Optimizing building performance with Digital Twins: Pathways to energy efficiency and decarbonization by Tanase Andra, Croitoru Cristiana

“…This article explores the application of digital twins in the built environment, emphasizing their role in achieving significant energy and environmental benefits. Beginning with a brief discussion introducing the concept of digital twins, the article highlights their critical importance in modern building management and their potential to revolutionize sustainability practices. …”
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Propagation Properties of Partially Coherent Flat-Topped Beam Rectangular Arrays in Plasma and Atmospheric Turbulence by Xinkai Ma, Hui Zhang, Yuanhao Zhao, LinXuan Yao, Changchun Yu, Yaru Gao, Yangsheng Yuan, Yangjian Cai, Bohan Guo

“…Our results have significant implications for FSO communications within specific environmental contexts.…”
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Growing ‘Tahiti’ Limes in the Home Landscape by Jonathan H. Crane

“…Detailed care instructions, including fertilization schedules and planting techniques for different soil types, are provided to ensure successful cultivation and fruit yield in various environmental conditions. First published in Feb. 1991. …”
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Decompensation of β-Cells in Diabetes: When Pancreatic β-Cells Are on ICE(R) by Roberto Salvi, Amar Abderrahmani

“…This is part of adaptive response required for proper β-cells function in response to environmental factors. Inappropriate induction of ICER accounts for pancreatic β-cells dysfunction and ultimately death elicited by chronic hyperglycemia, fatty acids, and oxidized LDL. …”
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Alligator Abundance and Hydrology (2003–2013): What Long-term Monitoring Can Tell Us about Everglades Restoration by Rebecca G. Harvey, Jeff Beauchamp, Robin Bijlani, Frank J. Mazzotti, Laura A. Brandt

“…It responds clearly to environmental change and is easy and inexpensive to monitor. …”
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Economic Contributions of the Forest Industry and Forest-based Recreation in Florida in 2016 by Christa Dean Court, Alan W Hodges, Mohammad Rahmani

“…In addition to industrial forest-related activity, public forestlands in Florida support a variety of recreational activities, attract a significant number of recreational visitors, and provide many non-marketed environmental or ecosystem services. This 4-page fact sheet written by Christa Dean Court, Alan W Hodges, and Mohammad Rahmani and published by the UF/IFAS Food and Resource Economics Department describes a study that analyzed the economic contributions of the forest industry and forest-based recreation activities to the state of Florida in 2016. …”
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European Food Safety Certification - The GlobalG.A.P® Standard and Its Accredited Certification Scheme by Richard C. Yudin, Keith R. Schneider

“…Many European importers and retailers will only buy produce, meat, and grain-based products that come from GlobalG.A.P-certified farms. Despite its environmental origins, the main concern is food safety, followed by worker welfare, and then ecological matters. …”
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Investigation of Epoxidized Palm Oils as Green Processing Aids and Activators in Rubber Composites by DongJu Lee, Sung Ho Song

“…Epoxidized palm oil (EPO) is environmentally friendly, biodegradable, and a relatively less costly processing aid. …”
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Citrus BMP Implementation in Florida’s Gulf Citrus Production Area: Pesticides by Sanjay Shukla, R.E. Rouse, S.S. Shukla, E.A. Hanlon, K. Portier, T.A. Obreza

“…This high adoption rate underscores the growers' awareness of the environmental and health impacts of pesticide use and their commitment to mitigating these effects. …”
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Watersheds of Florida: Understanding a Watershed Approach to Water Management by Rao Mylavarapu, Kelley Hines, Thomas Obreza, Greg Means

“…This document also provides information on the basins, basin groups, and hydrologic units of Florida used by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to implement watershed assessment, monitoring, and restoration programs. …”
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Considering Participants’ Personal Wellness in Conservation-Based Extension Programs: Opportunities for Integrative Development and Evaluation by John Diaz, Erica Odera, Laura Warner

“…These results demonstrate an opportunity for those focused on environmental behaviors to pair and embed programs focused on personal well-being to empower communities to work toward achieving conservation goals. https://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/wc370 …”
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Monocular Vision SLAM for Indoor Aerial Vehicles by Koray Çelik, Arun K. Somani

“…Experimental results show that the system is only limited by the capabilities of the camera and environmental entropy.…”
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Express Detection of Pentachlorophenol as Dioxins Precursor in Natural Water by Vitalia S. Krikounova, Ramadan Abuknesha, Sergei A. Eremin

“…PCP may form polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, making environmental monitoring of this compound an issue of great importance. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Atkinson uses the Latin poet’s interest in change and its often strange permutations as a way of interrogating contemporary concerns about consumerism, environmental degradation, and cultural forgetfulness, against a backdrop of post-apocalyptic fantasy. …”
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On the involvement of the second heart field in congenital heart defects by Guijarro, Clara, Kelly, Robert G.

“…SHF deployment creates the template for subsequent cardiac septation and has been implicated in cardiac looping and in orchestrating outflow tract development with neural crest cells. Genetic or environmental perturbation of SHF deployment thus underlies a spectrum of common forms of CHD affecting conotruncal and septal morphogenesis. …”
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Sand Live Oak, Quercus geminata by Debbie Miller, Mack Thetford, Chris Verlinde, Gabriel Campbell, Ashlynn Smith

“…While this plant forms trees farther inland, it is commonly reduced to shrubs and sub-shrubs because of the extreme environmental conditions of the coast. The acorns of this plant are a valuable food source for wildlife. …”
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Investigating the Complex Relationship between Financial Performance and Company’s Green Behavior: A Comparative Analysis by Wenyao Zhang, Ruzhi Xu, Lu Wang

“…Under the new normal of economy, the relationship between economic benefits and company’s environmental behavior (green behavior) has long been the focus of scholars’ research, but less attention has been paid to the effect of financial performance on company’s green behavior in China as a developing country. …”
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A Study of Problem and Awareness of Mangrove Areas in Mu Ko Chumphon National Park, Thailand by Promthep Jidapa, Phumkokrux Nutthakarn, Pattanasak Patiya, Yodying Aphittha

“…This study has 2 objectives: 1) to study environmental problems in all dimensions that occur in the area of Mu Ko Chumphon National Park and 2) to study the participation in protection measures, awareness, and conservation of mangrove forest resources of the people in the area of Mu Ko Chumphon National Park using field survey methods and interviews with 10 government officials and 30 people in the area. …”
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The Role of Heme and Reactive Oxygen Species in Proliferation and Survival of Trypanosoma cruzi by Marcia Cristina Paes, Daniela Cosentino-Gomes, Cíntia Fernandes de Souza, Natália Pereira de Almeida Nogueira, José Roberto Meyer-Fernandes

“…Within the hosts, T. cruzi has to cope with sudden environmental changes especially in the redox status and heme is able to increase the basal production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which can be also produced as byproducts of the parasite aerobic metabolism. …”
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Seasonal changes in the mycorrhizal symbiosis of Rhododendron tomentosum Harmaja in the Ukrainian Polissia by Nataliia Bielova

“…These findings contribute to a deeper understanding of mycorrhizal dynamics in R. tomentosum and highlight the need for further research on seasonal and environmental influences on these associations. …”
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