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IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2023 Urbanization as a human activity alters the surface structure, modifying the urban ecological environment. In this study, the greenness, wetness, building index, and heatness of Dalian, a coastal city in northeast China, were extracted from the summer ...
Chunli Li, Jun Yang, Yuqing Zhang
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A Study on Protective Reuse of Traditional Architecture in Lhasa [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2019 Traditional Tibetan architecture in Lhasa has a unique position in the world. Under the special social background of economic development demand and tourism, it has gradually become a pillar industry, and how to rationally protect and reuse this ...
Qin Qing, Chen Yang, Zhang Haiyue
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Study on Barriers of Water Salt Transfers in Earthen Sites by Plastic-Coated Sand
Atmosphere, 2023 Under the action of unidirectional water migration, museum soil sites generally encounter erosion through dry cracking, salt enrichment, etc. In this paper, the earthen site of the Terra Cotta Warriors Museum of the First Emperor of Qin was used as the ...
Wen Xu +5 more
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Granularity Optimization for Efficient Energy Consumption Monitoring in Subway Stations for Enhanced Energy Management [PDF]
E3S Web of ConferencesEfficient energy data management forms a critical foundation for unlocking the carbon reduction potential of subway systems, holding significant importance in advancing urban processes towards lowcarbon and clean environments.
Guan Bowen +4 more
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Settlement Risk under Gross and Net Settlement [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1999 Previous comparative analyses of gross and net settlement have focused on the credit risk of the central counterparty in net settlement arrangements, and on the incentives for participants to alter the risk of the portfolio under net settlement. By modeling the trading economy that generates the demand for payment services, we are able to show some ...
Charles M. Kahn +2 more
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Making the case for the nexus between resilience and resource efficiency at the city scale
International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2017 Global challenges such as climate change, resource scarcity and poverty must increasingly be tackled in cities. While cities can be significant contributors to climate change and resource scarcity, and face considerable risks as a consequence of these ...
David Dodman +2 more
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Applicability Analysis of Inspection and Monitoring Technologies in Wind Turbine Towers
Shock and Vibration, 2021 Wind turbines are one of the key systems in wind energy development. The wind tower supporting the whole wind turbine is a towering structure, which has been affected by installation, transportation, environment, and other factors.
Yanchao Yue +6 more
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Settlement Schemas: How Laypeople Understand Civil Settlement
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 AbstractWhat does the public think it means to “settle” a civil case? Most legal disputes in the United States end in an agreement to settle, but little is known about what laypeople think about settlement. To fill this gap, we took a direct approach: we asked a nationally representative sample of US adults—more than 1000 of them—basic questions about ...
Jennifer K. Robbennolt +2 more
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Feldspathic sandstone as an emerging soil stabilizer for aeolian sand in the Mu Us Sandy Land: insights into particle size distribution [PDF]
PeerJStabilization of aeolian sand is essential for achieving desertification control, soil and water conservation, and agricultural development in sandy lands. Feldspathic sandstone is a soft clay rock widely found in the Mu Us Sandy Land.
Lu Zhang +4 more
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, 2021 The settlement of disputes is commonly seen as one of the principal function of modern international law. This chapter offers a structured overview of the analytical issues relating to the involvement of cities in international dispute settlement, which has itself taken a functionalist turn in recent decades.
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