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    Towards a Sustainable Life: Smart and Green Design in Buildings and Community (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: This Special Issue includes contributions about occupants’ sustainable living in buildings and communities, highlighting issues surrounding the sustainable development of our environments and lives by emphasizing smart and green design perspectives. This Special Issue specifically focuses on research and case studies that develop promising methods for the sustainable development of our environment and identify factors critical to the application of a sustainable paradigm for quality of life from a user-oriented perspective. After a rigorous review of the submissions by experts, fourteen articles concerning sustainable living and development are published in this Special Issue, written by authors sharing their expertise and approaches to the concept and application of sustainability in their fields. The fourteen contributions to this special issue can be categorized into four groups, depending on the issues that they address. All the proposed methods, models, and applications in these studies contribute to the current understanding of the adoption of the sustainability paradigm and are likely to inspire further research addressing the challenges of constructing sustainable buildings and communities resulting in a sustainable life for all of society.
    Keywords: sustainability ; regionalism ; climate ; unit plan ; apartment ; Singapore ; Korea ; sustainable architecture ; space syntax ; partitioning theory ; total depth ; intelligibility ; movement economies ; architecture ; building performance simulation ; performance-based design ; agent-based model ; Gaussian process ; electroencephalography ; virtual reality ; monument architecture ; stress ; data visualization ; deep learning ; smart building ; interactive experience ; “five senses” interaction ; people-oriented ; embedding ; recommender system ; collaborative filtering ; housing preference ; housing decision ; human behavior simulation ; virtual users ; social sustainability ; performance analysis ; evaluation method ; architectural design education ; eye tracking ; virtual environment ; street robbery ; CPTED ; crime prevention ; fixation count ; people with physical disabilities ; job retention ; path analysis ; perceived workplace safety ; workplace disability facilities ; work satisfaction ; social housing ; social economy actors ; Seoul ; South Korea ; sustainable development ; sustainable design ; energy efficiency ; public rental housing ; building simulation ; elderly ; biophilia ; biophilic experience ; smart home ; smart-home service ; service framework ; water distribution ; water war ; conflict ; ownership ; divided Cyprus ; blue-collar workers ; intervention study ; health promotion ; cardiovascular disease ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Resisting Postmodern Architecture (2021)
    UCL Press | UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Since its first appearance in 1981, critical regionalism has enjoyed a celebrated worldwide reception. The 1990s increased its pertinence as an architectural theory that defends the cultural identity of a place resisting the homogenising onslaught of globalisation. Today, its main principles (such as acknowledging the climate, history, materials, culture and topography of a specific place) are integrated in architects’ education across the globe. But at the same time, the richer cross-cultural history of critical regionalism has been reduced to schematic juxtapositions of ‘the global’ with ‘the local’. Retrieving both the globalising branches and the overlooked cross-cultural roots of critical regionalism, Resisting Postmodern Architecture resituates critical regionalism within the wider framework of debates around postmodern architecture, the diverse contexts from which it emerged, and the cultural media complex that conditioned its reception. In so doing, it explores the intersection of three areas of growing historical and theoretical interest: postmodernism, critical regionalism and globalisation. Based on more than 50 interviews and previously unpublished archival material from six countries, the book transgresses existing barriers to integrate sources in other languages into anglophone architectural scholarship. In so doing, it shows how the ‘periphery’ was not just a passive recipient, but also an active generator of architectural theory and practice. Stylianos Giamarelos challenges long-held ‘central’ notions of supposedly ‘international’ discourses of the recent past, and outlines critical regionalism as an unfinished project apposite for the 21st century on the fronts of architectural theory, history and historiography.
    Keywords: architecture ; architectural theory ; critical regionalism ; postmodernism ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects
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    Bloomsbury Scientists (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own inventive way. Their collective energy changed the social mood of the era and brought a new synthesis of knowledge to ideas in science and art. Class barriers were threatened as power shifted from the landed oligarchy to those with talent and the will to make a difference. A time of unexpected opportunities, from the new disciplines of Genetics and Ecology to Post-Impressionism and beyond, Michael Boulter seamlessly weaves together the stories originating from Bloomsbury’s laboratories, libraries and studios. He narrates the breakthroughs of scientists such as Ray Lankester and Marie Stopes alongside the creative outputs of H. G. Wells and Virginia Woolf, among many others, and intricately connects them all through personal friendships, grievances, quarrels and affections. Bloomsbury Scientists offers a fresh and crucial perspective on this history at a time when the complex relationship between science and art continues to be debated.
    Keywords: london ; history of science ; bloomsbury ; scientists ; Biology ; Charles Darwin ; Evolution ; Francis Galton ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britain ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
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    Architectural Structure (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The Special Issue, “Architectural Structure,” aims to gather general advances in human-made constructions which simultaneously are driven by aesthetic and structural engineering considerations. This Special Issue brings together twelve contributions covering the following topics: analysis of architectural typologies; the study of the mechanical performance of structural materials, structural systems and components; and the proposal of techniques to evaluate the mechanical performance in existing structures and new construction techniques.
