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Terahertz Channel Modeling, Estimation and Localization in RIS‐Assisted Systems

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces have become a recent intensive research focus. Based on practical applications, channel strategies for RIS‐assisted terahertz wireless communication systems are categorized into three different types: channel modeling, channel estimation, and channel localization.
Hongjing Wang, Weipeng Wang, Xuan Cong, Shiyu Wang, Gao Li, Sen Gong, Lin Huang, Hongxin Zeng, Yaxin Zhang, Ziqiang Yang   +9 more
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Visual exposure to buildings in Switzerland: spatial patterns and changes over six decades

Scientific Reports
The visual presence of buildings in rural landscapes is a key yet often overlooked dimension of spatial development. This study presents a comprehensive visual exposure assessment of rural buildings, defined here as buildings located outside building ...
Andreas Moser, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
doaj   +1 more source

Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A sense of place and pervasive computing within the urban landscape [PDF]

, 2007
In this paper we report on recent investigations within an ongoing research project, which aims at developing a better understanding of the urban landscape augmented with the digital landscape in the heritage City of Bath.
Briones, C., Fatah gen. Schieck, A., Mottram, C.   +2 more
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Effects of urbanisation and landscape heterogeneity mediated by feeding guild and body size in a community of coprophilous beetles [PDF]

, 2020
Although the impacts of urbanisation on biodiversity are well studied, the precise response of some invertebrate groups remains poorly known. Dung-associated beetles are little studied in an urban context, especially in temperate regions.
Foster, Christopher W., Holloway, Graham J., Kelly, Christopher, Rainey, Jordan J.   +3 more
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Tax Policy and Farm Organization

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) introduced substantial changes to the tax code, affecting farms' organizational incentives. This study examines farms' responses to the TCJA along extensive and intensive margins, focusing on organizational and labor expense adjustments.
Tia M. McDonald, Katherine Lacy
wiley   +1 more source

A global time series of traffic volumes on extra-urban roads

Scientific Data
Traffic on roads outside of urban areas (i.e. extra-urban roads) can have major ecological and environmental impacts on agricultural, forested, and natural areas. Yet, data on extra-urban traffic volumes is lacking in many regions.
Maarten J. van Strien, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey   +1 more
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Urban landscape survey in Italy and the Mediterranean [PDF]

, 2012
Field survey has been making a major contribution to our understanding of the rural landscapes of the Mediterranean for nearly forty years. During that time the techniques used to map ancient settlement patterns have grown in sophistication from being a ...
Burgers, Gert-Jan, Corsi, Cristina, Keay, Simon J, Vermeulen, Frank   +3 more
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Conzenian Tradition in Polish Urban Historical Morphology [PDF]

, 2015
The scientific heritage of M. R. G. Conzen, who is considered one of the most outstanding historical geographers and urban morphologists in the world, has made a huge impact on the contemporary urban historic morphology. Nowadays it would be very hard to
Kulesza, Mariusz
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source