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Good, Kenneth W. "Case study: Open plan “closed” offices or closed plan “open” offices." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 142, no. 4 (October 2017): 2627. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.5014621.

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Reynolds, Martin, and Sandy Smith. "OER in GEES: Open University materials." Planet 25, no. 1 (March 2012): 55–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/plan.2012.00250055.

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Pirn, Rein. "Open‐plan privacy revisited." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119, no. 5 (May 2006): 3326. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4786371.

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Whitfield, Stephen, and Zoe Robinson. "Open Educational Resources: the challenges of ‘usability’ and copyright clearance." Planet 25, no. 1 (March 2012): 51–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/plan.2012.00250051.

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Boyle, Alan. "Re-purposing TLTP-UKESCC resources as Open Educational Resources (OER)." Planet 25, no. 1 (March 2012): 61–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/plan.2012.00250061.

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Lou, Huading, and Dayi Ou. "A comparative field study of indoor environmental quality in two types of open-plan offices: Open-plan administrative offices and open-plan research offices." Building and Environment 148 (January 2019): 394–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.11.022.

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Haslett, Simon K., and Jonathan Wallen. "A component-based approach to open educational resources in climate change education." Planet 24, no. 1 (June 2011): 89–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/plan.2011.00240089.

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Davis, Teresa A. "26 Do we need a Plan B for Plan S?" Journal of Animal Science 97, Supplement_3 (December 2019): 23–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jas/skz258.045.

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Abstract A group of European funding agencies launched an initiative called “Plan S” in September 2018 that would require scientific publications resulting from funded research to be published only in Plan S-compliant open access journals by 2020. A delegation from the European Commission visited the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other federal agencies in December 2018 to gain support for Plan S. Plan S would force authors to publish solely in open access journals and bar researchers from publishing in hybrid journals, such as the Journal of Animal Science, that allow authors to choose between Gold and Green Open Access publishing. Gold Open Access allows immediate open access with articles made freely available at time of publication and requires payment of article processing charges that are usually higher than page charges of subscription-based journals. Green Open Access publishing is subscription-based and defers open access for the publisher embargo period (usually 12 months). Because 85% of journals are hybrid or subscription based, Plan S would limit researcher’s academic freedom to decide where to publish and prevent authors from publishing in most research society journals that are hybrid or subscription-based. Research society-based journals provide rigorous peer review and comprehensive editorial processes and thus, have earned the trust of researchers, professionals, and the public. Funneling research output to non-research society based open access journals may distort the dissemination of scientific research and reduce the quality of scientific communication. Nonprofit research societies use revenues from their publishing operations to finance educational, journalistic, outreach, and other activities and thus, Plan S threatens the financial stability of these research societies. Authors should be allowed to choose the best venue to publish their work. Plan S must be rejected.

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Armstrong, Ruth. "Open plan and the secret ballot." Medical Journal of Australia 177, no. 11 (December 2002): 619. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.2002.tb04985.x.

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Mital, Anil, James D. McGlothlin, and Hamid F. Faard. "Noise in Open-Plan Computer Rooms." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 34, no. 10 (October 1990): 729–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193129003401014.

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Warnock, Alf, and Wing T. Chu. "Speech levels in open plan offices." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 110, no. 5 (November 2001): 2664. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4777088.

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Nogueira, Flavia F., and Elvira B. Viveiros. "Parametric analysis of open plan offices." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 112, no. 5 (November 2002): 2428. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.4779961.

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Hellström, Björn, Erling Nilsson, and Björn Berthelsen. "Acoustic Design for Open Plan Spaces." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 3195. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2933334.

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MORRISSEY, SUSAN. "NIH UNVEILS DRAFT OPEN-ACCESS PLAN." Chemical & Engineering News Archive 82, no. 37 (September 13, 2004): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-v082n037.p007.

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Wong, Marcus. "Evidence for the open-plan office." Occupational Medicine 69, no. 7 (October 2019): 470. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/occmed/kqz116.

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Balme, Christopher. "Editorial: Open access revisited: Plan S." Forum Modernes Theater 30, no. 1-2 (2019): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/fmt.2019.0000.

