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Degeneracy Sensing Light Detection and Ranging‐Inertial Simultaneous Localization and Mapping with Dual‐Layer Resistant Odometry and Scan‐Context Loop‐Closure Detection Backend in Diverse Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
This paper presents a degeneracy‐aware light detection and ranging (LiDAR)‐inertial framework that enhances LiDAR simultaneous localization and mapping performance in challenging environments. The proposed system integrates a dual‐layer robust odometry frontend with a Scan‐Context‐based loop‐closure detection backend.
Haoming Yang, Liye Zhao, Xukai Ding, Wenjun Li, Kehao Qi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of adaptive façades. An empirical study based on the morphology of glazed facades

Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2021
A building’s façade is its main interface with the external environment. Adaptive façade, one recent invention in the façade industry, has the capability to change its behaviour in real-time to respond to internal and/or external parameters, by means of ...
Marcin Brzezicki
doaj   +1 more source

Realising Aboriginal Community Controlled Approaches to Child Reunification

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reunification rates for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC) in Australia are critically low, even though reunification is the preferred permanency outcome for children following removal, and despite a range of mechanisms and strategies ostensibly to support effective reunification. To better understand the
B. J. Newton, Paul Gray, Kathleen Falster, Ilan Katz, Kyllie Cripps   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design Optimisation of Fixed and Adaptive Shading Devices on Four Façade Orientations of a High-Rise Office Building in the Tropics

Buildings, 2021
Optimisation of shading devices in buildings is a broadly investigated topic; however, most studies only focus on a single façade orientation, since the observed buildings are typically located in high latitude regions.
Rizki A. Mangkuto, Mochamad Donny Koerniawan, Sri Rahma Apriliyanthi, Irma Handayani Lubis, Atthaillah, Jan L. M. Hensen, Beta Paramita   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rising Strong: Cultivating Resilience in Edible City Entrepreneurship. Insights Into the Landscape of Urban Food Initiatives

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In response to growing global challenges, this study explores how social entrepreneurship within the Edible City movement contributes to building resilient, sustainable, and equitable urban food systems. Drawing on semistructured interviews with over 70 stakeholders across five cities—Berlin, Andernach, Oslo, Rotterdam, and Havana—we ...
Ina Säumel, Stephanie Ligan, Alice Bischof, Edi Emilov Ivanov, Laura Martinez‐Izquierdo, Sara Noémie Plassnig, Marisa Pettit   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neighbourhood Shading Impacts on Passive Adaptive Façade Collective Behaviour [PDF]

, 2017
The past decade witnessed a shift in adaptive facades from energy-intensive complex systems to material-based actuated facades. The latter, however, were only developed with limited control in shape memory alloy applications, and more generally designed ...
Chronis, A, Leung, C, Mokhtar, S
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Adaptive Glass Panels using Shape-Memory Alloys [PDF]

, 2016
Due to the growing application of laminated glass panels in building facades and roofs, tending towards the minimization of frameworks, substructures and supports, technological solutions based on the use of glass panels with increasingly wide dimensions
Bedon, Chiara, dos Santos, Filipe Amarante, Sacadura, Mariana   +2 more
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Polyvinylidene Fluoride: A Growing Specialty Polymer with Many Facets

Chinese Journal of Chemistry, EarlyView.
Comprehensive Summary Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF), the second largest produced fluoropolymer, exhibits outstanding chemical, physical, electroactive and electrochemical properties and is involved in many High‐Tech applications. This review reports recent novelties in synthesis, characterization, processes and applications. Recent preparation studies
Bruno Améduri
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Geometry for Adaptability: Comparison of Shading Systems and Biological Role Models

Journal of Facade Design and Engineering, 2018
Dynamic shading systems represent the majority of realised adaptive façades. It seems that geometrically complex kinetic solutions have increased in recent years, mainly due to the use of parametric design tools and digital production.
Susanne Gosztonyi
doaj   +1 more source

Critical Discourse Analysis in Corporate Reports: Legitimation Strategies in the Context of Environmental Controversies

Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the use of environmental disclosure as a strategic tool to manage legitimacy crises in a mining company, adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the main methodology. Focusing on a case of environmental disaster, this research reveals how corporate narratives can be manipulated to minimize responsibility and reinforce
Renata Luiza de Castilho Rossoni, Manolita Correia Lima   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source