Green roofs contribute to more sustainable cities, but current commercial substrates suffer from important limitations. If carefully selected, biochar could serve as a viable option for a more sustainable green roof substrate. We propose a protocol t...
The Green Transition aims to protect the health of our planet through changes at the economic, political, and social levels while also having a significant impact on the world of work through the creation of sustainable occupations, referred to as &l...
We have seen a promising acceptance of wireless local area networks (WLANs) in our day-to-day communication devices, such as handheld smartphones, tablets, and laptops. Energy preservation plays a vital role in WLAN communication networks. The effici...
This article studied the application of multiple protocol switching mechanism (PSM) over cooperating Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) networks to minimize the probability of outage and maximize the system throughput and energy efficiency (EE). T...
29 November 2025
Background: Childhood obesity and mental health problems are major public health concerns worldwide. Early-life exposure to green spaces has been shown to promote physical activity, reduce obesity risk, and improve cognitive and emotional development...
The transition toward low-impact facility management requires robust evidence that environmental optimization does not compromise hygienic reliability. In the professional cleaning sector, sustainability claims are often based on product substitution...
Traditional manual sugarcane harvesting requires the pre-harvest burning practice which should be gradually banned by 2021 for most of São Paulo State, Brazil, on cultivated sugarcane land (terrain slope ≤12%) according to State Law number 11241. To...
Background: Indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence has seen extensive application across medical and surgical fields, praised for its real-time navigation capabilities and low toxicity. Initially employed to assess liver function, ICG fluorescence is n...
Distributed renewable energy offers an exciting opportunity for sustainable transition and climate change mitigation. However, it is overlooked in most of the conventional tradable green certificates programs. Blockchain shows an advantage of incorpo...
Good water quality, achieved with environmentally friendly means, is essential in ensuring the safe operation of a dental practice. Our aim was to evaluate procedures and protocols used by dentists for water quality and sustainability. Greek dentists...
Heterogeneous catalysis plays a crucial role in many chemical processes, including advanced organic preparations and the design and synthesis of new organic moieties. Efficient and sustainable catalysts are vital to ecological and fiscal viability. T...
The green industrial Internet of things (IIoT) is emerging as a new paradigm, which envisions the concept of connecting different devices and reducing energy consumption. In multi-hop low power and lossy network, a resource-constrained node should aw...
Anthocyanins are the largest group of polyphenolic pigments in the plant kingdom. These non-toxic, water-soluble compounds are responsible for the pink, red, purple, violet, and blue colors of fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Anthocyanins are widely...
Oxidative depolymerization of lignin is a hot topic in the field of biomass valorization. The most recent and green procedures have been herein detailed. Photochemical and electrochemical approaches are reviewed highlighting the pros and cons of each...
After attending both the “Decade to Educate in the Sustainable Development and the Agenda 30 of the UNESCO” and the “ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable”, which focused on sustainable chemistry, in this article, a green chemistr...
The β-blocker (S)-esmolol, has been synthesized in 97% enantiomeric excess and 26% total yield in a four-step synthesis, with a transesterification step of the racemic chlorohydrin methyl 3-(4-(3-chloro-2-hydroxypropoxy)phenyl)propanoate, cataly...
The dynamic growth in green organic synthetic methodologies for diverse heterocyclic scaffolds has substantially contributed to the field of medicinal chemistry over the last few decades. The use of hybrid metal nanocatalysts (NCs) is one such benign...
Microplastics (MPs) pollution assessment must not pollute. Inspired by this catch phrase, we critically evaluated the environmental impact, safety, and effectiveness of various analytical strategies currently used to assess MPs contamination on sand....
Aryl and heteroaryl iodides have been efficiently converted into the corresponding thioacetates in cyclopentyl methyl ether (CPME), a green solvent, under Cu catalysis. The chemoselectivity of the reaction is mainly controlled by electronic factors,...
The transition toward sustainable facility management requires cleaning systems that reduce environmental burdens while maintaining high hygienic standards. This study presents a comparative evaluation of a green cleaning protocol (EVA SmartClean), c...
Green buildings increasingly couple electrical, thermal, and hydrogen subsystems, yet these assets are typically monitored and controlled through separate standards and protocols. The resulting heterogeneous information models and communication stack...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) remains a major global health challenge, necessitating the development of more effective and environmentally sustainable treatments. This study presents a novel green synthetic protocol for 1,3,5-triazine derivatives with anti...
This work presents two protocols for the green in situ synthesis of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NP) on cotton with the aim to develop sustainable cotton fabric with an ultraviolet protection factor (UPF). The protocols differed in the order of imme...
Valorization of agri-food residues to produce bio-based platform chemicals will enhance the transition to the bio-economy era. To this end, a sustainable process has been developed for the overall valorization of grape stalks (GS) according to a circ...
