Estimating the Number of Vulnerable People in the United States Exposed to Residential Wood Smoke http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409136 Rogalsky et al. (2014) recently estimated the number of homes and individuals at risk of adverse health effects from exposure to emissions from residential wood combustion in the United States. We appreciate the importance of this topic, particularly to rural a...

Estimating the Number of Vulnerable People in the United States Exposed to Residential Wood Smoke http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409136 Rogalsky et al. (2014) recently estimated the number of homes and individuals at risk of adverse health effects from exposure to emissions from residential wood combustion in the United States. We appreciate the importance of this topic, particularly to rural a...

Thermophilic actinomycetes, associated with a hypersensitivity pneumonitis, may be found in compost but also have been detected in heating systems of office buildings. This study was designed to determine whether these organisms were present in residential heating systems. Furnace dust or humidifier water of 12 of 20 homes contained thermophilic actinomycetes, indicating that the organisms may ...

windows have a major role on absorbing solar energy, reducing heat loses, and adding their values in traditional houses in ardabil. the main aim of this research is to study windows as elements of beautification and production of clean and free energy. we discern that windows can be designed to respond to the regional climates. to explore that, we review four samples of the windows in the famou...

In the paper the author introduces FCW_MRFI, which is a streaming data frequent item mining algorithm based on variable window. The FCW_MRFI algorithm can mine frequent item in any window of recent streaming data, whose given length is L. Meanwhile, it divides recent streaming data into several windows of variable length according to m, which is the number of the counter array. This algorithm c...

This paper provides the data used in a research project to propose a new simplified windows rating system based on saved annual energy ("Developing an empirical predictive energy-rating model for windows by using Artificial Neural Network" (Shakouri Hassanabadi and Banihashemi Namini, 2012) [1], "Climatic, parametric and non-parametric analysis of energy performance of double-glazed windows in ...

Dear Editor-in-Chief On January 28, the city of Khoy (the northwest of Iran) was struck by a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter scale at 21:44:44 and a depth of 7 km, X: 45.01 and Y: 38.05 (1). This earthquake occurred 117 kilometers from Urmia, the capital of the West Azerbaijan Province. Over 370,000 people were affected by this earthquake, which resulted in three death...

Color-changing PV windows could save energy and generate electricity. A building with such is shown changing from tinted to transparent phase. This work reviews recent strategies provides a future outlook for this technology.

In some climates, massive buildings made of stone, masonry, concrete, earth and … can be utilized as one of the simplest and most effective ways of reducing building heating and cooling loads. Very often such savings could be achieved in the design stage of the building and with a relatively low-cost. Such declines in building envelope heat losses combined with optimized material configurati...