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The Biodiversity Moonshot: A Spark for a Transformative Change or a New Business‐Case Facade?

Business Ethics, the Environment &Responsibility, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity has recently gained increased attention in sustainability management research. It sustains the ecosystems on which organizations depend, while simultaneously being threatened by organizational activities. By highlighting this dynamic of impact and dependence, the integration of biodiversity into management discourse offers an ...
Francesco Testa, Alberto Di Minin, Duccio Tosi, Valentina Cucino, Gianmaria Ontano, Michael V. Russo, Frederik Dahlmann, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, Andrea Stevenson Thorpe, Frank Figge, Philip Shapira, Kerrigan Marie Machado Unter, Judith Walls, Nicole Darnall, Adam McCarthy, Priscila Ferri, Claire Holland, Jacopo Cricchio   +17 more
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On the Simplified Numerical Analyses of an Adaptive Double‐Glazed Façade Considering Steady‐State Conditions and Experimental Data

The Journal of Engineering
The façade of a building accounts for large areas of its envelope, representing the interface between the uncontrolled outdoor climate and the conditioned interior. The façade is therefore largely responsible for the building's energy balance.
Henri Paetow, Christin Sirtl, Matthias Kraus   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tessellation-Based Origami-Inspired Movable Façade for Daylighting and Exposure Optimization: Assessing Different Movement Approaches

Journal of Daylighting
This study emphasizes the importance of daylight performance in interior spaces as a critical factor in achieving global Sustainable Development Goals, including energy efficiency, environmental sustainability, and healthy living conditions.
Ecenur Kızılörenli, Ahmet Vefa Orhon
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical modelling of in-plane behaviour of adobe walls [PDF]

, 2010
Some tests for material characterization of adobe blocks and adobe masonry have been carried out in universities and laboratories around the world. However, the number of tests is quite limited in comparison with those carried out with other structural ...
Blondet, M., Camata, G., Spacone, E., Tarque, N., Varum, H.   +4 more
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Between Care and Control: Age Assessments and the Regulation of Unaccompanied and Asylum‐Seeking Children

Child &Family Social Work, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article offers a critical conceptual review of age assessments in England and examines their implications for unaccompanied asylum‐seeking children (UASC). Drawing on Foucault's theories of biopower and governmentality, age assessments are conceptualied as technologies of control that set the parameters for who is deemed ‘deserving’ of ...
Ama‐Rose Greaves
wiley   +1 more source

Energy-Efficient Adaptive Dynamic Building Facades: A Review of Their Energy Efficiency and Operating Loads

Applied Sciences
Energy-efficient, adaptive, affordable and durable curtain wall systems have always attracted great interest among the scientific and technical communities.
Nurlan Zhangabay, Timur Tursunkululy, Ulzhan Ibraimova, Uliya Abdikerova   +3 more
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Designerly Approach to Design Responsive Façade for Occupant Visual Comfort in Different Latitudes

Journal of Daylighting
In recent years, attention has focused on improving the health and satisfaction of employees by enhancing visual comfort in workplaces. This involves providing adequate natural daylight, glare control, and outdoor views.
Fatemeh Mehrvarz, Mohammadreza Bemanian, Tahereh Nasr, Reza Mansoori, Mohammed Faisal AL-Kazee, Wael A. Khudhayer, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad   +6 more
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Constructing National Identity Through Museums in Early Republican Turkey: Historical Narrative, Spatial Transformation, Exhibiting Modernity, and Monumentality

Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the role of museums in the construction of national identity during the Early Republican Period in Turkey (1923–1950). Drawing on theoretical approaches that interpret museums as spaces in which collective memory and national identity are materially organized and publicly communicated, the study analyzes museums as key ...
Duygu Atalay Şimşek
wiley   +1 more source

LiDAR or Photogrammetry? Integration is the answer [PDF]

, 2011
Nex, Francesco Carlo, Rinaudo, Fulvio
core   +1 more source

Caring organizational cultures and the future of work

European Management Review, EarlyView.
Abstract There is substantial evidence that workplaces of the future will be dominated by an increase in advanced technology. This trend might lead to the objectification and dehumanization of employees and other stakeholders who interact with organizations as impersonal operations and procedures become normative and employees are subordinated to ...
Alan M. Saks, Jamie A. Gruman
wiley   +1 more source