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Artificial Intelligence Applications for Sustainable Construction - Chapter 3: Machine learning applications in the development of sustainable building materials to reduce carbon emission

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Artificial Intelligence Applications for Sustainable Construction, 2024, pages 93-121
This chapter aligns with Goals 9, 11, and 13 by focusing on the use of renewable and recyclable materials, as well as adoption of methods to reduce energy consumption and waste.
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Sustainable cities and human settlements; Climate Change, Global

Reviewing direct air capture startups and emerging technologies

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Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 5, 21 February 2024
Direct air capture has attracted attention as a means of actively lowering atmsopheric CO2 levels. This paper reviews over 50 direct air capture startups, including their choice of technology and offers research directions which may encourage collaboration between DAC startups and CO2 utilisation companies.
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Climate Change; Industry, Global

Open-source cyber intelligence research through PESTEL framework Present and future impact

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Societal Impacts, Volume 3, June 2024, 100047

Recent scholarly endeavors in the domain of Cyber Intelligence have unveiled its multifaceted implications, intricately interwoven with various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), notably encompassing Goal 9 (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure), Goal 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), Goal 16 (Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions), among others.

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SI-WTISD 2025; Data & Analytics; Technology, Global

A Pilot Study on the Safety and Adequacy of a Novel Ecofriendly Hemodialysis Prescription–Green Nephrology

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Kidney International Reports, 2024, ISSN 2468-0249, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.02.014
Hemodialysis (HD) units require large quantities of water. To reduce water consumption without compromising the adequacy and safety of dialysis, we studied a novel HD prescription with high temperature and low flow dialysate.
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Bioplastics for Sustainability - Chapter 17: The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production

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S.C. Onwubu, Z. Obiechefu, T.H. Mokhothu, Ajay Kumar Mishra, 17 - The environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production, Editor(s): Ajay Kumar Mishra, Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Bioplastics for Sustainability, Elsevier, 2024, Pages 407-428, ISBN 9780323951999
This chapter ties into Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities and Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate action by discussing the environmental sustainability of biowaste in bioplastic production, including a life cycle assessment of bioplastic production from biowaste and a comparison of its environmental impact to conventional plastics.
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Chemicals and waste; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Technology, Global

Online music listening programs for older adults with dementia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A feasibility study

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Arts in Psychotherapy, Volume 87, February 2024
Music used in targeted ways to help people living with dementia
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Health and wellbeing, Global

Characterization of brain resilience in Alzheimer's disease using polygenic risk scores and further improvement by integrating mitochondria-associated loci

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Journal of Advanced Research, Volume 56, February 2024
The findings in the paper imply that mitochondria may play an important role in brain resilience, and targeting mitochondria may open a new door to Alzheimer's Disease prevention and therapy.
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Health and wellbeing, Global

Sleep disorders and Alzheimer's disease pathophysiology: The role of the Glymphatic System. A scoping review

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Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, Volume 217, February 2024
This paper conducts a scoping review of research on the involvement of the glymphatic system in Alzheimer's disease-related sleep disturbances, finding that sleep disturbances impact protein aggregation and toxicity, glymphatic sequelae in sleep-disordered breathing, circadian dysregulation, and potential interventions, thus providing insight into the role of sleep disturbances in AD pathogenesis through glymphatic disruption.
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Numerical and experimental research on vibration signal characteristics of water pipeline leakage

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Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, Volume 226, 28 February 2024
This paper seeks to contribute to pipeline leakage detection research through collecting and simulating leakage signals under different pressure strengths by combining experiments with numerical simulation. The findings point towards better detection in a real noise environment. Such research is vital in the context of increasing worldwide demand for water and insufficient water supply caused by pipeline leakage.
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Water and sanitation, Global

Green Nephrology: Citrate, the Green Alternative to Heparin in Hemodialysis

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Kidney International Reports, Volume 9, February 2024
The solvents used during the production of heparin cause air and water pollution. One of the steps to achieve sustainable kidney care is to find a green alternative to heparin.
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Water, Global

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