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Healthy Homes by AmeriSpec, is the largest national network of trusted home service experts in Canada, providing professional, cost-effective residential Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) testing. With over 30 years of experience inspecting homes, we have extensive knowledge of how homes operate and what causes indoor air quality issues.
We offer the peace of mind that comes from working with reliable, experienced technicians and the most up-to-date technology and processes.
As an industry leader, we are committed to providing our customers with the very best service and most professional residential indoor air quality and environmental assessment and testing.
The EPA and Health Canada has found indoor air quality can be 6 to 10 times more polluted than the outdoor air in some industrialized cities.
Poor indoor air quality can have profound negative effects on your health and that of your family and pets.
Residential indoor air quality pollutants can be caused by a variety of factors including inadequate ventilation; airborne dust and particulates; "invisible" combustible gases such as carbon monoxide; chemical off-gassing from building materials and furnishings; poorly-managed humidity levels; water intrusion leading to mold growth; and poor building design and maintenance.
On average, we spend approximately 90 percent of our time indoors, where the concentrations of some pollutants are often 2 to 5 times higher than typical outdoor concentrations.
People who are most susceptible to the adverse effects of pollution such as the very young, seniors and people with cardiovascular or respiratory disease, tend to spend even more time indoors.
Indoor concentrations of some pollutants have increased in recent decades due to such factors as energy-efficient building construction, as sometimes these buildings lack sufficient mechanical ventilation to ensure adequate air exchange.
Increased use of synthetic building materials, furnishings, personal care products, pesticides and household cleaners.
Combustion byproducts such as carbon monoxide, particulate matter and tobacco smoke.
Healthy Homes by AmeriSpec has over 30 years of trusted experience providing professional and cost-effective home service inspections.
Healthy Homes by AmeriSpec provides air quality testing and environmental assessment only, so we do not try to sell you other services or products.
We use only professional and experienced IAQ technicians and the most up-to-date evaluation technology to provide efficient and accurate indoor residential air quality and environmental assessment and testing services.
Our qualified technicians assess the conditions in each individual circumstance, to identify specific problem areas and provide you with detailed, easy-to-understand evaluation of the composition, sources and levels of indoor pollutants and causes of poor indoor air quality in your home.
As an integral part of our evaluation process, we also conduct Air Tightness tests throughout the home to pinpoint areas of excess humidity.


Of 103 ratings/reviews posted on 5 verified review sites, ProSource of Hampton Roads has an average rating of 4.41 stars. This earns a Rating Score™ of 91.12.
Imagine shopping for the materials to match a 12 year old laminate floor! Pro Source not only assisted with this task (for a very small job). They actually called me a few weeks later to ask if I found anything else that was a better fit. And if I wanted to place my order. Professional, helpful, courteous, and reliable. Qualities that are not easy to find in Hampton Roads. Thanks Pro Source.
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Christina Hack was very easy to work with. Other people assisted as needed.
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Great people to do business.
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Love our new carpets. Prosource were great to work with, and the installers had the whole house finished in one day. Would highly recommend!!
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Gary Fearer was easy to work with and helped me find the perfect hardwood floor for my home. He was professional, encouraging and such a gentleman as I plowed through samples. He gave me much needed information to best help me choose the right floor and my husband and I couldn't be more happy. We recommend ProSource and Gary for any home floor project. Our experience was great and we're so appreciative. Thanks Gary!
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The men did a great job on a kitchen. They were both nice to work with. Only low rated the material and value because it was just vinyl. Would work with them again.
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went into the store to purchase new flooring. Met with Chris Toombs the store manager who stayed with us through the entire process. We could not be happier with the end result.
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Conceptual Modeling provides a high level of abstraction in describing multidimensional data, and is aimed at achieving independence of implementation issues. It is widely recognised to be the necessary foundation for building a database that is well-documented and that fully satisfies user requirements; usually, it relies on a graphical notation that facilitates writing, understanding, and managing conceptual schemata by both designers and business users.
Data warehouse architecture is the key factor in building a good data warehouse for your business. Choosing the most suitable data warehouse architecture is a critical task in data warehouse lifecycle.
Enterprise data warehouse architecture - the information from various source systems are consolidated into a central repository called an enterprise data warehouse. Data warehouse applications, such as reporting tools, query data from data marts instead of enterprise data warehouse directly.
Dimensional data warehouse architecture –data is brought from throughout the enterprise into a central place called a dimensional data warehouse. Like Inmon's data warehouse architecture, the dimensional data warehouse also has the enterprise focus. In Kimball's data warehouse architecture, the data mart is a subset of the tables linking together using star and snowflake schema. Unlike Inmon's enterprise data warehouse architecture, analytic systems can access data directly from the dimensional data warehouse.
