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Open AccessMitigating urban heat island through neighboring rural land cover
Globally, the deteriorating Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect poses a significant threat to human health and undermines ecosystem stability. UHI mitigation strategies have been investigated and utilized extensive...
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Open AccessImpact of ionizers on prevention of airborne infection in classroom
Infectious diseases (e.g., coronavirus disease 2019) dramatically impact human life, economy and social development. Exploring the low-cost and energy-saving approaches is essential in removing infectious viru...
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Green Glass Space Based Design for the Driven of Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort: Case Study in **ong’an, China
Improving comfort is important for people’s health and effectiveness. In traditional approaches, improving thermal comfort may increase building energy consumption. Passive building design has the potential to...
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A Practical-oriented Approach for Preventing COVID-19 Transmission in Naturally Ventilated Room
The current infectious diseases (i.e., COVID 19) has a dramatic impact on human life globally and unprecedented impact on economic and social life. Natural ventilation is a potential energy efficient and low-c...
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Open AccessIdentification of HMGCR as the anticancer target of physapubenolide against melanoma cells by in silico target prediction
Physapubenolide (PB), a withanolide-type compound extracted from the traditional herb Physalis minima L., has been demonstrated to exert remarkable cytotoxicity against cancer cells; however, its molecular mechan...
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Correction to: Physalin A induces G2/M phase cell cycle arrest in human non-small cell lung cancer cells: involvement of the p38 MAPK/ROS pathway
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Open AccessFast prediction for multi-parameters (concentration, temperature and humidity) of indoor environment towards the online control of HVAC system
Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are the most energy-consuming building implements for the improvement of indoor environmental quality (IEQ). We have developed the optimal control strat...
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Thermoresponsive Nanogels from Dendronized Copolymers for Complexation, Protection and Release of Nucleic Acids
A series of thermoresponsive cationic dendronized copolymers and their corresponding nanogels containing dendritic oligoethylene glycol (OEG) units and guanidine groups were prepared, and their complexation, p...
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Prevalence of asthma and allergic symptoms in Suzhou, China: Trends by domestic migrant status
Rapid urbanization in develo** countries, with significant rural-to-urban and between-urban areas migration, presents a natural epidemiological model to better understand population-level trends in asthma an...
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Physalin A induces G2/M phase cell cycle arrest in human non-small cell lung cancer cells: involvement of the p38 MAPK/ROS pathway
Physalin A (PA) is an active withanolide isolated from Physalis alkekengi var. franchetii, a traditional Chinese herbal medicine named **denglong, which has long been used for the treatment of sore throat, hepat...
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Fast prediction of indoor pollutant dispersion based on reduced-order ventilation models
In order to provide realistic ventilation flow rates, it is of great importance to know indoor pollutant concentration field quickly and efficiently resulting from any type of indoor-pollutant-source distribut...
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Asymptotic conditions for the use of linear ventilation models in the presence of buoyancy forces
Low-dimensional discrete linear ventilation models have been studied by literature. In the present study, we investigate the validity and applicability of linear ventilation models for heavy-gas dispersion by ...
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A new detection system for backscattering Mössbauer spectroscopy
The construction and characteristics of a new detection system are described in the paper. This new detector consists of five wire planes, two of which are anode planes and three of which are cathode planes. B...
