Physical environment

Environmental legislation affecting airports and the more common environmental effects resulting from airport construction are discussed with special emphasis on general aviation airports. The discussion is focused on the regulation of noise, pollution, and water quality

Analisa Pengaruh Physical Environment Terhadap Minat Beli Konsumen Di Kafe-kafe Di Surabaya

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh physical environment terhadap minat beli konsumen di kafe-kafe di Surabaya. Peneliti menggunakan kuesioner sebagai alat pengumpulan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa facilities aesthetic dan table settings berpengaruh secara positif dan signifikan terhadap minat beli konsumen, sedangkan ambience, lighting, layout dan service staff berpengaruh positif namun tidak signifikan. Hasil penelitian didapatkan facilities aesthetic sebagai faktor paling dominan mempengaruhi minat beli konsumen. This research aims to find out the impact of physical environment on customer purchase intention at cafe-cafe at Surabaya. This study are using a questionnaire as a data collection tools. The results show that facilities aesthetics and table settings have positive and significant effect on customer purchase intention while ambience, lighting, layout, and service staff have positive effect but not significant. The results of this research show that facilities aesthetics is the most dominant factor on influencing customer purchase intention

The impact of the physical environment on depressive symptoms of older residents living in care homes : a mixed methods study

Background and Objectives: Forty percent of residents living in care homes in the United Kingdom have significant depressive symptoms. Care homes can appear to be depressing places, but whether the physical environment of homes directly affects depression in care home residents is unknown. This study explores the relationship between the physical environment and depressive symptoms of older people living in care homes. Research Design and Methods: In a prospective cohort study the physical environment of 50 care homes were measured using the Sheffield Care Environment Assessment Matrix (SCEAM) and depressive symptoms of 510 residents measured using the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15). The study was supplemented with semi-structured interviews with residents living in the care homes. Quantitative data were analyzed using multi-level modeling, and qualitative data analyzed using a thematic framework approach. Results: The overall physical environment of care homes (overall SCEAM score) did not predict depressive symptoms. Controlling for dependency, social engagement, and home type, having access to outdoor space was the only environmental variable to significantly predict depressive symptoms. Residents interviewed reported that access to outdoor space was restricted in many ways: locked doors, uneven foot paths, steep steps, and needing permission or assistance to go outside. Discussion and Implications: We provide new evidence to suggest that access to outdoor space predicts depressive symptoms in older people living in care home. Interventions aimed at increasing access to outdoor spaces could positively affect depressive symptoms in older people

Analysis of Physical Environment and Preventive Behavior Determinants Toward Genesis Filariasis Cases in the Sub-district of Talang Kelapa and Sembawa, District of Banyuasin

Background: Filariasisis an infection caused by a filarial worm through the intermediary of a mosquito that is chronic if untreated would give rise to permanent disability in the legs, arms, breasts and genitals. Indirectly, the existence of a home environment that is not eligible and manners make contact with the gnat could be the cause of the filariasis. South Sumatra Provincial Health Office said that Banyuasin was the region with the highest filariasis cases in South Sumatra with microfilaria rate of 1.5 % . There are as many as 142 cases of chronic exist in this district. The aim of this study was to analyse of phsysical environment and preventive behavior determinants toward genesis filariasis cases in the sub-district Talang Kelapa and Sembawa District of Banyuasin. Methods: This study used a case control study research design. Total sample are 87 consisting of 29 cases and 58 controls with total sampling method (with ⍺ Value=0,05 and β Value=20%). The data were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate by using the chi-square test . Then the data is presented in tabular form and narration to interpret the data. Result: Statistical analysis was showed that there a significant correlation between a crack in the wall, coverings on flavon breeding place of vector, behavioral avoid mosquito bites and behavior out of the house at night with the incidence of filariasis. There is no relation to kasa in the ventilation and drug habbit of drinking with the filariasis cases. Multivariate analysis showed that physical environmental factors and preventive behaviors associated with the incidence of filariasis in both these districts were the existence of a crack in the wall and the puddles as potential mosquito breeding places. Conclusion: Determinants physical environmental and preventive behaviors factors associated with filariasis case in the sub-district Talang Kelapa and Sembawa District of Banyuasin were the existence of a crack in the wall and the puddles as potential mosquito breeding places

Physical Environment

Photos and short writings from Public Health & Nutrition undergraduate students describing the physical environment dimension of the social determinants of health.https://thekeep.eiu.edu/pubh_belonging_exhibit/1003/thumbnail.jp

OPEB: Open Physical Environment Benchmark for Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence methods to solve continuous- control tasks have made significant progress in recent years. However, these algorithms have important limitations and still need significant improvement to be used in industry and real- world applications. This means that this area is still in an active research phase. To involve a large number of research groups, standard benchmarks are needed to evaluate and compare proposed algorithms. In this paper, we propose a physical environment benchmark framework to facilitate collaborative research in this area by enabling different research groups to integrate their designed benchmarks in a unified cloud-based repository and also share their actual implemented benchmarks via the cloud. We demonstrate the proposed framework using an actual implementation of the classical mountain-car example and present the results obtained using a Reinforcement Learning algorithm.Comment: Accepted in 3rd IEEE International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry 201

Substitutional reality:using the physical environment to design virtual reality experiences

Experiencing Virtual Reality in domestic and other uncontrolled settings is challenging due to the presence of physical objects and furniture that are not usually defined in the Virtual Environment. To address this challenge, we explore the concept of Substitutional Reality in the context of Virtual Reality: a class of Virtual Environments where every physical object surrounding a user is paired, with some degree of discrepancy, to a virtual counterpart. We present a model of potential substitutions and validate it in two user studies. In the first study we investigated factors that affect participants' suspension of disbelief and ease of use. We systematically altered the virtual representation of a physical object and recorded responses from 20 participants. The second study investigated users' levels of engagement as the physical proxy for a virtual object varied. From the results, we derive a set of guidelines for the design of future Substitutional Reality experiences

The effects of organic farming on the soil physical environment

The aim of this research was to investigate the effects of organic farming practices on the development of soil physical properties, and in particular, soil structure in comparison with conventional agricultural management. The soil structure of organically and conventionally managed soils at one site was compared in a quantitative manner at different scales of observations using image analysis. Key soil physical and chemical properties were measured as well as the pore fractal geometry to characterise pore roughness. Organically managed soils had higher organic matter content and provided a more stable soil structure than conventionally managed soils. The higher porosity (%) at the macroscale in soil under conventional management was due to fewer larger pores while mesoand microscale porosity was found to be greater under organic management. Organically managed soils typically provided spatially well distributed pores of all sizes and of greater roughness compared to those under conventional management. These variations in the soil physical environment are likely to impact significantly on the performance of these soils for a number of key processes such as crop establishment and water availabilit