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Brumfiel, Geoff. "Biomedical agency floats open-access plan." Nature 431, no. 7005 (September 2004): 115. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/431115a.

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Moreland, J. B. "Ambient noise in open plan offices." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 85, S1 (May 1989): S76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2027137.

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Leaman, Adrian. "Open‐plan Offices: Kill or Cure?" Facilities 10, no. 6 (June 1992): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000002192.

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Sanoff, H. "Attitudes towards an open plan office." Design Studies 6, no. 4 (October 1985): 196–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0142-694x(85)90053-5.

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Currie, Ken, and Austin Tate. "O-Plan: The open planning architecture." Artificial Intelligence 52, no. 1 (November 1991): 49–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(91)90024-e.

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Decarolis, Francesco, Andrea Guglielmo, and Clavin Luscombe. "Open enrollment periods and plan choices." Health Economics 29, no. 7 (February 26, 2020): 733–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.4014.

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Langham-Putrow, Allison, and Sunshine J. Carter. "Subscribe to Open: Modeling an open access transformation." College & Research Libraries News 81, no. 1 (January 6, 2020): 18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crln.81.1.18.

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The introduction of Plan S, an initiative for open access launched by a group of primarily European national funding agencies and two foundations in late 2018, prompted discussion about how publishers will transition to full open access. Many current open access models involve article processing charge (APC) payments. Here we describe an alternative model, Subscribe to Open (S2O).

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Mikulski, Witold. "Computational studies of speech intelligibility in open-plan offices." Medycyna Pracy 70, no. 3 (June 14, 2019): 327–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/mp.5893.00726.

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Óladóttir, Ásta Dís, and Fjóla Kim Björnsdóttir. "Hefur hið opinbera mótað stefnu varðandi opin vinnurými? Upplifun opinberra starfsmanna." Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla 14, no. 3 (December 13, 2018): 227–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2018.14.3.4.

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This article discusses the implementation of open-plan offices among public sector employees. The so called open-plan offices are debated, although it seems to be a popular way of designing office spaces. An open-plan office refers to two or more office desks for individuals which are layed out in one open space. The main objective of this article is to review how public sector employees experienced the transition to open-plan offices and how the implementation proceeded. This article will also review whether the government has a formal policy regarding the extensive change to place employees in open-plan offices. Few domestic studies have been conducted on employees’ experience of moving into open plan offices and this is the first study of public sector employees’ attitudes towards such changes. In this study two public organizations and two ministries which all had recently implemented open-plan offices were selected. A survey was sent to 182 employees at these organizations and ministries. 90 employees participated, answering questions about how the implement of change was delivered, leaving the response rate at almost 50%. Government officials were interviewed to find out whether a policy was formulated for the implementation of open-plan workspaces. The main conclusion is that half of the participants like being in an open-plan office, but the majority prefers to be in a closed office. Despite that, most participants feel there is less privacy to do their work, noise has increased, and concentration has diminished. One third of participants feels that productivity has reduced. Furthermore, no policy has been formulated by the government regarding the implement of open-plan workspaces.

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Mikulski, Witold. "Acoustic conditions in open plan offices – Pilot test results." Medycyna Pracy 67, no. 5 (October 28, 2016): 653–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.13075/mp.5893.00425.

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Andrea Widener. "Open-access Plan S goes into effect." C&EN Global Enterprise 99, no. 2 (January 11, 2021): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/cen-09902-cover14.

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Gou, Zhonghua, and Stephen Siu‐Yu Lau. "Sick building syndrome in open‐plan offices." Journal of Facilities Management 10, no. 4 (September 21, 2012): 256–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/14725961211265729.

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Gwynne, Peter. "US energy department unveils open-access plan." Physics World 27, no. 09 (September 2014): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/2058-7058/27/09/13.

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Moreland, J. B. "Ambient noise measurements in open‐plan offices." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 83, no. 4 (April 1988): 1683–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.395925.

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Rabesandratana, Tania. "European funders detail their open-access plan." Science 362, no. 6418 (November 29, 2018): 983. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.362.6418.983.

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Ilozor, B. D., and D. B. Ilozor. "Open‐plan attributes and effective facilities management." Journal of Engineering, Design and Technology 3, no. 1 (March 2005): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17260530510815295.