    Keywords: recycled aggregate concrete ; block masonry ; compressive strength ; carbon emission ; stress–strain curves ; outrigger wall ; multiple openings ; deep beam ; stiffness ; shear strength ; tall building ; inverted multi tee ; prestressed concrete ; precast concrete ; structural performance ; flexural analysis ; self-compacting concrete ; non-destructive test methods ; ultrasonic pulse velocity test ; surface hardness test ; pull-out test ; maturity test ; within-test variability ; normal vibrated concrete ; concrete structures ; beams &amp ; girders ; torsion ; high-strength concrete ; prestressing ; traditional slabs ; ceramic-reinforced slabs ; shear response ; cyclic loading ; natural fiber-reinforced polymers ; NFRP ; computational design ; tailored fiber placement ; coreless filament winding ; rapid prototyping ; industry 4.0 ; lightweight structure ; Geopolymer ; Alkali activated ; tensile strength ; deformability ; experimental study ; analytical model ; reinforced concrete ; beams ; fly ash alkali activated ; bending ; thin-walled I-section ; continuous beam ; local buckling ; longitudinal stress variation ; design ultimate resistance of the cross-section ; Rudolf Steiner ; anthroposophy ; architecture ; Goetheanum ; double-steel-concrete composite shear walls ; axial and bending capacity ; failure characteristic ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Fungal Architectures (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: This reprint presents groundbreaking discoveries, practical techniques, and rigorous analyses related to the cultivation, preparation, and exploitation of mycelium composites. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including functional modifications of mycelium with inorganic particles, modifying and assessing the mechanical properties of mycelium composites, strategies for improving the flexural behaviour of composites, beehives from fungal materials, bio-welding and reinforcement of composites, bioreactors for fungal production, co-production of composites by fungi and bacteria, growing large-scale mycelium structures, sound absorption by composites, and the geometrical parameterisation of fungi. This informative compendium of techniques, methods, and insights on growing fungal material appeals to readers from all walks of life, from high school pupils to university professors, from mathematicians, computer scientists, and engineers to chemists, from craft practitioners to industrial producers of fungal materials, and from biologists to architects and artists.
    Keywords: mycelium-based composites ; additive manufacturing ; bio-based materials ; circular construction ; digital fabrication ; mycelium ; bio-composites ; bio-fabrication ; ultrasonic welding ; wood printing ; robotic fabrication ; reinforced composites ; natural fiber reinforced polymers ; NFRP ; growing materials ; rattan ; lightweight structure ; architecture ; structural design ; computational design ; subtractive manufacturing ; circular economy ; compressive structures ; compressive strength ; digital image correlation ; masonry ; growth ; mechanical properties ; materials science ; mycelium-based composite ; biomaterials ; natural composites ; bacterial cellulose ; biocompatibility ; knitted fabric ; material tinkering ; lignocellulosic fibers ; natural fiber reinforcement ; mechanical characteristics ; manufacturing variables ; nanoclay ; fungal fruiting bodies ; parametric design thinking ; plasticity ; linearity ; non-linearity ; biohybrid architecture ; bio fabrication ; living architecture ; beehive ; 3D printing ; mycelium materials ; symbiosis ; multispecies architecture ; healthy materials ; binding capacity ; bio-adhesives ; building biomaterials ; fungal mycelium ; mechanical performance ; acoustic materials ; sound absorption ; fungal architecture ; myceliated material ; living material ; sustainability ; biotechnology ; compression ; bending ; waste upcycling ; mycoremediation ; myco-materials ; myco-fabrication ; sustainable buildings ; sustainable structures ; architectural design ; material ethics ; modular chain bioreactor ; solid-state fermentation ; mycelium production ; Ganoderma lucidum ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Mobile Oriented Future Internet (MOFI) (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: This Special Issue consists of seven papers that discuss how to enhance mobility management and its associated performance in the mobile-oriented future Internet (MOFI) environment. The first two papers deal with the architectural design and experimentation of mobility management schemes, in which new schemes are proposed and real-world testbed experimentations are performed. The subsequent three papers focus on the use of software-defined networks (SDN) for effective service provisioning in the MOFI environment, together with real-world practices and testbed experimentations. The remaining two papers discuss the network engineering issues in newly emerging mobile networks, such as flying ad-hoc networks (FANET) and connected vehicular networks.
    Keywords: flying ad hoc network (FANET) ; mobile ad hoc network (MANET) ; highly dynamic ; periodical ; topology change awareness ; routing protocol ; mobility management ; architecture ; implementation ; experimentation ; EU–Korea testbed ; SDN ; DASH ; QoE ; HTTP/3 ; QUIC ; traffic signal control ; shared lane ; control strategy ; vehicle-to-infrastructure ; variable lane line ; cloud computing ; management ; middle box ; placement ; resource ; vendor-agnostic ; virtual machine ; VM ; affordable playground ; hyper-converged SmartX Box ; distributed resources ; multi-site and virtualized cloud ; software-defined networking ; DevOps automation ; ILNP ; identifier-locator ; mobile network ; roaming ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATF Films, cinema ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATJ Television
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    Advances in Textile Structural Composites (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: The direction of fiber orientation plays a crucial role in deciding the mechanical performance of textile structural composites. Unlike conventional composite materials, geometrically oriented textile structures, e.g., woven, knitted, and braided constructions, can be designed and developed for load bearing in a particular direction. Their properties can be enhanced by modifying the geometry and material composition. One major challenge in producing textile structural composites with superior mechanical properties at a reasonably lower price is cost effective prepreg. Composites constructed from reinforcement having a well-defined geometry perform better than randomly oriented fibers at a reasonable cost. Their flex fatigue is superior to conventional preforms in specific applications. This Special Issue invites research as well as review articles dealing with different types of (2D, 3D, multiaxial) woven, knitted, and braided structures for load bearing structural composite applications. Use of industrial multifilament yarns of pure and hybrid composition in textile geometrical reinforcement structures can also be included. The methods of impregnation of such structures by thermoplastic and thermoset resins should be described. The superior performance in such structural composites must be highlighted. Methods of characterizing woven, knitted, and braided textile reinforced composites is the focus of this issue. Current and future applications of advanced textile structural composites can be summarized in the submitted articles. Theoretical (computational, numerical simulation etc.) as well as experimental work can be submitted with sufficient scientific innovation.
