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Progress in Human Geography, 2021 The assertion that ‘ecosystems are infrastructure’ is now common in conservation science and ecosystem management. This article interrogates that claim, which we argue underpins diverse practices of environmental investment focused on the strategic management of ecosystem functions to sustain and secure human life.
Sara H Nelson, Patrick Bigger
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Migration Infrastructure [PDF]
International Migration Review, 2014 Based on the authors’ long-term field research on low-skilled labor migration from China and Indonesia, this article establishes that more than ever labor migration is intensively mediated. Migration infrastructure – the systematically interlinked technologies, institutions, and actors that facilitate and condition mobility – serves as a concept to ...
Xiang, B., Lindquist, J.
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Interface Focus, 2016 Design, construction, maintenance and upgrading of civil engineering infrastructure requires fresh thinking to minimize use of materials, energy and labour. This can only be achieved by understanding the performance of the infrastructure, both during its construction and throughout its design life, through innovative monitoring.
Soga, Kenichi, Schooling, Jennifer
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Thermal response of energy soldier pile walls [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 Utilising foundation systems as heat exchangers has received significant public interest worldwide, as these energy geo-structures can constitute a clean, renewable, and economical solution for space heating and cooling.
Zhong Yu +4 more
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Professor V. Ye. Timonov – the formation of the scientific worldview
Історія науки і техніки, 2020 The name of Vsevolod Timonov, an outstanding scientist-engineer, teacher, public figure, and popularizer of science, doctor of technical sciences, Honored worker of science and technology of the RSFSR, professor, is well known to a wide range of domestic
Liubov Soloviova +3 more
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Scientific Reports, 2022 In this work, the collapse ultimate load of a prefabricated reinforced concrete column–steel beam composite frame structure was studied. During the study, the “new RCS beam-to-column joint” was used as the beam-to-column connection in the experimental ...
Youquan Liu +3 more
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Making green infrastructure healthier infrastructure
Infection Ecology & Epidemiology, 2015 Increasing urban green and blue structure is often pointed out to be critical for sustainable development and climate change adaptation, which has led to the rapid expansion of greening activities in cities throughout the world. This process is likely to have a direct impact on the citizens' quality of life and public health.
Mare Lõhmus, John Balbus
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, 2022 Este proyecto está cofinanciado por el Ministerio español de Universidades en el marco del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia, por la Unión Europea – NextGenerationEU, y por la Universidad de Valladolid.
Gastaldi, Francesco, Camerin, Federico
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Persistent Identifier Practice for Big Data Management at NCI
Data Science Journal, 2017 The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) manages over 10 PB research data, which is co-located with the high performance computer (Raijin) and an HPC class 3000 core OpenStack cloud system (Tenjin).
Jingbo Wang +5 more
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Protocol-Based Reliable Control for Power Systems with Communication Constraints
Complexity, 2023 This study focuses on the protocol-based control for single-area power systems subject to actuator failures and deception attacks. Specifically, actuator failures, network attacks, unreliability, and bandwidth restrictions that emerge in power systems ...
Yong Chen +5 more
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