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Integrated Dynamic Facade Control with an Agent-based Architecture for Commercial Buildings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Dynamic façades have significant technical potential to minimize heating, cooling, and lighting energy use and peak electric demand in the perimeter zone of commercial buildings, but the performance of these systems is reliant on being able to balance ...
Blum, David H   +3 more
core  

Relational Healing: Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Experiences of Connection, Disconnection, and Growth

open access: yesJournal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this interpretive phenomenological analysis, we interviewed 10 women to make meaning of their lived experiences of sex trafficking and mental health challenges and how relational dynamics influenced their healing and sense of self. Our analysis revealed four themes: (a) central relational paradox, which described internalized shame and ...
Claudia G. Interiano‐Shiverdecker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

(Re)humanizing Blackness: Integrating BlackCrit in the Mental Health Counseling of Black Clients

open access: yesThe Journal of Humanistic Counseling, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Does Black mental health matter? Historically, mental illness in the Black community has been inadequately addressed. Yet Black Americans experience more severe psychological distress than other races, and they are also more likely to experience poor outcomes in counseling.
Demetrius Cofield
wiley   +1 more source

The Illusion of Structural Order: Evaluating the Suppression of Amorphous Carbon Black Pigment Bands in SSE‐Processed Handheld Raman Spectra

open access: yesJournal of Raman Spectroscopy, EarlyView.
The handheld Raman with SSE system efficiently mitigates fluorescence; however, it may also bias the Raman response towards graphitic domains in carbon‐based black pigments, thereby concealing amorphous carbon contributions that are critical for pigment type identification.
Zeynep Alp, Christoph Herm
wiley   +1 more source

Corrosion Performance of Prepainted Galvanized Steel After 8‐Year Outdoor Exposure Upon the Distance to the Seashore in Temperate Environment

open access: yesMaterials and Corrosion, EarlyView.
The corrosion performance of line‐produced prepainted galvanized steel products was investigated upon the distance to the seashore in temperate environment over 8‐year exposure. The rate of underpaint corrosion from cut‐edge was estimated and depended on the agressiveness of the site and the angle of exposure.
Nathalie LeBozec, Dominique Thierry
wiley   +1 more source

Interaction Between Vortex‐Induced Vibrations and Base Vibrations in Piezoelectric Harvesters

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the present era, powering sensors using green energy is a significant challenge. One promising solution for the power supply of small sensors relies on piezoelectric energy harvesters excited by vortex‐induced vibrations (VIVs) generated by wind.
Michele Tonan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reflection of the Identity of Modernism in Decoding the Pahlavi II Residential Building Facades through Semiotic Approach [PDF]

open access: yesتوسعه پایدار شهری
Every identity crisis in every country is based on important and flowing factors, some of which are general but some are unique to the characteristics of the country.
Maryam Amjadi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Main Street Revitalization: Woonsocket, RI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
A healthy environment that utilizes local urban ecologies will positively impact the health and well being of the community. It is important to create an environment that will foster understanding and inspire learning about native plants and animals, how
Robinson, Arnold
core   +1 more source

Mental health benefits of urban green—A systematic review and meta‐analysis of 56 pre‐post control experiments

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Background. Fostering healthy urban living conditions is a critical public health objective. One efficient approach lies in the contact to nature, as numerous studies have shown that urban and peri‐urban natural elements both indoors and outdoors carry a large potential in buffering typical urban threats to mental health.
Marilisa Herchet   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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