IMPACTS OF DAYLIGHT ON IMPROVING HEALING QUALITY IN PATIENT ROOMS: CASE OF SHORSH HOSPITAL IN SULAIMANI CITY
INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTION JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT & APPLIED SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES
Authors: Husein, Husein Ali; Salim, Sazgar Samir
Abstract
Nature provides important design solutions whether in architecture or other sciences and arts. Biophilia is an innate human desire to be connected to nature and biophilic architecture is bringing nature to indoor environments. The positive effects of biophilia are especially interesting in healthcare facilities due to extreme stress elements in those spaces. The architecture of hospitals can affect the health and well-being of patients and staff. Therefore, the main purpose of the present research is to understand the relationship between a patient's health and their physical environment, which specifically addresses using natural light as a biophilic technique in the patients' rooms. Most patients' restrooms were built without windows and depend on artificial lighting. This paper, impacts of daylight is investigated through a detailed questionnaire which handed to 155 patients of Shorsh Hospital randomly of both gender aged between (18-40 years old), they were asked to indicate their opinions about lighting conditions in their rooms and its impacts on their health and recovery. According to the findings, using the biophilic technique (natural light) specifically inside hospital rooms support physical and psychological wellbeing and accelerates the healing of the patient. Therefore, architects and designers should try to bring daylight into hospitals to upgrade the qualities of these environments skillfully. Disciplinary: Architectural Science (Daylight in Buildings). (c) 2020 INT TRANS J ENG MANAG SCI TECH.
Simple Model of Protein Energetics To Identify Ab Initio Folding Transitions from All-Atom MD Simulations of Proteins
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
Authors: Meli, Massimiliano; Morra, Giulia; Colombo, Giorgio
Abstract
A fundamental requirement to predict the native conformation, address questions of sequence design and optimization, and gain insights into the folding mechanisms of proteins lies in the definition of an unbiased reaction coordinate that reports on the folding state without the need to compare it to reference values, which might be unavailable for new (designed) sequences. Here, we introduce such a reaction coordinate, which does not depend on previous structural knowledge of the native state but relies solely on the energy partition within the protein: the spectral gap of the pair nonbonded energy matrix (ENergy Gap, ENG). This quantity can be simply calculated along unbiased MD trajectories. We show that upon folding the gap increases significantly, while its fluctuations are reduced to a minimum. This is consistently observed for a diverse set of systems and trajectories. Our approach allows one to promptly identify residues that belong to the folding core as well as residues involved in non-native contacts that need to be disrupted to guide polypeptides to the folded state. The energy gap and fluctuations criteria are then used to develop an automatic detection system which allows us to extract and analyze folding transitions from a generic MD trajectory. We speculate that our method can be used to detect conformational ensembles in dynamic and intrinsically disordered proteins, revealing potential preorganization for binding.