This paper presents a thermal comfort analysis in outdoor spaces of low-income housing projects in Londrina city, Brazil. The objective is to improve the identification of client requirements in the design development process, in order to satisfy thermal comfort requisites of low-income housing users. It has been proved that human settlements quality is intimately linked with thermal comfort an...

In the course of the routine parasitological examination of housedust samples, nearly 65,000 mites have been isolated and identified since 1969. So far the beginning of the 1980's chitinous particles of other Dermatophago­ ides mites and those of other mite species have regularly been found in the bo­ dies of house-dust mites, mostly D. farinae females. The possible significance and causes of t...

In the built environment, fungi can cause important deterioration of building materials and have adverse health effects on occupants. Increased knowledge about indoor mycobiomes from different regions world, their main environmental determinants, will enable improved air quality management identification risks. This is first citizen science study at a large geographical scale in Europe, includi...

naturally occurring radionuclide of terrestrial origin (also called primordial radionuclide) are present in various degrees in all media in the environment, including the human body itself. their concentrations in environment decrease continually by decaying. the main objective of this study is to evaluate the radioactivity levels and health risks due to terrestrial radionuclide in soil of yal...

AirScope is a micro-scale modeling system as well as a micro-scale air quality monitoring system, which comprises as a micro-scale air quality management system. Importance of micro-scale air monitoring is rising due to the concern about environment near residential places. Traditional monitoring methods are providing overall air quality indexes. However, these methods have limited functionalit...

A series of investigations has been conducted in the 2009 Solar House located on the Missouri University of Science and Technology campus, to develop a climate-response control for a natural ventilation system. Firstly, the research investigated the relationship between indoor thermal comfort and climate. Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) was selected to evaluate the thermal comfort, which was calculat...

BACKGROUND To develop evidence-based interventions promoting healthy active lifestyles among young children and their parents, a greater understanding is needed of the correlates of physical activity and screen time in these dyads. Physical environment features within neighborhoods may have important influences on both children and their parents. The purpose of this study was to examine the ass...

Post-disaster housing, constructed on a massive scale, often overlooks the indoor thermal environment, despite being crucial design factor for residential satisfaction. This study examined environment in post-Gorkha earthquake-reconstructed prototype and traditional vernacular houses Dolakha district of Nepal. It employed questionnaire survey measurement outdoor temperature both house types acr...

Complex multiple structures, high uncertainty due to the existence of moving objects, and significant disparity in the size of features are the main issues associated with processing range data of outdoor scenes. The existing range segmentation techniques have been commonly developed for laboratory sized objects or simple architectural building features. In this paper, main problems related to ...

We examined 198 isolates of P. chysogenum recovered from 109 houses in Wallaceburg, Ontario, and 25 culture collection isolates including seven ex-type strains. Multilocus genotypes were determined by heteroduplex mobility assay of regions spanning introns in acetyl co-enzyme A synthase, beta-tubulin, thioredoxin reductase and the internal transcribed spacer regions of the nuclear ribosomal sub...