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“Flames Over Persepolis”: New Scientific Evidence Supporting Historical Perspectives

Archaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the burning of Persepolis Terrace, historically attributed to Alexander III in 330 bce. A review of classical accounts and excavation reports, combined with diagnostic surveys, confirms the fire's historicity and provides novel insights.
Maria Letizia Amadori, Ileana De Giuseppe, Fabrizio Frontalini, Luca Pellegrino, Richard W. Jordan, Pierfrancesco Callieri, Emad Matin, Alireza Askari Chaverdi, Hamid Fadaei, Valeria Mengacci, Fulvio Fantino   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Systematic Review on the Risk of Overheating in Passive Houses

Buildings
The rise in energy-efficient building strategies, driven by the intensifying energy crisis, has encouraged the development of the passive house (PH) approach.
Ensiyeh Farrokhirad, Yun Gao, Adrian Pitts, Guo Chen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fleshing out Law: Embodied Encounters and the Material Geographies of Legal Space

Area, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article explores how legality is produced, negotiated and contested through embodied encounters in urban courtrooms. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in German district courts, it develops the modalities of appearing, suspending and filtering to analyse how bodies are made to perform, endure and navigate legal processes.
Sarah Klosterkamp
wiley   +1 more source

Urban heat typologies: impact of heatwaves on urban built environment and heat stress risk to the elderly in Darmstadt, Germany

City and Environment Interactions
Climate change has made heatwaves common during German summers. The phenomenon of urban heat islands (UHIs) only worsens the adverse effects of heatwaves, especially for the elderly, defined as population aged 65+ for this study.
Avikal Somvanshi, Joachim Schulze, Shahrzad Talebsafa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the impact of overheating on public health in the Mediterranean region [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Climate change is among the most significant challenges for the next years. Global warming, increased temperatures, heatwaves and urban overheating are among its consequences. European Union (EU) and especially the Mediterranean cities have suffered from
Tzeiranaki Sofia Tsemekidi, Tsoutsos Theocharis   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Early‐Life Disaster Exposure and the Investment Response to Monetary Policy

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We place CEOs' formative experiences at the center of analyzing how firms respond to monetary policy. Specifically, we examine how early‐life exposure to natural disasters shapes CEOs’ investment behavior following monetary shocks. CEOs with exposure to moderate natural disasters during their formative years exhibit stronger risk‐taking ...
Samer Adra, Yang Gao, Elie Menassa, Jiayi Yuan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From urban microclimate to indoor overheating: Analysis of residential typologies during typical climate series and extreme warm summer

, 2023
Ainhoa Arriazu-Ramos, Germán Ramos Ruiz, Juan José Pons Izquierdo, Ana Sánchez-Ostiz Gutiérrez, Aurora Monge-Barrio   +4 more
openalex   +2 more sources

Key Barriers and Challenges to Green Infrastructure Implementation: Policy Insights from the Melbourne Case

Land
Urbanisation has resulted in significant environmental challenges, particularly the phenomenon of urban overheating, with a significant increase in temperatures in urban environments.
Hing-Wah Chau, Majed Abuseif, Shiran Geng, Elmira Jamei   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Minimising Urban Overheating with Courtyard Design

, 2023
In this master’s thesis, the relation between courtyard design and summertime overheating of urban environments in the Finnish context is explored. Different design solutions to create thermally comfortable courtyards during summer months were examined through literature review and a data analysis from locally collected temperature and relative ...
openaire   +1 more source

Chronic overheating in low carbon urban developments in a temperate climate [PDF]

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017
Abstract Numerous studies have reported on overheating in urban contexts the majority of which have focused on the influences of external factors, such as: heat waves and climatic change. To date very little research has examined the more insidious issue of chronic year-round overheating in temperate climatic zones.
Robert S. McLeod, Michael Swainson
openaire   +1 more source