Future data center energy-conservation and emission-reduction technologies in the context of smart and low-carbon city construction

H Zhu, D Zhang, HH Goh, S Wang, T Ahmad… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The energy consumption of data centers accounts for approximately 1% of that of the world,
the average power usage effectiveness is in the range of 1.4–1.6, and the associated carbon …

A comprehensive review of the impact of COVID-19 on human reproductive biology, assisted reproduction care and pregnancy: a Canadian perspective

M Madjunkov, M Dviri, C Librach - Journal of ovarian research, 2020 - Springer
Currently, the world is in the seventh month of the COVID-19 pandemic. Globally, infections
with novel SARS-CoV-2 virus are continuously rising with mounting numbers of deaths …

Early assessment of the relationship between the COVID-19 pandemic and births in high-income countries

A Aassve, N Cavalli, L Mencarini… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Drawing on past pandemics, scholars have suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic will
bring about fertility decline. Evidence from actual birth data has so far been scarce. This brief …

The impact of COVID-19 on fertility plans in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom

F Luppi, B Arpino, A Rosina - Demographic research, 2020 - JSTOR
OBJECTIVE This study offers a descriptive overview of changes in fertility plans during the
COVID-19 crisis in a sample of the young population (18–34) in Italy, Germany, France …

Pandemic roller‐coaster? Birth trends in higher‐income countries during the COVID‐19 pandemic

T Sobotka, K Zeman, A Jasilioniene… - Population and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We use monthly birth data collected by the Human Fertility Database to analyze the impact
of the COVID‐19 pandemic on birth trends until September 2022 in 38 higher‐income …

Potential effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on future birth rate

MA Ullah, AT Moin, Y Araf, AR Bhuiyan… - Frontiers in Public …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Here, we examine the potential effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on future birth rates. This
highly contagious disease originated in China, and rapidly spread worldwide, leading to …

Rapid rise in premature mortality due to anthropogenic air pollution in fast-growing tropical cities from 2005 to 2018

K Vohra, EA Marais, WJ Bloss, J Schwartz… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Tropical cities are experiencing rapid growth but lack routine air pollution monitoring to
develop prescient air quality policies. Here, we conduct targeted sampling of recent (2000s …

Baby bust in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic? First results from the new STFF data series

T Sobotka, A Jasilioniene, AA Galarza, K Zeman… - 2021 - osf.io
Past evidence on fertility responses to external shocks, including economic recessions and
the outbreaks of infectious diseases, show that people often put their childbearing plans on …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19 as a game-changer? The impact of the pandemic on urban trajectories

M Wolff, V Mykhnenko - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Will the COVID-19 pandemic interrupt the recent European urbanization trends–and if so–
what is the magnitude of this sudden shock, and how deaths, births, and net migration …

Multiple fields manipulation on nitride material structures in ultraviolet light-emitting diodes

J Li, N Gao, D Cai, W Lin, K Huang, S Li… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
As demonstrated during the COVID-19 pandemic, advanced deep ultraviolet (DUV) light
sources (200–280 nm), such as AlGaN-based light-emitting diodes (LEDs) show excellence …