Energy management of smart buildings during crises and digital twins as an optimisation tool for sustainable urban environment by Konstantinos Chatzikonstantinidis, Nicholas Afxentiou, Effrosyni Giama, Paris A. Fokaides, Agis M. Papadopoulos

“…This study investigates the role of Digital Twins in optimising energy systems, analysing energy use in a residential complex in Cyprus under lockdown conditions. Advanced predictive models, including Skforecast, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, LSTM, and RNN, were employed to forecast energy demand. …”
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The Effects of COVID-19-related Driving Restrictions on Air Quality in an Industrial City by Daulet Assanov, Aiymgul Kerimray, Birzhan Batkeyev, Zhanna Kapsalyamova

“…In the areas with a complex profile of emission sources, traffic restriction measures alone may hardly tackle serious air pollution. …”
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Design of a Dual-Function Autonomous Disinfection Robot with Safety Filter-Based Motion Control by Yuning Cao , Zehao Wu , I-Ming Chen , Qingsong Xu 

“…In the post-COVID era, international business and tourism are quickly recovering from the global lockdown, with people and products traveling faster at higher frequency. …”
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Understanding changing demand for police during the coronavirus pandemic by Reka Solymosi, Matthew Ashby, Nadia Kennar, Eon Kim, Karen Byrom, Alexander McMillan, Phoebe Liebelt

“…Call handlers reported stress related to managing complex public health-related queries but a positive ability to resolve more calls remotely. …”
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Mining social media data to inform public health policies: a sentiment analysis case study by Suzana N. Russell, Lila Rao-Graham, Maurice McNaughton

“…This study contributes to the emerging discourse on the integration of nontraditional data into public health policy-making, highlighting the growing potential for the use of these novel analytic techniques in addressing complex public health challenges.…”
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Cracks in the JD-R model? The failure of strengths use, job crafting, and home-work spillover to support wellbeing during COVID-19 by Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl, Llewellyn Ellardus van Zyl, Menno A. Cornelisse, Pascale Le Blanc, Sebastiaan Rothmann

“…The findings suggest that during crises, the JD-R model falls short in accounting for the complex interaction between job characteristics and employee outcomes. …”
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Machine Learning Modeling Reveals Divergent Air Pollutant Responses to Stringent Emission Controls in the Yangtze River Delta Region by Qiufang Yao, Linhao Wang, Wenjing Qiu, Yutong Shi, Qi Xu, Yanping Xiao, Jiacheng Zhou, Shilong Li, Haobin Zhong, Jinsong Liu

“…Ozone (O₃) and fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) are critical atmospheric pollutants whose complex chemical coupling presents significant challenges for multi-pollutant control strategies. …”
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Adapting new norms: A mixed-method study exploring mental well-being challenges in dental technology education. by Galvin Sim Siang Lin, Wen Wu Tan, Kah Hoay Chua, Jong-Eun Kim, Jin Gan, Mohd Haikal Muhamad Halil

“…The third theme included sub-themes: "Fear of another lockdown" and "Concerns about timely completion of academic requirements".…”
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WICID framework version 1.0: criteria and considerations to guide evidence-informed decision-making on non-pharmacological interventions targeting COVID-19 by Jan M Stratil, Maike Voss, Laura Arnold

“…Next, we conducted a content analysis of comprehensive strategy documents intended to guide policymakers on the phasing out of applied lockdown measures in Germany. Based on factors and criteria identified in this process, we developed the WICID (WHO-INTEGRATE COVID-19) framework version 1.0.Results Twelve comprehensive strategy documents were analysed. …”
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Changes in non-communicable diseases, diet and exercise in a rural Bangladesh setting before and after the first wave of COVID-19. by Carina King, Sanjit Kumer Shaha, Joanna Morrison, Naveed Ahmed, Abdul Kuddus, Malini Pires, Tasmin Nahar, Raduan Hossin, Hassan Haghparast-Bidgoli, A K Azad Khan, Justine Davies, Kishwar Azad, Edward Fottrell

“…Prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) is high in rural Bangladesh. Given the complex multi-directional relationships between NCDs, COVID-19 infections and control measures, exploring pandemic impacts in this context is important. …”
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Professional commitment and turnover intentions of elementary school teachers during educational crisis by Moran Amir, Orly Lipka, Orly Lipka, Miriam Sarid

