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Presenting a Framework for Describing the Technological Transitions Base on the Multilevel Analysis Approach (Case Study: The Transition to Renewable Energy in Iran) [PDF]

بهبود مدیریت, 2018
Nowadays, the need to discover and use new energy sources has become increasingly important due to increasing need of societies, especially in developing countries indcluding Iran, for energy carriers, regarding the finitude of fossil fuels, as well as ...
Seyed Moslem Mousavi Dorcheh, Mohammad Amin Ghanei Rad, Hasan Karimian, Hediyeh Zonouzizadeh, Naser Bagheri-Moghaddam   +4 more
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Pathways of Transition to Organic Agriculture in Morocco

World, 2022
Agriculture is a vital sector in Morocco through its contribution to the gross domestic product (13%) and workforce (30%). However, the sector faces important sustainability challenges due to Morocco’s dependence on rain-fed crops for 90% of the ...
Hamza El Ghmari, Rachid Harbouze, Hamid El Bilali   +2 more
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Engineering hierarchical complex systems: an agent-based approach. The case of flexible manufacturing systems

, 2012
This article introduces a formal model to specify, model and validate hierarchical complex systems described at different levels of analysis. It relies on concepts that have been developed in the multi-agent-based simulation (MABS) literature: level ...
Dupont, Daniel, Merzouki, Rochdi, Morvan, Gildas, Soyez, Jean-Baptiste   +3 more
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Defining the boundaries and operational concepts of resilience in the resilience in healthcare research program

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Understanding the resilience of healthcare is critically important. A resilient healthcare system might be expected to consistently deliver high quality care, withstand disruptive events and continually adapt, learn and improve. However, there
Siri Wiig, Karina Aase, Stephen Billett, Carolyn Canfield, Olav Røise, Ove Njå, Veslemøy Guise, Cecilie Haraldseid-Driftland, Eline Ree, Janet E. Anderson, Carl Macrae, on behalf of the RiH-team   +11 more
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Fused Text Segmentation Networks for Multi-oriented Scene Text Detection

, 2018
In this paper, we introduce a novel end-end framework for multi-oriented scene text detection from an instance-aware semantic segmentation perspective.
Chen, Kai, Dai, Yuchen, Gao, Yuting, Guo, Jie, Huang, Zheng, Qiu, Weidong, Xu, Youxuan   +6 more
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Analyzing a transition to a sustainability-oriented science system in Germany [PDF]

, 2012
The multi-level perspective has successfully been applied to the analysis of complex sector transitions in the energy, the health or the food production sector.
Augenstein, Karoline, Schneidewind, Uwe
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Solar Prosumers in the German Energy Transition: A Multi-Level Perspective Analysis of the German ‘Mieterstrom’ Model

Energies, 2021
The expansion of photovoltaics in German cities has so far fallen short of expectations. The concept of ‘tenant electricity’ (‘Mieterstrom’ in German), in which tenants of a building are supplied with solar power produced on site, offers great potential ...
Raphael Moser, Chun Xia-Bauer, Johannes Thema, Florin Vondung   +3 more
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All Who Wander: On the Prevalence and Characteristics of Multi-community Engagement [PDF]

, 2015
Although analyzing user behavior within individual communities is an active and rich research domain, people usually interact with multiple communities both on- and off-line. How do users act in such multi-community environments?
Argamon S., Berry J. W., Cheng J., Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil C., Erikson E. H., Kraut R. E., Lakkaraju H., M. E. Shaw. Group Dynamics, Simpson E. H., Yang J.   +9 more
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The Multi-Level Perspective in Research on Sustainability Transitions in Agriculture and Food Systems: A Systematic Review

Agriculture, 2019
The multi-level perspective (MLP) is a prominent transition framework. The MLP posits that transitions come about through interaction processes within and among three analytical levels: niches, socio-technical regimes and a socio-technical landscape ...
Hamid El Bilali
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Reconfigurations in sustainability transitions: a systematic and critical review

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2021
Two streams of literature have become especially prominent in understanding social change toward sustainability within the past decades: the research on socio-technical transitions and applications of social practice theory. The aim of this article is to
Senja Laakso, Riikka Aro, Eva Heiskanen, Minna Kaljonen   +3 more
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