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Investigating Daylight in the Apartment Buildings in Melbourne, Australia

Infrastructures, 2020
Daylighting improves users’ experience in visual comfort, aesthetics, behaviour and perception of space and plays an important part in enhancing the health and wellbeing of occupants inside a dwelling.
Sehar Abidi, Priyadarsini Rajagopalan
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New‐Generation Integrated Devices: Multiple‐Energy Utilization and Integration Systems Based on Perovskite Photovoltaics

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
This review highlights emerging integrated energy systems based on perovskite photovoltaics, including PSC–thermoelectric, photovoltaic–electrochemical, self‐charging, and building‐integrated architectures. By coupling multiple energy conversion and storage pathways, these multifunctional platforms enable enhanced solar utilization, improved stability,
Yihuai Huang, Wenguang Zhang, Yuchen Xiong, Zijun Yi, Changkai Huang, Qinghui Jiang, Abdul Basit, Guibin Shen, Yubo Luo, Xin Li, Junyou Yang   +10 more
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Daylight Availability of Living Rooms in Dense Residential Areas under Current Planning Regulations: A Cross-Region Case Study in China

Buildings
After the pandemic, as it becomes more feasible to study and work from home, the quality of residential daylighting has attracted increasing attention. With the rapid growth of high-density residential areas, China is confronted with the incoordination ...
Lishu Hong, Chenxi Wang, Xin Zhang
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Water Electrolysis Technologies for Extraterrestrial Water Resource Conversion

EcoEnergy, EarlyView.
This paper reviews four water electrolysis technologies for extraterrestrial water conversion: alkaline water electrolysis, proton exchange membrane water electrolysis, solid oxide water electrolysis, and anion exchange membrane water electrolysis. It elaborates on their mechanisms, components, and integration, highlighting challenges such as water ...
Yawen Jiang, Yuan Zhao, Lin Zu, Lili Ling, Yongwei Zhao, Jun Di, Pin Song   +6 more
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Smart Functional Hydrogels: Emerging Platforms for Thermal and Electrochemical Energy Harvesting and Conversion Systems

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
The hydrogel exhibits versatile functions, including efficient thermogalvanic conversion under a temperature difference, and acting as a cooling layer/forming a thermally conductive nanoactive composite for thermovoltaic conversion. Additionally, its self‐healing and self‐powered flexibility play a key role in energy storage systems. The growing demand 
Eunah Kang
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Evaluating the Effects of Vegetation on Daylight Performance: A Simulation-Based Study of Government School Buildings in the Hot–Humid Climate of Chennai, India

Buildings
This study examines the influence of vegetation on indoor daylight performance in school buildings located in the hot–humid climate of Chennai, India.
Jeyaradha Jayaram, Lakshmi Sundaram
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Environmental Statecraft, Fragmented Authoritarianism, and Technocratic Governance: The Structure and Agency of China's Local Environmental Politics

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Local environmental politics in China is often said to be dominated by state‐controlled modes of multi‐level governance. However, top‐down governance is embedded within and transformed by local politics, adding complexity to governance practices and environmental outcomes.
Minsi Liu, Kevin Lo
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The role of the host—Neutrophil biology

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Neutrophilic polymorphonuclear leukocytes (neutrophils) are myeloid cells packed with lysosomal granules (hence also called granulocytes) that contain a formidable antimicrobial arsenal. They are terminally differentiated cells that play a critical role in acute and chronic inflammation, as well as in the resolution of inflammation and wound ...
Iain L. C. Chapple, Josefine Hirschfeld, Alpdogan Kantarci, Asaf Wilensky, Lior Shapira   +4 more
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AI‑Enhanced Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Indoor Environmental Quality in Contemporary Architectural Practice

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
This study presents an AI-assisted hybrid computational framework for evaluating Indoor Lighting Quality (ILQ) as a core component of Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) during early design stages. The framework combines a simplified daylight-feasibility
Asmaa Ahmed Khder
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'Daylight Star'

, 2021
'Daylight Star' was written in response to an invitation by he Munster Writers Centre, Cork, Ireland, to submit a poem for an anthology of work detailing responses to Covid 19No Full ...
Lawrence, Anthony
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