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Hierarchies in cities and city systems

, 2004
Hierarchy is implicit in the very term city. Cities grow from hamlets andvillages into small towns and thence into larger forms such as ?metropolis?,?megalopolis? and world cities which are ?gigalopolis?.
Batty, M
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Governance and the City: An Empirical Exploration into Global Determinants of Urban Performance [PDF]

We contribute to the field of urban governance and globalization through an empirically-based exploration of determinants of performance of cities.
Massimo Mastruzzi, Daniel Kaufmann, Frannie Leautier   +2 more
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Elephant‐Skin‐Inspired Porous Cementitious Tiles with Programmable Crack Networks for Passive Cooling

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang, Kun‐Hao Yu, Ji Yoon Bae, Yunchan Lee, Dorit Aviv, Shu Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Establishing and Leveraging networks in design education innovation projects

, 2014
Project networking is the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from individuals, groups and organisations external to a project’s core team. The ability to establish and leverage networks is an increasingly
Bailey, Mark, University of Technology, Sydney, Walden, Roderick, PolyU, Hongkong, Spencer, Nick, Leong, Benny, Aftab, Mersha   +6 more
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German Cities in the World City Network

Raumforschung und Raumordnung | Spatial Research and Planning, 2011
This paper provides a brief critical appraisal of the relationality of German cities in the world city network. The paper is divided into four parts. After the introduction, part two highlights the major findings of each individual contribution to this special issue, and teases out the major patterns of German world city connectivity at both the ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Neuromorphic Electronics for Intelligence Everywhere: Emerging Devices, Flexible Platforms, and Scalable System Architectures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj, Roshni Satheesh Babu, Yuxin Xia, Eva Bestelink, Radu Sporea, Nikos Hastas, Ioannis Zeimpekis, Dimitra G. Georgiadou, Sayani Majumdar   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

FishermaskFormer: Lightweight Remote Sensing Scene Classification With Masked Transformer

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing
Remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) is to accurately assign semantic labels to remote sensing images by analyzing scene contents. Recently, many algorithms have made significant progress in improving the classification accuracy of RSSC. However, a
Wei Wu, Xianbin Hu, Zhu Li, Xueliang Luo
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Emergent Spin Supersolids in Frustrated Quantum Materials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights developments in the study of spin super‐solids in frustrated quantum materials. Advanced experimental characterizations and computational studies enable a comprehensive understanding of the driving mechanisms of spin super‐solidity in various layered transition‐metal compounds, bridging materials, experiments, and theory aspects.
Yixuan Huang, Seiji Yunoki, Sadamichi Maekawa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

World City Network Expansion 2000-2004. An appraisal of the determinants of connectivity growth among world cities [PDF]

The term “globalization” has long been vented indiscriminately everywhere with few being capable to either define or measure it. Cities are said to be at the forefront of the “works of globalization” by becoming coordinating centers for the transnational
Renato Aristides Orozco Pereira
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Phase Engineering of Nanomaterials (PEN): Evolution, Current Challenges, and Future Opportunities

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the synthesis, phase transition, advanced characterization spanning ex situ to in situ and operando techniques, and diverse applications of phase engineering of nanomaterials (PEN). It further outlines key challenges and future opportunities, such as phase stability, architecture control, and artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven ...
Ye Chen, Zhanxi Fan, Jingjie Ge, Qiyuan He, Zhuangchai Lai, Jiawei Liu, Chaoliang Tan, Hua Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source