20. Studies on Living Zone in Sanitary City

Impact of sanitary living environment on gut microbiota

The human gut microbiota contributes to human health by aiding functions such as digestion, protection against pathogens, host immunity activation, and central nervous system regulation. Its composition is influenced by many effectors such as diet, genetics, and delivery mode. The hygiene hypothesis suggests that an overly clean living environment increases the incidence of asthma, inflammation...

Planting the Living City

Residents’ Perspectives on Living in Inner City Medium Density Housing

Newcastle has become hip. No one is exactly sure when, or even how it happened, but somewhere after the closure of BHP the city has lived up to what has become a much-used phrase it has moved from steel city to style city. ... Much of the change has taken place around the foreshore, where the Honeysuckle urban renewal project has Novocastrians and visitors working, living and playing ... The la...

Stakeholders in Smart City Living Lab Processes

Due to the increasing urbanization around the world, cities are growing at fast pace and following that, many cities face problems that includes both hard and soft issues. This can for instance be transportation, energy suppliance, social inclusion and quality of life for its citizens. As a way to contribute to solving these problems the smart city concept has emerged. This concept is focusing ...

Studies on Radon at Mysore City, India

Humans are continuously exposed to ionizing radiation from natural sources. The main contributors to natural radiation are high-energy cosmic radiation and radioactive nuclides that originate in the earth’s crust. Rn, a decay product of Ra, originates from the naturally occurring U decay series. Rn, the only gas in the U decay series, is chemically inert, but is radioactive and exposure to it a...