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The impact of affordability on house price dynamics in South Africa

Acta Structilia, 2010
Lately, the residential property market in South Africa has experienced much turbulence. Some perceived growth as a ‘property bubble’, while others considered it a healthy investment opportunity.
Douw Boshoff
doaj  

Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this Perspective, we highlight the processing science and scale‐up capabilities of the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with an emphasis on practical solutions for sustainable water and critical resource recovery. We demonstrate how national laboratories bridge fundamental
Yuepeng Zhang, Bratin Sengupta, Xiaoao Shi, Haihui Pu, Jeffrey W. Elam, Gregory K. Krumdick, Jessica Durham Macholz, Allison Bennett Irion, Junhong Chen, Seth B. Darling   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Micro Elastofluidics for Tuneable Droplet Merging

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This technical paper provides a proof of concept of fully flexible and stretchable microfluidic technology for tuneable droplet mixing and merging. The phenomenon is justified through theoretical, numerical and experimental studies. ABSTRACT Droplet microfluidics enables precise handling of discrete fluid volumes at the microscale, with broad ...
Uditha Roshan, Amith Mudugamuwa, Xiaoyue Kang, Prabuddha De Saram, Fariba Malekpour Galogahi, Du Tuan Tran, Lingxi Ouyang, Jun Zhang, Nam‐Trung Nguyen   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigating the Spatiotemporal Response of Urban Functions to Fine-Grained Resident Activities with a Novel Analytical Framework and Baidu Heatmap

Land
Studying the response of urban functions to residents’ spatiotemporal activity patterns is essential for understanding urban functions and guiding resource allocation.
Dongxue Han, Deqin Fan, Jinyu Zhang, Xuesheng Zhao, Haoyu Wang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Information Transmission Strategies for Self‐Organized Robotic Aggregation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
In this review, we discuss how information transmission influences the neighbor‐based self‐organized aggregation of swarm robots. We focus specifically on local interactions regarding information transfer and categorize previous studies based on the functions of the information exchanged.
Shu Leng, Zihan Li, Yifeng Shao, Jinhao Liu, Li Yu, Shuguang Li   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multi-Residential Activity Labelling in Smart Homes with Wearable Tags Using BLE Technology. [PDF]

Sensors (Basel), 2018
Mokhtari G, Anvari-Moghaddam A, Zhang Q, Karunanithi M.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors Driving Battery and Solar Purchase Decision of Residents: a Behavioural Choice Experiment Using a Hybrid Discrete Choice and Latent Variable Model

Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.
This article explores what drives households to adopt solar PV and battery systems in South East Queensland. Using hybrid discrete choice experiments, it reveals distinct adopter profiles and highlights cost, system size, and energy independence as key motivators.
Mohammad Alipour, Elnaz Irannezhad, Rodney A. Stewart, Oz Sahin   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The contribution of leisure and entertainment to the evolving polycentric urban network on regional scale - towards a new research agenda [PDF]

The urban landscape in advanced economies transforms from monocentric cities to polycentric urban networks on regional scale. The growing amount of research that is being devoted to this transformation sticks to classic activity systems like residential ...
Arie Romein
core  

A Plug‐and‐Play Volume Minimizing Micromixer

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microscale fluid mixing has numerous applications where rapid and efficient mixing is required, including drug discovery, bio‐analysis and point‐of‐care diagnostics. Conventional soft lithography processes, however, make the integration of robust and reliable mixing difficult to implement in practice, especially across different flow rates ...
Kirill Kolesnik, Philipp Segeritz, Daniel J. Scott, David J. Collins   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source