Best Paper Awards
2017; Wiley; Volume: 27; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Alemão
10.1111/ina.12361
ISSN1600-0668
Autores Tópico(s)Air Quality Monitoring and Forecasting
ResumoIndoor AirVolume 27, Issue 2 p. 243-245 EditorialFree Access Best Paper Awards W. W. Nazaroff, W. W. Nazaroff Editor-in-Chief orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-3357 Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USASearch for more papers by this author W. W. Nazaroff, W. W. Nazaroff Editor-in-Chief orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-3357 Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USASearch for more papers by this author First published: 23 February 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/ina.12361Citations: 1AboutSectionsPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat 1 Some History A prior editorial1 describes the history of the International Academy of Indoor Air Sciences (the Academy), including its incorporation as the Academy of Fellows into the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ). This issue's editorial announces the winners of Indoor Air's Best Paper Awards for publication years 2014-2016. In preparing this editorial, another look back at the Academy's history seemed warranted, so that the new honors could be properly placed in context. Some key information was held only in private records, which motivated the recording of some further history of our research community. To summarize briefly, the Academy was first established as an independent organization in 1991. One of its functions was to select the president of the Indoor Air XX conference series. Since the merger, that responsibility now rests with the ISIAQ Board of Directors. Another Academy function, which continues, was to recognize and celebrate excellence in the indoor air research community, through creating and bestowing awards. An executive committee, with three elected members, leads the Academy (Table 1). Table 1. Executive committees of the Academy (1991–2018) Years President Vice President Secretary/Treasurer 1991-1993 Demetrios Moschandreas Bernd Seifert Birgitta Berglund 1993-1996 Bernd Seifert Birgitta Berglund Kevin Teichman 1996-1999 P Ole Fanger Anthony Pickering Shin-ichi Tanabe 1999-2002 P Ole Fanger Anthony Pickering Shin-ichi Tanabe 2002-2005 John D. Spengler Jan Sundell Shin-ichi Tanabe 2005-2008 Jan Sundell Shin-ichi Tanabe William Nazaroff 2008-2011 Shin-ichi Tanabe William Nazaroff Tunga Salthammer 2011-2014 William Nazaroff Tunga Salthammer Yuguo Li 2014-2016 Tunga Salthammer Yuguo Li Richard Corsi 2016-2018 Yuguo Li Richard Corsi Pawel Wargocki In 1999, the Academy's executive committee announced the establishment of three awards: the Yaglou Award, honoring the achievement of an early career researcher; the Pettenkofer Gold Medal, honoring the achievement of a senior researcher; and the Best Paper Awards. The Yaglou and Pettenkofer awards have been presented at each of the Indoor Air conferences since 1999.2 (One additional Yaglou Award was made at the Healthy Buildings 2000 conference.) Best Paper Awards were presented at the six Indoor Air conferences held from 1999 through 2014. Winners for years 2005-2013 were honored in the previous editorials.2-4 As there was no archival record of the earlier winners, Table 2 recounts the full list of prior winners of the Indoor Air Best Paper Awards. Table 2. Best Paper Awards for articles published in Indoor Air, 1996-2013 Wolkoff P, Clausen PA, Jensen B, Nielsen GD, Wilkins CK. Are we measuring the relevant indoor pollutants? Indoor Air. 1997;7:92-106 Fisk WJ, Rosenfeld AH. Estimates of improved productivity and health from better indoor environments. Indoor Air. 1997;7:158-172 Ten Brinke J, Selvin S, Hodgson AT, Fisk WJ, Mendell MJ, Koshland CP, Daisey JM. Development of new volatile organic compound (VOC) exposure metrics and their relationship to “sick building syndrome” symptoms. Indoor Air. 1998;8:140-152 Wargocki P, Wyon DP, Baik YK, Clausen G, Fanger PO. Perceived air quality, sick building syndrome (SBS) symptoms and productivity in an office with two different pollution loads. Indoor Air. 1999;9:165-179 Weschler CJ, Shields HC. The influence of ventilation on reactions among indoor pollutants: Modeling and experimental observations. Indoor Air. 2000;10:92-100 Milton DK, Glencross PM, Walters MD. Risk of sick leave associated with outdoor air supply rate, humidification, and occupant complaints. Indoor Air. 2000;10:212-221 Apte MG, Fisk WJ, Daisey JM. Associations between indoor CO2 concentrations and sick building