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View article: Beyond Global Trends: Two Decades of Climate Data in the World’s Highest Equatorial City
Beyond Global Trends: Two Decades of Climate Data in the World’s Highest Equatorial City Open
While humanity stands at a critical point—one future leading toward sustainability, equity, and resilience, the other toward escalating conflicts, ecological collapse, and irreversible loss—climate change emerges as one of the most urgent …
View article: Editorial: Air quality and biosphere-atmosphere interactions
Editorial: Air quality and biosphere-atmosphere interactions Open
View article: Urban Air Pollution in the Global South: A Never-Ending Crisis?
Urban Air Pollution in the Global South: A Never-Ending Crisis? Open
Among the challenges the human population needs to address are threats of global pandemics, increasing socioeconomic inequality, especially in developing countries, and anthropogenic climate change. The latter’s effect has been amplified w…
View article: Causal effect of PM2.5 on the urban heat island
Causal effect of PM2.5 on the urban heat island Open
The planet is experiencing global warming, with an increasing number of heat waves worldwide. Cities are particularly affected by the high temperatures because of the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This phenomenon is mostly explained by t…
View article: Impact of City-Wide Diesel Generator Use on Air Quality in Quito, Ecuador, during a Nationwide Electricity Crisis
Impact of City-Wide Diesel Generator Use on Air Quality in Quito, Ecuador, during a Nationwide Electricity Crisis Open
As climate change intensifies and 2023 sets the record for the hottest year, the Amazonian region faces severe drought, leading to a hydroelectricity crisis. This study examines the effects of using environmentally harmful backup power sol…
View article: A Systematic Review of Digital Twin Technology for Home Care
A Systematic Review of Digital Twin Technology for Home Care Open
The concept of digital twin has captured significant attention in recent years, and its potential application within the domain of home care has been explored in several studies. This review endeavors to provide a comprehensive overview of…
View article: Causal effect of air pollution and meteorology on the COVID-19 pandemic: A convergent cross mapping approach
Causal effect of air pollution and meteorology on the COVID-19 pandemic: A convergent cross mapping approach Open
Environmental factors have been suspected to influence the propagation and lethality of COVID-19 in the global population. However, most of the studies have been limited to correlation analyses and did not use specific methods to address t…
View article: A Novel Approach to Discovering Hygrothermal Transfer Patterns in Wooden Building Exterior Walls
A Novel Approach to Discovering Hygrothermal Transfer Patterns in Wooden Building Exterior Walls Open
To maintain the life of building materials, it is critical to understand the hygrothermal transfer mechanisms (HTM) between the walls and the layers inside the walls. Due to the extreme instability of weather data, the actual data models o…
View article: Special Issue on Air Quality Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms
Special Issue on Air Quality Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms Open
Atmospheric pollution is one of the major causes of premature mortality and climate change, as nearly all urban areas fail to comply with the air quality guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) [...]
View article: War Impact on Air Quality in Ukraine
War Impact on Air Quality in Ukraine Open
In the light of the 21st century, after two devastating world wars, humanity still has not learned to solve their conflicts through peaceful negotiations and dialogue. Armed conflicts, both international and within a single state, still ca…
View article: ENSEMBLE DEEP LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF POLLUTION PEAKS
ENSEMBLE DEEP LEARNING FOR CLASSIFICATION OF POLLUTION PEAKS Open
The concentration peaks of atmospheric pollutants are the most challenging and important phenomena in air quality forecasting. The fact that these elevated levels of pollution do not seem to follow any specific pattern explains why current…
View article: Padrões Bioacústicos como Identificadores Precisos da Presença de Rainha em Colmeias de Abelhas Melíferas
Padrões Bioacústicos como Identificadores Precisos da Presença de Rainha em Colmeias de Abelhas Melíferas Open
A abelha rainha é a responsável pelo crescimento, renovação e estabilidade organizacional da sua colônia. Para saber se uma rainha melífera está presente na colmeia, o apicultor tem de abri-la, o que estressa as abelhas, destrói parte do n…
View article: Editorial: Statistical Learning for Predicting Air Quality
Editorial: Statistical Learning for Predicting Air Quality Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Big Data, 05 May 2022Sec. Data-driven Climate Sciences https://doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2022.898643
