LoginDescribes a study carried out in order to examine the relationships between the ventilation rate and the type of ventilation system on one hand, and objective nasal measures on the other.
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The study described attempted to assess the relative efficacy of personal respiratory protection when infectious aerosol concentration increases or room ventilation rates decrease.
An attempt was made to find any association between employees' respiratory tract symptoms and immediate skin test reaction with exposure to fungal and house dust mite aeroallergens at the workplace.
A cross sectional study with control was performed to identify sick building syndrome symptoms in office workers in northern France, based on an air conditioned and a naturally ventilated building.
Prevalence of irritative symptoms in a non-problem air conditioned office building. | 1998 | English
The study aimed to assess prevalence of complaints and symptoms in relation to sick building syndrome for workers in an air conditioned building in Italy, in the absence of earlier reported complaints.
Summarises the results of product analyses and a series of small chamber emissions tests on alkyd paint.
An investigation of the source of an MRSA outbreak at a UK hospital found that the cause was an intermittently operated ventilation system. Ventilation grilles were found to be contaminated with EMRSA-15.
Used a trained sensory panel and chemical and microbial measurements to examine the odour generation of the various components of air handling units.
States that poor ventilation is a factor in raising humidity levels in well insulation cold climate housing.
Thermal comfort in a naturally ventilated test room is investigated. The test room is a lightweight portable cabin located in a sheltered area at Loughborough University, UK.
Trees, displacement ventilation and the use of thermal mass all played their part in giving the Green Building of the Year Award to the Ministry of Defence. Ewen Rose gets under the skin of the winning building.
Macroscopic flow numbers relating to the jet momentum of air diffusion terminal devices are studied in this paper. Diffuser jet momentum, jet momentum number and jet momentum ratio are reviewed in the literature.