    Keywords: hybrid composite ; polyester waste fiber ; olive root fiber ; coir pith filler ; building materials ; mixture design analysis ; recycled cotton ; glass ; hollow knitted composite ; compression ; flexural modulus ; impact energy ; quasi-static test ; cyclic fatigue ; wavy-lap bond ; natural cotton fabric ; polymer composite ; mechanical properties ; service life ; safety ; SEM ; pressure-actuated cellular structure ; shape morphing ; compliant mechanism ; anisotropic flexure hinges ; textile-reinforced polymer composite ; integrally woven structure ; resin ; glass cloth ; substrate ; glass transition temperature ; surface finish ; pad cratering ; thermal resistance ; textile structural composite ; 3D weaving ; hollow structure ; spacer fabric ; woven honeycomb ; sandwich ; waste cotton ; impact ; flexural rigidity ; hybrid woven reinforcement ; preforming ; carbon-Kevlar ; epoxy resin ; add-on (%) ; amount of hardener (%) ; curing temperature ; curing time ; molding pressure ; fiber composites ; FRP ; architecture ; architectured materials ; hysteresis ; auxetic ; non-Newtonian fluids ; low-velocity impact ; personal protection ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences::PSB Biochemistry
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    Selected Papers from the pHealth 2021 Conference, Genoa, Italy, 8-10 November 2021 (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-11-30
    Description: This reprint addresses healthcare transformation towards personalized, participative, preventive, predictive, and precision medicine (5P Medicine) with the support of new technologies such as micro-, nano-, and bio-techniques, as well as artificial intelligence and learning systems. It focuses, therefore, on the representation and management of knowledge from different domains and their actors, using their methodologies and languages but also individual skills and experiences. The outcome is a system-oriented, architecture-centric, ontology-based, policy-driven approach allowing a formal representation and management of health ecosystems, including their integration and interoperability. Such development is accompanied by security, privacy, and ethical challenges to be resolved. The reprint describes the principles, methodologies, and standards for successfully managing the transformation of health and social care, illustrated by many practical examples and implemented use cases. The reprint is based on papers published in the context of the pHealth 2021 Conference in Genoa, Italy. However, the content goes far beyond the focus and size of the original papers.
    Keywords: syntactical parsing ; natural language processing ; electronic health records ; Node2Vec ; automatic text labeling ; graph algorithms ; mobile application ; mHealth ; digital technology ; emergency service ; hospital ; emergency department ; clinical laboratory information systems ; communication ; text messaging ; pediatrics ; postoperative risks ; aortic aneurysm ; integrated data ; predictive modeling ; feature extraction ; machine learning ; privacy ; trust ; modelling ; antecedents ; Fuzzy attractiveness rating ; didactic ; Healthcare IT ; citizens ; E-Learning ; digitalization ; digitization ; patient empowerment ; education ; healthcare communications ; surgical biobank ; post-traumatic arthritis ; osteomyelitis ; semantic data integration ; system theory ; biomedical ontologies ; knowledge representation ; ascending aortic dilatation ; aneurysm ; risk factors ; echocardiography ; social media ; physical activity ; chatbot ; health ; participatory health ; usability ; conversational agent ; behavior change ; genomics ; security ; modular architecture ; GIPAMS ; standards ; Markov model ; periprosthetic joint infection ; revision arthroplasty ; total hip replacement ; decision trees ; oncohematology ; epilepsy risk ; epilepsy modeling ; COVID-19 ; pneumonia ; dynamical Bayesian networks ; treatment trajectories ; auto ML ; eHealth ; data democratization ; health data infrastructure ; privacy-enhancing technologies ; hospital-acquired infections ; international coding system ; laboratory information systems ; information extraction ; stress detection ; individual learning ; centralized learning ; federated learning ; smartwatch ; health transformation ; ecosystems ; knowledge representation and management ; architecture ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBN Public health & preventive medicine
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    Blockchain: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-07
    Description: Blockchain applications in different industries are booming, yet there are many unresolved challenges with the mass adoption of the technology. This reprint is an attempt to review some of the applications in different industries and propose solutions to some of the critical challenges in technology adoption.
    Keywords: distributed ledger technology ; blockchain ; decentralized applications ; technology review ; development guidelines ; architecture ; anti-counterfeiting ; decentralization ; product authenticity ; end-to-end traceability ; supply chain integrity ; supply chain provenance ; NFC-Enabled Anti-Counterfeiting System ; Near-Field communication ; Internet-of-Things ; Internet of Things ; information technology ; innovation ; supply chains ; transparency ; traceability ; safety ; food systems ; transactions ; smart contracts ; electrical network frequency (ENF) ; Proof-of-ENF (PoENF) ; consensus ; security ; Internet of Video Things (IoVT) ; proof of work ; proof of stake ; consensus mechanism ; 51% attack ; double-mining attack ; technological development ; scalability ; storage ; data integrity ; performance ; smart contract ; M2X ; smart autonomous devices ; e-governance ; lifecycle management ; smart grid ; internet of vehicles ; demand response ; systematic literature review ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning
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    The Bentham Brothers and Russia (2022)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: The jurist and philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, and his lesser-known brother, Samuel, equally talented but as a naval architect, engineer and inventor, had a long love affair with Russia. Jeremy hoped to assist Empress Catherine II with her legislative projects. Samuel went to St Petersburg to seek his fortune in 1780 and came back with the rank of Brigadier-General and the idea, famously publicised by Jeremy, of the Inspection-House or Panopticon. The Bentham Brothers and Russia chronicles the brothers’ later involvement with the Russian Empire, when Jeremy focused his legislative hopes on Catherine’s grandson Emperor Alexander I (ruled 1801-25) and Samuel found a unique opportunity in 1806 to build a Panopticon in St Petersburg – the only panoptical building ever built by the Benthams themselves. Setting the Benthams’ projects within an in-depth portrayal of the Russian context, Roger Bartlett illuminates an important facet of their later careers and offers insight into their world view and way of thought. He also contributes towards the history of legal codification in Russia, which reached a significant peak in 1830, and towards the demythologising of the Panopticon, made notorious by Michel Foucault: the St Petersburg building, still relatively unknown, is described here in detail on the basis of archival sources. The Benthams’ interactions with Russia under Alexander I constituted a remarkable episode in Anglo-Russian relations; this book fills a significant gap in their history.
