How public health events influence the adoption of alternative fuel trucks at the city level: Insights from China's 2020 COVID-19 data DOI

Pingfei Li,

Chengcheng Wu

Research in Transportation Business & Management, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 51, С. 101053 - 101053

Опубликована: Окт. 14, 2023

Язык: Английский

Climate change, its impact on emerging infectious diseases and new technologies to combat the challenge DOI Creative Commons

Hongyan Liao,

Christopher J. Lyon, Binwu Ying

и другие.

Emerging Microbes & Infections, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 13(1)

Опубликована: Май 20, 2024

Improved sanitation, increased access to health care, and advances in preventive clinical medicine have reduced the mortality morbidity rates of several infectious diseases. However, recent outbreaks emerging diseases (EIDs) caused substantial morbidity, frequency these is likely increase due pathogen, environmental, population effects driven by climate change. Extreme or persistent changes temperature, precipitation, humidity, air pollution associated with change can, for example, expand size EID reservoirs, host-pathogen cross-species host contacts promote transmission spillover events, degrade overall susceptible populations leading new outbreaks. It therefore vital establish global strategies track model potential responses candidate EIDs project their future behaviour guide research efforts on early detection diagnosis technologies vaccine development targets. Multi-disciplinary collaborations are demanding develop effective inter-continental surveillance modelling platforms that employ artificial intelligence mitigate In this review, we discuss how has risk describe novel approaches improve pathogens pose outbreaks, existing measures could be used contain reduce methods tracking during further limit disease transmission.

Язык: Английский

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A Fuzzy Logic Inference Model for the Evaluation of the Effect of Extrinsic Factors on the Transmission of Infectious Diseases DOI Creative Commons
Antonios Kalampakas, Sovan Samanta, Jayanta Bera

и другие.

Mathematics, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(5), С. 648 - 648

Опубликована: Фев. 23, 2024

COVID-19 is a contagious disease that poses serious risk to public health worldwide. To reduce its spread, people need adopt preventive behaviours such as wearing masks, maintaining physical distance, and isolating themselves if they are infected. However, the effectiveness of these measures may depend on various factors differ across countries. This paper investigates how some factors, namely outsiders’ effect, life expectancy, population density, smoker percentage, temperature, influence transmission death rate in ninety-five top-affected We collect analyse data cases deaths using statistical tests. also use fuzzy logic model chances based results Unlike conventional uniform weighting rule base logic, we propose novel method calculate weights according significance factors. study aims provide comprehensive comparative analysis rates among different

Язык: Английский

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4

Climate Change and Heat: Challenges for Child Health Outcomes and Inequities DOI
Angela Zhang,

Mary Bennett,

Simona Cristina Martin

и другие.

Current Pediatrics Reports, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 12(3), С. 106 - 116

Опубликована: Май 14, 2024

Язык: Английский

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4

Assessment of UV radiation effects on airborne mucormycetes and bacterial populations in a hospital environment DOI Creative Commons

Mohammadmahdi Sarkhoshkalat,

Mahdi Ahmadi Nasab,

Mohammad Reza Yari

и другие.

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2024

Abstract Infections, such as mucormycosis, often result from inhaling sporangiospore present in the environment. Surprisingly, extent of airborne Mucormycetes concentrations remains inadequately explored. This study aimed to assess influence UV radiation on microbial populations and spore levels within a hospital environment northern Iran. A comprehensive dataset comprising 298 air samples collected both indoor outdoor settings was compiled. The culture conducted using Blood Agar Dichloran Rose Bengal Chloramphenicol (DRBC) media, with included for fungal agents bacterial. Before treatment, average count ranged 0 26.4 ± 25.28 CFU m −3 , 2.24 3.22 117.24 27.6 bacterial 29.03 9.9 359.37 68.50 . Following irradiation, averages were follows: 7.85 6.8 16.58 4.79 154.98 28.35 0.38 0.65 43.92 6.50 study, notably marks pioneering use light mitigate counts northeastern Iran, contributing advancement environmental health safety practices settings.

Язык: Английский

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High wet-bulb temperatures, time allocation, and diurnal patterns of breastfeeding in Bangladeshi fisher-traders DOI Creative Commons
Kathrine Starkweather, Haley B. Ragsdale, Margaret Butler

и другие.

Annals of Human Biology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 52(1)

Опубликована: Фев. 24, 2025

Climate change is a growing threat to population health, with dangerous combinations of heat and humidity increasing in frequency, particularly South Asia. Evidence suggests that high temperatures stress influence breastfeeding behaviour may lead suboptimal infant young child nutrition. Few studies have quantified the relationship between ambient breastfeeding. Here we evaluate associations wet-bulb temperature daily patterns rural community Bangladesh. We used 23 months time-diary data from 68 maternal-child dyads regional test hypothesis increased negatively outcomes among Shodagor fisher-traders. found higher predicted reduced time allocation, fishers, drove shifts towards night-time decreased mid/late morning feeding. Maternal occupation interaction age strongly influenced diurnal patterns. These results highlight an important role maternal work on infants' vulnerability environmental stress. Dyads' ability behaviourally compensate for extreme be constrained by extended heatwaves, humidity, economic circumstances, suggesting climate will likely exacerbate heat-related risks global health going forward.

