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Influence of Contextual Factors on Soundscape in Urban Open Spaces

Applied Sciences, 2018
The acoustic environment in urban open spaces has played a key role for users. This study analyzed the different effects of contextual factors, including shop openness, season, and commercial function, on the soundscape in two typical commercial ...
Xiaolong Zhao, Shilun Zhang, Qi Meng, Jian Kang   +3 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
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Physics-Informed Transformer Framework for Indoor Acoustic Comfort Optimization in Buildings

Applied Sciences
Improving indoor acoustic comfort in buildings remains challenging for conventional acoustic design methods because they often rely on empirical formulas, static databases, and limited adaptability to dynamic environmental changes.
Shiyao Hou, Hongyan Liu, Yanping Lu, Junghee Lee, Dandan Wang, Hanwen Zhang   +5 more
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Wearable Morphology‐Adaptive in‐Ear Device With Active Cleansing Capability for Multimodal Health Monitoring

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We present SCIENCE, an in‐ear multimodal physiological monitor featuring two key innovations. Water‐triggered morphological expansion (a 2‐mm cylinder to a 9‐mm spindle) achieves conformal adaptation across complex canal geometries. Simultaneously, active biofouling mitigation disrupts cerumen barriers, reducing sensor‐skin impedance by 20%.
Shuyun Zhuo, Zihuan Wu, Anan Zhang, Shideh Kabiri Ameri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Outdoor environmental comfort evaluation for retail planning in a tropical business district using Integrated Environmental Modeller.

PLoS ONE, 2023
This research proposes a simulation-based assessment of outdoor thermal and acoustic comfort for a planned business urban district in Singapore for retail planning using a customized OpenFOAM-centric multi-physics environmental simulation platform called
Po-Yen Lai, Wee Shing Koh, Harish Gopalan, Huizhe Liu, Dias Leong, Hyosoo Lee, Johnathan Goh, Jiun Yeu Lim, Jacob Ang, Gibert Peh, Gilbert Cher, Cheng Hui Eng, Jia Li Goh, Edmund Tan, James Tan   +14 more
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Advanced Materials for Biologics Delivery to Brain Tumors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Material innovation is central to unlocking the therapeutic potential of biologics against many central nervous system diseases, including brain cancer. By engineering carriers with controlled transport, targeting, and release properties, advanced materials can overcome the blood–brain barrier and tumor microenvironment, improving the delivery of ...
Yuran Feng, Yuxue Cao, Maria Kavallaris, Taskeen Janjua, Amirali Popat   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of the Acoustic Suitability of an Open Plan Office Based on STI and DL2 Simulations

Archives of Acoustics, 2013
Many business offices around the world are organized as open plan offices. Therefore, studies about the acoustic comfort of the people who work in them have become increasingly important.
Carolina Reich Marcon PASSERO, Paulo Henrique Trombetta ZANNIN   +1 more
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Rethinking soundscape planning for an amphitheater in rainforest setting [PDF]

Al-Qadisiyah Journal for Engineering Science
The quality of the acoustic environment plays a crucial role in shaping human communication and comfort within a space. This is particularly true for outdoor performance venues like amphitheatres. This study explores the potential of soundscape design to
Yasser Arab, Siti Aidila Sarzali, Maryam Saeed, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan   +3 more
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Descriptors to Dynamics: A Materials and Device Perspective on in‐Materio Physical Reservoir Computing for Neuromorphic Edge Intelligence

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Intrinsic material dynamics are harnessed as computational resources for neuromorphic in‐materio physical reservoir computing. Defects, ionic motion, interfaces, percolation, geometry, and biasing shape transient states that provide fading memory, nonlinearity, and high‐dimensional projection for simple readout. A descriptor‐to‐dynamics framework links
Kshitij RB Singh, Alif Syafiq Kamarol Zaman, Muzhen Xu, Yuki Usami, Saptarshi Das, Hirofumi Tanaka   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studies on acoustic comfort in a passive house [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Acoustic comfort is a requirement of major importance during the design of houses. This study focused on the acoustic comfort parameter called sound pressure level. The value of this parameter is variable during operation of a particular building , depending on the type of absorbent material and them surface.
Bailescu Catalin, Catalina Tiberiu, Iordache Vlad   +2 more
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