Application of dynamic modelling and model‐based predictive control to enhance a cooling tower
The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.Model predictive control (MPC) applied to improve the operation of cooling towers. Abstract Model predictive control (MPC) differs from traditional feedback control by making predictions within a time horizon, providing better control actions for the process.
Douglas de Almeida Giardini +4 more
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The Curriculum Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This study explored how lecturers in a post‐92 UK university conceptualise and enact decolonial curriculum principles within their teaching and programme design. Drawing on semi‐structured interviews with academic staff across multiple disciplines, the research adopts a qualitative, phenomenologically informed approach to examine the interplay
Reece Sohdi
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Researching Attitude–Identity Dynamics to Understand Social Conflict and Change
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Societies undergo constant change, manifested in various ways such as technological developments, economic transitions, reorganization of cultural values and beliefs, or changes in social structures. Individuals play an active role in shaping social and societal change by interactively negotiating its manifestation.
Adrian Lüders +4 more
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Community Resident Perceptions of and Experiences with Precarious Work at the Neighborhood Level: The Greater Lawndale Healthy Work Project. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Hebert-Beirne J +6 more
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An SSI‐Informed Design for Tuned Mass Dampers With Small‐to‐Large Mass Ratios
Earthquake Engineering &Structural Dynamics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tuned Mass Dampers (TMDs) are used to mitigate structural vibrations induced by seismic or wind excitation, by tuning the device to the system's dominant resonant frequencies. However, the TMD effectiveness can be undermined by soil‐structure interaction, which can lead to elongation of the vibration periods and to combined translational ...
Davide Noè Gorini +3 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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Precarious work and Covid-19: repercussions on the health of primary health care workers. [PDF]
Rev Saude PublicaMendonça TT +6 more
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Poverty, precarious work, and the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons from Bolivia. [PDF]
Lancet Glob Health, 2021 Hummel C +5 more
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Visitor‐I and dual worldmaking: Queer museology between Tuntenhaus and the Schwules Museum
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article develops the visitor‐I as an embodied protocol for analyzing how queer archival exhibitions choreograph perception, affect, and learning, and it uses dual worldmaking as a bounded heuristic to name the relation between lived worldmaking in the Tuntenhaus squat and curatorial worldmaking in the museum, and I argue that the visitor ...
Melike Atmanoğlu
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Maternal mortality in Assam's informal economy: the household burden of precarious work. [PDF]
Reprod HealthDevi K, Upadhyay V.
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