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Planning Green Infrastructure as a Source of Urban and Regional Resilience – Towards Institutional Challenges [PDF]

Urbani Izziv, 2015
Green infrastructure programmes and strategies are regarded as planning opportunities to promote sustainable and resilient urban development. However, the discourse about green infrastructure policy and its effectiveness has pointed to the limited ...
Paulina SCHIAPPACASSE, Bernhard MÜLLER
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring the Construction Project Resilience from the Perspective of Employee Behaviors

Buildings, 2022
The increasing developmental potentiality for the construction industry brings the huge challenge to make up the limitation of traditional construction project management mode when adapting to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Zheng He, Genda Wang, Huihua Chen, Zhuojun Zou, Hongyan Yan, Linlin Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Resilient Cloud Over Unreliable Commodity Infrastructure

, 2012
Cloud Computing has emerged as a successful computing paradigm for efficiently utilizing managed compute infrastructure such as high speed rack-mounted servers, connected with high speed networking, and reliable storage.
Bansal, Sorav, Deshpande, Deepak, Iyer, Sreekanth, Kedia, Piyus   +3 more
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A master data management solution to unlock the value of big infrastructure data for smart, sustainable and resilient city planning [PDF]

, 2017
In recent years, many governments have launched various smart city or smart infrastructure initiatives to improve the quality of citizens’ life and help city managers / planners optimize the operation and management of urban infrastructures. By deploying
Lu, M, Ng, TST, Xu, J, Yang, Y
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Structural insights into an engineered feruloyl esterase with improved MHET degrading properties

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
A feruloyl esterase was engineered to mimic key features of MHETase, enhancing the degradation of PET oligomers. Structural and computational analysis reveal how a point mutation stabilizes the active site and reshapes the binding cleft, expading substrate scope.
Panagiota Karampa, Konstantinos Makryniotis, Theofani‐Iosifina Sousani, Evangelos Topakas, Vangelis Daskalakis, Maria Dimarogona   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechanical properties of phosphogypsum-recycled soil under varying dosages and curing times

Cleaner Materials
Soil shear failure is a primary cause of slope instability. With insufficient shear resistance, the detached soil not only undermines slope integrity but also creates safety risks for roadway infrastructure.
Shanshan Jin, Zhihua Wang, Shuai Qi, Yuan Yang, Zhihao Feng, Liuhuan Li, Zengmiao Xu, Hang Li, Aodong Li   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Strategies for an Adaptive Control System to Improve Power Grid Resilience with Smart Buildings

Energies, 2021
Low-voltage distribution grids face new challenges through the expansion of decentralized, renewable energy generation and the electrification of the heat and mobility sectors.
Mischa Ahrens, Fabian Kern, Hartmut Schmeck   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Associations of Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity With Frailty Over Five Years of Follow‐up

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective To evaluate whether rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease activity is associated with frailty both in cross‐section and longitudinally. Methods Participants within the Veterans Affairs Rheumatoid Arthritis (VARA) registry enrolled from 2003 to 2022 were included.
Courtney N. Loecker, Yangyuna Yang, Punyasha Roul, Aaron Baraff, Myra S. Schmaderer, Lani Zimmerman, Kaleb Michaud, Namrata Singh, Grant W. Cannon, Gary Kunkel, Ted R. Mikuls, Ariela R. Orkaby, Joshua F. Baker, Bryant R. England, Katherine D. Wysham   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Use of Lidar and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms for Detection and Size Estimation of Potholes

Buildings
Road potholes have a well-known impact on driving quality and safety. Therefore, timely mitigation of potholes is critical for the safety of road users. However, efficient and timely maintenance relies on the presence of an effective process for pothole ...
Sk Abu Talha, Dmitry Manasreh, Munir D. Nazzal   +2 more
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The Physician‐Scientist Pipeline for Pediatric Rheumatology – Current Landscape and Future Perspectives.

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Over the past 50 years, the science of pediatric rheumatology has grown exponentially due to an expansion in the understanding of complex rheumatic conditions and a surge in novel targeted therapeutics. Physician‐scientists in the field of pediatric rheumatology have played major roles in these advancements that have improved the care of children ...
Ekemini A. Ogbu, Linda T. Hiraki, Mara L. Becker   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source