Язык: Английский

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Exploring the effect of early-life climate anomalies on child growth in Sub-Saharan African context: Insight from the demographic & health survey DOI
Prince M. Amegbor,

Kaira Lapurga,

Elizabeth Carr

и другие.

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 983, С. 179658 - 179658

Опубликована: Май 20, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Confounding amplifies the effect of environmental factors on COVID-19 DOI Creative Commons
Zihan Hao,

Shujuan Hu,

Jianping Huang

и другие.

Infectious Disease Modelling, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 9(4), С. 1163 - 1174

Опубликована: Июнь 21, 2024

The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted human health and socioeconomic development, posing an enormous public challenge. Extensive research been conducted into the relationship between environmental factors transmission of COVID-19. However, numerous influence development outbreaks, presence confounding effects on mechanism action complicates assessment role in spread Direct estimation without removing will be biased. To overcome this critical problem, we developed a Double Machine Learning (DML) causal model to estimate debiased influencing outbreaks Chinese cities. Comparative experiments revealed that traditional multiple linear regression overestimated impact factors. Environmental are not dominant cause widespread China 2022. In addition, by further analyzing factors, it was verified there is significant heterogeneity effect changes with regional environment. It therefore recommended when exploring mechanisms which epidemics, must handled carefully order obtain clean quantitative results. This study offers more precise representation pandemic, as well framework for accurately quantifying outbreak.

Язык: Английский

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Local hydroclimate drives differential warming rates between regular summer days and extreme hot days in the Northern Hemisphere DOI Creative Commons
Abhishekh Srivastava, Michael Wehner, C. Bonfils

и другие.

Weather and Climate Extremes, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 45, С. 100709 - 100709

Опубликована: Июль 30, 2024

In this work, we compare the rate of warming summertime extreme temperatures (summer maximum value daily temperature; TXx) relative to local mean TXm) over Northern Hemisphere in observations and one set large ensemble (LE) simulations. During 1979–2021 historical period, simulations show robust trends both TXm TXx almost everywhere Hemisphere, except eastern U.S. where a slight cooling trend TXx, which may be manifestation internal variability. We find that observed is significantly smaller than North Africa, western America, Siberia, Eastern Asia, whereas larger U.S., U.K., Northwestern Europe. This geographical pattern successfully reproduced by vast majority LE members persistent (although less intense) future climate projections 2051–2100 period. also these patterns are mostly driven hydroclimate conditions. warms slower hyper-arid, arid, semi-arid moist regions, partitioning turbulent surface fluxes between latent sensible heat flux similar during regular hot days. contrast, faster dry-subhumid regions different days, with role

Язык: Английский

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Power spectra density and similarity analysis of COVID-19 mortality waves across countries DOI Creative Commons
Elı́as Manjarrez,

Erick F. Delfin,

Saúl M. Domínguez-Nicolás

и другие.

Heliyon, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(15), С. e35546 - e35546

Опубликована: Июль 31, 2024

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) established a comprehensive database detailing daily mortality rates across countries. This dataset revealed fluctuating global trends attributable to COVID-19; however, specific differences similarities in patterns between countries remain insufficiently explored. Consequently, this study employs Fourier similarity analyses examine these within frequency domain, thereby offering novel insights into dynamics of waves different nations.

Язык: Английский

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Identifying hotspots of heat waves, droughts, floods, and their co-occurrences DOI Creative Commons
Marlon Vieira Passos,

Jung-Ching Kan,

Georgia Destouni

и другие.

Research Square (Research Square), Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 6, 2024

Abstract To address the increasing need for hydroclimatic hazard assessment, a framework to map hotspots and analyze trends in heat waves, droughts, floods, their compound occurrences was developed. The uses temperature, precipitation, river discharge, derived climate indices characterize spatial distribution of intensity, frequency, duration, co-occurrence, dependence, projected changes. relevant applied are Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), Evapotranspiration (SPEI), Streamflow (SSI), Heatwave (HWI), Daily Flood (DFI). Suitable environmental indicators corresponding thresholds each were selected based on estimated extreme event detection accuracy using receiver operating characteristics. Compound dependence assessed Likelihood Multiplication Factor. tested case Sweden, daily data period 1922-2021. results show that HWI, SPEI12, DFI suitable represent respectively. Application these shows wave flood occurrence large areas but no significant change trend droughts. drought-heat drought-flood events found be positively correlated some locations, which can exacerbate impacts. novel developed here adds existing research by (1) local documentation validate indicator-based hotspots, (2) evaluating hazards at regional scale, (3) requiring just few widely available input variables (4) attain satisfactory levels (5) being generalizable various types.

Язык: Английский

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