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A newly designed BIPV system with enhanced passive cooling and ventilation
Nowadays, the application of renewable energies such as solar energy in the building sector has increased notably considering the adverse impacts of...
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Safety Training
Worldwide 4.9 million people died in 2016 from injuries that could have been prevented. An evidence-based behavior-analytic approach to safety...
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Passive earth pressure in sand on inclined walls with negative wall friction based on a statically admissible stress field
The problem considered in this paper is the passive earth pressure determination under various rigid wall geometry with negative wall-soil friction....
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Untangling the contribution of active and passive group augmentation benefits to the multilevel selection of altruism using a video game
The group augmentation hypothesis states that individuals gain benefits by increasing group size and is rarely studied because it often overlaps with...
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Limit equilibrium models for passive failure of a large-diameter shield tunnel face in reinforced soft clay
For the excavation of a shallow tunnel in soft soil, the controllable range of the support pressure is narrow due to the small area of overburdened...
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Attitude Tracking Control of All-Terrain Vehicle with Tandem Active–Passive Suspension
When vehicles with traditional passive suspension systems are driving on complex pavement, the large vibration of the body will result in relatively...
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Urinary profiles of methoxyphenamine and its metabolite after inhalation of methoxyphenamine smoke in humans: aiming to distinguish between active and passive exposure
PurposeMethamphetamine (METH) is commonly abused through smoking. However, the lack of evidence regarding differences in urinary METH excretion after...
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Can a passive unilateral hip exosuit diminish walking asymmetry? A randomized trial
BackgroundAsymmetric walking gait impairs activities of daily living in neurological patient populations, increases their fall risk, and leads to...
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Pharmacovigilance to Inform Drug Safety: Challenges and Opportunities
Pharmacovigilance is vital to ensure the short-term and long-term safety of medications and other medicinal substances. Both active and passive...
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Behind the Screen: A Narrative Review on the Translational Capacity of Passive Sensing for Mental Health Assessment
Mental health disorders—including depression, anxiety, trauma-related, and psychotic conditions—are pervasive and impairing, representing...
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Utilizing Virtual Reality to Support Teaching the Design Principles of the Life-Safety System
The design studio is a fundamental component of architectural education, providing students with a platform to apply their theoretical knowledge to...
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Performance of the SABRE detector module in a purely passive shielding
We present here a characterization of the low background NaI(Tl) crystal NaI-33 based on a period of almost one year of data taking (891 kg
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Air-Jet Levitation of Continuum Robots: Stable Head Floating by Passive Thrust Vectoring for Enhancing Mobility
Flexible, continuum-type robots can access narrow spaces in debris areas during search-and-rescue missions. However, their current problem is the...
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Passive and low-energy strategies to improve sleep thermal comfort and energy resilience during heat waves and cold snaps
Sleep is a pillar of human health and wellbeing. In high- and middle-income countries, there is a great reliance on heating, ventilation, and air...
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Safety Engineering
Gaseous substances that spread in the ambient air can cause different effects that affect both people and buildings/facilities. Safety engineering is...
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Experimental analysis of the performance of a passive direct alcoholic fuel cell with different alcoholic fuels and blends of methanol-alcoholic additives
Passive direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC) are most suitable for charging of portable electronic devices. Fuel and oxidant are supplied through...
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Using passive Wi-Fi for community crowd sensing during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sensing passersby and detecting crowded locations is a growing area of research and development in the last decades. The COVID-19 pandemic compelled...
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Immersive virtual reality and passive haptic interfaces to improve procedural learning in a formal training course for first responders
One key aspect for the safety and success of first responders’ operations is the compliance, during the intervention, with all the safety procedures...
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Optimal design of active-passive shoulder exoskeletons: a computational modeling of human-robot interaction
Exoskeleton robots, which range from fully passive to fully active-assisted movements, have become an essential instrument for assisting industrial...
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Experimental investigation of the heat transfer characteristics, operating limits, and temperature distribution of a prototypically 3 m long two-phase closed thermosyphon for spent fuel pool passive cooling
The current study investigated the heat transfer performance, operation limits, and temperature distribution of a 3 m prototype model for a...
