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Adaptive energy management in smart homes through fuzzy reinforcement learning and metaheuristic optimization algorithms to minimize costs. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Hamedani MMK, Jahangiri A, Mehri R, Shamim AG.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

PLAYING WITH PREFIGURATION: Ludic Spaces and Prefigurative Organizing for Children's Right to the Mobile City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Earlier writings on the political importance of play have discussed how it can make players conscious of the possibilities of otherwise worlds. Prefigurative politics has very similar aims, but the discussion between the two has been limited.
JONNE SILONSAARI
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-criteria evaluation and multi-method analysis for appropriately selecting renewable energy sources in Colombia. [PDF]

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Moreno-Rocha CM, Nuñez-Alvarez JR, Rivera-Alvarado J, Ruiz AG, Buelvas-Sanchez EA.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Intelligent Automobile Bionic Cockpit Selection Considering Personalization Requirements: Multiple-Criterion Model and Decision-Making Method. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Shi L, Zhang S, Han T, Liu N, Xie G, Tian G.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

A novel way to optimize the process parameters by integrating the grey relational coefficient and the combined compromise solution for machining the CFRP composites. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Shunmugesh K, Raphel A, Kurian S, Hiremath S, Anne G, Murthy BRN, Vishwanatha HM.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Unnatural Wills: Inheritance Disputes and Inequality

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Within the conceptual frame of relational economic sociology, inheritance disputes are a canonical form of relational mismatch. But the social patterning of relational mismatches, and their various ties to inequality, remain murky. In this paper, I examine all known inheritance disputes in Dallas from 1895–1945 within their social context to ...
Shay O'Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Treatment of cancer patients by generalizing a Fermatean normal vague set with aggregation operators. [PDF]

Heliyon
Palanikumar M, Kausar N, Ozbilge E, Cagin T, Pamucar D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Graduated Involution Under Compressed Modernity: Differences in the Summer Holidays as a Phase in the Public Life‐Course in Shanghai, China

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper develops the concept of graduated involution to explain how summer holidays have been reconstituted from leisure time into an educational arena for Chinese families under conditions of compressed modernity. Based on qualitative data from 32 households in Shanghai, including interviews and child self‐recordings, we analyze how ...
Leiping Bao, Rachel Murphy
wiley   +1 more source