Differing effects of four building materials on viable bacterial communities and VOCs

The 4E approach to the human microbiome: Nested interactions between the gut‐brain/body system within natural and built environments

“…Consistently, the 4E approach to the Human Microbiome emphasizes the causal role of complex symbiosis (e.g., gut‐brain/body systems) in interaction with physiology, lifestyles, and the built environment as underlying conditions for mental health and cognitive processes. Furthermore it promotes research into the development of low‐cost/high‐benefit integrative and personalized bio‐psycho‐socio‐urbanistic treatments (e.g., changes in dietary habits, cleaning routines, green interventions and gardening, urban greenspace), new approaches to healthy housing (e.g., more adequate materials, [ 119 ] novel designs [ 140 ] ), and/or measuring the impact of social distancing, social isolation, and other lifestyle changes. These interventions are particularly crucial nowadays where close social contact and indoor spaces are high‐risk contagion environments, making environmental variables such as ventilation essential for maintaining health.…”

“…The potential health implications of these differences, however, have yet to be properly researched and described. [ 119 ]…”

“…The potential health implications of these differences, however, have yet to be properly researched and described. [119] Diet is another important factor contributing to microbiome modulation, [120] and probably one of the most relevant. For instance, microbiota differences have been registered between plant-and animal-based diets.…”

Succession of the microbial community during the process of mechanical and biological pretreatment coupled with a bio-filter for removal of VOCs derived from domestic waste: a field study

“… 11–13 In the research on the removal of VOCs under the bio-filter (BF) treatment, there are numerous reports about the removal rate, as well as the influence of process parameters such as inlet, gas flow, microbes and pressure drop. 14–16 However, in the process of domestic waste treatment, the types and quantities of VOCs produced at different processing stages have a great influence on the treatment effect of the BF, but there are few relevant studies.…”

Do not burn these gentle bridges: an empirical framework based on the 4E perspective is necessary, pertinent, and timely

“…Fortunately, the last decade has seen groundbreaking work, such as the technicomethodological Mobile Brain/Body Imaging (MoBI) 1 framework (Gramann et al, 2014;Ladouce et al, 2016;Makeig et al, 2009) implemented with single (Djebbara et al, 2019;Gramann et al, 2021;Ladouce et al, 2019;Piñeyro Salvidegoitia et al, 2019) and/or multiple participants (Czeszumski et al, 2020;Dumas et al, 2010;Konvalinka & Roepstorff, 2012), the microbiome of the built environment (Mhuireach et al, 2021;Stamper et al, 2016), to name a few. These empirical efforts have remained somewhat isolated -or even completely detached-from the advancements in Philosophy of Science encompassed within the ethico-onto-epistemology known as the Embodied, Embedded, Extended and Enactive perspective to cognition (4E-Cognition), which is the central topic to the present special edition.…”