OBSERVED THERMAL AND ODOR ENVIRONMENT IN ELDERLY WELFARE FACILITIES

Determinants of life satisfaction among Japanese elderly women attending health care and welfare service facilities.

Prolonged life expectancy must be recognized as an excellent achievement of modern medicine, but not all the elderly people are satisfied with their lives. Life satisfaction is a multi-dimensional issue that depends on many objective and subjective characteristics. In this study, we aimed at investigating the factors affecting life satisfaction of 314 elderly Japanese women attending in 28 elde...

Controlling Odor and Gaseous Emission Problems from Industrial Swine Facilities

Location of Heath Care Facilities in Competitive and User Choice Environment

The location of facilities anywhere in an area in which several competing facilities already exist and serving the demand points has been brought to light in this work. Because of the great importance of health care systems in the health of the people, these systems have been studied in the present paper. Creation and maintenance of competitive advantage in health care systems requires optimizi...

Odor identification in young and elderly African-Americans and Caucasians.

Olfactory function is affected by age and gender. However, there are few data on smell function in various racial/cultural groups, in particular, in different-aged African-Americans. Therefore, this study sought to determine if there is a relationship among age, gender, and race for smell identification. Sixty healthy African-Americans and 60 Caucasians between the ages of 20-40 and 60-80 years...

Characterization of Tobacco Odor in Smokeing Environment

In this study, five different types of smoking spaces and non-smoking spaces were investigated in order to discuss about tobacco odor leakage from smoking area. VVOCs, VOCs and aledehydes were analyzed for characterization of odor. Additionally, the isolation result has been identified by determining ETS markers (nicotine and 3-ethenylpridine) based on ISO1845. Determined compounds were quantif...