Deteriorated Indoor Environmental Quality as a Collateral Damage of Present Day Extensive Renovations

Collateral Damage

Linking Water Quality and Quantity in Environmental Flow Assessment in Deteriorated Ecosystems: A Food Web View

Most rivers worldwide are highly regulated by anthropogenic activities through flow regulation and water pollution. Environmental flow regulation is used to reduce the effects of anthropogenic activities on aquatic ecosystems. Formulating flow alteration-ecological response relationships is a key factor in environmental flow assessment. Traditional environmental flow models are characterized by...

Virtual Laboratories for a Course on Indoor Environmental Quality

The author teaches a course on Indoor Environmental Quality in the Master and Ph. D. programs on Energy for Sustainability in the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In the teaching methodology of this course there is a coexistence of the different approaches commonly used to deal with engineering problems, i.e. analytical formulation, experimentation and numerical simulation. The main objective i...

Homeowners as Engaged Participants: Determining information needs to maximize the environmental benefit of green renovations

Green home renovation is a socio-technical process involving homeowners and professionals. Homeowners undertaking a green renovation encounter unfamiliar terms and must navigate potentially conflicting information from different sources. These challenges prevent some homeowners from being fully engaged in the renovation process, which can lead to less than optimal homeowner satisfaction and fai...

Birthplace of Ismaeil Jorjani, a renowned Iranian physician: Jorjan (near the present-day Gonbad-e Kavus) or Urgench (in the present-day Uzbekistan)

Dear Editor, I would like to point out some issues regarding the article entitled "Sayyed Ismael Jorjani, The famous Iranian physician and philosopher" by Seyyed Alireza Golshani that has been published in the journal of Jorjani Biomedicine Journal Volume 2, Issue 2 (Autumn 2014 & winter 2015 2014) and is about the great 11th-12th century physician, Ismael Jorjani.