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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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Superposition matrix for the assessment of performance-relevant adaptive façade functions

Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2019
The environmental boundary conditions and the demand for comfort change constantly during the use of a building. By dynamically balancing changing conditions and requirements, adaptive façades contribute to the energy efficiency of buildings. The façade
Jens Boeke, Ulrich Knaack, Marco Hemmerling   +2 more
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Computers and chess masters: The role of AI in transforming elite human performance

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have made significant strides in recent years, often supplementing rather than replacing human performance. The extent of their assistance at the highest levels of human performance remains unclear. We analyse over 11.6 million decisions of elite chess players, a domain commonly used as a testbed for AI
Merim Bilalić, Mario Graf, Nemanja Vaci
wiley   +1 more source

Achieving urban climate adaptation in Europe and Central Asia [PDF]

Many cities across Europe and Central Asia are experiencing the impacts of climate change, but most have not integrated climate adaptation into their agendas. This paper examines the threats faced and measures that can be taken by cities in the region to
Carmin, JoAnn, Zhang, Yan
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Comparison of different seismic non-linear analyses of an ancient masonry building [PDF]

, 2009
This paper presents a study about the possibilities of non-linear static analyses for evaluating the seismic performance of ancient masonry buildings. The adopted case study is a Portuguese typology of the 19th century.
Lourenço, Paulo B., Mendes, N.
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The state of modelling face processing in humans with deep learning

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Deep learning models trained for facial recognition now surpass the highest performing human participants. Recent evidence suggests that they also model some qualitative aspects of face processing in humans. This review compares the current understanding of deep learning models with psychological models of the face processing system ...
P. Jonathon Phillips, David White
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Adaptability Strategy to a Novel Kinetic Adaptive Façade (NKAF); Toward a Pioneering Method in Dynamic-objects Daylight Simulation (Post-Processing)

Journal of Daylighting
The design and evaluation of adaptive facades (AFs) have become increasingly complex due to advancements in morphology, control strategies, and adaptability techniques.
Ali Goharian, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad, Sana Ghazazani, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Zahra Zamani, Hossein Yavari, Fereshteh Ghafarpoor, Fataneh Shoghi   +7 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

Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
wiley   +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