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Household air pollution
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Athanasios Nenes, Julia Schmale, Andrea Baccarini, Roman Pohorsky, Sukriti Kapur
The Alaskan Layered Pollution And Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) field experiment was a collaborative study designed to improve understanding of pollution sources and chemical processes during winter (cold climate and low-photochemical activity), to investigat ...
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Satoshi Takahama, Amir Yazdani
Globally, billions of people burn fuels indoors for cooking and heating, which contributes to millions of chronic illnesses and premature deaths annually. Additionally, residential burning contributes significantly to black carbon emissions, which have the ...
Copernicus Gesellschaft Mbh2024Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments
Inhalation exposure to elevated concentrations of airborne particulate matter is a public health concern. Assessment of exposure can be enhanced through better knowledge of source-receptor relationships, which can be characterized through the inhalation in ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023Building ventilation and outdoor air pollution: Implications for health, comfort and energy
As humans spend most of their time indoors, indoor air quality (IAQ) significantly impacts their health. In parallel, building ventilation consumes significant energy, contributing to climate change. However, the relationships between the building ventilat ...
EPFL2023Comparison of two methods for bioaerosol sampling and characterization in a low-biomass chamber environment
Dusan Licina, Shen Yang, Marouane Merizak, Akila Muthalagu
Bioaerosols are emitted from various sources into the indoor environment and can positively and negatively impact human health. Humans are the major source of bioaerosol emissions indoors, specifically for bacteria. However, efficient sampling to guarantee ...
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023Expiratory Aerosol pH: The Overlooked Driver of Airborne Virus Inactivation
Athanasios Nenes, Tamar Kohn, Kalliopi Violaki, Ghislain Gilles Jean-Michel Motos, Aline Laetitia Schaub, Shannon Christa David, Walter Hugentobler
Respiratory viruses, including influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2, are transmitted by the airborne route. Air filtration and ventilation mechanically reduce the concentration of airborne viruses and are necessary tools for disease mitigation. However, they ign ...
2022Inactivation mechanisms of influenza A virus within the micro-environment of expiratory bioaerosols
Athanasios Nenes, Tamar Kohn, Kalliopi Violaki, Ghislain Gilles Jean-Michel Motos, Aline Laetitia Schaub, Shannon Christa David, Walter Hugentobler
Approximately 400’000 deaths are associated with influenza virus every year. Whilst currently dwarfed by the COVID-19 pandemic, influenza continues to circulate within the human population since the first recorded 1918 pandemic over a century ago. During t ...
2022Numerical simulations of retrofitting interventions on timber floors in unreinforced masonry
Katrin Beyer, Igor Tomic, Ivana Bozulic
Unreinforced masonry buildings with flexible timber floors are amongst the most vulnerable building typologies for seismic loading. Though flexible diaphragms play a role in the seismic behaviour of unreinforced masonry buildings, the impact of the connect ...
2022Bioenergetics-based modeling of Plasmodium falciparum metabolism reveals its essential genes, nutritional requirements, and thermodynamic bottlenecks
Vassily Hatzimanikatis, Meriç Ataman, Stepan Tymoshenko, Dominique Soldati-Favre
Novel antimalarial therapies are urgently needed for the fight against drug-resistant para- sites. The metabolism of malaria parasites in infected cells is an attractive source of drug targets but is rather complex. Computational methods can handle this co ...
Public Library of Science2017Hydrothermally-treated Na-X as efficient adsorbents for butadiene removal
Lioubov Kiwi, Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Guillaume Bastien Baur, Jonathan Spring
An efficient adsorbent for butadiene was synthesized via soft hydrothermal treatment (2 h in boiling water followed by 1 h calcination at 573 K) of industrial Na-X. The adsorption capacity of the zeolite was studied in the low concentration range (20–300 p ...
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