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Between a Smart City and Smart Society

, 2017
The concept of smart cities and smart societies should start from the base up, from the individuals and not the other way around. The 21st century should be about developing the new smart concepts about a smart transportation system combined with the smart energy one.
Gianmarco Cifaldi, Ionut Serban
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AI Perspectives in Smart Cities and Communities to Enable Road Vehicle Automation and Smart Traffic Control

, 2021
Smart cities and communities (SCC) constitute a new paradigm in urban development. SCC ideate a data-centered society aimed at improving efficiency by automating and optimizing activities and utilities. Information and communication technology along with
Sepideh Pashami, Aksoy, Eren E.,, Cooney, Martin D.,, Cooney, Martin Daniel,, Björn Åstrand, Englund, Cristofer,, Åstrand, Björn,, Pashami, Sepideh,, Erdal Aksoy, Eren,, Cristofer Englund, Alonso-Fernandez, Fernando,, Martin Daniel Cooney, Eren Erdal Aksoy, Fernando Alonso-Fernandez   +13 more
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Cholesterol Laundry of Cell Membrane and Fatty Liver by Detergent Liposomes to Improve Anti‐Cancer Drug Responsiveness of Patient Liver Tissues

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Cholesterol‐enriched plasma membranes in hepatocellular carcinoma impede drug penetration. Cholesterol (+)‐liposomes act as membrane‐specific detergents, extracting cholesterol and reducing barrier function without cytotoxicity. Following endocytosis, cholesterol transfers from endosomes to liposomes and is metabolized in the ER.
Chansik Kim, Joo Kyung Noh, Sewoom Baek, Seung Eun Yu, Jueun Kim, Seongyo Lee, Youngji Oh, Dai Hoon Han, Seyong Chung, Hak‐Joon Sung   +9 more
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Solar‐Driven Bifunctional Adsorption‐Storage Films for Ultra‐Fast Dehumidification and Freshwater Supply in Low‐carbon Buildings

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Bifunctional adsorption‐storage films enable autonomous indoor humidity regulation and freshwater harvesting, rapidly decreasing relative humidity from 90.7% to 21.6% within one hour while producing 1.1 kg·m−2·day−1 of water, offering a passive route towards energy‐efficient humidity control and sustainable indoor environments. ABSTRACT Indoor humidity
Yuechao Chao, Junwei Liu, Zhihua Zhou, Yahui Du, Hailu Wei, Haibin Yang, Xueqing Yang, Cheng Wang, Zhenzhong Zeng, Hongzhi Cui, Jinyue Yan   +10 more
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Smart Cities [PDF]

Informatik-Spektrum, 2016
Edy Portmann, Matthias Finger, Hermann Engesser   +2 more
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Ethics of smart cities and smart societies

Ethics and Information Technology
The special issue deals with the ethical effects that the digital revolution has brought about such as the normative implications of “smart cities” and "smart societies“. While the initial concept of smart cities was largely technology- and data-driven, this concept is currently being replaced by technology-enabled, human-centred solutions.
Andrej Zwitter, Dirk Helbing
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From intelligent to smart cities.

, 2014
The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilising the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to ...

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Smart cities built by smart people: How to build Smart cities using a contextual participatory approach?

, 2018
Objectives: This article argues that unless we understand the context in which we aim to build smart cities, we may fail to develop smart cities that are workable and sustainable.
NAZARI, Maryam
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Blending Human Ware with Software and Hardware in the Design of Smart Cities

, 2022
Sustainable innovation entails realizing society-oriented value creation in an environment-friendly manner. A smart city can be viewed as a holistic paradigm that avails of state-of-the-art information and communication technologies (ICTs, in other words)
Almssad, Asaad,, Almusaed, Amjad,, asaad, Almssad,   +2 more
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Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales, Alba J. Collart, Matthew G. Interis, Esther Mmenaa Agyemang‐Duah   +3 more
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