    Keywords: history;Russia;Jeremy Bentham;bentham studies;philosophy;Alexander the first;Bentham;Samuel Bentham;codification;russiam constitution;Dumont;russian law code;russian navy;british navy;Panopticon;Czartoryski;Novosil’tsev;Speranskii;Rosenkampff;Chichagov ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDH Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
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    Design Transactions (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Design Transactions presents the outcome of new research to emerge from ‘Innochain’, a consortium of six leading European architectural and engineering-focused institutions and their industry partners. The book presents new advances in digital design tooling that challenge established building cultures and systems. It offers new sustainable and materially smart design solutions with a strong focus on changing the way the industry thinks, designs, and builds our physical environment. Divided into sections exploring communication, simulation and materialisation, Design Transactions explores digital and physical prototyping and testing that challenges the traditional linear construction methods of incremental refinement. This novel research investigates ‘the digital chain’ between phases as an opportunity for extended interdisciplinary design collaboration. The highly illustrated book features work from 15 early-stage researchers alongside chapters from world-leading industry collaborators and academics.
    Keywords: architecture ; architectural design ; built environment ; physical environment ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design
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    Narratives of Low Countries History and Culture (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: This edited collection explores the ways in which our understanding of the past in Dutch history and culture can be rethought to consider not only how it forms part of the present but how it can relate also to the future. Divided into three parts – the uses of myth and history, the past as illumination of cultural context, and historiography in focus – this book seeks to demonstrate the importance of the past by investigating the transmission of culture and its transformations. It reflects on the history of historiography and looks critically at the products of the historiographic process, such as Dutch and Afrikaans literary history
    Keywords: historiography ; dutch golden age ; dutch history ; low countries ; Johannes Goropius Becanus ; Netherlands ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
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    Blockchain: Applications, Challenges, and Solutions (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: Blockchain applications in different industries are booming, yet there are many unresolved challenges with the mass adoption of the technology. This reprint is an attempt to review some of the applications in different industries and propose solutions to some of the critical challenges in technology adoption.
    Keywords: distributed ledger technology ; blockchain ; decentralized applications ; technology review ; development guidelines ; architecture ; anti-counterfeiting ; decentralization ; product authenticity ; end-to-end traceability ; supply chain integrity ; supply chain provenance ; NFC-Enabled Anti-Counterfeiting System ; Near-Field communication ; Internet-of-Things ; Internet of Things ; information technology ; innovation ; supply chains ; transparency ; traceability ; safety ; food systems ; transactions ; smart contracts ; electrical network frequency (ENF) ; Proof-of-ENF (PoENF) ; consensus ; security ; Internet of Video Things (IoVT) ; proof of work ; proof of stake ; consensus mechanism ; 51% attack ; double-mining attack ; technological development ; scalability ; storage ; data integrity ; performance ; smart contract ; M2X ; smart autonomous devices ; e-governance ; lifecycle management ; smart grid ; internet of vehicles ; demand response ; systematic literature review ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technologies are modified environments, just as nature is to varying extents engineered. Furthermore, technologies and our living and non-living environment are both predominant material forms of organisation – and self-organisation – that surround and make us. Both have changed over time, in intersecting ways. Technologies discussed in the collection include bulldozers, submarine cables, automobiles, flood barriers, medical devices, museum displays and biotechnologies. Environments investigated include bogs, cities, farms, places of natural beauty and pollution, land and sea. The book explores this diversity but also offers an integrated framework for understanding these intersections.
    Keywords: british history ; technology ; environmental history ; environment ; Asbestos ; Bulldozer ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britain ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQM c 1950 to c 1959 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQS c 1960 to c 1969 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQV c 1970 to c 1979 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQX c 1980 to c 1989 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQZ c 1990 to c 1999 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC9 History of ideas ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science ; thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACB English ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3ML 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBA c 1900 to c 1909 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBF c 1910 to c 1919::3MPBFB c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period) ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBG c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBL c 1940 to c 1949::3MPBLB c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)
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    Smart Monitoring and Control in the Future Internet of Things (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The Internet of Things (IoT) and related technologies have the promise of realizing pervasive and smart applications which, in turn, have the potential of improving the quality of life of people living in a connected world. According to the IoT vision, all things can cooperate amongst themselves and be managed from anywhere via the Internet, allowing tight integration between the physical and cyber worlds and thus improving efficiency, promoting usability, and opening up new application opportunities. Nowadays, IoT technologies have successfully been exploited in several domains, providing both social and economic benefits. The realization of the full potential of the next generation of the Internet of Things still needs further research efforts concerning, for instance, the identification of new architectures, methodologies, and infrastructures dealing with distributed and decentralized IoT systems; the integration of IoT with cognitive and social capabilities; the enhancement of the sensing–analysis–control cycle; the integration of consciousness and awareness in IoT environments; and the design of new algorithms and techniques for managing IoT big data. This Special Issue is devoted to advancements in technologies, methodologies, and applications for IoT, together with emerging standards and research topics which would lead to realization of the future Internet of Things.