The study evaluates five types of commercial textiles with different cotton and polyester contents widely used in the garment industry. These textile samples have been subjected to treatment by the exhaustion method using zinc oxide nanoparticles (NP...
Healthcare cleaning services are essential for infection prevention and control, but they also contribute to the carbon footprint of healthcare facilities through recurrent consumption of detergents, disinfectants, textiles, water, energy, and transp...
11 February 2023
Urban areas are continuously growing, and densification is a frequent strategy to limit urban expansion. This generally entails a loss of green spaces (GSs) and an increase in noise pollution, which has negative effects on health. Within the research...
The castor bean is an important industrial and ornamental crop. In the industry, it is used as a source of castor oil. Moreover, it has a large potential as a feed crop, because the seeds contain a high amount of protein. A main problem with castor b...
Background: Autofluorescence can identify parathyroid glands and protect their vasculature during thyroid surgery to prevent postoperative hypoparathyroidism. This study evaluates the Burjeel intraoperative protocol using near-infrared indocyanine gr...
Background and Objectives: Partial nephrectomy is the preferred intervention for many localized renal tumors; but intraoperative tumor localization, real-time perfusion evaluation, and vascular control optimization can be technically demanding, espec...
Developing a general, predictive understanding of ecological systems requires knowing how much structural and functional relationships can cross scales and contexts. Here, we introduce the CROSSLINK project that investigates the role of forested ripa...
Historic gardens represent complex systems in which vegetation, artistic and architectural elements all require equal protection. This becomes particularly challenging when considering the dual role of vegetation between bioprotection and biodeterior...
The sale of assigned amount units (AAUs) from countries whose emissions have declined since their baseline year under the Kyoto Protocol has led critics to be skeptical of carbon markets due to the lack of actual emission reductions that occur as a r...
This paper proposes a new protocol that can be used to reduce transmission delay and energy consumption effectively. This will be done by adjusting the duty-cycle (DC) ratio of the receiver node and the contention window size of the sender node accor...
Wake-up radio is a promising approach to mitigate the problem of idle listening, which incurs additional power consumption for the Internet of Things (IoT) wireless transmission. Radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting technique allows the wake-up rad...
Anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from chemical manufacturing present substantial operational, compliance, and competitive challenges under international climate accords and emerging regulatory frameworks, including the European Union Corp...
The decarbonization of agri-food supply chains represents a critical challenge and an opportunity for achieving global climate targets and Sustainable Development Goals, extending beyond pure environmental mitigation to integrated sustainability mana...
The fast growth of edge–cloud computing infrastructures has increased the cybersecurity burden even as it has substantially amplified the energy use and carbon footprint of intrusion detection systems (IDSs). In order to overcome this challenge...
Antarctic microorganisms have developed extraordinary strategies for adaptation. They have also demonstrated the ability to produce various biopolymers in response to environmental stress. The demand for biopolymers is constantly increasing and is ex...
Plant by-products have gained significant attention due to their rich content in bioactive compounds, which exhibit promising antioxidant, antimicrobial, and antitumor properties. In European countries, vegetable waste generation ranged from 35 to 78...
School-age students spend much of their time in school buildings. The sustainability of these buildings should be a priority as better comfort with a high indoor air quality contributes to an improvement in the conditions for learning. Although new s...
Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is currently considered as a viable alternative to elective neck dissection (END) for the management of cN0 oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma (OCSCC). However, some difficulties were detected in sentinel lymph node...
Background/Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the clinical feasibility and sustainability of an awake breast conserving surgery (BCS) protocol integrating opioid-free anesthesia, telemedicine, and environmental sustainability compared to stand...
Background and Objectives: In difficult clinical settings, laparoscopic cholecystectomy remains linked to higher conversion rates, prolonged operative time and an increased risk of bile duct injury. Near-infrared fluorescence cholangiography using in...
Power consumers can obtain authoritative green environmental value certification through green electricity trading, which plays an important role in improving the production competitiveness of enterprises, especially for international product trade a...
Growing concern for environmental sustainability has resulted in the implementation of sanitization methods that respect ecological principles. This research evaluates a “green” sanitizing protocol that uses CAM (Minimum Environmental Cri...
Recent developments and the widespread use of IoT-enabled technologies has led to the Research and Development (R&D) efforts in green communication. Traditional dynamic-source routing is one of the well-known protocols that was suggested to solve...
In response to the growing global concern for environmental sustainability, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) study was conducted to evaluate the environmental benefits of the “Formula Servizi” GREEN protocol compared to a conventional cleani...
The development of sustainable processes has a significant role in balancing social productivity demands, environmental protection, and natural resources. The control of microbial contamination has so far been concentrated on the use of chemical-base...
Healthcare cleaning services are essential for infection prevention but contribute significantly to the environmental footprint of hospital operations through the intensive use of chemicals, water, and energy. This study presents an integrated assess...
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