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Real‐time monitoring of tunnel structures using digital twin and artificial intelligence: A short overview

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
How artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twin (DT) technologies are revolutionizing tunnel surveillance, offering proactive maintenance strategies and enhanced safety protocols. It explores AI's analytical power and DT's virtual replicas of infrastructure, emphasizing their role in optimizing maintenance and safety in tunnel management.
Mohammad Afrazi, Danial Jahed Armaghani, Hossein Afrazi, Hadi Fattahi, Pijush Samui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strengthening urban resilience in China through underground infrastructures management: Addressing global climate challenges with technological solutions

Deep Underground Science and Engineering, EarlyView.
This paper explores how climate‐resilient technologies, such as smart grids, digital twins, and self‐healing materials, can enhance urban resilience. It highlights the urgent need for proactive planning, public‐private collaboration, and data‐driven innovation to future‐proof underground infrastructure amid accelerating climate and urban pressures ...
Kai Chen Goh, Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Christia Meidiana, Abdelkader Anouzla, Faissal Aziz, Imran Ali, Joan Cecilia C. Casila, M. Imran Khan, Dongdong Zhang, Meihui Jiang, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan Othman, Md Munir Hayet Khan, Kasun Kumara Dissanayake   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Solar Energy in 2025: Global Deployment, Cost Trends, and the Role of Energy Storage in Enabling a Resilient Smart Energy Infrastructure

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This paper explores global solar PV deployment, cost trends, and grid integration challenges in 2025. It examines the role of energy storage in firming solar output and supporting electric vehicle (EV) growth, alongside policy shifts, investment flows, and technological innovations.
Ehsan Rezaee, S. Ravi P. Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Spatial Dynamics of a Just Regional Energy Transition: What If We Ask Citizens?

Environmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The installation of wind turbines and solar parks in valued rural landscapes has led to local concerns and perceived injustices to the extent that the societal acceptance of the energy transition is at stake. Although the literature on energy justice is blooming, research into citizens' understandings of justice with regards to regional energy
Simone Haarbosch, Sanneke Kloppenburg, Bas Van Vliet, Tamara Metze   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐driven circular economy optimization in waste management: A review of current evidence

Environmental Progress &Sustainable Energy, EarlyView.
Abstract The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in waste management has the potential to significantly advance circular economy objectives by enhancing efficiency, reducing waste, and optimizing resource recovery. However, realising these benefits depends on addressing significant technical, economic, and systemic ...
David Bamidele Olawade, Ram Narayan Yadav, James O Ijiwade, Ojima Z. Wada   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of fiscal decentralization and local government competition on the supply of basic public services: Based on the empirical evidence of prefecture-level cities in China. [PDF]

Heliyon
Wang Y, Huang X, Zhang T, Jiang B, Wang X.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

On the Applicability of the Advocacy Coalition Framework for Analyzing EU Policy Processes

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Initially developed for the US context, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is increasingly used to analyze policy processes in the EU. But policymaking in EU differs from the US context, why the applicability of ACF in the EU context should be scrutinized.
Fredrik von Malmborg
wiley   +1 more source

Do community health committees participate in governing health workers in primary healthcare facilities under fiscal decentralization?-An explanatory qualitative study from Tanzania. [PDF]

Health Sci Rep
Kesale AM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Policy Entrepreneurs and the Design of Administrative Reform: A Conceptual Framework and the Israeli Case

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What is the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting the design of public administrative reform? We present a conceptual framework for assessing the influence of policy entrepreneurs on public administrative reform. We start by proposing a typology of the various policy entrepreneurs active in the administrative reform arena.
Nissim Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Blocked and “Unblocked” Learning: Structural Factors That Impede and Enable Evidence‐Informed Policymaking

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article addresses a critical issue in evidence‐informed policymaking: the challenge of translating knowledge into policy outputs amidst the complex interplay between research and politics. It discusses the concept of “blocked learning,” where individual‐level learning fails to scale up to organizational and policy levels, thus impeding ...
Thenia Vagionaki
wiley   +1 more source