    Keywords: atmospheric ; on-line monitoring ; LoRa ; embedded system ; smart environments ; Internet of Things ; indoor occupancy ; machine learning ; data analysis ; landslide susceptibility ; China-Nepal Highway ; LSTM ; remote sensing images ; IoT ; network traffic ; monitoring ; DDoS ; packet classification ; indoor localization ; channel state information ; device-free passive ; WiFi fingerprint ; naive Bayes classification ; feature fusion ; posture recognition ; indoor positioning ; wireless body area network ; Kalman filtering ; multi-sensor combination ; prognostic and health management ; integrative framework ; internet of things ; convolutional neural network ; conditioned-based maintenance ; IoT platform ; intelligent monitoring robot ; active CCTV ; learning model ; electrical devices ; classification ; energy management ; smart environment ; architecture ; blockchain ; communication constraints ; decentralized application ; Ethereum ; Internet of things ; sensing and control ; computational efficiency ; robotic manipulators ; hysteresis ; adaptive control ; wireless sensor network (WSN) ; energy ; ant colony optimization (ACO) ; routing algorithm ; quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithms ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Arabic Dialogues (2024)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: During the nineteenth century and into the early twentieth century, more Europeans visited the Middle East than ever before, as tourists, archaeologists, pilgrims, settler-colonists and soldiers. These visitors engaged with the Arabic language to differing degrees. While some were serious scholars of Classical Arabic, in the Orientalist mould, many did not learn the language at all. Between these two extremes lies a neglected group of language learners who wanted to learn enough everyday colloquial Arabic to get by. The needs of these learners were met by popular language books, which boasted that they could provide an easy route to fluency in a difficult language. Arabic Dialogues explores the motivations of Arabic learners and effectiveness of instructional materials, principally in Egypt and Palestine, by analysing a corpus of Arabic phrasebooks published in nine languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Russian) and in the territory of twenty-five modern countries. Beginning with Napoleon’s Expédition d’Égypte (1798–1801), it moves through the periods of mass tourism and European colonialism in the Middle East, concluding with the Second World War. The book also considers how Arab intellectuals understood the project of teaching Arabic to foreigners, the remarkable history of Arabic-learning among Yiddish- and Hebrew-speaking immigrants in Palestine, and the networks of language learners, teachers and plagiarists who produced these phrasebooks.
    Keywords: Arabic;phrasebooks;colonialism;colonial history;Middle East;Egypt;Palestine;Cairo;linguistics history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHG Middle Eastern history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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    Four Histories about Early Dutch Football, 1910-1920 (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: What is the purpose of history today, and how can sporting research help us understand the world around us? In this stimulating book, Nicholas Piercey constructs four new histories of early Dutch football, exploring urban change, club members, the media, and the diaries of Cornelis Johannes Karel van Aalst, a stadium director, to propose practical examples of how history can become an important democratic tool for the 21st century.
    Keywords: european history ; humanities ; social & cultural history ; AFC Ajax ; Amsterdam ; Netherlands ; Rotterdam ; Royal Dutch Football Association ; Sparta ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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    Resilience and Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Planning: Policies, Practices, Strategies and Visions (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The production and development of the built environment relates strongly to the fields of architecture and urban planning. The built environment experiences severe impacts from disasters that have become more frequent and intense around the world due to climate change and other human actions, requiring research on architectural design and urban planning that contributes to resilience. On the other hand, the built environment itself causes environmental impacts through the consumption of energy, land-use change and pressure on ecosystems, among a variety of other factors. Thus, research-informed policies, practices, and strategies relating to the built environment are necessary, requiring innovative and forward-thinking visions for a resilient and sustainable future. The built environment is multifold, with its manifestation determined by economic levels, political systems, demography, and natural resources. Therefore, contextual approaches and solutions in architecture and urban planning are essential to produce a diverse range of research findings. This publication serves as a platform to assemble such recent and innovative research findings relating to resilience and sustainability in the architecture and urban planning fields, and through an open access mode, disseminate this knowledge widely at a time when the world is facing critical challenges posed by disasters and environmental transformation.