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Ilozor, B. D., and J. O. Oluwoye. "Open‐plan measures determine facilities space management." Facilities 16, no. 9/10 (September 1998): 271–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02632779810229093.

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Nilsson, Erling, Björn Hellström, and Björn Berthelsen. "Room acoustical measures for open plan spaces." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 2971. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2932457.

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Martin, Sara. "Sandoz Announces Plan to Open Clozapine Distribution." American Pharmacy 31, no. 5 (May 1991): 30–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0160-3450(16)33728-x.

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Ding, Suining. "Users' privacy preferences in open plan offices." Facilities 26, no. 9/10 (July 4, 2008): 401–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02632770810885751.

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Phinney, Donald G. "Open access versus accessibility: Evaluating Plan S." Cytotherapy 22, no. 8 (August 2020): 399. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcyt.2020.03.435.

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Horrall, Thomas R., and Parker W. Hirtle. "Partition system for open‐plan office spaces." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 77, no. 6 (June 1985): 2208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.391694.

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Hirning, M. B., G. L. Isoardi, and I. Cowling. "Discomfort glare in open plan green buildings." Energy and Buildings 70 (February 2014): 427–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enbuild.2013.11.053.

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Nazarovets, Serhii. "Ukraine approves National Plan for Open Science." Nature 611, no. 7935 (November 8, 2022): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03583-x.

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Frantsvåg, Jan Erik, and Tormod Eismann Strømme. "Few Open Access Journals Are Compliant with Plan S." Publications 7, no. 2 (April 9, 2019): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications7020026.

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Much of the debate on Plan S seems to concentrate on how to make toll-access journals open access, taking for granted that existing open access journals are Plan S-compliant. We suspected this was not so and set out to explore this using Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) metadata. We conclude that a large majority of open access journals are not Plan S-compliant, and that it is small publishers in the humanities and social sciences (HSS) not charging article processing charges (APC) that will face the largest challenge with becoming compliant. Plan S needs to give special considerations to smaller publishers and/or non-APC based journals.

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Monaghan, Natalya, and Oluremi Bolanle Ayoko. "Open-plan office, employees’ enactment, interpretations and reactions to territoriality." International Journal of Manpower 40, no. 2 (May 7, 2019): 228–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijm-10-2017-0270.

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Purpose Research on the physical work environment and employee territorial behavior in the field of organizational behavior is limited. In particular, while the prevalence of territorial behaviors in organizations is not new, little is known about how the physical work environment (e.g. open-plan offices) may influence the enactment, interpretation and reactions to territoriality. The purpose of this paper is to explore the connection between the physical environment of work (e.g. open-plan office), employee territorial behaviors (including infringement) and affective environment. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected by means of in-depth-interviews from 27 participants from two large Australian public organizations involved in recruitment, marketing, consulting and education. Findings Results revealed that employees’ personalization in the open-plan office is driven by the nature of their tasks, appointment, duration of time spent on their desk, level of adaptation to the open-plan office configurations and the proximity of desks to senior managers, hallways and passers-by. Additionally, affective environment has a critical effect on employee personalization and the enactment and perception of territoriality and infringements in open-plan offices. Additionally, the authors found that the affective environment is dynamic and that employees in open-plan offices experienced emotional contagion (positive and negative). Research limitations/implications Due to the demographic make-up of one of the participating organizations, less than a third of participants were male. While the data did not suggest any disparity in the territorial behaviors of male and female, future research should include an even representation of male and female participants. Similarly, the authors did not examine the impact of ethnicity and cultural background on employees’ territoriality. However, given that the workforce is increasingly becoming multicultural, future research should explore how ethnicity might impact the use of space, work processes and productivity in open-plan office. Additionally, scholars should continue to tease out the impact of affective environment (positive and negative) on team processes (e.g. conflict, communication, collaboration and the development of team mental models) in the open-plan office. Practical implications The results indicate some practical implications. Noise and distraction are indicated in the results. Therefore, human resource managers and organizational leaders should work with employees to develop some ground rules and norms to curb excessive noise in the open-plan office. Additionally, the authors found in the current study that the affective environment is dynamic and that employees in open-plan offices experienced emotional contagion (positive and negative). Managers should watch out for how individuals react to the prevailing emotions and moods in the open-plan office with the intention of diffusing negative emotions as quickly as possible, for example, by changing the topic under discussion in the open-plan office. The results speak to the need for more active collaboration and engagement between policy makers, workspace architects, designers and employees especially prior to the building of such workspaces. Social implications The results suggest that effective employee interactions in open-plan office may be enhanced by positive emotional contagion and office affective environment. Originality/value So far, little is known about the impact of the physical work context (e.g. open-plan offices) on the enactment, interpretation and reactions to territoriality. The current paper explores the connection between the physical environment of work (e.g. open-plan office), employee territorial behaviors (including infringement) and affective environment. The findings demonstrate for the first time and especially in an open-plan office that ownership and personalization of objects and workspaces are more likely to be driven by the amount of time spent at one’s desk, the nature of employees’ appointments and tasks. Additionally, the present research is one of the first to report on affective environment dynamism in the open-plan office.