syndrome symptoms in U.S. office buildings: An analysis of the 1994-1996 BASE study data. Indoor Air. 2000;10:246-257 Bornehag CG, Blomquist G, Gyntelberg F, Järvholm B, Malmberg P, Nordvall L, Nielsen A, Pershagen G, Sundell J. Dampness in buildings and health. Indoor Air. 2001;11:72-86 Rudnick SN, Milton DK. Risk of indoor airborne infection transmission estimated from carbon dioxide concentration. Indoor Air. 2003;13:237-245 Blondeau P, Tiffonnet AL, Damian A, Amiri O, Molina JL. Assessment of contaminant diffusivities in building materials from porosimetry tests. Indoor Air. 2003;13:302-310 Park JH, Schleiff PL, Attfield MD, Cox-Ganser JM, Kreiss K. Building-related respiratory symptoms can be predicted with semi-quantitative indices of exposure to dampness and mold. Indoor Air. 2004;14:425-433 Mendell MJ, Heath GA. Do indoor pollutants and thermal conditions in schools influence student performance? A critical review of the literature. Indoor Air. 2005;15:27-52 Li Y, Huang X, Yu ITS, Wong TW, Qian H. Role of air distribution in SARS transmission during the largest nosocomial outbreak in Hong Kong. Indoor Air. 2005;15:83-95 Hirvonen MR, Huttunen K, Roponen M. Bacterial strains from moldy buildings are highly potent inducers of inflammatory and cytotoxic effects. Indoor Air. 2005;15(Suppl. 9): 65-70 Armendáriz Arnez C, Edwards RD, Johnson M, Zuk M, Rojas L, Díaz Jiménez R, Riojas-Rodriguez H, Masera O. Reduction in personal exposures to particulate matter and carbon monoxide as a result of the installation of a Patsari improved cookstove in Michoacan Mexico. Indoor Air. 2008;18:93-105 Claeson AS, Nordin S, Sunesson AL. Effects on perceived air quality and symptoms of exposure to microbially produced metabolites and compounds emitted from damp building materials. Indoor Air. 2009;19:102-112 Fisk WJ, Mirer AG, Mendell MJ. Quantitative relationship of sick building syndrome symptoms with ventilation rates. Indoor Air. 2009;19:159-165 Qian H, Li Y. Removal of exhaled particles by ventilation and deposition in a multibed airborne infection isolation room. Indoor Air. 2010;20:284-297 Haverinen-Shaughnessy U, Moschandreas DJ, Shaughnessy RJ. Association between substandard classroom ventilation rates and students’ academic achievement. Indoor Air. 2011;21:121-131 Dutta A, Mukherjee B, Das D, Banerjee A, Ray MR. Hypertension with elevated levels of oxidized low-density lipoprotein and anticardiolipin antibody in the circulation of premenopausal Indian women chronically exposed to biomass smoke during cooking. Indoor Air. 2011;21:165-176 Hawley B, Volckens J. Proinflammatory effects of cookstove emissions on human bronchial epithelial cells. Indoor Air. 2013;23:4-13 The Indoor Air 2016 conference in Ghent, Belgium, marked the first time that this conference met at a two-year interval. The Academy leadership continued the tradition of presenting the Yaglou and Pettenkofer awards at this conference. Congratulations to Dr. Jinhan Mo, the 2016 winner of the Yaglou Award, and to Professor Shin-ichi Tanabe, the 2016 winner of the Pettenkofer Award. The responsibility for the Best Paper Awards was delegated to the Indoor Air Editors, and I made the decision to maintain the three-year award interval. 1.1 Best Papers, 2014-2016 Members of the Editorial Board and the journal's Associate Editors were invited to nominate articles for this cycle of Best Paper Awards from among the 192 that were published in Indoor Air during the years 2014-2016. Eight people submitted nominations, naming twenty separate articles, and five of these were named in two separate nominations. I added five other articles to create a finalist pool of 25, from which the six winners were selected. What makes for a “best paper”? One important feature is that the research addresses an important topic. The domain of indoor environmental quality and its relation to human health and well-being is vast. The research enterprise is small. Best papers report on the problems of considerable scale within the spectrum of indoor environmental quality concerns. A second distinguishing feature is that the article makes a substantial contribution to knowledge. Archival journals exist to record the creation of new knowledge. We seek to honor papers that stand out because they teach a considerable amount about the subject they address. A third key feature for best papers is that they communicate effectively. The core message should be clear. The new research should be well placed in the context of prior knowledge. The presented evidence should effectively support the new findings. At best, the paper is a pleasure