“…The findings highlight the complex relationship between professional commitment and turnover intentions during systemic disruptions, particularly for vulnerable teacher subgroups with less seniority and advanced degrees. …”
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Combating the COVID-19 pandemic in a resource-constrained setting: insights from initial response in India by Rabbanie Tariq Wani, Paragkumar Dhirajlal Chavda, Siddharudha Shivalli, Mohan Bairwa, Madhur Verma, Pranab Chatterjee, Nitika Sharma, Sabyasachi Behera, Praveen Kulkarni, Archisman Mohapatra, Balaji Ramraj, Arvind Kumar Singh, Manish Kumar Singh, Ravi Rohilla, Bharti Chawla, Sumit Chawla, Rashmi Agarwalla, Shubhashri Sudhiendra Jahagirdar, Madan Mohan Majhi, Harshal Ramesh Salve, Pallavi Shukla, Kapil Yadav, Ramadass Sathiyamoorthy, Kaushik Sarkar, Soumya Swaroop Sahoo, Shamshad Ahmad, Dewesh Kumar, Anirban Chatterjee, Gaihemlung Pamei, Hariom Kumar Solanki, Shashanka Shekhar Chakraborty, Gitismita Naik, M Mohan Kumar, Chinnadurai Aravinda, Shilpa Karir, Jasmin Nilima Panda, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Smrutiranjan Nayak, Sithun Kumar Patro, Shib Sekhar Datta, Nilanjana Ghosh, Pritam Roy, Shankar Reddy Dudala, Rachana R Annadani, Malatesh Undi, Sudhir Prabhu, Santosh K Yatnatti, Rakesh N Pillai, Antony Stanley, Satyanarayana G Konda, Kajal Davara, Mihir Prafulbhai Rupani, Anuj Mundra, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, Manoj Kumar Gupta

“…On 25 March, India went into a nationwide lockdown to ramp up preparedness. The lockdown uncovered contextual vulnerabilities and stimulated countermeasures. …”
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Reflexiones sobre el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje en Educación Física durante la pandemia por COVID-19. Un caso real (Reflections on the teaching and learning process in Phy... by Jacob Sierra-Díaz, Sixto González-Víllora, José Antonio Toledo-Guijarro, Cristian Bermejo-Collada

“…However, this adaptation can be much more complex in the most disadvantaged or rural areas where many students have a significant digital bias: either they do not have access to the Internet, or they do not have acquired adequate competences for its use. …”
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CO₂ and CO temporal variability over Mexico City from ground-based total column and surface measurements by N. Taquet, W. Stremme, M. E. González del Castillo, V. Almanza, A. Bezanilla, O. Laurent, C. Alberti, F. Hase, M. Ramonet, T. Lauvaux, K. Che, M. Grutter

“…A <span class="inline-formula">CO</span> emission decrease of more than 50 % was found during the COVID-19 lockdown period with respect to the year 2018. These results demonstrate the feasibility of using long-term EM27/SUN column measurements to monitor the annual variability in the anthropogenic <span class="inline-formula">CO₂</span> and <span class="inline-formula">CO</span> emissions in Mexico City without recourse to complex transport models. …”
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Tracking daily NO_<i>x</i> emissions from an urban agglomeration based on TROPOMI NO₂ and a local ensemble transform Kalman filter by Y. Kong, Y. Kong, B. Zheng, B. Zheng, Y. Liu

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Intersecting factors of disadvantage and discrimination and their effect on daily life during the coronavirus pandemic: the CICADA-ME mixed-methods study by Carol Rivas, Amanda P Moore, Alison Thomson, Kusha Anand, Zainab Zuzer Lal, Alison Fang-Wei Wu, Ozan Aksoy

“…This contrasts with our secondary cohort analysis for the 2020 first lockdown. We found that while non-disabled people (including from minoritised ethnic groups) recovered after the first lockdown, well-being worsened in disabled people. …”
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Malaysians’ mental health and lifestyle behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative approach by Jia Yi Ng, Mei-Hua Lin, Min Hooi Yong

“… The objective was to explore the experiences of Malaysian Chinese and Indians during the lockdown, with a focus on mental health and lifestyle behavior factors that affected their work, health, and social lives, as well as their coping strategies during this period. …”
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Niet-gebruik van rechten en bestaansonzekerheid in het Brussels Gewest by Laurence Noël

“…A significant proportion of beneficiaries are discouraged and some professionals no longer feel able to verify or assert eligibility due to the growing complexity. Finally, the high level of digitalisation of services (public and private) prior to the pandemic which has accelerated since the first lockdown, reinforces the risk of non-take-up while there is a growing need for concrete, human help and simplification, as well as a deterioration of trust between citizens and the state.…”
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Non-recours aux droits et précarisations en Région bruxelloise by Laurence Noël

“…A significant proportion of beneficiaries are discouraged and some professionals no longer feel able to verify or assert eligibility due to the growing complexity. Finally, the high level of digitalisation of services (public and private) prior to the pandemic which has accelerated since the first lockdown, reinforces the risk of non-take-up while there is a growing need for concrete, human help and simplification, as well as a deterioration of trust between citizens and the state.…”
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Non-take-up of rights and precariousness in the Brussels Region by Laurence Noël

“…A significant proportion of beneficiaries are discouraged and some professionals no longer feel able to verify or assert eligibility due to the growing complexity. Finally, the high level of digitalisation of services (public and private) prior to the pandemic which has accelerated since the first lockdown, reinforces the risk of non-take-up while there is a growing need for concrete, human help and simplification, as well as a deterioration of trust between citizens and the state.…”
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