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Gou, Zhonghua, Jian Zhang, and Leigh Shutter. "The Role of Personal Control in Alleviating Negative Perceptions in the Open-Plan Workplace." Buildings 8, no. 8 (August 14, 2018): 110. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings8080110.

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Today’s office buildings adopt open-plan settings for collaboration and space efficiency. However, the open plan setting has been intensively criticized for its adverse user experiences, such as noise, privacy loss, and over cooling. The provision of personal control in open-plan work environments is an important means to alleviating the adverse perceptions. This research is to investigate the relationship between the availability of personal controls and the degree of control over the physical environment, as well as their effectiveness in alleviating adverse perceptions in open-plan workplaces. The study combined three systematic occupant survey tools and collected responses from open-plan offices in Shenzhen, China. Specifically, this survey covered 12 personal controls in open-plan workplaces; respondents were asked to report their degree of control over the physical environment and also were required to report if they had adverse perceptions such as sick building syndrome in their offices. The results showed that most of the 12 personal controls supported perceived degree of control over the physical environment but only half of them were negatively associated with adverse perceptions. Non-mechanical controls, such as windows and blinds, were found to be more effective than mechanical controls such as fans and air-conditioning in alleviating adverse perceptions. Conflicts were found between task/desk lights and other personal controls. The research generates important evidence for the interior design of open-plan offices.

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Chen, Chao, De Qing Gan, Ya Bin Zhang, and Hong Jian Lu. "Study on Sustainable Integrated Program of Dump Open Pit Optimization." Applied Mechanics and Materials 340 (July 2013): 250–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.340.250.

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According to the various influencing factor of the dumping plan choice, the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model is built up, which is based on the fuzzy mathematics theories, the dumping plan is optimized. And take a mine as an example, the tool of computer aided design is used to rebuild the dumping plan, and great economic benefit is obtained.

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Shimizu, Hiroyuki. "Connection of Regional Plan, Land Use Plan, Landscape Plan and Open Structure Plan by Planning of green Space Conservation." Journal of the City Planning Institute of Japan 47, no. 3 (2012): 235–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.11361/journalcpij.47.235.

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Sanders, Michael. "C-change in GEES: Open licensing of climate change and sustainability resources in the Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences." Planet 22, no. 1 (September 2009): 78–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.11120/plan.2009.00220078.

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Delle Macchie, Sara, Simone Secchi, and Gianfranco Cellai. "Acoustic Issues in Open Plan Offices: A Typological Analysis." Buildings 8, no. 11 (November 14, 2018): 161. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings8110161.

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This paper reports the acoustic issues of open plan office environments. According to a detailed research based on the scientific literature of the most suitable acoustic descriptors recommended for the open plan offices analysis, the main typological-functional configurations of these environments have been analyzed in order to identify six spatial typologies. The variation of acoustic parameters of these typologies has been evaluated by using a sound pyramid tracing software. The analysis procedure was calibrated in a case study of an office environment, where a measurement campaign was carried out. Results point out that the acoustic improvement of open plan offices can usually be achieved by introducing a sound absorbing false ceiling and dividing panels between working positions, but there are different issues depending on spatial geometries of the office. Better results are referred to office typologies characterized by reduced height and equal plan dimensions.

