Continuity and change: Challenging the disposable Chinese city [PDF]
, 2017 The newly outward‐looking economic stance that China adopted in the 1980s was reflected by a Western‐style building boom. As widely spaced towers replaced traditional courtyard‐based environments, urban legibility was lost – and the new buildings were ...
Chow, RY
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani +3 more
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Sustainability and the Urban Planning Context: Housing Development in Algeria [PDF]
, 2014 This paper describes research into the development of housing in Algeria. It focuses on the history of traditional dwellings and the importance of outdoor space located inside the building: typically in the form of a courtyard.
Gao, Yun, Mehibel, Mia, Pitts, Adrian
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Insights on the spatial configuration of collective spaces within forming dynamics: the relation between infrastructure and urban transformation in Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes [PDF]
, 2016 The research seeks to produce insights on the spatial configuration of collective spaces where large scale infrastructure propels urban transformation.
Chiappini, María Cecilia +2 more
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Energy Consumption Optimization in Trajectory Planning for Fuel Cell Hybrid Uavs Based On HMPC
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.The endurance limitation of multirotor drones is a critical challenge. This study adopts a hybrid power system of fuel cells and lithium‐ion batteries. Using Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II, it integrates trajectory planning with energy management optimization.
Xindi Wang +7 more
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Environmental & architectural phenomenology. Cumulative Index (Volumes 1-30, 1990-2019) [PDF]
, 2019 This index includes all EAP entries except reference items listed in “citations received.” Entries have been identified in the following order: volume number, issue number, and page(s).
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Cooperation, collective action, and the archeology of large-scale societies [PDF]
, 2016 Archeologists investigating the emergence of large-scale societies in the past have renewed interest in examining the dynamics of cooperation as a means of understanding societal change and organizational variability within human groups over time. Unlike
Birch J +21 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Visual teach‐and‐repeat (VTR) navigation allows robots to learn and follow routes without building a full metric map. We show that navigation accuracy for VTR can be improved by integrating a topological map with error‐drift correction based on stereo vision.
Fuhai Ling, Ze Huang, Tony J. Prescott
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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New Urban Decorum? City Aesthetics To And Fro [PDF]
, 2016 From the municipal and civic perspective, improving the environment responds to the idea “to make a more beautiful city”, answering to the jump from the industrial city to the metropolitan one, and then to the different attempts for ordering cities ...
Remesar, Antoni
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