IAQ monitoring studies have gained renewed interest post COVID-19. Furthermore, accessibility to the corresponding enabling technologies has improved considerably in terms of cost and requisite knowledge. This paper aims outline key decisions involved for researchers building managers alike seek implement their own environmental study using commercially available hardware software. To do so, th...

This paper analyzes the lunar terrain effects on the signal propagation of the planned NASA lunar wireless communication and sensor systems. It is observed that the propagation characteristics are significantly affected by the presence of the lunar terrain. The obtained results indicate that the terrain geometry, antenna location, and lunar surface material are important factors determining the...

BACKGROUND Hispanic workers have higher rates of injury and death on construction worksites than workers of other ethnicities. Language barriers and cultural differences have been hypothesized as reasons behind the disparate rates. METHODS We conducted two series of focus groups with union and non-union Hispanic construction workers to ask them about their perceptions of the causes for the un...

OBJECTIVES To assess how the tobacco industry established a political relationship with the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and to learn from this example how tobacco control advocates can work more effectively with organisations with which working class women are affiliated. METHODS The study reviewed tobacco industry documents to determine Tobacco Institute strategy, using the CLUW Ne...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the implementation of a multicomponent lifestyle intervention at two different worksites. METHODS Data on eight process components were collected by means of questionnaires and interviews. Data on the effectiveness were collected using questionnaires. RESULTS The program was implemented partly as planned, and 84.0% (max 25) and 85.7% (max 14) of all planned interventio...

Recently, a set of specific quality evaluation criteria for health promotion research has been proposed in this journal. One of the quality criteria identified is the 'health promotion context'. With this paper we would like to contribute to the dialogue by specifying the importance of this criterion on the basis of our on experience with worksite-based obesity prevention interventions. We advo...