do carpets alleviate stress?

Do Carpets Alleviate Stress?

BACKGROUND Owing to increased complexity in the evolution of society, stress has become an important public health problem, and is responsible for more than 30 types of diseases. Most of the research on stress conducted to date has focused on physical and psychological aspects; however, there are very few reports about the association between psychological stress and elements within the residen...

Quantum carpets, carpets of light

In 1836 Henry Fox Talbot, an inventor of photography, published the results of some experiments in optics that he had previously demonstrated at a British Association meeting in Bristol. "It was very curious to observe that though the grating was greatly out of the focus of the lens...the appearance of the bands was perfectly distinct and well defined...the experiments are communicated in the h...

Numerical Carpets

1 June 1, 1998 Introduction It has long been known that modular arithmetic often produces interesting numerical patterns. These patterns can be made easier to comprehend and more interesting by rendering them as images with colors associated with numerical values. The example most often cited is Pascal’s Triangle, which exhibits the binomial coefficients. If you take the coefficients modulo m f...

Irlen colored overlays do not alleviate reading difficulties.

OBJECTIVES To test the efficacy of Irlen colored overlays for alleviating reading difficulties ostensibly caused by Irlen syndrome, a proposed perceptual disorder with controversial diagnostic status. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Sixty-one schoolchildren (aged 7-12 years) with reading difficulties were assessed by an Irlen diagnostician. We used a within-subject study design to examine difference...

Hazardous Chemicals in Carpets

This study was undertaken to investigate whether certain hazardous chemicals were present as components in new carpets, and if so, in what quantities. The study included analysis of eight new carpet samples that were available for retail in the UK. Some of the carpet samples contained high levels of organotins, in particular TBT (up to 47,500 ppb). One sample contained high levels (1600 ppb) of...

L-tyrosine to alleviate the effects of stress?