    Keywords: social housing ; renovation works ; energy efficiency improvement ; Cappuccinelli Social Housing district ; Trapani ; disaster mitigation ; disaster-risk reduction ; disaster recovery ; design ; architecture ; design thinking ; energy performance gap ; occupant behavior ; residential buildings ; energy efficiency ; sustainability ; resilience ; cyclones ; self-recovery ; shelter ; Vanuatu ; Town Camps ; First Nation communities ; topological mapping ; community infrastructure ; PPGIS ; minimalism ; architectural design ; COVID-19 pandemic ; construction industry ; health and safety ; communication ; construction projects ; Elemental ; Villa Verde ; incremental housing ; adaptation ; urban planning ; tsunami ; Sri Lanka ; multi-hazard ; urban regeneration ; urban renewal ; urban analysis ; urban evaluation ; parameters ; neighborhood evaluation ; climate change ; CMIP6 ; extreme precipitation ; Gandaki Province ; GIS ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Sports Materials (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Advances in materials are crucial to the development of sports equipment, from tennis rackets to skis to running shoes. Materials-driven improvements in equipment have helped athletes perform better, while enhancing safety and making sport more accessible and enjoyable. This book brings together a collection of 10 papers on the topic of sports materials, as published in a Special Issue of Applied Sciences. The papers within this book cover a range of sports, including golf, tennis, table tennis and baseball. State-of-the-art engineering techniques, such as finite element modelling, impact testing and full-field strain measurement, are applied to help further our understanding of sports equipment mechanics and the role of materials, with a view to improving performance, enhancing safety and facilitating informed regulatory decision making. The book also includes papers that describe emerging and novel materials, including auxetic materials with their negative Poisson’s ratio (fattening when stretched) and knits made of bamboo charcoal. This collection of papers should serve as a useful resource for sports engineers working in both academia and industry, as well as engineering students who are interested in sports equipment and materials.
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; n/a ; foam ; finite element ; sportswear textiles ; cannon ; textiles ; impact attenuation ; shockpad ; foam protective mats ; robot ; additive manufacturing ; indentation ; bat ; rubber ; slope of grain ; wood ; injury ; strain ; impact ; durability ; protective equipment ; mechanical properties ; artificial turf ; strain propagation ; auxetic foam ; sports safety ; torsion ; quick-dry yarn ; concussion ; baseball ; finite element modelling ; polymer ; strain rate ; Charpy ; protection ; rate dependence ; functional composite yarns ; impact testing ; golf ; helmet ; architecture ; auxetic ; clubhead ; digital image correlation ; finite element analysis ; tennis ; comfort ; negative Poisson’s ratio ; friction ; bamboo charcoal yarn ; EFG method ; sport ; finite elements ; shaft ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Dwelling on the Future (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Dwelling on the Future focuses on the design of dwellings and their varied environments, and questions how an architect responds to the challenge of providing humane places in which to live for a growing, multifarious population in an increasingly divided world. The issue is never just housing. People – individuals, groups and societies – can and do have different goals and aspirations. Is it possible to imagine and implement a world in which a level of comfort and stability is available for even the poorest members of societies? Pierre d’Avoine covers a wide range of examples, including proposals for luxury housing and designs for low-cost dwellings, which all address the needs and desires of their potential inhabitants. He explores an inclusive approach to the design of settlements – and not just in cities – that recognises difference, an approach that demands a fresh political vision to resolve humanity’s increasing inequality, for the benefit of all. D’Avoine asks if we can respond with optimism to the Kabakovs’ mordantly titled installation ‘Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future (2001)’. While this was perhaps a statement of fact in Russia and elsewhere in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it is implicit, and ever more so, in the West today. Praise for Dwelling on the Future 'Beautifully judged line drawings, physical models and critical texts ...supplemented here by interviews that he has conducted with the full range of project partners. These illuminate the rich, diverse and often idiosyncratic contexts within which housing in the UK is produced and prove that good housing is not merely a socio-technical process. The resulting proposals suggest the triumph of possibility over regulatory limitation ...As the Welsh Government’s laudable Innovative Housing Programme progresses, Dwelling on the Future illustrates the value of different ways of thinking and acting.' Touchstone: The journal for architecture in Wales ‘The merits of the images [in paperback] out perform the on-screen version.’Construction Expert, Russia ‘In the modern world, with its growing speed and increasingly widespread clip-based thinking, it is rare to find an architect's book about architecture in which text prevails over images. …Dwelling on the Future is also unusual in that it is based not on a text by the architect about his projects, but on a series of interviews with those who were involved in them. …The book should be of interest to anyone who is curious about the origins of architectural ideas, projects and the process of their implementation.’ Gleb A. Sobolev '‘The ultimate problem for the profession is that of setting out the possibilities and choices in building and environment.’ - Architect and educator Leslie Martin (1967) In this valuable book[the] projects, individually and in sum, are ‘possibilities and choices’ for housing in the 21st century.' Buildings & Cities
    Keywords: architecture ; land use ; design research ; residential housing ; luxury housing ; low-cost dwellings ; ethnography ; collaborative practice ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design
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    The Neoliberal Age? (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: The late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are commonly characterised as an age of ‘neoliberalism’ in which individualism, competition, free markets, and privatisation came to dominate Britain’s politics, economy and society. This historical framing has proven to be highly controversial, within both academia and contemporary political/public debate. Standard accounts of neoliberalism generally focus on the influence of political ideas in reshaping British politics. According to this narrative, neoliberalism was a right-wing ideology, peddled by political economists, think-tanks, and politicians from the 1930s onwards, which finally triumphed in the 1970s and 1980s. The Neoliberal Age? suggests this narrative is too simplistic. Where the standard story sees neoliberalism as right-wing, this book points to some left-wing origins, too. Where the standard story emphasises the agency of think-tanks and politicians, this book shows that other actors from the corporate world were also highly significant. Where the standard story can suggest that neoliberalism transformed subjectivities and social lives, this book shows other forces which helped make Britain more individualistic in the late twentieth century. The analysis thus takes neoliberalism seriously but also shows that it cannot be the only explanatory framework for understanding contemporary Britain, and that ‘neoliberal’ cannot be the only descriptor used to categorise Britain in the past 50 years. The book showcases cutting-edge research, making it useful to researchers and students, as well as to those interested in understanding the forces that have shaped our recent past.
