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Progress of Air Pollution Control in China and Its Challenges and Opportunities in the Ecological Civilization Era

Engineering, 2020
China’s past economic growth has substantially relied on fossil fuels, causing serious air pollution issues. Decoupling economic growth and pollution has become the focus in developing ecological civilization in China.
Xi Lu, Shaojun Zhang, J. Xing, Yunjie Wang, Wenhui Chen, D. Ding, Ye Wu, Shuxiao Wang, L. Duan, J. Hao   +9 more
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The Development of Waqf in the Middle East and its Role in Pioneering Contemporary Islamic Civilization: A Historical Approach

Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, 2022
This article focuses on the history of the development of waqf (endowment) in the Middle East and its role in pioneering contemporary Islamic civilization.
Abdurrohman Kasdi, Abdul Karim, Umma Farida, Miftahul Huda   +3 more
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Associations between problematic smartphone use and behavioural difficulties, quality of life, and school performance among children and adolescents

BMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background European studies on determinants and factors associated with problematic smartphone use (PSU) in children and adolescents are still sparse. This study reports the current amount of PSU symptoms and the presence of (clinically relevant) PSU in ...
Tobias Kliesener, Christof Meigen, Wieland Kiess, Tanja Poulain   +3 more
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Associations between sociodemographic and behavioural parameters and child development depending on age and sex: a cross-sectional analysis

BMJ Open, 2022
Objectives To explore environmental and individual factors that are associated with child development and to investigate whether the strength of these associations differs according to the age of the children.Design Cross-sectional study.Setting This ...
Wieland Kiess, Clara Elise Schild, Christof Meigen, Jonas Kappelt, Tanja Poulain   +4 more
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Evaluation of urban water ecological civilization: A case study of three urban agglomerations in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, China

, 2021
Urbanization and economic development pose a challenge to the water ecological environment of cities. “Ecological Civilization” is a term that demonstrates the strategy to achieve the win-win goal of economic development and eco-environment protection ...
Pei Tian, Huaqing Wu, Tiantian Yang, Faliang Jiang, Wenjie Zhang, Zhanliang Zhu, Qimeng Yue, Muxing Liu, Xinyi Xu   +8 more
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Assessing the Water Conservation Function Based on the InVEST Model: Taking Poyang Lake Region as an Example

Land, 2022
This paper analyzes the spatiotemporal patterns, water yield and water conservation function of different land use types in Poyang Lake Region, China, during 1990–2020 by using national land use, meteorological, soil, DEM data, etc., based on the InVEST ...
Qianru Chen, Xin Xu, Manyu Wu, Jiaming Wen, Jinlang Zou   +4 more
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations of screen time and physical activity with school performance at different types of secondary school

BMC Public Health, 2018
Background Previous studies have already reported associations of media consumption and/or physical activity with school achievement. However, longitudinal studies investigating independent effects of physical activity and media consumption on school ...
Tanja Poulain, Thomas Peschel, Mandy Vogel, Anne Jurkutat, Wieland Kiess   +4 more
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No way out? The double-bind in seeking global prosperity alongside mitigated climate change [PDF]

, 2012
In a prior study, I introduced a simple economic growth model designed to be consistent with general thermodynamic laws. Unlike traditional economic models, civilization is viewed only as a well-mixed global whole with no distinction made between ...
Garrett, Timothy J.
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How Western Diet And Lifestyle Drive The Pandemic Of Obesity And Civilization Diseases

Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome and Obesity : Targets and Therapy, 2019
Westernized populations are plagued by a plethora of chronic non-infectious degenerative diseases, termed as “civilization diseases”, like obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, autoimmune diseases, Alzheimer's disease and many more ...
W. Kopp
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Anti-paste Bag Performance of Water-repellent Filter Media in High-humidity Environments Considering Ultra-low Emissions

Aerosol and Air Quality Research, 2023
This study performed surface treatment of Flumex, polyimide, and membrane-covered aramid (chosen as test substrates) by the C8-1833 water-repellent agent.
Zhongkai Yu, Erbao Guo, Xingcheng Liu, Yuemin Li   +3 more
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