to read. The winning papers are listed here in the order of publication, along with a brief highlight of each. Zhou X, Ouyang Q, Zhu Y, Feng C, Zhang X. Experimental study of the influence of anticipated control on human thermal sensation and thermal comfort. Indoor Air. 2014;24:171-177. The research reported in this article shows that an occupant's belief in his or her ability to exert control over the thermal environment can materially influence comfort. This article speaks about the important psychological aspects influencing how building occupants perceive indoor environmental quality indicating an important role of personal control for improved satisfaction. Salje H, Gurley ES, Homaira N, Ram PK, Haque R, Petri W, Moss WJ, Luby SP, Breysse P, Azziz-Baumgartner E. Impact of neighborhood biomass cooking patterns on episodic high indoor particulate matter concentrations in clean fuel homes in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Indoor Air. 2014;24:213-220. Household air pollution owing to emissions from biomass cooking is a well-established global environmental concern of great importance. The article shows that the problem can operate at the community scale. Cooking emissions from the neighbors can substantially adversely impact indoor air quality in households even if they individually have clean cooking practices. Lajoie P, Aubin D, Gingras V, Daigneault P, Ducharme F, Gauvin D, Fugler D, Leclerc JM, Won D, Courteau M, Gingras S, Héroux ME, Yang W, Schleibinger H. The IVAIRE project — A randomized controlled study of the impact of ventilation on indoor air quality and the respiratory symptoms of asthmatic children in single family homes. Indoor Air. 2015;25:582-597. A careful intervention study was conducted in the homes of 83 asthmatic children to study the benefits of improved mechanical ventilation. The intervention was demonstrated to lower the concentrations of several indoor air contaminants, including formaldehyde, and to reduce the proportion of children who experienced wheeze episodes. Lorentzen JC, Juran SA, Nilsson M, Nordin S, Johanson G. Chloroanisoles may explain mold odor and represent a major indoor environment problem in Sweden. Indoor Air. 2016;26:207-218. As noted by the nominator, Tunga Salthammer, “the design of the study is excellent and the paper builds a bridge between biocides, microbiology and VOCs. We see the problem of anisols not only in Sweden.” Many countries used pentachlorophenol as a wood preservative in the past. This research also speaks to the broader concern about legacy indoor environmental quality problems that are beginning to arise for many semivolatile organic compounds. Mendell MJ, Eliseeva EA, Davies MM, Lobscheid A. Do classroom ventilation rates in California elementary schools influence standardized test scores? Results from a prospective study. Indoor Air. 2016;26:546-557. The nominator, Jeroen Doewes, wrote, “Despite small effects observed this is an important issue that requires further study. Also, a previous 2013 paper [Indoor Air 2013;23:515-528] … showed that … classroom ventilation is also associated with reduced illness absence. Taken together these two papers have significantly improved our understanding of the potential effects of classroom ventilation on illness and school results.” Strøm-Tejsen P, Zukowska D, Wargocki P, Wyon DP. The effects of bedroom air quality on sleep and next-day performance. Indoor Air. 2016;26:679-686. We spend a third of our life sleeping. How much do we know about how air quality during sleep affects our health and wellbeing? Not nearly enough. Although the sample was small, the research reported here makes a potentially seminal contribution regarding how important adequate ventilation is to ensuring healthful sleep. Hearty congratulations to all authors of these fine articles, the winners of the Indoor Air Best Paper Awards for 2014-2016. Acknowledgements Thanks to the Associate Editors and Editorial Board members who submitted nominations for these Best Paper awards. Thanks also to Shin-ichi Tanabe for assistance in reconstructing the history recorded in Tables 1 and 2. References 1Nazaroff WW. ISIAQ and the Academy of Fellows. Indoor Air. 2012; 22: 353– 355. 2Nazaroff WW, Clausen G, Wargocki P, Tham KW. ISIAQ Academy Awards 2014. Indoor Air. 2014; 24: 447– 449. 3Sundell J. Editorial. Indoor Air. 2008; 18: 349– 350. 4Nazaroff WW. Best paper awards: Indoor Air (2008-2010). Indoor Air. 2011; 21: 265– 266. Citing Literature Volume27, Issue2March 2017Pages 243-245 ReferencesRelatedInformation
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