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Les trames vertes urbaines et l’adaptation au changement climatique : perspectives pour l’aménagement du territoire

open access: yesVertigO, 2012
Face to inevitable impacts of climate change, it is necessary for urban areas to adapt with the main goal to reduce territory and population vulnerability.
François Bertrand, Guillaume Simonet
doaj   +1 more source

INFLUENCE OF GREEN PLANTS ON DISTRIBUTION OF SOLAR RADIATION UNDER CONDITIONS OF URBAN BUILDING [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The environmental function of vegetation provides a comfortable living conditions for people in the city. Green plantations affect the gas composition of air and the degree of its pollution, form the climatic characteristics of urban ...
Matukhno, Elena   +3 more
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Perspective on Aqueous Batteries: Historical Milestones and Modern Revival

open access: yesAdvanced 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
wiley   +1 more source

Development of a Measure of Permeability between Private and Public Space

open access: yesUrban Science, 2018
This article focuses on the development of a measure for frontage permeability, which we argue is needed to complement existing metrics used to describe urban environments and assess, amongst others, social performativity.
Patrícia Alonso de Andrade   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ecological sustainability and urban form [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
One controversial idea present in the debate on urban sustainability is that urban sprawl is an ecological stressing problem. We have tested this popular assumption by measuring the ecological footprint of commuting and housing of the 163 municipalities ...
Galindo, Anna   +2 more
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches

open access: yesAdvanced 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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Form Metrics for Promoting Walking: Street Layouts and Destinations. [PDF]

open access: yesJ Urban Health, 2023
Koohsari MJ   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Urban Form and City Life [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The compact city is often presented as an answer to sustainable urban development, the paper tries to stress the influence of urban form of the compact city itself in the kind of civic life La ciudad compacta se presenta con frecuencia como una ...
Luque-Valdivia, J. (José)
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Depicting urban boundaries from a mobility network of spatial interactions: A case study of Great Britain with geo-located Twitter data

open access: yes, 2017
Existing urban boundaries are usually defined by government agencies for administrative, economic, and political purposes. Defining urban boundaries that consider socio-economic relationships and citizen commute patterns is important for many aspects of ...
Soliman, Aiman   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Energy Consumption Optimization in Trajectory Planning for Fuel Cell Hybrid Uavs Based On HMPC

open access: yesAdvanced 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
wiley   +1 more source

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