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Di Blasio, Sonja, Louena Shtrepi, Giuseppina Puglisi, and Arianna Astolfi. "A Cross-Sectional Survey on the Impact of Irrelevant Speech Noise on Annoyance, Mental Health and Well-being, Performance and Occupants’ Behavior in Shared and Open-Plan Offices." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 2 (January 19, 2019): 280. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16020280.

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This cross-sectional survey has compared subjective outcomes obtained from workers in shared (2–5 occupants) and open-plan (+5 occupants) offices, related to irrelevant speech, which is the noise that is generated from conversations between colleagues, telephone calls and laughter. Answers from 1078 subjects (55% in shared offices and 45% in open-plan offices) have shown that irrelevant speech increases noise annoyance, decreases work performance, and increases symptoms related to mental health and well-being more in open-plan than in shared offices. Workers often use headphones with music to contrast irrelevant speech in open-plan offices, while they take a break, change their working space, close the door or work from home in shared offices. Being female, when there are more than 20 occupants, and working in southern cities without acoustic treatments in the office, make it more likely for the occupants to be annoyed by irrelevant speech noise in open-plan offices. While, working in southern cities and with acoustic treatments in the office makes it more likely that noise annoyance will be reported in shared offices. Finally, more than 70% of the interviewed in open-plan offices were willing to reduce their voice volumes when advised by a noise monitoring system with a lighting feedback.

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Lai, Lawrence W. C., K. W. Chau, Stephen N. G. Davies, and Locinda M. L. Kwan. "Open space office: A review of the literature and Hong Kong case studies." Work 68, no. 3 (March 26, 2021): 749–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/wor-203408.

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BACKGROUND: Open plan or open space office has become increasingly popular but those who promote the concept seldom refer to health studies or workers’ perceptions of a change in office layout towards an open space arrangement. OBJECTIVE: To review the literature on open plan or open space office layouts in terms of facilities management (FM) with users’ perceptions in mind and to obtain opinions of users of open space offices for a better appreciation of the FM issues. METHODS: A literature search of research papers from 2007 in journals using the keywords “open plan office” and “open space office” plus “health”, first in the titles then in the text, was carried out. Thirty-two of those papers, accessible by the authors’ institutions, were consulted together with 5 other works in the Harvard Business Review. The review consulted but excluded papers and reports published or sponsored by commercial firms that were in favour of open space layouts. Case studies were conducted by face to face meetings in confidence with workers in the middle managements of twelve Hong Kong organisations known as friends to two of the authors. Problems as seen by staff are reported and discussed. RESULTS: The literature review reveals that apart from writing that promotes the use of an open plan office layout, a host of scientific works point to the problems of perceived dissatisfaction with such a layout, the nature of the dissatisfaction tending to depend on the actual design. Most workers interviewed disliked the new style open plan layouts, which points to the necessity of consulting workers when such changes are contemplated, as well as monitoring the results of the change once it is in place whether against workers’ wishes or with their support. There is a need for a number of facility arrangements in making a change to open plan that ensures that worker needs for proper lighting, privacy, and indoor health will be met. CONCLUSIONS: If the aim of a change to an open plan arrangement is to promote collegial communications in office, the study sheds light on the extent to which such arrangements may not in practice be suitable for achieving the aim. It follows that further, more specifically sociological studies of workers’ job satisfaction and emotional health in open plan office settings would be worth doing.

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Nedelcu, Dragoş Iulian, Iulian Florescu, and Petru Gabriel Puiu. "The Simulative Analysis of the Fluid Parameters in Zone of Apparition of the Hydraulic Jump in the Penstock Placed on the Open Channels." Applied Mechanics and Materials 809-810 (November 2015): 968–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.809-810.968.

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The paper proposes to realize a simulative analysis following the theoretical notions regarding the hydraulic jump, at flow of fluids through open channels, when open a plane penstock, which is located in a trapezoidal channel. A penstock is formed from a plan panel with upright movement in supports, with the possibility of adjustment a fluid flow by means of a handling device.

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