Investigation of perceived air quality, occupants’ behaviour and air pollutant levels in two open-space office buildings in Switzerland

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Investigation of perceived air quality, occupants’ behaviour and air pollutant levels in two open-space office buildings in Switzerland

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Overview of the Alaskan Layered Pollution and Chemical Analysis (ALPACA) Field Experiment

Assessment of personal exposure to particle and gaseous air pollutants in residences and offices

Adequacy of stationary measurements as proxies for residential personal exposure to gaseous and particle air pollutants

Human personal air pollution clouds in a naturally ventilated office during the COVID-19 pandemic

High concentration of black carbon in northern Pakistan: Characteristics, source apportionment and emission source regions

A new chapter of healthy indoor air: antiviral air treatments

Building ventilation and outdoor air pollution: Implications for health, comfort and energy

Influence of outdoor air pollution on European residential ventilative cooling potential

Size-resolved inhalation intake fractions for particles released from human activities in residential indoor environments

Optimal sensor placement for personal inhalation exposure detection in static and dynamic office environments

Assessment of Monitoring Strategies for Inhalation Exposure and Occupancy in Office Environments

Repeated Human Exposure to Semivolatile Organic Compounds by Inhalation: Novel Protocol for a Nonrandomized Study

Rapid transformation of wildfire emissions to harmful background aerosol

Energy inequality and air pollution nexus in India

RECA: A Multi-Task Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Recommender System for Co-Optimizing Energy, Comfort and Air Quality in Commercial Buildings

Determinants of urban environmental quality in Morocco: The roles of energy consumption, urbanization, manufacturing, and financial development in SDG 13

Thermal Conditions in Indoor Environments: Exploring the Reasoning behind Standard-Based Recommendations

Investigation of the effects of the Greek extreme wildfires of August 2021 on air quality and spectral solar irradiance

Weather Impacts on Indoor Radon Short-Term Measurements in Switzerland

Influence of Ambient Air Pollution on Natural Ventilation Potential in Europe