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Adaptive building envelopes of multistory buildings as an example of high performance building skins
Recently developed generation of high-performance skins greatly leads to the emersion of innovative manufactures integrating real-time environmental response, enhanced materials, dynamic automation with built in microprocessors, wireless sensors and ...
Hadeer Samir Mohamed Shahin
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Assessment of Indoor Environmental Quality for Retrofitting Classrooms with An Egg-Crate Shading Device in A Hot Climate [PDF]
In the Mediterranean climate, a large number of educational buildings suffer from discomfort due mostly to energy-deficient thermal envelopes and a lack of cooling systems.
Calama-González, Carmen +3 more
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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In the hot, dry climate regions of Algeria, traditional buildings are constructed with cooling strategies to cope with harsh climatic conditions. The dominance of direct solar irradiance in these regions requires that building facades be well shaded ...
Cherif Ben Bacha, Fatiha Bourbia
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Adaptive Facades Performance Assessment, interviews with facade experts
Adaptive facades can ensure step-change progresses in the energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy while improving the comfort of the occupants. Therefore, the purpose of this structured interview is to assess advantages, disadvantages and future expectations considering the adaptive facades.
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ABSTRACT This paper examines the UK's 2025 Immigration White Paper as a critical site for understanding how immigration policy functions as an instrument of racial capitalism. Drawing on Critical Race Theory, the theory of social reproduction, and intersectionality, it interrogates how the state's construction of the ‘skilled migrant’ operates as a ...
Muhammad Abdul Aziz +2 more
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Energy-efficient, adaptive, affordable and durable curtain wall systems have always attracted great interest among the scientific and technical communities.
Nurlan Zhangabay +3 more
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On the Dangers of Large‐Language Model Mediated Learning for Human Capital
ABSTRACT Against the dominant view in HRM concerning the value‐creating use of large language models (LLMs) in relation to Human Capital, our provocation asks whether LLMs will enhance or compromise Human Capital at work in the long‐run. We feel compelled to ask this question because Human Capital represents employees' accumulated learning experiences,
Dirk Lindebaum +2 more
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Impact of building services integration on heritage shophouse facade in George Town,Penang [PDF]
Penyelidikan ini adalah kajian terhadap fasad rumah-rumah kedai di George Town, Pulau Pinang dan bagaimana ianya terkesan oleh pemasangan elemen perkhidmatan bangunan moden.
Adil Sabah, Omar
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Layered Incoherence in Middle Power Foreign Policy: Indonesia and the U.S.‐China Rivalry
ABSTRACT Amid the intensifying U.S.‐China rivalry, middle powers, especially those from the global south, are often portrayed in IR literature as strategic hedgers, expected to balance between major powers to preserve regional autonomy and stability. Yet many, like Indonesia, display contradictory foreign policy behaviour by rhetorically championing ...
Moch Faisal Karim
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