Individuals spend most of their time indoors, and therefore indoor environments are important aspects of one’s life. Creating healthful indoor environments should be a priority for building designers, and evidence based design decisions should be used to ensure the built environment provides healthful benefits to occupants. This review was conducted to examine the body of research studying wood use and human stress to determine the potential fit for wood in the restorative environmental design paradigm. Previous studies on psychophysiological responses to wood are reviewed, as are current methods for assessing stress in experimental settings. To date, studies examining the psychophysiological effects of wood use in interiors have revealed reduced autonomic stress responses when compared to rooms without and with less wood. Therefore, by increasing wood use in design paradigms seeking to bring the positive health benefits of nature into the built environment, like restorative environmental design, building designers may improve the wellbeing of building occupants. This review reveals further studies are needed to better understand the psychophysiological responses to wood, and suggests specific aspects of wood such as colour, quantity, and grain pattern should be examined and how stress and stress recovery should be analyzed.
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This paper presents the first data about somatic growth rates, age and reaching sexual maturity endangered shark dogfish (Squalus acanthias) in the Mediterranean basin.
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Mussels are one of the most important foodstuffs connected with norovirus outbreaks, also resulting in multinational dimensions. In periods between the years 2006-2008 and 2010-2012 the prevalence of noroviruses (NoVs) from harvesting areas along the Adriatic coast of Slovenia was studied. Between 2006 and 2008, 9.1% to 24.6% of mussel samples were found to be positive for NoVs while between 2010 and 2012 the percentage of NoV positive samples varied from 12.5% to 22.2%. The detected NoVs share the same topology on the phylogenetic tree within the NoV strains detected in water samples and human patients, not only from Slovenia but also from many different countries worldwide. We can assume that mussels in harvesting areas are not only contaminated from the surrounding area but also by contaminated water and sewage from large transport ships, which are regularly present in the area.
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Adhesives based on renewable resources have inferior efficiency compared to the synthetic ones. To improve the adhesive properties of soy protein isolate (SPI) adhesives, a new method of thermally modifying SPI was developed.
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