View article: Deep Learning Approach for Assessing Air Quality During COVID-19 Lockdown in Quito
Deep Learning Approach for Assessing Air Quality During COVID-19 Lockdown in Quito Open
Weather Normalized Models (WNMs) are modeling methods used for assessing air contaminants under a business-as-usual (BAU) assumption. Therefore, WNMs are used to assess the impact of many events on urban pollution. Recently, different appr…
View article: Gradient Boosting Machine to Assess the Public Protest Impact on Urban Air Quality
Gradient Boosting Machine to Assess the Public Protest Impact on Urban Air Quality Open
Political and economic protests build-up due to the financial uncertainty and inequality spreading throughout the world. In 2019, Latin America took the main stage in a wave of protests. While the social side of protests is widely explored…
View article: Author Correction: The effect of national protest in Ecuador on PM pollution
Author Correction: The effect of national protest in Ecuador on PM pollution Open
View article: The effect of national protest in Ecuador on PM pollution
The effect of national protest in Ecuador on PM pollution Open
View article: Assessing the COVID‐19 Impact on Air Quality: A Machine Learning Approach
Assessing the COVID‐19 Impact on Air Quality: A Machine Learning Approach Open
The worldwide research initiatives on Corona Virus disease 2019 lockdown effect on air quality agree on pollution reduction, but the most reliable method to pollution reduction quantification is still in debate. In this paper, machine lear…
View article: Assessing the COVID-19 impact on air quality in Quito, Ecuador
Assessing the COVID-19 impact on air quality in Quito, Ecuador Open
The COVID-19 lockdown impact on air quality is estimated for Andean city - Quito. This data set includes hourly data for a number of sites (urban: Bel, Car, Cam; and suburban: Cot, Gua, Chi) in the Ecuadorian capital for atmospheric and me…
View article: Seasonal variations in PM10 inorganic composition in the Andean city
Seasonal variations in PM10 inorganic composition in the Andean city Open
Particulate matter (PM) is one of the key pollutants causing health risks worldwide. While the preoccupation for increased concentrations of these particles mainly depends on their sources and thus chemical composition, some regions are ye…
View article: Migrating legacy Web applications
Migrating legacy Web applications Open
View article: Biomonitoring of metal levels in urban areas with different vehicular traffic intensity by using Araucaria heterophylla needles
Biomonitoring of metal levels in urban areas with different vehicular traffic intensity by using Araucaria heterophylla needles Open
View article: Design of a Kinematic and Emotional Assessment Module for the Tele-rehabilitation Platform
Design of a Kinematic and Emotional Assessment Module for the Tele-rehabilitation Platform Open
View article: A Traffic-Based Method to Predict and Map Urban Air Quality
A Traffic-Based Method to Predict and Map Urban Air Quality Open
As global urbanization, industrialization, and motorization keep worsening air quality, a continuous rise in health problems is projected. Limited spatial resolution of the information on air quality inhibits full comprehension of urban po…
View article: Introductory Chapter: Transdisciplinary Considerations on Assistive and Rehabilitation Systems
Introductory Chapter: Transdisciplinary Considerations on Assistive and Rehabilitation Systems Open
View article: Chemical characterization of urban PM10 in the Tropical Andes
Chemical characterization of urban PM10 in the Tropical Andes Open
View article: Human 4.0 - From Biology to Cybernetic
Human 4.0 - From Biology to Cybernetic Open
Information technology is becoming ingrained in our everyday life. The consequence of this is that the line between humans and technology is more and more blurred, and tends to transform the human being into a cyber-organism. This transfor…
View article: Bioinspired Implementation and Assessment of a Remote-Controlled Robot
Bioinspired Implementation and Assessment of a Remote-Controlled Robot Open
Daily activities are characterized by an increasing interaction with smart machines that present a certain level of autonomy. However, the intelligence of such electronic devices is not always transparent for the end user. This study is ai…
View article: A Systematic Review of Usability and Accessibility in Tele-Rehabilitation Systems
A Systematic Review of Usability and Accessibility in Tele-Rehabilitation Systems Open
The appropriate development of tele-rehabilitation platforms requires the involvement and iterative assessments of potential users and experts in usability. Usability consists of measuring the degree to which an interactive system can be u…
View article: Design of a Kinematic and Emotional Assessment Module for the Tele-rehabilitation Platform
Design of a Kinematic and Emotional Assessment Module for the Tele-rehabilitation Platform Open