BACKGROUND The elements that contribute to a healthy building are multifactorial and can be discussed from different perspectives. OBJECTIVES WE PRESENT THREE VIEWPOINTS OF DESIGNING A HEALTHY BUILDING: the importance of sustainable development, the role of occupants for ensuring indoor air quality, and ongoing developments related to indoor finishes with low chemical emissions and good funga...

the influence of initial moisture content on wood decay at different levels of atmospheric oxygen concentration was studied. three fungi, coriolus versicolor (c. versicolor) a white rot, coniophora puteana (c. puteana) a brown rot, and chaetomium globosum (c. globosum) a soft rot, were chosen. the mycelia of the fungi were inoculated in to mini blocks of fagus sylvatica (beech) and pinus sy...

A high demand for woodchips has encouraged smallholder farmers in Vietnam to invest short-rotation Acacia plantations produce pulpwood that a relatively quick, though often low, income return. Because of an expanding export furniture industry, the Government sought increase sawlog production and, at same time, improve returns farmers. However, currently quality and therefore market value timber...

A versatile twin-screw extrusion process to provide an efficient thermo-mechano-chemical pre-treatment on lignocellulosic biomass before using it as source of mechanical reinforcement in fully bio-based fiberboards was developed. Various crop by-products have already been successfully pre-treated through this process, e.g., cereal straws (especially rice), coriander straw, shives from oleaginou...

91.17 Accommodations for humane treatment of animals on ocean vessels. 91.18 Cleaning and disinfection of transport carriers for export. 91.19 Inspection of ocean vessels prior to loading. 91.20 General construction. 91.21 Ventilation. 91.22 Protection from heat of boilers and engines. 91.23 Loading ramps and doors. 91.24 Attendants. 91.25 Space requirements for animals on ocean vessels. 91.26 ...

This paper presents recent development on text-dependent speaker verification technology in EU project PICASSO, which have improved the SV performance significantly. In the project we adopt HMM approach for pattern matching. In the paper we describes four different techniques, adaptive variance flooring, multiple use of enrolment sample, generalised competitive measurement for score normalisati...

in this study, the disadvantages of wood, which is widely employed in producing music instruments, are discussed. for example, high moisture sensitivity, low impact resistance, and time-consuming procedure as well as various properties of different species or in several parts of one specimen which are the main problems of wooden music instruments are extensively discussed in this paper. many ma...

The addition of cottonwood and ash sapwood powder to YPSSl2 medium influenced the mycelial growth of 13 species of freshwater lignicolous Ascomycetes and Hyphornycetes. These species fall into three groups with respect to their responses to the presence of leached or non-leached wood powder. Neither wood type showed strong inhibitory effect on the mycelial growth of the species. Leaching di...

For the measurements 19 samples of building materias used in construction activities in this region of India were collected from various sites. In the present investigations radon exhalation rates from some building materials like fly ash, cement, slag, Bottom ash, Sand, Bazari, Badarpur and flooring tiles have been estimated using sealed can technique. It can be observed that Radon activity, R...