    Keywords: history ; political science ; neoliberalism ; politics ; British history ; economics ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory
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    Danish Reactions to German Occupation (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: For five years during World War II, Denmark was occupied by Germany. While the Danish reaction to this period of its history has been extensively discussed in Danish-language publications, it has not until now received a thorough treatment in English. Set in the context of modern Danish foreign relations, and tracing the country’s responses to successive crises and wars in the region, Danish Reactions to German Occupation brings a full overview of the occupation to an English-speaking audience. Holbraad carefully dissects the motivations and ideologies driving conduct during the occupation, and his authoritative coverage of the preceding century provides a crucial link to understanding the forces behind Danish foreign policy divisions. Analysing the conduct of a traumatised and strategically exposed small state bordering on an aggressive great power, the book traces a development from reluctant cooperation to active resistance. In doing so, Holbraad surveys and examines the subsequent, and not yet quite finished, debate among Danish historians about this contested period, which takes place between those siding with the resistance and those more inclined to justify limited cooperation with the occupiers – and who sometimes even condone various acts of collaboration
    Keywords: danish history ; danish foreign relations ; danish foreign policy ; Denmark ; Germany ; Nazism ; Resistance movement ; Sabotage ; Special Operations Executive ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWR Specific wars and campaigns::NHWR7 Second World War ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history::NHWL Modern warfare ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPB Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950::3MPBL c 1940 to c 1949::3MPBLB c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period)
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    Evolutionary Computation (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Computational intelligence is a general term for a class of algorithms designed by nature's wisdom and human intelligence. Computer scientists have proposed many computational intelligence algorithms with heuristic features. These algorithms either mimic the evolutionary processes of the biological world, mimic the physiological structure and bodily functions of the organism,
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; individual updating strategy ; integrated design ; global optimum ; flexible job shop scheduling problem ; whale optimization algorithm ; EHO ; bat algorithm with multiple strategy coupling (mixBA) ; multi-objective DV-Hop localization algorithm ; optimization ; rock types ; variable neighborhood search ; biology ; average iteration times ; CEC2013 benchmarks ; slicing tree structure ; firefly algorithm (FA) ; benchmark ; single loop ; evolutionary computation ; memetic algorithm ; normal cloud model ; 0-1 knapsack problems ; elite strategy ; diversity maintenance ; material handling path ; artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) ; urban design ; entropy ; evolutionary algorithms (EAs) ; monarch butterfly optimization ; numerical simulation ; architecture ; set-union knapsack problem ; Wilcoxon test ; convolutional neural network ; global position updating operator ; particle swarm optimization ; computation ; minimum load coloring ; topology structure ; adaptive multi-swarm ; minimum total dominating set ; mutation operation ; shape grammar ; greedy optimization algorithm ; ?-Hilbert space ; genetic algorithm ; large scale optimization ; large-scale optimization ; NSGA-II-DV-Hop ; constrained optimization problems (COPs) ; first-arrival picking ; transfer function ; SPEA 2 ; stochastic ranking (SR) ; wireless sensor networks (WSNs) ; acceleration search ; convergence point ; fuzzy c-means ; evolutionary algorithm ; success rates ; Artificial bee colony ; particle swarm optimizer ; random weight ; range detection ; adaptive weight ; large-scale ; automatic identification ; cloud model ; swarm intelligence ; evolutionary multi-objective optimization ; DV-Hop algorithm ; bat algorithm (BA) ; Friedman test ; quantum uncertainty property ; facility layout design ; local search ; deep learning ; Y conditional cloud generator ; benchmark functions ; discrete algorithm ; dispatching rule ; DE algorithm ; nonlinear convergence factor ; energy-efficient job shop scheduling ; t-test ; evolution ; dimension learning ; global optimization ; confidence term ; elephant herding optimization ; moth search algorithm ; evolutionary ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Co-curating the City (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Co-curating the City explores the role of universities in the construction and mobilisation of heritage discourses in urban development and regeneration processes, with a focus on six case study sites: University of Gothenburg (Sweden), UCL East (London), University of Lund (Sweden). Roma Tre university (Rome), American University of Beirut, and Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil. The aim of the book is to expand the field of critical heritage studies in the urban domain, by examining the role of institutional actors both in the construction of urban heritage discourses, and in how those discourses influence urban planning decisions or become instrumentalised as mechanisms for urban regeneration. It proposes that universities engage in these processes in a number of ways: as producers of urban knowledge that is mobilised to intervene in planning processes; as producers of heritage practices that are implemented in development contexts in the urban realm; and as developers engaged in campus construction projects that both reference heritage discourses as a mechanism for promoting support and approval by planners and the public, and capitalise on heritage assets as a resource. The book highlights the participatory processes through which universities are positioning themselves as significant institutions in the development of urban heritage narratives. The case studies investigate how universities, as mixed communities of interest dispersed across buildings and urban sites, engage in strategies of engagement with local people and neighbourhoods, and ask how this may be contributing to a re-shaping of ideas, narratives, and lived experience of urban heritage in which universities have a distinctive agency. The authors cross disciplinary and cultural boundaries, and bridge academia and practice.
