Purpose / Context - The purpose of this study was to develop a prevention strategy against fungal attack in any residential building, which had been previously proposed and applied to conserve cultural assets using a fungal index. The strategy consisted of four stages: current status assessment, diagnosis, preventive measures, and finally confirmation of the preventive...

Purpose / Context – The purpose of our work is to investigate: a) the sensor responses of the two different low-cost PM sensors to concrete dust and indoor environment and activities; b) the evalua-tion of the measuring performance of two low-cost PM sensors and their potential application in in-door air quality monitoring. Methodology / Approach...

Methamphetamine contamination has the potential to be present in residential and commercial buildings as a result of illicit manufacture and drug use, in particular smoking. The illicit manufacture of methamphetamine and the smoking of methamphetamine results in the generation and deposition of drug aerosols/residues on all surfaces, porous and non-porous. These drug residues can remain...

Purpose: This paper set out to uncover the advice available to help people take effective action within our home to improve mental health. The literature and professions are virtually silent on the issue. The professional advice is often the opposite suggesting we should get out of our homes - go for a walk, exercise, play...

Purpose: To clarify how regional differences in residential environment impact healthy life expectancy. Methodology: Define healthy life expectancy and considered how to measure and calculate it. Calculated healthy life expectancy for 1,750 municipalities in Japan in 2005 and 2010. Results: It was confirmed that 1% of the decrease of proportion of housing constructed before 1970...