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Human Thermal Comfort Modeling
From a perspective of maximizing thermal comfort for occupants while minimizing energy consumption, personalized air conditioning systems (PCS) have gained attention as a more cost-effective alternative to con...
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Economic Consequences
Indoor air quality (IAQ) affects the quality of life by increasing the risks for health problems and reduced work performance. Consequently, different societal costs are incurred. By reducing pollutants elevat...
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Postulated Pathways Between Environmental Exposures and Cognitive Performance
Pathways exist between environmental exposure and cognitive performance. These include both sensory and nonsensory stimuli and moderation bodily condition, natural dispositions, and nurtured through experience...
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Reference Work Entry In depth
Postulated Pathways Between Environmental Exposures and Cognitive Performance
Pathways exist between environmental exposure and cognitive performance. These include both sensory and nonsensory stimuli and moderation bodily condition, natural dispositions, and nurtured through experience...
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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Economic Consequences
Indoor air quality (IAQ) affects the quality of life by increasing the risks for health problems and reduced work performance. Consequently, different societal costs are incurred. By reducing pollutants elevat...
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Differences in tree community among secondary deciduous oak forests in rural and residential areas in the Hokuriku District of Japan
Tree communities of secondary deciduous oak forests were surveyed in 13 forests (two in residential and 11 in rural areas) in the warm temperate Hokuriku District of Japan to understand the effects of fragment...
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Tetracyclines and Chemically Modified Tetracycline-3 (CMT-3) Modulate Cytokine Secretion by Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Whole Blood
In addition to their bacteriostatic effect, tetracyclines, which are often used in the treatment of periodontitis, also present anti-inflammatory properties. In the present study, we investigated the effects o...
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Effects of anthropogenic disturbances on the butterfly assemblage in an urban green area: the changes from 1990 to 2005 in Kanazawa Castle Park, Japan
Kanazawa Castle Park (KCP) is an isolated urban green area in Kanazawa, Japan. A mature forest had developed there since 1949, but it was partially deforested from 1996 to 1999. Moreover, most of the grassland...
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Butterfly assemblages in a traditional agricultural landscape: importance of secondary forests for conserving diversity, life history specialists and endemics
Satoyama, the traditional agricultural landscape in Japan, has drawn much attention from the viewpoint of biodiversity conservation. It is composed of diverse vegetation types, including secondary forests, pad...
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Tree shape, forest structure and diversity of drosophilid community: Comparison between boreal and temperate birch forests
Some models, based on the latitudinal variation in sun angle distribution, predict that trees at high latitudes have narrowly conical crowns and constitute simple-layered forests, whereas trees at low latitude...
