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Climate-Resilient Infrastructure as a Public Good: Welfare, Risk, and Climate-Smart Growth
ChallengesClimate change has emerged as a defining global crisis, with the frequency and intensity of climate-induced disasters rising sharply and imposing disproportionate costs on developing economies and small island states.
Manish Vaidya, Soumya Bhowmick
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Adaptive Resilience Curve: Examining Adaptability for Resilient Energy Infrastructure
EnergiesOne key aspect of the Global Goal on Adaptation is to examine transformational adaptation at different scales and sectors. While there are several adaptation assessment frameworks in the energy sector, there is still room for further development to ...
Pidpong Janta +4 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Intelligent Sky Guardians (InSkyGuard) is introduced as a four‐drone swarm that autonomously detects, tracks, and safely captures rogue drones using a coordinated net system. Computer vision and leader–follower control architecture enable synchronized enclosure, while integrated failsafes enhance system reliability. Validated through closed‐environment
Joshua Hastings +6 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won +5 more
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Infrastructure Monitoring for the Resilience of Critical Infrastructure
International Journal of Advanced Engineering and Management ResearchModern organizations rely on efficient monitoring solutions to safeguard the performance, security, and stability of their IT infrastructure in an increasingly connected world. The integration of advanced monitoring techniques has significantly shaped the evolution of IT security and operational efficiency, particularly in response to the growing ...
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Abstract Creating resilient infrastructure is of crucial importance to society, particularly in the face of escalating climate risks. As such, investments to increase resilience should be spent wisely to yield maximum benefits to transport users and society.
Margreet van Marle +5 more
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Physical Origin of Temperature Induced Activation Energy Switching in Electrically Conductive Cement
Advanced Science, EarlyView.The temperature‐induced Arrhenius activation energy switching phenomenon of electrical conduction in electrically conductive cement originates from structural degradation within the biphasic ionic‐electronic conduction architecture and shows percolation‐governed characteristics: pore network opening dominates the low‐percolation regime with downward ...
Jiacheng Zhang +7 more
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Resilient Infrastructure [PDF]
, 2005 Resilient Infrastructure 2005 is the first New Zealand event to look at the ability of communities as a whole tosurvive disasters and disruptions. It deals with building resilience into our built and human infrastructure, including natural, economic and ...
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The impacts of weather on railway infrastructure in Sweden [Elektronisk resurs]
In this paper, we estimate the vulnerability of railway infrastructure, switches, signals, tracks, and catenaries to different weather conditions, temperature, precipitation, snow depth, and wind speed across the entire Swedish railway network between ...
Fisher, Rachel, +3 more
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