On the Gulf of St. Lawrence coast of Nova Scotia (Canada), recruitment of the barnacle Semibalanus balanoides occurs in May and June. Every year in June between 2005 and 2016, we recorded recruit density for this barnacle at the same wave-exposed rocky intertidal location on this coast. During these 12 years, mean recruit density was lowest in 2015 (198 recruits dm-2) and highest in 2007 (969 r...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the monthly variation in the airborne (1→3)-β-D-glucan level throughout one year and its relationship with climatic factors (temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, hours of daylight, cloud cover, and pollen counts). METHODS A total of 106 samples were collected using a two-stage cyclone sampler at five outdoor sampling locations (on top of 5 university buildings). ...

Climatic events in Mediterranean cities, such as heat waves, directly affect their inhabitants. As a result, outdoor thermal comfort urban spaces is gaining increasing research attention because it associated with the quality of life these cities. Significant improvements have been achieved adaptation buildings; however, similar level resilience to climate not observed spaces. This proposes qua...

PURPOSE To examine the phenomenon of comfort in the context of childbirth. Enhancement of comfort for laboring women is a valued outcome of nursing and midwifery care. Interventions that increase comfort during labor support a woman's effort to participate more fully in the birth thereby keeping her more aware of her body, emotions, and experience. ORGANIZING CONSTRUCT The concept of comfort ...

In the past decade, evolution of biomimicry architecture was considered as an important issue for achieving adaptation strategies to cope with different climatic aspects and provide thermal comfort inside buildings which suit various environmental conditions. Egypt is one countries that faces problem using excessive energy cool due weak building envelopes especially during summer season needs b...

The Waterfront trail is a crucial outdoor activity area for urban residents, but the increasing high temperature in summer has negatively affected quality of activities. To address this issue, article examines relationship between spatial form waterfront trails and thermal comfort, using West Lake Hangzhou as an example. Seven spaces were selected study, six structure parameters three climatic ...

sustainable and energy efficient design issues are key to the way good buildings are designed in the 21st century. no building designer today should be without the basic skills offered by the unique multidisciplinary studies of architectural design, based on energy use in buildings. however, this paper is focusing of effect of air movement on human comfort, as a key element of building design. ...

The aim of the study was to examine the relation between lower limb comfort scores and injury and to measure the responsiveness of a lower limb comfort index (LLCI) to changes over time, in a cohort of professional footballers. Lower limb comfort was recorded for each individual using a comfort index which assessed the comfort status of five anatomical segments and footwear. Specifically we tes...

from 60 decade  sustainability issues  and sustainable developing  have opened a way in scientific meetings associated with  environment and urbanization and architecture. sustainability goals are improving of environment situation , less pollution  and at least interference on  land and interaction of  natural and artificial environment , that most of these cases attracted attention in archite...

The unilateral development of built environments in cities leads to imbalances climatic conditions and micro-climates, followed by indicators such as thermal comfort. Researchers identified the effect urban morphology’s geometry, shape, orientation, mass-space combination on climate change. Also, influential role greenspaces enhancing comfort has been studied. Some results show that strengtheni...