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Record W4407957711 · doi:10.3389/fbuil.2025.1528453

Analysis of the influence of exogenous factors on indoor air quality in residential buildings

2025· article· en· W4407957711 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueFrontiers in Built Environment · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicAir Quality and Health Impacts
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndoor air qualityArchitectural engineeringQuality (philosophy)Environmental scienceEngineeringCivil engineeringEnvironmental engineering

Abstract

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Indoor air pollution presents a significant global health risk, yet the influence of outdoor air pollution and meteorological factors on indoor air quality is not well understood. This study investigates these impacts in 88 naturally ventilated households across urban, suburban, and industrial areas, with no indoor smoking or cooking. Air quality measurements were continuously recorded for 24 h a day over six consecutive days during the wet season. The findings reveal that the outdoor PM 2.5 levels consistently exceeded indoor levels, with weekday concentrations higher than on weekends. Specifically, urban PM 2.5 levels averaged 34.8 μg/m³ outdoors and 31 μg/m³ indoors on weekdays, compared to 33.1 μg/m³ outdoors and 31.5 μg/m³ indoors on weekends. Indoor CO 2 levels were notably higher, peaking at 525.7 ppm in urban areas on weekdays and 576.9 ppm on weekends, driven by increased occupancy and poor ventilation, particularly in suburban areas (880.4 ppm on weekdays and 807.5 ppm on weekends). The average indoor/outdoor (I/O) ratio for PM 2.5 was 0.94, indicating that indoor concentrations are about 94% of outdoor levels, signifying significant infiltration of outdoor pollution. In contrast, the I/O ratio for CO 2 was 1.47, suggesting indoor levels were 47% higher due to limited ventilation and indoor sources. This study concludes that outdoor air pollution and meteorological factors significantly affect indoor air quality in Kigali, Rwanda, highlighting the need for effective management of both outdoor pollution sources and indoor conditions.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.189
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.018
GPT teacher head0.288
Teacher spread0.270 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it