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Revista Sustinere, 2015 Post Occupancy Evaluation defines the methods and techniques to characterize the strength and weaknesses of a constructed structure by considering the users satisfaction in meeting their needs during the course of its use.
Jairo Ferreira Lopes de Farias +4 more
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Improved governance and sustainable urban development Strategic planning holds the key
European Journal of Spatial Development, 2006 The recent focus on improved governance in cities has raised some concerns about the role of urban planning. Questions have been raised on whether good governance is a substitute for planning, and if it is adequate in itself to achieve sustainable ...
Shipra Narang, Lars Reuterswärd
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Habitat variability does not generally promote metabolic network modularity in flies and mammals [PDF]
Biosystems 139, 46-54 (2016), 2015 The evolution of species habitat range is an important topic over a wide range of research fields. In higher organisms, habitat range evolution is generally associated with genetic events such as gene duplication. However, the specific factors that determine habitat variability remain unclear at higher levels of biological organization (e.g ...
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Obesity Science & Practice, 2021 Objective Nationally representative percentiles for waist circumference (WC), waist‐to‐height‐ratio (WHtR), and body mass index (BMI) are not available for children and adolescents in India.
Avina Sarna +7 more
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Vernacular Architecture in México: The Blue Corn Research Center in Michoacán
Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA, 2023 In Mexico, a large part of the population is still engaged in primary activities such as agriculture. That is why government and academic institutions have focused on encouraging the improvement and optimization of the farming of basic grains through ...
Sindy Melissa Godínez De León +2 more
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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 This study takes 16 cities in the Shandong Peninsula urban agglomeration as the research object. Based on the nighttime lighting data from 2000 to 2020, the enhanced vegetation-adjusted nighttime light index is constructed on a five-year time scale using
Yishan Song +3 more
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Autonomous Mosquito Habitat Detection Using Satellite Imagery and Convolutional Neural Networks for Disease Risk Mapping [PDF]
, 2022 Mosquitoes are known vectors for disease transmission that cause over one million deaths globally each year. The majority of natural mosquito habitats are areas containing standing water that are challenging to detect using conventional ground-based technology on a macro scale.
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PAD TECHNIQUE ON DEFORESTATION SITUATION ON PETROPOLIS’ METROPOLITAN AREA - RJ
Revista Sustinere, 2015 With the rising and intensification of production’s activities, as industries, the deforestation taxes show to be on an alarming level. It is wide spread known the consequences that deforestation might cause in metropolitan areas.
Amanda Santos de Alencar +2 more
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Territorial rescaling and polycentric governance in Albania
European Spatial Research and Policy, 2021 Territories as relational geographical constructs are in constant formation and reformation, or rescaling, which results in spatial typologies of complex governance.
Dritan Shutina, Rudina Toto
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International Journal of Renewable Energy Development, 2017 The present study focused on the optimization and molecular characterization of anaerobic mixed consortium TERI SA1 that can utilize synthesis gas as sole carbon source for volatile fatty acids production. Optimization study using Box- Behnken design and
Ashish Singla +7 more
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