Identifying the criteria for community-centred Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of estate regeneration schemes.

Identifying the overall environmental, and socioeconomic impacts of different estate regeneration scenarios can contribute to the overall sustainability of such schemes. Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA) is an appropriate tool for assessing holistic sustainability. To achieve resilient societies, the interests of communities should be considered in decision making.

Viewing the global health system as a complex adaptive system - implications for research and practice.

The global health system (GHS) is ill-equipped to deal with the increasing number of transnational challenges. The GHS needs reform to enhance global resilience to future risks to health. In this article we argue that the starting point for any reform must be conceptualizing and studying the GHS as a complex adaptive system (CAS) with a large and escalating number of interconnected global health actors that learn and adapt their behaviours in response to each other and changes in their environment.

School building energy efficiency and NO related risk of childhood asthma in England and Wales: Modelling study.

Background: Climate change legislation will require dramatic increases in the energy efficiency of school buildings across the UK by 2050, which has the potential to affect air quality in schools. We assessed how different strategies for improving the energy efficiency of school buildings in England and Wales may affect asthma incidence and associated healthcare utilization costs in the future.

Methods: Indoor concentrations of traffic-related NO were modelled inside school buildings representing 13 climate regions in England and Wales using a building physics school stock model.

The effect of thermomechanical aging on the retention of a conometric system in a chewing simulator.

Purpose: To evaluate the retention force of a novel conometric system after thermomechanical aging. In addition, the conometric system's retention force was compared with that of the cemented implant-retained crowns.

Materials And Methods: Two systems to retain implant crowns were tested in this study: a conometric system and a cement-retained system.