BACKGROUND Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) have been widely used as flame retardants in consumer products and are ubiquitous in residential indoor air and dust. However, little is known about exposure in the office environment. OBJECTIVES We examined relationships between PBDE concentrations in the office environment and internal exposure using concurrent measurements of PBDEs in serum...

In recent years, the term paperless environment has almost become essential to manage various office contents. We have proposed a system aSPOCMS (An Agent-based Semantic Web for Paperless Office Content Management System) to provide paperless environment based on workflow ontology to manage the files and documents of various departments and sections of higher educational institutions. The metad...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that office comfort has on office occupiers’ productivity. Design/methodology/approach – The author evaluates the literature that claims to make a linkage between the physical comfort of the office environment and the effect on the productivity of the office occupiers. Office comfort will initially be discussed as a generic concept and s...

OBJECTIVES To explore HIV-infected patients' attitudes about buprenorphine treatment in office-based and opioid treatment program (OTP) settings. METHODS We conducted in-depth qualitative interviews with 29 patients with co-existing HIV infection and opioid dependence seeking buprenorphine maintenance therapy in office-based and OTP settings. We used thematic analysis of transcribed audioreco...

White coat hypertension is characterized by the variability of a patient's blood pressure measurements between the physician's office and the patient's home environment. A patient with white coat hypertension has high blood pressure levels in the physician's office and normal blood pressure levels in their typical environment. This condition is likely caused by the patient's anxiety within the ...

This paper presents a long-term experiment where a mobile robot uses adaptive spherical views to localize itself and navigate inside a non-stationary office environment. The office contains seven members of staff and experiences a continuous change in its appearance over time due to their daily activities. The experiment runs as an episodic navigation task in the office over a period of eight w...

This paper presents the results of experimental measurements and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations of the indoor environment of an open-plan office. The measurements were conducted in the Indoor Environment Research Facility (IERF) at IRC/NRC, in which six mock-up were setup to simulate an interior open-plan office. Two scenarios were investigated: isothermal and non-isothermal. Th...

encroachment on ecosystem functions in a semi-arid woodland David J. Eldridge*, Santiago Soliveres, Matthew A. Bowker and James Val Office of Environment and Heritage, c/o Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; Departamento de Biolog ıa y Geolog ıa, Escuela Superior de Ciencias Ex...

The several gigabit rate and license-free spectrum resources of 7 GHz bandwidth can be provided by the 60 GHz short-range communication technology, therefore it becomes one of the most promising alternative technologies in the wireless communication. In this paper, the millimeter wave propagation characteristics in the complex office environment are studied by the SBR/Image method. Firstly, und...