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Eco-Sustainable Bridging of Housing Deficit – A Case Study of Nigeria [PDF]

open access: yesEngineering and Technology Journal, 2022
Keeping the average global temperature rise below the 1.5oC value over the pre-industrial era requires all hands to be on deck. The energy sector, transportation sector, and the agricultural/land use segment are significant contributors to greenhouse gas
Olumide Towoju   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Design and evaluation of a prototype of a children’s educational application during and for the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond

open access: yesJournal on Interactive Systems, 2022
Covid-19 pandemic affected virtually every sector of life, due to the need to avoid agglomerations and maintaining social isolation. In education, teaching-learning processes have changed drastically and now are in a state of fast transformation. Schools
Ingrid T. Monteiro   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptive Strategies Used in Urban Houses to Overheating: A Systematic Review

open access: yesJournal of Contemporary Urban Affairs, 2023
Recently, urban regions are experiencing prolonged heat exposure due to climate change and increased population expansion. Physiological, psychological and behavioural measures improve residents’ thermal comfort to solve the overheating issues generated ...
Sakirat Abimbola Afolabi   +1 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Toxic Mechanisms of Five Heavy Metals: Mercury, Lead, Chromium, Cadmium, and Arsenic

open access: yesFrontiers in Pharmacology, 2021
The industrial activities of the last century have caused massive increases in human exposure to heavy metals. Mercury, lead, chromium, cadmium, and arsenic have been the most common heavy metals that induced human poisonings.
M. Balali-Mood   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Understanding the Effect of Lead Iodide Excess on the Performance of Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells [PDF]

open access: yesACS Energy Lett. 2022, 7, 6, 1912-1919, 2022
The presence of unreacted lead iodide in organic-inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells is widely correlated with an increase in power conversion efficiency. We investigate the mechanism for this increase by identifying the role of surfaces and interfaces present between methylammonium lead iodide perovskite films and excess lead iodide.
arxiv   +1 more source

Combination therapy of Allium cepa L. and Cucumis sativa L. extracts in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat model

open access: yesFuture Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2021
Background The study assessed the effects of aqueous extracts of Allium cepa, Cucumis sativa and their combined formulation (1:1) on changes in body weight, fasting blood glucose level (FBGL), pancreas morphology and serum lipid concentration in ...
O. M. Ighodaro   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ensuring Emotional and Psychological Wellbeing in Children through Bibliotherapy During the COVID-19 Pandemic

open access: yesInternational Journal of Librarianship (IJoL), 2022
Sudden lifestyle changes and disruption necessitated by the COVID-19 precautionary measures resulted in children becoming frightened, bored, isolated and anxious which automatically posed a threat to their emotional and psychological wellbeing.
Sophia Adeyeye, Opeyemi Oboh
doaj   +1 more source

Firm Specific Capability Organisational Structure and New Product Performance of Fast Moving Consumer Goods Manufacturers in Emerging Economy

open access: yesSustainable Business and Society in Emerging Economies, 2021
Purpose: This study was centered on understanding the linkages between internal organizational competencies and performance of new products and the role of organizational structure focusing on Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCGs) manufacturers in the South-
Onamusi Abiodun B   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Eye Movements During Comprehension in Virtual Reality: The Influence of a Change in Point of View Between Auditory and Visual Information in the Activation of a Mental Model

open access: yesFrontiers in Virtual Reality, 2022
This paper provides new research perspectives in the field of multimodal comprehension (auditory crossing visual information) by using immersion and incorporating eye tracking in a virtual reality environment.
Véronique Drai-Zerbib   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

COVID-19 Does Not Lead to a “Typical” Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2020
ventilation strategy was applied to the first four patients to increase pulmonary efficiency to eliminate CO2, and this was used in the next four patients. Gas exchange consists of oxygenation and ventilation.
L. Gattinoni   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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