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A Reinforcement Learning-Based Approach to Automate the Electrochromic Glass and to Enhance the Visual Comfort

Applied Sciences, 2021
Daylight is important for the well-being of humans. Therefore, many office buildings use large windows and glass facades to let more daylight into office spaces.
Raghuram Kalyanam, Sabine Hoffmann
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Discomfort Glare from Several Sources: A Formula for Outdoor Lighting

, 2021
Many models have been developed to predict the discomfort glare generated by one light source in the visual field. Some of them were generalized to predict discomfort glare from several sources, but they were not directly built from multi-source data. In
Joffrey Girard, Villa, Céline, Roland Brémond, Girard, Joffrey, Céline Villa, Bremond, Roland   +5 more
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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Optimizing Classroom Lighting for Enhanced Visual Comfort and Reduced Energy Consumption

Buildings
Educational buildings are recognized as one of the largest consumers of electrical energy. Inadequate lighting can also have negative physical and psychological effects on these environments.
Samaneh Aghajari, Cheng-Chen Chen
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‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
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Aniridia‐associated keratopathy: Clinical and molecular mechanisms of disease progression and emerging therapeutic targets

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Congenital aniridia is a rare genetic disorder primarily caused by pathogenic variants of the PAX6 gene. It leads to various panocular anomalies, including aniridia‐associated keratopathy (AAK). This review highlights recent insights into its pathogenesis, focusing on clinical staging, microstructural changes in the cornea and molecular ...
N. Szentmáry, S. Suiwal, M. Amini, F. N. Fries, A. Náray, L. Latta, Z. Li, S. Li, S. Liu, S. L. Hsu, S. Kundu, G. Tóth, S. Trusen, J. Zimmermann, B. Seitz, B. Käsmann‐Kellner, Z. Hoxha, A. Langenbucher, O. Stachs, M. Cortón‐Perez, K. Tory, A. Csorba, Z. Z. Nagy, M. C. Acosta, J. Gallar, M. Csidey, E. Maka, T. Stachon   +27 more
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Patient‐reported outcomes and visual function after four refractive strategies in cataract surgery: A randomized controlled trial

Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To evaluate patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) and visual function across four groups of public cataract patients: emmetropia, mini‐monovision, monovision with partial‐range of field (RoF) narrow intraocular lenses (IOLs) and patients implanted with partial‐RoF extended IOLs.
Anne Guldhammer Skov, Morten la Cour, Birgitte Moldow, Lars Holm, Therese Krarup   +4 more
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Prediction of discomfort from glare from daylight in classrooms

, 2023
Daylighting is desirable in classrooms but can pose a challenge to classroom illumination when there is a risk of discomfort from glare from windows and sunlight. There are several metrics in use for the evaluation of discomfort from glare from daylight,
Bokel, R.M.J. (author), Abreu Vieira Viula, R.J. (author), Tenpierik, M.J. (author)   +2 more
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Family‐Led Decision‐Making Meetings as an Alternative to Initial Child Protection Conferences: Findings From a Realist Evaluation of the Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing Pilot in England

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Safeguarding Family Group Conferencing (FGC) is a family‐led decision‐making process offered to some families in England as an alternative to an Initial Child Protection Conference when Children's Services have safeguarding concerns. A realist evaluation was conducted within three local authorities piloting this approach to build understanding
Bekkah Bernheim, Jennie Hayes, Alankrita Singh, Katrina Wyatt, Donald Forrester, Lorna Stabler   +5 more
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A Wider View: Amie Siegel's Panorama and the Role of Contemporary Art in Natural History Museum Critique and Practice

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In Panorama, artist Amie Siegel montaged films made by Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) staff in the 1930s–1970s when documenting their research expeditions and exhibition projects, along with her own footage shot in the museum. Displayed at Carnegie Museum of Art in 2023–2024, the exhibition made visible the often hidden labors of ...
Deirdre Madeleine Smith
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