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Indoor navigation techniques for underground subway stations : Analyzing Suitable indoor navigation technologies for underground stations

, 2017
Indoor navigation has always been an interesting topic to look at since there are many use of it for example in airports, huge malls and underground transport stations. One interesting application area is the underground transportation since the current navigation in the underground stations in Sweden is proven to be insufficient to guide the user from
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Flexibility Feasible Region Construction and Operation Optimization for Urban Residential Smart Buildings

IET Smart Energy Systems, EarlyView.
To effectively harness the flexibility of urban residential buildings, this study proposes using the feasible flexibility region (FFR) of residential smart buildings (RSB) as an alternative to directly scheduling a large number of diverse, dispersed, and heterogeneous flexibility resources.
Youjun Deng, Fengji Luo, Yongxi Zhang, Anan Zhang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of culturable airborne bacteria and related environmental factors at underground subway stations between 2006 and 2013

, 2014
In this study, we evaluated concentrations of culturable airborne bacteria (CAB) from 16 underground subway stations of Seoul Metro, Korea, between 2006 and 2013 to identify influential environmental factors, including the presence of platform screen ...
Hwang, SH, Park, JB
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Passıve Fıre Safety Measures In Underground Metro Statıons: Assessment Of Evacuatıon Process And A Case Study

, 2020
Tahliye süreci ve insan davranışı birbirini tamamlayan iki ana kavram olmakla beraber, binalarda yangın güvenliği projelerinin yapı taşını oluşturmaktadır.
Emine Deniz ÖZDAMAR
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Conservative roots confer a larger microbial carbon pump efficacy than acquisitive roots by regulating microbial life‐history strategy

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Root activity creates unique microbial hotspots in the rhizosphere by influencing the metabolic activities of surrounding soil microorganisms, profoundly regulating the dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC). However, how root economic strategies affect the formation and
Qiyu Tan, Peipei Zhang, Na Li, Guangru Wang, Wenbo Pang, Huangxin Zhang, Mingzhou Zhang, Qitong Wang, Huajun Yin   +8 more
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Water stress: Opportunities for supply chain research

Production and Operations Management, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Driven by climate change and overuse, water stress is a worsening sustainability concern that threatens businesses and communities across the globe. Leading global organizations such as the United Nations have expressed an urgent need for sustainable water management strategies across nations and economies.
Dustin Cole, Sriram Narayanan, Elizabeth Connors, Meenu Tewari, Kyle Onda   +4 more
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Conceptualizing moral migration: how disillusionment and the transnational right motivate migration to Russia Conceptualiser la migration morale : comment les désillusions et la droite transnationale motivent l’émigration vers la Russie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Russia is consistently a top migration destination. While most migrate to Russia from other post‐Soviet countries, a small but highly visible group of the Russian‐speaking diaspora has returned from Europe and North America. Lauded in Russian media as ‘ideological migrants’, their narratives at first glance echo those of the state as they claim to flee
Lauren Woodard
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Entwined Liberations: North Korean Democratic Women's Union and Third World Internationalism, 1945–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research focuses on how the North Korean Democratic Women's Union (NKDWU), the umbrella women's organisation in North Korea formed soon after Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945, forged international leftist women's solidarity during the North Korean state's liminal, revolutionary period (1945–1949).
Taejin Hwang
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Masculinity, Prostitution, and the Imaginary Northwest in Chinese Travel Writings About Shanxi and Western Inner Mongolia, 1920–1949

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers travel writings by metropolitan men in Republican China about Shanxi and western Inner Mongolia as a case study to further explore the transformations and continuities of Chinese masculinities. Drawing upon a range of popular travel narratives, it shows that so‐called “Worn‐Out Shoes (poxie)” – women perceived as ...
Amanda Zhang
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Remembering Interracial Intimacies: South Asian Perspectives on Black/Brown Sex and Romance in Colonial East Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bringing together historical evidence, postcolonial fiction and memory work, this study recovers South Asian cultural attitudes towards interracial heterosexual romance from the margins of East African history. It asks why Black/brown intimacy was treated as taboo and denied legitimacy within South Asian diasporic communities in British‐ruled ...
Carissa Chew
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