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Assessing the fire resistance of damaged reinforced concrete frames: A comparative study between 2D and 3D frames

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Post‐earthquake fires pose a significant threat to urban environments, with potentially catastrophic consequences for buildings and infrastructure. To enhance understanding and mitigate these risks, this study conducts a comparative analysis of post‐earthquake fire (PEF) in two‐dimensional (2D) and three‐dimensional (3D) reinforced concrete ...
Hugo Vitorino, Paulo Vila Real, Carlos Couto, Hugo Rodrigues   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Preliminary Study of Summer Thermo-Hygrometric Comfort under Different Environmental Conditions in a Mediterranean City

Urban Science, 2022
The thermo-hygrometric sensation of pedestrians in outdoor environments can be quantified by means of bioclimatic indices. In this work, the Mediterranean Outdoor Thermal Comfort Index (MOCI) is applied in the city of Rome (Italy) for the purpose of ...
Serena Falasca, Annalisa Di Bernardino, Virgilio Ciancio, Gabriele Curci, Ferdinando Salata   +4 more
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Synergistic and Antagonistic Effects of Chemical Pollutants and Parasitic Fungi on Cyanobacterial Metabolism

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Freshwater ecosystems are increasingly impacted by anthropogenic pollutants, including the widely used herbicide metolachlor (MET) and cigarette butt (CB) litter. Parasites represent an additional biotic stressor that can modulate pollutant effects on their hosts.
Erika Berenice Martínez‐Ruiz, Jutta Fastner, Stephanie Spahr, Justyna Wolinska   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confronting Land Surface Temperature and Ground Station Data for Urban Heat Island Assessment and Urban Building Energy Modeling—A Case Study for Northern Italy

Energies
Data scarcity limits robust assessment of urban overheating and its implications for building energy use, especially in complex-terrain cities such as those in mountain environments.
Mario Alves da Silva, Gregorio Borelli, Andrea Gasparella, Giovanni Pernigotto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enabling pandemic‐resilient healthcare: Narrowband Internet of Things and edge intelligence for real‐time monitoring

CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) in deploying robotic sprayers for pandemic‐associated disinfection and monitoring has garnered significant attention in recent research. The authors introduce a novel architectural framework designed to interconnect smart monitoring robotic devices within healthcare facilities using narrowband Internet of Things ...
Md Motaharul Islam, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Shayla Islam, Mohammed Balfaqih, Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani, Nasser Alalwan, Nurhizam Safie, Zaheed Ahmed Bhuiyan, Rahul Thakkar, Taher M. Ghazal   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
wiley   +1 more source

Balancing positive and negative environmental impacts of urban greening considering future climate: A case study in the Paris region, France

City and Environment Interactions
Urban greening enhances summer thermal comfort in cities; however, vegetation requires watering and reduces solar gains on buildings, potentially increasing energy consumption for heating.
Robin Monnier, Erwan Personne, Patrick Stella, Laura Ferraz de Paula, Patrick Schalbart, Charlotte Roux, Bruno Peuportier   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

FINANCIALIZED GREEN STATE ENTREPRENEURIALISM AND THE URBANIZATION OF MOUNTAINS: Chongli’s Consumption‐based Territorial Business Model for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of a territorial business model (TBM) to renew the analysis of the production of the urban built environment beyond established urban cores. Based on the case of Chongli, a site for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, this article provides a double decentering of the ways in which a mountain region was urbanized
Thierry Theurillat, Mengke Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

The interaction of building energy use, ventilation performance and urban noise under future climate scenarios [PDF]

, 2012
This thesis studies the interaction of building energy use, ventilation performance and urban noise under future climate scenarios, comparing in particular the noise and climatic influences on non-domestic natural ventilation cooling.
Barclay, Michael
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A Systematic Review on the Risk of Overheating in Passive Houses

Buildings
The rise in energy-efficient building strategies, driven by the intensifying energy crisis, has encouraged the development of the passive house (PH) approach.
Ensiyeh Farrokhirad, Yun Gao, Adrian Pitts, Guo Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source