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Indoor air pollution prevention practices and associated factors among household mothers in Olenchiti town, Oromia, Ethiopia.

PLoS ONE
IntroductionMost households in low- and middle-income countries still cook using solid fuels in poorly ventilated dwellings. Indoor air pollution causes various health problems, like pneumonia, lung cancer, stillbirth, low birth weight, impaired ...
Worku Dugassa Girsha, Alem Deksisa Abebe, Ephrem Mannekulih Habtewold, Meyrema Abdo Komicha   +3 more
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Household energy, indoor air pollution and child respiratory health in South Africa

Journal of Energy in Southern Africa, 2017
Indoor air pollution due to the indoor burning of polluting fuels has been associated with Acute Lower Respiratory Infections (ALRI) amongst children less than five years old.
Brendon Barnes, Angela Mathee, Elizabeth Thomas, Nigel Bruce   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fire‐Safe Polymeric Insulation Foams for Energy‐Efficient and Low‐Carbon Buildings

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This review systematically summarizes recent advances in fire‐safe polymeric insulation foams, emphasizing the balance among flame retardancy, thermal insulation, mechanical reliability, and long‐term durability. By linking material‐level thermophysical properties with building cooling‐energy demand and operational carbon emissions, it establishes a ...
Qinhe Guo, Jiayi Pan, Dehui Jia, Min Chen, Danni Pan, Yao Yuan, Ying Pan, Yan Zhang, Lulu Xu, Kate Nguyen, Wei Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of indoor air pollution on respiratory symptoms of non-smoking women in Niš, Serbia

Multidisciplinary Respiratory Medicine, 2011
Rationale The aim of this study was to determine the effects of indoor air pollution exposure on respiratory symptoms and illnesses in non-smoking women in Niš, Serbia.
Stanković Aleksandra, Nikolić Maja, Arandjelović Mirjana   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Parking Systems: A Review of Optimization Techniques and Technological Advances

Energy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
This review highlights optimization techniques and recent technological advances in smart parking systems, emphasizing their role in enhancing efficiency, reducing congestion, and improving user experience. It provides insights into innovative approaches that shape the future of sustainable and intelligent urban mobility. ABSTRACT In heavily populated,
Amirhossein Khosravi Sarvenoee, Mohammad Kohzadipour, Majid Valizadeh, Mohammad Saeedi Kia, Milad Karimian, Mohammad Sharifirad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Socioeconomic disparities in mortality from indoor air pollution: A multi-country study.

PLoS ONE
BackgroundIndoor air pollution is a major public health concern, contributing to approximately 2.9 million deaths and 81.1 million disability-adjusted life years lost annually. This issue disproportionately affects underprivileged communities that depend
Muayad Albadrani
doaj   +1 more source

Aftasten/Tantear: A sensorial, coalitional wayfinding among Muslim runners

Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract Muslim recreational runners in Muslim‐minority settings that take up running as their preferred form of leisure indicate that they feel they have to navigate a sense of exclusion when running outdoors. This article explores the process of exploration and sensing in public, represented by the Dutch verb aftasten, to investigate the way Muslim ...
Jasmijn Rana
wiley   +1 more source

Triboelectric nanogenerators for vehicle intelligent cockpits

FlexMat, EarlyView.
Converting mechanical stimuli from drivers and vehicle motion into electrical signals, triboelectric nanogenerators provide promising interfaces toward passive, flexible, distributed and intelligent sensing for next‐generation automotive cockpits to support three core functional dimensions: driver state monitoring, vehicle state monitoring, and human ...
Haiqiu Tan, Shiquan Lü, Xiangwei Meng, Huiying Zhang, Wenxing Zhang, Dongxian Sun, Xiao Lu, Lei Wang, Haodong Zhang, William W. Yu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cross Sectional Study on Air Pollution and its Influence on Health Related Quality of Life in Coimbatore

International Journal of Medical Students
Background: The air quality inside and outside of buildings and structures is referred to as indoor air quality (IAQ), particularly as it pertains to the comfort and health of building occupants.
Dhaarani Dharmaraj, Fredrick Stephen, Nawin Jai Vignesh, Naveen Prabhu Jayaraj, Sugunadevi G   +4 more
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Hybrid Temporal Autoencoder and Similarity Matching for Low Aggregation Level Long Time Series Forecasting

Journal of Forecasting, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Deep learning‐based long time series forecasting (LTSF) has achieved high accuracy by effectively capturing the underlying trends, seasonality, and temporal dependencies within time series data. However, at the individual entity level, termed the low aggregation level (LAL), intermittency, irregularity, and data sparsity undermine the ...
Hanbyeol Park, Sunghyun Sim, Kikun Park, Yongjae Lee, Eunhee Park, Hyerim Bae   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source