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Migrants’ experiences of material and emotional security in rural Scotland: implications for longer-term settlement [PDF]
, 2017 Drawing on qualitative research with Central and East European (CEE) migrants living and working in rural areas of Scotland, this article explores what it is that facilitates a desire to stay longer term and how this relates to theorisations of social ...
Flynn, Moya, Kay, Rebecca
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Energy Reports, 2021 A variety of renewable energy sources, demand side loads, and other factors bring a lot of uncertainties to the operation of district energy systems. However, there is no strict standard for the selection of uncertainty factors.
Tianjie Liu, Wenling Jiao, Xinghao Tian
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Research on the Acoustic Environment of Heritage Buildings: A Systematic Review
Buildings, 2022 As a significant part of heritage building protection, an increasing number of researchers pay attention to the study of the acoustic environment. The purpose of this study was to provide a clear understanding of the status quo of acoustic environment ...
Jingyi Mu, Tian Wang, Zhenlin Zhang
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Analyzing the actions of the Administration of Novy Vasyugan rural settlement [PDF]
, 2006 The paper analyzes the actions of the Administration of Novy Vasyugan rural settlement. Novy Vasyugan is a village in Tomsk oblast and an administrative center of rural settlement. The Administration is a key element of a democratic society.
Aretz, Anke +7 more
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Ecosystem Health and Sustainability, 2022 Background: Regional ecosystem health assessments are the basis for the sustainable development of society. However, an ecosystem is a complex integration of ecosystem mosaics and subsystems that influence each other, making it difficult to evaluate them
Yuze Li, Yuanxiang Wu, Xiaoguang Liu
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Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2022 The thermal environment of the heat-supply compartment in utility tunnels is essential for the safe operation and easy maintenance of the pipeline system. Mechanical ventilation is usually employed to improve the thermal environment.
Xuemei Wang +3 more
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Operation strategy and energy-saving of the solar lighting/heating system through spectral splitting
Energy and Built Environment, 2023 The performance of a solar lighting and heating system (SLHS) based on the spectral splitting effect of nanofluids is presented in this paper. SLHS through nanofluids would split the sunlight spectrum into different wavelength, and then introduce the ...
Chao Shen +4 more
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Energy Production Analysis and Optimization of Mini-Grid in Remote Areas: The Case Study of Habaswein, Kenya [PDF]
, 2017 Rural electrification in remote areas of developing countries has several challenges which hinder energy access to the population. For instance, the extension of the national grid to provide electricity in these areas is largely not viable.
DEL CITTO, Riccardo +8 more
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Energy and Built Environment, 2022 According to the few researches on Nearly zero energy residential buildings (NZERB) in hot-summer and cold-winter zone, although it could reduce the cooling load of buildings due to its high thermal insulation and air tightness, it still needed for ...
Jiankai Dong +4 more
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A Database on Mycorrhizal Traits of Chinese Medicinal Plants
Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 The mycorrhizal traits of plants have been widely reported based on different scales or plant functional groups. To better utilize mycorrhizae to improve the cultivation yield and active ingredient accumulation of medicinal plants, a database of ...
Menghan Zhang +11 more
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