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Strategies for promoting green buildings: integrating evolutionary game and SEIR models [PDF]

open access: yesScientific Reports
The use of green buildings is an inevitable requirement for sustainable development. However, green buildings face the awkward situation of a slow market share increase.
Song Wang, Dongliang Zhu
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Making buildings "green"

open access: yesTema, 2015
Sustainable buildings are low impact elements in the world heritage. There is a biunivocal relation between the building renewal and the energy efficiency; in other words, it is necessary the former for obtaining the latter, and vice versa.
Teresa Notaro
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Neural network-based thermal comfort prediction for the elderly [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Machine learning technology has become a hot topic and is being applied in many fields. However, in the prediction of thermal sensation in the elderly, there is not enough research on the neural network to predict the effect of human thermal comfort.
Zhang JinJin   +4 more
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Simulation of performance of five types of external windows: a case study in Chongqing, China [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
The efficiency of transparent envelopes must be improved in purpose of saving energy. The EnergyPlus software was used to examine the inside glass surface temperature and annual energy performance (AEP) of five different types of external windows ...
Li DK, Chen JH, Lu LD
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Experimental Investigation on Thermal Performance of Double-U-tube Heat Exchanger Using CuO/water Nanofluid as Heat Transfer Fluid [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
By applying the shallow ground energy to supply building heating and cooling, the geothermal heat exchanger systems were considered as an energy-efficient building service system.
Du Ruiqing, Jiang Dandan, Wang Yong
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Co-exposure to particulate matter and humidity increases blood pressure in hypertensive mice via the TRPV4-cPLA2-COX2 pathway

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2023
Epidemiological studies have demonstrated that particulate matter (PM) can induce or exacerbate hypertension. High relative humidity has been associated with elevated blood pressure in certain regions.
Miao Guo   +11 more
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Experimental study on the thermal comfort and physiological responses of the elderly in unstable environments [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2022
In this study, the investigators used comparative experiments in order to study the age differences and the effects of temperature changes on physiological responses. Firstly, This paper analyzed the thermal sensation differences and the trend of changes
Zhang Zixuan   +4 more
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Associations of household dampness with asthma, allergies, and airway diseases among preschoolers in two cross-sectional studies in Chongqing, China: Repeated surveys in 2010 and 2019

open access: yesEnvironment International, 2020
Many studies have investigated the associations between household damp indicators, and allergies and respiratory diseases in childhood. However, the findings are rather inconsistent.
Jiao Cai   +8 more
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Dual-Level Framework for OpenBIM-Enabled Design Collaboration

open access: yesBuildings, 2023
Design coordination and collaboration are crucial in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industries, necessitating the integration of diverse disciplines and expertise to achieve unified and functional designs.
Ming Jin, Baizhan Li
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Structural Design and Analysis for a Timber-Concrete Hybrid Building

open access: yesFrontiers in Materials, 2022
The benefits of using wood in tall and commercial construction are undisputed, namely reducing the carbon footprint, shortening construction times, and enhancing seismic and building physics performance.
Xiaoyue Zhang   +12 more
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