Decoding concrete’s environmental performance: A detailed analysis of global EPDs across the entire life cycle [PDF]
Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) for concrete are essential tools to quantify the environmental impact of this versatile building material throughout its life cycle, supporting sustainable choices in construction.
Albrecht Sophie Viktoria +2 more
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The deconstruction of a building marks the end of its life cycle. At the same time, this phase offers many opportunities for the acquisition and reuse of used building materials.
Jan-Iwo Jäkel +4 more
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A game theoretic model for digital identity and trust in online communities [PDF]
Digital identity and trust management mechanisms play an important role on the Internet. They help users make decisions on trustworthiness of digital identities in online communities or ecommerce environments, which have significant security consequences.
Alpcan, Tansu +5 more
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Under the trend of digitization and global carbon reductions, clay construction has increasingly attracted attention due to advantages such as an excellent thermal performance, low carbon emissions, and high cost-effectiveness.
Xunzhi Yin +5 more
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Discrete spherical means of directional derivatives and Veronese maps [PDF]
We describe and study geometric properties of discrete circular and spherical means of directional derivatives of functions, as well as discrete approximations of higher order differential operators.
Alexander Belyaev +36 more
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Developing digital literacy in construction management education: a design thinking led approach [PDF]
Alongside the digital innovations in AEC (Architectural, Engineering and Construction) practice, are calls for a new type of digital literacy, including a new information-based literacy informed by creativity, critical analysis and the theoretical and ...
Awad, Ramsey, Jupp, Julie
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Gossip Codes for Fingerprinting: Construction, Erasure Analysis and Pirate Tracing
This work presents two new construction techniques for q-ary Gossip codes from tdesigns and Traceability schemes. These Gossip codes achieve the shortest code length specified in terms of code parameters and can withstand erasures in digital ...
Gulati, V. P. +3 more
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Construction and commissioning of a technological prototype of a high-granularity semi-digital hadronic calorimeter [PDF]
A large prototype of 1.3m3 was designed and built as a demonstrator of the semi-digital hadronic calorimeter (SDHCAL) concept proposed for the future ILC experiments. The prototype is a sampling hadronic calorimeter of 48 units.
Almillo, E. Calvo +45 more
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Revealing the structure of land plant photosystem II: the journey from negative‐stain EM to cryo‐EM
Advances in cryo‐EM have revealed the detailed structure of Photosystem II, a key protein complex driving photosynthesis. This review traces the journey from early low‐resolution images to high‐resolution models, highlighting how these discoveries deepen our understanding of light harvesting and energy conversion in plants.
Roman Kouřil
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Measuring bicycle accessibility within the metro catchment area: An empirical study in Shanghai
Accessibility describes the potential to reach opportunities and is widely used to assess the ease of reaching destinations through urban transport systems.
Yizhe Huang +3 more
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