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Daniel L. Mendoza, Erik T. Crosman, Corbin Anderson and Shawn A. Gonzales
The combination of extreme heat waves and ozone pollution is a major health hazard for urban populations in the summertime, particularly for the most sensitive groups such as children, the elderly, the unsheltered, and those with pre-existing health cond...
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Elisabeth Fassbender, Josef Rott and Claudia Hemmerle
Cities face the consequences of climate change, specifically the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which detrimentally affects human health. In this regard, deploying PV modules in urban locales prompts inquiry into the impact of energy-active building com...
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Barbara Cardone, Ferdinando Di Martino and Vittorio Miraglia
The application of sentiment analysis approaches to information flows extracted from the social networks connected to particular critical periods generated by pandemic, climatic and extreme environmental phenomena allow the decision maker to detect the e...
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Joachim Schulze, Simon Gehrmann, Avikal Somvanshi and Annette Rudolph-Cleff
The summer of 2022 was one of the hottest and driest summers that Germany experienced in the 21st century. Water levels in rivers sank dramatically with many dams and reservoirs running dry; as a result, fields could not be irrigated sufficiently, and ev...
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Mehmet Sen, Muciz Özcan and Yasin Ramazan Eker
Electric vehicles (EVs), which are environmentally friendly, have been used to minimize the global warming caused by fossil fuels used in vehicles and increasing fuel prices due to the decrease in fossil resources. Considering that the energy used in EVs...
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Lu Wang
In the context of climate change, heat waves are a serious hazard having significant impacts on human health, especially vulnerable populations. Many studies have researched the association between extreme heat and mortality. In the context of urban plan...
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Kevin Cresswell, Diana Mitsova, Weibo Liu, Maria Fadiman and Tobin Hindle
Urbanization and warming climate suggest that health impacts from extreme heat will increase in cities, thus locating vulnerable populations is pivotal. However, heat vulnerability indices (HVI) overwhelmingly interpret one model that may be inaccurate o...
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Abdullahi A. Ibrahim, Muhammad Khan, Chukwuma Nnaji and Amanda S. Koh
Heat-related illness is a growing concern for workers in temperate climates as rising temperatures and heatwaves put them at risk of exertional heat stroke. Monitoring biometrics that predict heat stroke, such as core temperature, is increasingly importa...
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Amir Nematollahi Sarvestani, Pierpaolo Oreste and Sandro Gennaro
Underground fires are still one of the most significant risks in mines today. In order to manage this risk, it is necessary to know the potential evolution of a fire and the effects it can have on people and other objects. Ventilation plays an essential ...
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Guoqing Zeng, Jintao Wang, Lei Zhang, Xuyang Xie, Xuefeng Wang and Guobing Chen
The marine steam power system includes a large amount of thermal equipment; meanwhile, the marine environment is harsh and the working conditions change frequently. Operation management involves many disciplines, such as heat, machinery, control, electri...
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