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Tree-Shaped Flow Structures Viewed from the Constructal Theory Perspective
, 2012 Constructal theory, conceived by Adrian Bejan, is the view that the generation of configuration in nature is a universal phenomenon, which is covered by a law of physics-the constructal law.
Miguel, A. F.
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How Do Policy Narratives Evoke Emotions? An Appraisal‐Theoretic Approach
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on policy narratives acknowledges the crucial role that emotions play within communication and sense‐making. Especially the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) has placed emotion at the center of attention and stressed that affect‐imbued stories are key for how individuals make sense of the world and navigate through the policy process ...
Sonja Blum +2 more
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Constructal Law and Thermoeconomic Optimization
, 2017 The paper introduces the concept of Thermoeconomic Environment and discusses how the Constructal Theory can be applied to the productive structure of an energy system.
CASISI M., REINI M.
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Beyond Groups? Consociational Culture and the Representation of Cross‐Segmental Interests
Swiss Political Science Review, EarlyView.Abstract In deeply divided societies, consociational power‐sharing ensures representation for ethnonational groups but raises questions about cross‐segmental interests. This paper explores “consociational culture,” arguing that consociational systems create a form of political culture which incentivises the use of group‐based categories and identities ...
Patrizia John
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Beyond Evidence: How Framing Shapes Public Health Policies During Health Crises
Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT Does the level of evidence that accompanies policy action depend on how a problem is framed, and on who frames it? This article examines these questions in the context of health crises. Bridging sociological and equivalence framing theories, it treats frames as preexisting interpretive schemes shared within communities of actors, whose ...
Antoine Claude Lemor, Eric Montpetit
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Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines how governments navigate policy legitimacy during crises through three distinct discursive processes: legitimization, delegitimization, and blame avoidance. Using a sequential mixed‐methods design, the study analyzes Denmark's decision to cull all mink during the COVID‐19 pandemic. The quantitative analysis of 947 newspaper
Olivier Rubin +3 more
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Constructal allocation of nanoparticles in nanofluids
, 2010 We perform a constructal design of heat conduction in a blade-configured disk-shaped domain with uniform heat generation and periphery heat-sink by introducing a transition line from two-path conduction to one-path conduction in the domain.
Bai, C, Wang, L
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Policy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 4, November 2026.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has gained much interest in public administration and public policy fields in recent years. Research on and that uses AI has so far treated it as an object or context within the broader administrative and governance discourse.
Yanto Chandra, Jianxiang Tan
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Design with Constructal Theory [PDF]
, 2008 Constructal theory is the view that the generation of “designedness” in nature is a universal (physics) phenomenon that can be based on principle (the constructal law): “For a finite-size flow system to persist in time (to live) its configuration must ...
A. Bejan +3 more
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