wanted to change his job and was taking a correspondence course to become an electrical engineer, while he was a trainee furniture craftsman. Howev...

Abstract In 1981, Furniture and Life magazine commenced publication in the city of Xi'an People’s Republic China. By late 1980s, it had become a well-known furniture home-making magazine, read for its DIY guides, advice columns, home stories. Each issue discussed how to beautify homes turn Chinese Communist Party’s vision ‘socialist material civilization’ into practice lived experience. This ar...

As part of a project sponsored by the Furniture Manufacturing and Management Center at North Carolina State University, an assessment of the use of CAD/CAM in the furniture industry in North Carolina and neighboring states was undertaken. The woods-based furniture industry, an important component of the North Carolina economy, is a manufacturing intensive activity for which CAD/CAM can provide ...

Although, the ISO quality management system is often perceived to be marketing tool within the manufacturing industry its implications on the design-sensitive wooden furniture industry remain unknown. Therefore, a survey of 500 foreign furniture buyers was conducted at the Malaysian International Furniture Fair (MIFF) to establish the status and perceived benefits of the ISO-certification in th...