Conventional green roofs, although having numerous advantages, could place water resources under pressure in dry periods due to irrigation requirements. Moreover, the thermal efficiency of roofs decrease without irrigation, and plants get damaged. Therefore, this study aims improve conventional by proposing a new multipurpose roof combined with fog dew harvesting systems. The analysis determine...

Fe3Al intermetallics (Fe3Al, Fe3Al-Zr, Fe3Al-Zr,Mo and Fe3Al-Zr, Mo, Nb) were oxidized at 950 °C in dry and humid (11 vol% water) synthetic air. Thermogravimetric measurements showed that the oxidation rates of the tested intermetallics were lower in humid air than in dry air (especially for Fe3Al-Zr, Mo and Fe3Al-Zr, Mo, Nb). The addition of small amounts of Zr, Mo or Nb improved the kinetics ...

In this work, we have demonstrated that amorphous ZnO nanobranches (a-ZnO NBs) could spontaneously react from the crystalline ZnO NWs (c-ZnO NWs) at specific humid environment. The spontaneous reaction mechanism and result can be analyzed by humidity controlling and optical microscope (OM)/scanning electron microscope (SEM)/Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM)/transmission electron microscopy (...

The aim of this study was to investigate if the uptake of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP), a widely used industrial chemical, increases after exposure to NMP in humid air compared to dry air. NMP has been described to be an airway irritant and a developmentally toxic compound. Six male volunteers were exposed to NMP, three at the time, for 8h in an exposure chamber. They were each exposed on four ...

655 Fresh water is under pressure in the humid tropics from population growth, land use and climate change, all of which are influenced by humans. These pressures are likely to have profound consequences. Here we present a research vision for the humid tropics as an outcome of a community workshop held in Hawaii in March 2011. This report includes various perspectives from the international sci...

Hot and humid environments are prevalent in many industries. People working in hot and humid environments are at great risk of specific heat-related disorders, the productivity decrease and safety problems. In order to guarantee workers’ health and safety, safety evaluation and early warning rating of the hot and humid environments are studied in this paper. The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process...

line n-78-14 with the pedigree of sha4/chil cm91099-25y-om-3n-1y-oyz-o10m-oy-3m-o10 was obtained from cimmyt, mexico in 1996 through high rainfall wheat screening nursery. preliminary evaluation of the genotypes in international nursery in gorgan and sari research stations during 1996-97 cropping season, resulted in selection of this line as one of the most high yielding genotypes. selected lin...

Citation: Tebebu TY, Steenhuis TS, Dagnew DC, Guzman CD, Bayabil HK, Zegeye AD, Collick AS, Langan S, MacAlister C, Langendoen EJ, Yitaferu B and Tilahun SA (2015) Improving efficacy of landscape interventions in the (sub) humid Ethiopian highlands by improved understanding of runoff processes. Front. Earth Sci. 3:49. doi: 10.3389/feart.2015.00049 Improving efficacy of landscape interventions i...

Abstract High nighttime urban air temperatures increase health risks and economic vulnerability of people globally. While recent studies have highlighted heat mitigation effects vegetation, the magnitude variability vegetation-derived cooling differs greatly among cities. We hypothesize that is driven by vegetation density whose effect regulated aridity through increasing transpiration. test th...