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

open access: yesDeep 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   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hot spots or hot moments? Contextualizing the spatio‐temporal scale of research on animal inputs

open access: yesEcography, EarlyView.
Mammals play important roles in redistributing elements across ecosystems, concentrating biogeochemical inputs across both space and time. However, research on zoogeochemical inputs is often constrained by logistical considerations, potentially limiting our knowledge of mammals' impacts on biogeochemical patterns and processes.
Kristy M. Ferraro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identification of Recoverable Consequential Damages in Charterparty Contracts: An Exploration of Common Law and Maritime Customs [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامه حقوق اسلامی
‌ ∴ Introduction ∴ ‌The charterparty agreement, a contract within maritime transport, governs the terms under which a vessel is leased. These agreements are pivotal in international trade, particularly in the shipping industry, where disputes often arise
Paria Sadat Pourhoseini   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA): Overview of Workers’ Compensation for Certain Private- Sector Maritime Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
[Excerpt] The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA) is a federal workers’ compensation program that covers certain private-sector maritime workers.
Szymendera, Scott
core   +2 more sources

Carbon Dots: An Emerging Frontier for Green and Sustainable Civil Engineering Materials

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Traditional civil engineering materials (CE materials) are usually involved with high‐energy consumption during manufacturing, significant maintenance costs, and substantial environmental impacts throughout their life cycles. The progress of nanotechnology is catalyzing a green and sustainable transformation within the field.
Weiwen Hao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards design of prognostics and health management solutions for maritime assets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
With increase in competition between OEMs of maritime assets and operators alike, the need to maximize the productivity of an equipment and increase operational efficiency and reliability is increasingly stringent and challenging. Also, with the adoption
Niculita, Octavian   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
wiley   +1 more source

Synonym‐based multi‐keyword ranked search with secure k‐NN in 6G network

open access: yesIET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Sixth Generation (6G) integrates the next generation communication systems such as maritime, terrestrial, and aerial to offer robust network and massive device connectivity with ultra‐low latency requirement. The cutting edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum machine learning, and millimetre enable hyper‐connectivity to ...
Deebak Bakkiam David, Fadi Al‐Turjman
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a Hydroelectronic Solar‐Tracking System for Solar Panels

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
A prototype of a passive solar‐tracking system utilizing buoyant force based on water level was developed, and its MATLAB/Simulink model was implemented. This study is expected to encourage researchers to design solar‐tracking mechanisms using metals with different thermal expansion coefficients, air, oil, and other fluids. ABSTRACT This study presents
Ufuk Süğürtin, Türker Fedai Çavuş
wiley   +1 more source

Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application

open access: yesIET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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