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Aquatic noise pollution: implications for individuals, populations, and ecosystems [PDF]

, 2016
Anthropogenically driven environmental changes affect our planet at an unprecedented scale and are considered to be a key threat to biodiversity. According to the World Health Organization, anthropogenic noise is one of the most hazardous forms of ...
Kunc, Hansjoerg P., McLaughlin, Kirsty Elizabeth, Schmidt, Rouven   +2 more
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Smart Face Masks as Wearable Respiratory Sensors: A Review of Sensor Technologies, Materials, and Future Directions

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in smart face masks that actively monitor breathing. By integrating humidity, gas, temperature, pressure, strain, and triboelectric sensors, these masks track key respiratory parameters in real time. The article summarizes sensor mechanisms, compares performance across studies, and discusses challenges and future ...
Negin Faramarzi, Naseeh Backer Kannanthodi, Alice Nicole Casling, Babar Ali, Samira Lakouraj Mansouri, Alessandro Giuseppe D'aloia, Hossein Cheraghi Bidsorkhi, Maria Sabrina Sarto   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials (PEN): Evolution, Current Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the synthesis, phase transition, advanced characterization spanning ex situ to in situ and operando techniques, and diverse applications of phase engineering of nanomaterials (PEN). It further outlines key challenges and future opportunities, such as phase stability, architecture control, and artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven ...
Ye Chen, Zhanxi Fan, Jingjie Ge, Qiyuan He, Zhuangchai Lai, Jiawei Liu, Chaoliang Tan, Hua Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure to bisphenol A, but not phthalates, increases spontaneous diabetes type 1 development in NOD mice

Toxicology Reports, 2015
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune destruction of insulin producing pancreatic beta-cells due to a genetic predisposition and can be triggered by environmental factors.
Johanna Bodin, Anette Kocbach Bølling, Anna Wendt, Lena Eliasson, Rune Becher, Frieke Kuper, Martinus Løvik, Unni Cecilie Nygaard   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The proliferation of noise pollution as an urban social problem in Wolaita Sodo city, Wolaita zone, Ethiopia

Cogent Social Sciences, 2022
Noise pollution is an unwanted, unpleasant or disagreeable sound that causes discomfort to all living beings. Urban noise pollution is one of the problems of people who live in an urban area, which causes different health complications and social ...
Melese Mesene, Mengistu Meskele, Tamirat Mengistu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unequal residential exposure to air pollution and noise : a geospatial environmental justice analysis for Ghent, Belgium [PDF]

, 2019
Following the growing empirical evidence on the health effects of air pollution and noise, the fair distribution of these impacts receives increasing attention.
Verbeek, Thomas
core   +2 more sources

Advances in Halide Perovskites for Photon Radiation Detectors

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This work highlights recent progress in perovskite‐based photon radiation detectors, covering organic–inorganic hybrid, inorganic, lead‐free double, and vacancy‐ordered halide perovskites. Their detection performance is compared, material‐specific advantages and challenges are examined, and provides insight into current limitations and future ...
Liangling Wang, Jieqi Wang, Xiaojun Cui, Carsten Ronning   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

MITIGATION OF NOISE POLLUTION IN URBAN AREAS BY STRATEGICALLY PLANTING TREES AND SHRUBS [PDF]

Journal CleanWAS
Noise is universally recognized as a significant source of environmental degradation in every culture. This paper provides an assessment of the literature on the detrimental impacts of noise pollution on the well-being of individuals.
Shahid Ali Khan, Kainat Fatima, Saddam Hussain, Muhammad Minhal Ali, Abdul Mannan, Nasim Iqbal Butt   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Foreground removal from WMAP 7yr polarization maps using an MLP neural network [PDF]

, 2012
One of the fundamental problems in extracting the cosmic microwave background signal (CMB) from millimeter/submillimeter observations is the pollution by emission from the Milky Way: synchrotron, free-free, and thermal dust emission.
A. Challinor, A. Kogut, A. Kogut, A. Lewis, A.A. Penzias, B. Gold, B. Gold, C.L. Bennett, C.M. Bishop, D. Larson, D.P. Finkbeiner, D.P. Finkbeiner, E. Hivon, E. Komatsu, E.F. Bunn, H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, H.U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, H.U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, H.U. Nørgaard-Nielsen, J. Delabrouille, J. Dunkley, K. Gorski, L. Page, M. Kamionkowski, M. Nolta, M. Rees, M. Zaldarriage, M.L. Brown, S. Leach, U. Seljak, W. Hu   +30 more
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Crosstalk between Oxidative Stress and Inflammation Caused by Noise and Air Pollution—Implications for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Antioxidants
Neurodegenerative diseases are often referred to as diseases of old age, and with the aging population, they are gaining scientific and medical interest.
Marin Kuntić, Omar Hahad, T. Münzel, A. Daiber   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source