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The Soft Path for Water [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
There are two primary ways of meeting water-related needs, or more poetically, two paths. One path -- the "hard" path -- relies almost exclusively on centralized infrastructure and decision making: dams and reservoirs, pipelines and treatment plants ...
Gary Wolff, Peter H. Gleick
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A Comprehensive Assessment and Benchmark Study of Large Atomistic Foundation Models for Phonons

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
We benchmark six large atomistic foundation models on 2429 crystalline materials for phonon transport properties. The rapid development of universal machine learning potentials (uMLPs) has enabled efficient, accurate predictions of diverse material properties across broad chemical spaces.
Md Zaibul Anam   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of Australian Corporate Law – Looking Back to Look Ahead

open access: yesBond Law Review
This article aims to tell the story of the journey of Australian corporate law – its evolution, and the infrastructure supporting it (i.e., courts, regulator, and other bodies providing soft law/ guidance).
Akshaya Kamalnath
doaj   +1 more source

A Personal Story of Connection

open access: yesPoliteja
The article discusses the role of ‘personal stories’ as soft power tools in the context of national categories. It argues that the story of Constance and Kazimierz Dunin Markiewicz has great potential for fostering Polish-Irish relations.
Arkady Rzegocki
doaj   +1 more source

Human Security: Does Normative Europe Need a New Strategic Narrative? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Alongside a sustained debate about the role of the EU in the international system and the nature of its power as an external actor, foreign and security policy making continues to reflect an awkward mixture of civilian, military and normative instruments,
Martin, Mary.
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Large Language Model‐Based Chatbots in Higher Education

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
The use of large language models (LLMs) in higher education can facilitate personalized learning experiences, advance asynchronized learning, and support instructors, students, and researchers across diverse fields. The development of regulations and guidelines that address ethical and legal issues is essential to ensure safe and responsible adaptation
Defne Yigci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Seismic Damage Mechanism of Five-Story and Three-Span Underground Complex in Soft Soil Site

open access: yesBuildings
Investigating the seismic damage mechanism of large underground complexes is essential for the safe development of urban underground space. This paper examines a five-story and three-span underground complex situated in a soft soil site.
Yikun Liu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

“Reporters Gone Wild” Reporters and Their Critics on Hurricane Katrina, Gender, Race & Place

open access: yes, 2009
The great fiction of the southern United States is frequently characterized by its passionate embrace of place. In her classic essay, “Place in Fiction,” the widely beloved Mississippi author Eudora Welty writes, “Place in history partakes of feeling, as
Classen, Steven
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THE STORY OF FOUNTAIN: HARD FACTS AND SOFT SPECULATION

open access: yesThe Nordic Journal of Aesthetics, 2019
Thierry de Duve’s essay is anchored to the one and perhaps only hard fact that we possess regarding the story of Fountain: its photo in The Blind Man No. 2, triply captioned “Fountain by R. Mutt,” “Photograph by Alfred Stieglitz,” and “THE EXHIBIT REFUSED BY THE INDEPENDENTS,” and the editorial on the facing page, titled “The ...
openaire   +2 more sources

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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