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Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries, 2004 The paper deals with the user (read: library) participation and influence on the building project, in particular the demands concerning the functionality of the building and the planning principles.
Eirin Haugen
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A near zero consumption building as an urban acupuncture for a vertical slum. A case study in the city of Malaga, Spain [PDF]
, 2017 Vertical slum is defined as a particularly vulnerable height building, with serious problems of functionality, safety and habitability. Venezuela’s Tower of David is a famous example.
Garcia-Moreno, Alberto Enrique +3 more
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Tuning out disorder-induced localization in nanophotonic cavity arrays [PDF]
, 2016 Weakly coupled high-Q nanophotonic cavities are building blocks of slow-light waveguides and other nanophotonic devices. Their functionality critically depends on tuning as resonance frequencies should stay within the bandwidth of the device. Unavoidable
Combrié, Sylvain +5 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2019 The importance of animal behavior to successful wildlife translocations has been acknowledged in recent decades, and it has been increasingly considered and more frequently incorporated into translocation management and research.
Shifra Z. Goldenberg +5 more
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Communications Biology, 2022 A new deadly coral disease, known as stony coral tissue loss disease, has modified the coral communities across the Caribbean region by disproportionately affecting key reef-building corals and reducing reef functionality.
Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip +4 more
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Electroactive materials with tunable response based on block copolymer self-assembly
Nature Communications, 2019 Ferroelectric polymers are key building blocks for flexible electronic devices, but lack functionality and ability to tune their ferroelectric response. Here the authors show a method to introduce functionality in ferroelectric polymers while preserving ...
Ivan Terzic +4 more
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Amine‐Functionalized Spin Crossover Building Blocks [PDF]
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2019 AbstractInvited for the cover of this issue is the group of Paul Kögerler from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. The cover image shows an aluminum sheet painted with thermochromic lacquer based on functionalized derivatives of iron(II) bis(tris(pyrazolyl)borate) complexes.
Henrik Flötotto +3 more
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International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics, 2016 Istanbul has been affected by earthquakes throughout its history. The most recent earthquake to shake Istanbul was on August 17 1999, along the North Anatolian Fault, 12 km southeast of the Izmit Province, with a magnitude of 7.4.
Betül Ergün Konukcu +2 more
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Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 Buildings are fundamental components of urban areas and they play a vital role in supporting human activities in daily life. Understanding the actual building functions is essential for many urban applications, such as city management, urban planning, and optimization of transportation systems.
Xucai Zhang +5 more
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Seismic resilience of internet data center building with different disaster mitigation techniques
Resilient Cities and Structures, 2022 Internet data center buildings have great importance for maintaining the post-earthquake functionality of telecommunication networks. It is essential to maintain the functionality of internet data center buildings during earthquakes or recover ...
Qingxue Shang +6 more
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