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“Strange can be quite normal”: How the environmental crisis becomes present in Han Kang's and Samanta Schweblin's “constructively alienating” environmental fiction

open access: yesOrbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract This article presents the concept “constructive alienation” as a response to the oversaturation of apocalyptic environmental fiction that has contributed to deep‐seated desensitization toward the climate crisis, resulting in crisis of imagination (Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate change and the unthinkable, 2016; Solnit, If you win the ...
Agnethe Brounbjerg Bennedsgaard
wiley   +1 more source

A comparative analysis of space efficiency in skyscrapers: Case studies from the Middle East, Asia, and North America

open access: yesJournal of Design for Resilience in Architecture and Planning
This study conducts a critical comparative analysis of spatial efficiency in supertall buildings across three major geographic contexts: the Middle East, Asia, and North America.
Özlem Nur Aslantamer   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The architecture and artistic features of high-rise buildings in USSR and the United States of America during the first half of the twentieth century

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2018
Skyscraper is a significant architectural structure in the world's largest cities. The appearance of a skyscraper in the city's architectural composition enhances its status, introduces dynamics into the shape of the city, modernizes the existing ...
Golovina Svetlana, Oblasov Yurii
doaj   +1 more source

Making AI Work: A Critical Theory of AI Production

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Rosalie Waelen, Jean‐Philippe Deranty
wiley   +1 more source

Emotions in Meaning‐Making: Toward a Sociological Theory of Cathexis

open access: yesSociological Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The role of emotion in meaning‐making remains undertheorized in cultural sociology. This article argues that emotions and affect are intrinsic to meaning‐making and proposes cathexis—the attachment of emotions generated in social interaction to objects, symbols, and ideas—as the fundamental mechanism by which emotions co‐constitute cultural ...
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

A Fourier transform for sheaves on Lagrangian families of real tori

open access: yes, 2001
We systematically develop a transform of the Fourier-Mukai type for sheaves on symplectic manifolds $X$ of any dimension fibred in Lagrangian tori. One obtains a bijective correspondence between unitary local systems supported on Lagrangian submanifolds ...
Aspinwall   +12 more
core   +3 more sources

Crime Prevention Through Private Actors: Evidence From a Policy Change at a Large UK Supermarket Chain

open access: yesOxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 426-440, June 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well‐publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and tagging of goods, by Tesco, a large UK supermarket chain.
Nils Braakmann, Wednesday Croft
wiley   +1 more source

Skyscraper "EVO" [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Studie nabízí řešení výškového objektu v Brně v městské části Veveří. Jedná se o dvě výškové věže kubického tvaru (výšky 154 a 80 metrů), vycházející z okolní výškové zástavby, vzájemně propojené nízkým objektem stejného tvarosloví.
Juřík, Michal
core  

The Untapped Hydropower Potential of World's Cities

open access: yesEarth's Future, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2026.
Abstract Many large cities around the world experience frequent power outages and yet have an abundance of tall buildings and experience rainfall. This represents a unique and scalable opportunity for cities to capture the intermittent rainwater at high elevation and convert the potential energy into electricity for rechargeable batteries at street ...
Shahzaib Khan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bridging Superconductors With United Nations Development Goals: Perspectives and Applications

open access: yesphysica status solidi (a), Volume 223, Issue 7, 7 April 2026.
Ceramic superconductors enable sustainable technologies. A bibliometric review of 33,756 publications (1980–2025) assesses their alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Key applications identified from include clean propulsion, efficient power grids, advanced medical imaging, and quantum computing, highlighting both their transformative ...
Edimar A. S. Duran   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

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