On my way to the post office one morning, I walked the breadth of Boulder's dwellings and fields in half an hour.
A village typically consisted of a cluster of dwellings, paddy fields, a reservoir, a grazing ground, shift crop reserves and a village forest.
Among nonfarmworkers, distance from dwelling to fields was associated with concentrations in house dust (Fenske et al. 2002b; Lu et al. 2000).
In the Colaba district, we saw cramped dwellings and a field of garbage and open sewers, overlooked by an ominous 27-story skyscraper called Antilia, the $1 billion home of Mukesh Ambani, head of petrochemical giant Reliance Industries.
It cheered me to think of all the thousands and millions of snakes in my visual field, dwelling way down there.
Proximity of dwellings to agricultural fields treated with pesticides has been suggested as a dwelling characteristic associated with exposure (Fenske et al. 2000).
According to univariate analysis, seeing rats in the dwelling or in the field, having killed rats in the dwelling or in the fields, being a farmer, being male, and being >20 years of age were associated with IgG against hantaviruses.
Madhnapar, home to 90 families, is a place of mud-brick dwellings surrounded by open fields and scum-laden ponds.
Many crop fields and dwellings were flooded near the Cape Fear River as levels rose to record heights.
Exposure to rodents appeared to occur both in fields and dwellings.
