Intentional Controlled Islanding (ICI) has been proposed as a corrective measure of last resort
to split the power system into several sustainable islands and prevent cascading outages. …

Background: The traditional Mediterranean diet is defined as the dietary pattern in the countries
of the Mediterranean basin between the 1950s and 1960s, and it is now widely accepted …

Hyperthyroidism causes weight loss in the majority, but its effect is variable and 10% of
patients gain weight. Its treatment usually leads to weight gain and some studies have reported …

Thyroid dysfunction is the commonest endocrine disorder in pregnancy apart from diabetes.
Thyroid hormones are essential for fetal brain development in the embryonic phase. …

People spend up to 90% of their time indoors where they continuously interact with the indoor
environment. Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ), and in particular thermal comfort, Indoor …

Despite suggestive observational epidemiology and laboratory studies, there is limited
experimental evidence regarding the effect of organic diet on human health. A cluster-…

Combined pollutant effects from indoor and outdoor sources on children's health, while
being at school have not been holistically tackled. The aim of the School Temperature and …

Intelligent buildings are responsible for ensuring indoor air quality for their occupants under
normal operation as well as under possibly harmful contaminant events. An emerging …

The automatic preservation of the indoor air quality (IAQ) is an important task of the intelligent
building design in order to ensure the health and safety of the occupants. The IAQ, however…

In the past few decades, technological advancements in sensing, computation and
actuation components have motivated the development of event diagnosis and control …