Data transformation is the process of converting information or data from one format to another format which can reveal features hidden in the data that are not observable in their original form. We can transform the distribution of data to make it easier to see.. While the strategy is often thought of in terms of converting documents from one format to another, data transformations may also involve converting programs from one type of computer language to a different format in order to allow the program to run on a specific platform. The actual transformation may involve converting multiple data streams into a common format, or converting a single format into multiple different forms for use across a wide spectrum of platforms.
Poor data quality is a well-known problem in data warehouses that arises for a variety of reasons such as data entry errors and differences in data representation among data sources. For example, one source may use abbreviated state names while another source may use fully expanded state names. However, high quality data is essential for accurate data analysis. Data cleaning is the process of detecting and correcting errors and inconsistencies in data. Typical data cleaning tasks include record matching, deduplication, and column segmentation which often need logic that go beyond using traditional relational queries. This has led to development of utilities for data transformation and cleaning.


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As you plan to open a restaurant, your likely goal is to run a popular, profitable enterprise. Profitability means serving a great meal to loyal customers. However, this also means preventing damages or safety risks that might cause financial harm to your restaurant.
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Research at the universities of Sonora and Miguel Hernández
Squid pigments could be used in food and health for their antioxidant and antimicrobial properties
Ommochrome pigments produce the characteristic colours of cuttlefish, squid and other invertebrates. / Betty Wills (Atsme)
Ommochromes, the pigments that colour the skin of squids and other invertebrates, could be used in the food and health sectors for their antioxidant and antimicrobial properties. These pigments inhibit the growth of bacteria like Staphylococcus, Listeria and Salmonella, and fungi like Candida. This is confirmed by the analyses carried out by researchers from the University of Sonora in Mexico and the Miguel Hernández University in Spain.
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One of the squid's best-known characteristics is its ability to change its colour to blend in with the environment, which it does by contracting or relaxing skin cells known as chromatophores.
Now, scientists at the Miguel Hernandez University in Elche and the University of Sonora in Mexico have discovered that these cells contain a type of violet pigment, called ommochrome, which has antimicrobial, antioxidant and antimutagenic properties.
"When we add extracts of these squid pigments to bacterial cultures like Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella enterica, Staphylococcus aureus or Haemophilus influenzae, or to fungi like Candida albicans, the growth of microorganisms is inhibited," says Jesús Enrique Chan, a researcher at the two universities and co-author of the study.
"Moreover," he adds, "ommochromes act as antioxidants, binding or 'sequestering' metals and eliminating such radicals as an active oxygen called singlet and superoxide anions. We've identified the best temperature, time and proportion conditions with solvents so as to obtain its greater antioxidant and antimicrobial activity, as well as its antimutagenic capacity against agents such as aflatoxin B1 (a mutagenic mycotoxin)."
The study, published in the Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences, concludes that cephalopod ommochromes are the components responsible for all these beneficial properties and highlights: "They are pigments with a promising therapeutic value, which could be applied in future in both the food and health sectors."
Diagram with the stages of the study. The main ommochrome identified in squid skin is xanthommatin / Chan-Higuera et al.
In order to carry out their research, the authors have used samples of the giant squid (Dosidicus gigas), a species that is caught on the Pacific coast of America and which is mainly used for its mantle and tentacles. The rest, including its skin, is regarded as fishing waste and dumped into the sea.
"This generates pollution problems in the coasts," says Chan, "so research like this, in which we inform about how these wastes could be used, helps to revalue them and minimise their dumping into the environment."
The main ommochrome identified by scientists is xanthommatin, a pigment found in other common squid (Loligo vulgaris, Doryteuthis pealeii...), cuttlefish (Seppia officinalis) octopus (Octopus vulgaris) and other invertebrate species, from which this beneficial compound could also be extracted.
For their study, the researchers have used the giant squid (Dosidicus gigas), a species that is caught on the Pacific coast of America and which is mainly used for its mantle and tentacles. / Josafat Marina Ezquerra-Brauer.
Jesús Enrique Chan-Higuera, Angel Antonio Carbonell-Barrachina, José Luis Cárdenas-López, Miroslava Kačániová, Armando Burgos-Hernández, Josafat Marina Ezquerra-Brauer. "Jumbo squid (Dosidicus gigas) skin pigments: chemical analysis and evaluation of antimicrobial and antimutagenic potential". Journal of Microbiology, Biotechnology and Food Sciences : 9 (2) 349-353, 2019.
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