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Hazard assessment of hexagonal boron nitride and hexagonal boron nitride reinforced thermoplastic polyurethane composites using human skin and lung cells
(2024)Journal of Hazardous MaterialsHexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is an emerging two-dimensional material attracting considerable attention in the industrial sector given its innovative physicochemical properties. Potential risks are associated mainly with occupational exposure where inhalation and skin contact are the most relevant exposure routes for workers. Here we aimed at characterizing the effects induced by composites of thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and hBN, ...Journal Article -
GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight reduction in people living with obesity but without diabetes: a living benefit–harm modelling study
(2024)eClinicalMedicineBackground: The benefit of Glucagon-like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists (RAs) in weight reduction against potential harms remains unclear. This study aimed at evaluating the benefit-harm balance of initiating GLP-1 RAs versus placebo for weight loss in people living with overweight and obesity but without diabetes. Methods: We performed benefit-harm balance modelling, which will be updated as new evidence emerges. We searched for ...Journal Article -
Magnetospheric Venus Space Explorers (MVSE) mission: A proposal for understanding the dynamics of induced magnetospheres
(2024)Acta AstronauticaInduced magnetospheres form around planetary bodies with atmospheres through the interaction of the solar wind with their ionosphere. Induced magnetospheres are highly dependent on the solar wind conditions and have only been studied with single spacecraft missions in the past. Without simultaneous measurements of solar wind variations and phenomena in the magnetosphere, establishing a link between both can only be done indirectly, using ...Journal Article -
FruitPhenoBox – a device for rapid and automated fruit phenotyping of small sample sizes
(2024)Plant MethodsBackground: Fruit appearance of apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) is accession-specific and one of the main criteria for consumer choice. Consequently, fruit appearance is an important selection criterion in the breeding of new cultivars. It is also used for the description of older varieties or landraces. In commercial apple production, sorting devices are used to classify large numbers of fruit from a few cultivars. In contrast, the ...Journal Article -
Multiscale spatiotemporal characterisation of embodied environmental performance of building structures in Geneva from 1850 to 2018
(2024)Cleaner Environmental SystemsLoad-bearing systems in buildings, significant in material use and embodied greenhouse gas emissions (EGHGE), have lacked detailed analysis on their environmental and functional relationships over time and space. This study evaluates the environmental impacts of building structures in Geneva, Switzerland, considering factors like material usage, EGHGE, and urban development. A new method using a similarity-weighted function projects ...Journal Article -
Which are the most promising protein sources for meat alternatives?
(2024)Food Quality and PreferenceMeat alternatives have the potential to shift people's diets into a more sustainable direction. To improve consumers’ attitudes to meat alternatives and increase the likelihood of their consumption, it is important to identify the most promising protein sources from a consumer perspective. This study investigated expectations toward 17 specific protein sources applied in meat alternatives and four conventional animal-based protein sources ...Journal Article -
Influence of strain-hardening on the load-carrying behaviour of multi-bolt bearing type connections
(2024)Journal of Constructional Steel ResearchThis paper is concerned with the load-carrying behaviour of multi-bolt connections as a function of the underlying material grades, and accordingly studies the hole-bearing behaviour and the appropriate definition of resistance values for design on the basis of a series of experimental tests, covering diverse geometries and materials. The primary focus is on implementing a methodology to precisely identify the point on the load-deformation ...Journal Article -
Scattering of Giant Planets and Implications for the Origin of the Hierarchical and Eccentric Two-planet System GJ 1148
(2024)Astrophysical JournalThe GJ 1148 system has two Saturn-mass planets orbiting around an M dwarf star on hierarchical and eccentric orbits, with orbital period ratio of 13 and eccentricities of both planets of 0.375. The inner planet is in the regime of eccentric warm Jupiters. We perform numerical experiments to study the planet-planet scattering scenario for the origin of this orbital architecture. We consider a third planet of 0.1M J (Jupiter's mass) in the ...Journal Article -
Importance of microphysical settings for climate forcing by stratospheric SO2 injections as modeled by SOCOL-AERv2
(2024)Geoscientific Model DevelopmentSolar radiation modification by a sustained deliberate source of SO2 into the stratosphere (strat-SRM) has been proposed as an option for climate intervention. Global interactive aerosol-chemistry-climate models are often used to investigate the potential cooling efficiencies and associated side effects of hypothesized strat-SRM scenarios. A recent model intercomparison study for composition-climate models with interactive stratospheric ...Journal Article -
Modelling seismic ground motion and its uncertainty in different tectonic contexts: Challenges and application to the 2020 European Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM20)
(2024)Natural Hazards and Earth System SciencesCurrent practice in strong ground motion modelling for probabilistic seismic hazard analysis (PSHA) requires the identification and calibration of empirical models appropriate to the tectonic regimes within the region of application, along with quantification of both their aleatory and epistemic uncertainties. For the development of the 2020 European Seismic Hazard Model (ESHM20) a novel approach for ground motion characterisation was ...Journal Article