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CityScapeLab Berlin: A Research Platform for Untangling Urbanization Effects on Biodiversity [PDF]

, 2020
Urban biodiversity conservation requires an understanding of how urbanization modulates biodiversity patterns and the associated ecosystem services. While important advances have been made in the conceptual development of urban biodiversity research over
Buchholz, Sascha, Hiller, Anne, Kowarik, Ingo, Lippe, Moritz von der, Seitz, Birgit   +4 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
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What Doesn’t Work in the European Cohesion Policy? Development Challenges of the Inner Periphery After the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

Quaestiones Geographicae
The EU’s cohesion policy is a fundamental component of intervention policies in united Europe. Its primary goal is to reduce the scale of spatial differences in development by striving to improve economic, social, and territorial cohesion.
Churski Paweł, Adamiak Czesław, Dubownik Anna, Pietrzykowski Maciej, Szyda Barbara   +4 more
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Orbital Electrowetting: From Continuous Droplet Transport to Programmable Microfluidics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work comprehensively summarizes the mechanisms, recent advances, potential applications, and key challenges of orbital electrowetting. It highlights that integrating orbital electrowetting with conventional electrowetting is required to enable complete digital‐microfluidic workflows while simplifying platform architecture.
Jie Tan, Jiayu Du, Dong Lv, Yikui Gao, Dongyue Jiang, Zuankai Wang, Wenjie Liu, Chi Yan Tso   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Innovations in daily commuting - what types of solutions are competitive? European case study.

Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series
Innovations drive dynamic changes in daily commuting especially in functional urban areas (FUAs), where transport systems are developed. Innovative solutions are being tested in FUAs, and they not only pose an alternative to conventional transport ...
Ada Wolny - Kucińska, Małgorzata Dudzińska, Agnieszka Dawidowicz, Marta Gross   +3 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

A New Remote Sensing Images and Point-of-Interest Fused (RPF) Model for Sensing Urban Functional Regions

Remote Sensing, 2020
For urban planning and environmental monitoring, it is essential to understand the diversity and complexity of cities to identify urban functional regions accurately and widely.
Shengyu Xu, Linbo Qing, Longmei Han, Mei Liu, Yonghong Peng, Lifang Shen   +5 more
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Response of arthropod species richness and functional groups to urban habitat structure and management [PDF]

, 2018
Urban areas are a particular landscape matrix characterized by a fine-grained spatial arrangement of very diverse habitats (urban mosaic). We investigated arthropods to analyse biodiversity-habitat associations along five environmental gradients (age ...
Arlettaz, R., Duelli, P., Moretti, M., Obrist, M., Sattler, T.   +4 more
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Cellular Snowballing: Cell Adhesion and Migration Drive the Self‐Assembly of Cell‐Microgel Biohybrid Spheroids

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A new class of biohybrid spheroids is engineered through the self‐assembly of adherent cells and extracellular matrix‐mimetic hydrogel microparticles (microgels). By mimicking a snowballing effect, this approach enables scalable formation of porous, millimeter‐scale spheroids with enhanced cell viability and molecular diffusion.
Zaman Ataie, Sina Kheirabadi, Changhao Li, Aneesh Risbud, Aswathy Sebastian, Istvan Albert, Sulin Zhang, Amir Sheikhi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The fuzzy boundary: the spatial definition of urban areas [PDF]

, 2007
Cities seem to have some kind of area structure, usually distinguished in terms of land use types, socio-economic variables, physical appearance or historical and culturalcharacteristics.
Hillier, B, Yang, T
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