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With more than half the world population now urbanised, urban metabolism – defined as the throughput and transformation of material and energy flows to sustain human life in urban settlements – is responsible for consuming the majority of global resources ...
In this work we present a mathematical model for the coupling of cardiovascular system and metabolism under sport efforts. Effects such as oxygenation, heart rates, flow rates, blood pressure and mass transfer to tissues will be considered. A special atten ...
A novel clinker with low Ca/Si ratio and low sintering temperature was synthesized, and the property of the clinker was tested. A clinker sintered from industrial raw materials mainly contains rankinite (Ca3Si2O7), pseudowollastonite (Ca-3(Si3O9)) and ferr ...
Cardiac and skeletal muscle function relies on a continuous energy production via fatty acid metabolism and mitochondrial oxidation of pyruvate, with a fine balance between substrate delivery and utilization. Changes in metabolism are increasingly being im ...
With the completion of the many genomes, genetics is positioned to meet physiology. In this review, we summarize the coming of "systems metabolism" in mammals through the use of the mouse, as a model system to study metabolism. Building on mouse genetics w ...
The world is becoming more and more urban. During the last fifty years, the population in Swiss cities has grown from 45% to 70% of the total population. This change is characterised by urban sprawl and by an increase in the consumption of resources, parti ...
This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability, and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimized. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideratio ...
Cities are complex dynamic entities. From a thermodynamic perspective, they represent open systems, constantly importing and exporting energy and matter across their boundaries; the output invariably being less ordered due to irreversible internal processe ...
