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NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
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Living Low and Dry: Costs of and Resilience to Soil Hydric Stress in a Fossorial Amphisbaenian Reptile

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Soil drought imposes moderate, temporary costs on a strictly fossorial amphisbaenian reptile. However, these animals seem to cope with, at least, moderately short droughts thanks to their peculiar adaptations to living in an underground environment. ABSTRACT The physiological traits of animals can be strongly influenced by climatic fluctuations, and ...
José Martín, Álvaro Navarro‐Castilla, Alejandro de la Concha, José Javier Cuervo, Isabel Barja, Pilar López   +5 more
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Towards Climate-Responsive Office Architecture in NCR India: A Multi-Objective Optimization Study of Cooling Load, Energy Use Intensity, and Daylight Performance

Buildings
This study presents a coupled building simulation framework that evaluates thermal and daylight performance concurrently within a unified multi-objective decision space.
Alpana Kamble, Pallavi Sharma, Madhuri Kumari   +2 more
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Temporal Responses to Warming: Do Wild Herbivores Trade Off Heat, Predators, and Humans?

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We untangled how summer temperature, predators, and humans influenced behavioral responses in two deer species. Both reduced their daily activity level in response to warming, yet only roe deer increased nocturnality to avoid heat. Conversely, fallow deer traded off heat avoidance with predator avoidance.
Noemi Pallari, Niccolò Fattorini, Martina Calosi, Lorenzo Lazzeri, Giulia Tettamanti, Sandro Lovari, Francesco Ferretti   +6 more
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A novel approach for optimized design of low-E windows and visual comfort for residential spaces

Energy and Built Environment
Double low-E glasses are effective and well-established choices for residential buildings in temperate climatic regions of Sydney, Australia, and Tehran, Iran.
Ehsan Sorooshnia, Maria Rashidi, Payam Rahnamayiezekavat, Samira Mahmoudkelayeh, Mitra Pourvaziri, Saeed Kamranfar, Mohammad Gheibi, Bijan Samali, Reza Moezzi   +8 more
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Daylight in the built environment

Relatively recent cultural and technological changes, particularly in Westernized societies, have led to habitat and lifestyle shifts that have gradually estranged us from daylight. Although human beings are resilient and appear able to cope with extreme
Schueler, Andreas, Solt, J, Scartezzini, Jean-Louis, Wienold, Jan, Wirz-Justice, A, Aarts, MPJ, Fournier, C, Coccolo, Silvia, Appelt, S, Andersen, Marilyne, Kaempf, J, Bodart, M, Szybinska Matusiak, B, Bueno, B, Kuhn, TE, Volf, C   +15 more
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The Australian Hydromyine Rodents—Their Interspecific Diversity and Reproductive Biology: A Review

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
There are two major groups, the Rattus species and the Hydromyini, in Australia. Clearly, the hydromyine rodents, unlike the Rattus genus, exhibit a diverse array of reproductive biological traits in both males and females, the full evolutionary significance of which has yet to be ascertained.
William G. Breed, Christopher M. Leigh, Eleanor J. Peirce   +2 more
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Evaluating spatial ambiences through daylight variability, contrast and view

This research aims to give insight into the aesthetic aspect of the spatial and temporal diversity of light in space through experimental studies. By using empirical methods to establish a relationship of spatial contrast, daylight variability and view ...
Chamilothori, Kynthia
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From barriers to benefits: A personalized sleep intervention enhances sleep duration and emotional health in chronic short sleepers

British Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This pilot study evaluated a personalized sleep intervention incorporating motivational interviewing techniques to address sleep barriers, along with tailored sleep hygiene and extension for chronic short sleepers. Eleven university students completed a 14‐day sequential intervention (baseline, sleep hygiene and a combined phase adding 90‐min ...
Wei Wang, Ho Yin Derek Ma, Ming Ming Chiu, Shu Fai Cheung, C. Harry Hui, Mark Lawrence Wong, Janet Hui‐wen Hsiao, Rong Wei Sun, Yeuk Ching Lam, Akira Basa Okabe, Chin Ho Chan, Esther Yuet Ying Lau   +11 more
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From Living Room to Workstation: Daylighting Performance Optimization in the Hybrid Domestic Space of Algerian Collective Housing — A Parametric Study in Bejaia

Proceedings of the International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism-ICCAUA
Post-COVID Algeria has seen the collective housing living room emerge as the primary telework space and, simultaneously, as an informal setting for collaborative work among peers embodying a new hybrid live-work habitat typology.
Rayane Bitout, Selma Saraoui
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