Over the past years in Central and Eastern Europe, including Poland, it can be observed that there has been a considerable decrease in water consumption. This leads to high operational costs due to underutilised capacity of existing drinking water treatment plants (DWTP) or distribution systems. Under these conditions providing rational management of DWTP requires technical, economical and reli...

Despite insufficient housing facilities, particularly in developing countries, construction systems are generally selected intuitively or based on conventional solutions sanctioned by practice. The present study aims to evaluate different options for the design of low-income Brazil integrating life cycle assessment (LCA) into decision-making process. To achieve this objective, three single-fami...

Environmental regulations are gradually striving to decarbonize short-sea navigation fostering the replacement of conventional power systems with alternative ones. The electrification ships has been proposed in literature as a pathway zero-emission shipping. Among various alternatives, batteries could ensure full conformity tightening emission restrictions. However, appropriate for need be inve...

The prostacyclin analogue iloprost (ZK 36374) inhibits neutrophil activation in vitro, reduces neutrophil accumulation in inflammatory skin lesions, and reduces ultimate infarct size in an anesthetized open-chest canine model of regional ischemia and reperfusion. Iloprost (0.1-100 microM) inhibited the in vitro production of superoxide anion by canine neutrophils in a concentration-dependent ma...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the validity and reproducibility of a noninvasive dual pulse wave Doppler (DPWD) method, which involves simultaneous recording of flow velocity of two independent sample volumes with a measurable distance, for measuring the local arterial pulse wave velocity (PWV) through in vitro and in vivo studies. METHODS The DPWD mode of Hitachi HI Vision Preirus ultrasound system ...

Background: Most acute coronary syndromes occur due to thrombosis caused by plaque rupture (PR) and erosion (PE). Precise in vivo differentiation between PR PE is challenging for intravascular imaging. This study the first determine diagnostic performance of novel 60 MHz high-definition ultrasound (HD-IVUS) differentiating atherosclerotic morphology influenced local hemodynamic flow rabbits. ev...

Buildings are responsible for a large share of CO2 emissions in the world. Building renovation is crucial to decrease environmental impact and meet United Nations climate action goals. However, due buildings’ long service lives, there many uncertainties that might cause deviation results predicted retrofit outcome. In this paper, we determine climate-friendly cost-effective scenarios two typica...

Abstract Most innovative and eco-friendly project alternatives are rejected due to higher initial costs. This problem arises the general cost analysis that considers only It can be solved using Life Cycle Cost Analysis (LCCA) approach because LCCA helps decision makers select alternative with more economic benefits by considering costs incurred in it throughout life cycle. In this paper, cycle ...