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Leadership for Learning Improvement in Urban Schools [PDF]
, 2009 Examines urban school leaders' efforts to improve the quality of teaching and learning by supporting progress for diverse students, sharing leadership work, and aligning resources.
Bradley S. Portin +6 more
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Perspective on Aqueous Batteries: Historical Milestones and Modern Revival
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This review retraces the development of aqueous batteries from classical Zn‐MnO2 chemistry to modern Zn and Ni systems, correlating voltage, capacity, and electrolyte formulation with practical performance. By mapping historical success and failure onto current and future research directions, it identifies guiding principles that steer the design of ...
Fangwang Ming +5 more
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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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Climate Change: Implications for the Assumptions, Goals and Methods of Urban Environmental Planning
Urban Planning, 2016 As a result of increasing awareness of the implications of global climate change, shifts are becoming necessary and apparent in the assumptions, concepts, goals and methods of urban environmental planning. This review will present the argument that these
Kristina Hill
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Seeds and the City: The Interdependence of Zoochory and Ecosystem Dynamics in Urban Environments
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 The increasing urban sprawl has contributed to the extensive fragmentation and reduction of natural habitat worldwide. Urbanization has a range of adverse effects on ecosystem functioning, including the disruption of plant dispersal processes across the ...
T. A. Gelmi-Candusso +1 more
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When Windmills Turn Into Giants: The Conundrum of Virtual Places [PDF]
, 2007 While many papers may claim that virtual environments have much to gain from architectural and urban planning theory, few seem to specify in any verifiable or falsifiable way, how notions of place and interaction are best combined and developed for ...
Champion, Erik
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Applying MAPP Algorithm for Cooperative Path Finding in Urban Environments
, 2017 The paper considers the problem of planning a set of non-conflict trajectories for the coalition of intelligent agents (mobile robots). Two divergent approaches, e.g. centralized and decentralized, are surveyed and analyzed.
A Elfes +13 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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Analyzing Land Use Change In Urban Environments [PDF]
This four-page fact sheet provides a brief summary of the analysis of land use in urban environments. Topics include the rapid growth in urban populations, some of the methods used to analyze land use change (mapping, databases, time series documents ...
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No. 07: Rapid Urbanization and the Nutrition Transition in Southern Africa [PDF]
, 2011 The nutrition transition, including the presence of malnutrition and obesity in poor urban populations (the so-called ‘double burden’ of disease), is occurring in Southern Africa in the context of massive rural-urban migration and rapid urbanization ...
Crush, Jonathan +2 more
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