    Keywords: urban studies ; planning ; architecture ; universities ; higher education ; heritage ; urban development ; regeneration ; built environment ; UCL ; UCLEast ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNM Higher education, tertiary education ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy
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    Medieval Monasticism in Northern Europe (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: While the Christian monastic tradition and its development on the mainland of Europe has been extensively studied by scholars, medieval monasticism in Northern Europe has gained considerably less attention. However, interest in the topic has grown steadily, as can be observed from the varied research that has taken place during the last decades. This growing interest can partly be explained by the current multidisciplinary approaches in academic research as well as the emergence of studies on material culture and its entwinement with archival material during the last decades of the twentieth century. It may also be further explained by an increased awareness of how North-European historiography, including medieval monastic studies, has since the nineteenth century been shaped by Protestant views, albeit in combination with longstanding nationalistic political perspectives. Therefore, the topic needs to be revisited, as is done here, not least due to the growing multinational and religious tolerance apparent in present academic studies of humanities. By highlighting Northern Europe specifically, the issue aims also to place medieval monasticism in a broader geographical and cultural context as being one of the active agents that formed the Christian worldview of the Middle Ages. The overall ambition of this Special Issue is, at the same time, to emphasize and introduce novel approaches to the reciprocal formation of the pan-European monasticism through its shifting localities and temporality.
    Keywords: medieval gardening ; horticulture ; monastery garden ; herb ; relict plants ; medicinal plants ; Iceland ; Norse Greenland ; monasticism ; Benedictine Order ; Augustine Order ; liturgical music ; monastic institutions ; St Olav ; Sweden ; Middle Ages ; Latin literature ; Icelandic and Old Norse literature ; Þingeyrar Abbey ; cultural heritage ; Reformation ; devotional objects ; iconoclasm ; church history ; Icelandic history ; architecture ; bridgettine order ; Finland ; monastic archaeology ; Naantali ; plan ; spatial organisation ; middle ages ; Denmark ; medieval Latin monasticism ; medieval religious history ; historiography ; medieval northern Europe ; interdisciplinarity ; monastic heritage ; monasteries ; medieval scandinavia ; Augustinians ; Benedictines ; Cistercians ; Premonstratensians ; manuscript fragments ; aristocracy ; medieval Sweden ; nunneries ; nuns ; monks ; donations ; gifts ; diplomas ; charters ; gender ; masculinity ; religious orders ; Ireland ; Wales ; England ; Scotland ; conquest ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs
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    Fabricate 2014 (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: FABRICATE is an international peer reviewed conference that takes place every three years with a supporting publication on the theme of Digital Fabrication. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE brings together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Discussion on key themes includes: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities from component to building scales, the difficult gap that exists between digital modelling and its realisation, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts. FABRICATE features cutting-edge built work from both academia and practice, making it a unique event that attracts delegates from all over the world.
    Keywords: architecture ; design ; buildings ; bartlett ; 3D printing ; Geometry ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBG Engineering graphics and draughting / technical drawing ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TD Industrial chemistry and manufacturing technologies::TDP Other manufacturing technologies
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    Architecture: Integration of Art and Engineering (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The current Special Issue is a synthetic overview of 21 published articles. The contact point of architecture–art–engineering is multidimensional, and therefore, this synthesis of works takes into account three criteria: (a) research subject indication, (b) research problem identification, and (c) sublimation of the research techniques and instrumentality used. Research problems, scientific values, and utility values have been highlighted. This synthetic tripartite is intended to make it easier for the reader to find an interesting subject and instrumentality. As the topics of the articles overlap, guided by the dominant values of each article, five subject groups have been sublimated. These are: structural aspects and design, digitization, architectural heritage, aesthetics and emotions vs. engineering, and interior architecture. The characteristic values of each subject group are presented. The indicated new design and research tools do not separate but combine the subject industries; they connect the entities of the investment process.
    Keywords: cable-driven parallel robot ; construction robot ; cost–benefit analysis ; curtain wall modules ; economic evaluation ; facade installation ; contemporary architecture in historical context ; archetype ; bourgeois tenement house ; cultural heritage ; symbolic building ; corten plates ; tilted walls ; winter garden ; room acoustics ; reverberation time ; flutter echo ; art ; construction engineering ; cubature architecture ; design method ; design paradigms ; brutalist architecture ; odeons ; buildings ; membranes ; canopies ; sustainable environment ; open culture ; spaces ; evolution ; adaptation ; acoustics ; architecture ; interior design ; advanced building techniques ; interior components ; aesthetic functionalism ; sensorial experiences ; decline of architects ; future of designing ; computers control ; algorithms ; artificial intelligence ; digital simulation ; buildings’ outdoor thermal comfort ; urban neighborhoods ; UTCI ; conoid ; ellipse ; calculus of surface areas ; number psi ; number Pi ; parametric design ; modern architecture in East Asia ; architectural design ; László Hudec ; Antonin Raymond ; innovative architectural projects ; space syntax ; Asian traditions ; computational design ; corridors ; energy performance ; environmental behavior ; grasshopper ; Islamic pattern ; University of Sharjah ; visual comfort ; composition ; aesthetics ; multi-family housing ; Poland ; preferences ; color scheme ; elderly with depression ; color preference ; residential space ; interior experience ; multi-sensory experience ; movement ; sensory body ; emotion ; materiality ; creative thinking ; design studio ; design education ; design research ; bibliometric ; temporary installation ; architecture and structure ; structural design ; graphic statics ; lightweight structure ; global warming ; carbon neutrality ; energy use ; sustainable development ; Solar Decathlon China ; historic buildings ; public art ; sustainability value ; case studies and projects ; apparent destruction ; entropy ; technical durability ; aesthetical longevity ; glass ; glass structures ; structural glass ; glass pavilions ; glass extensions ; glass links ; informal learning space (ILS) ; visual perception analysis ; wearable eye tracker ; optimal design and verification ; building engineering ; research methods ; synthesis ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Modernist Women Poets (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: This Special Issue showcases poets who enhance the breadth of modernist literary practices. The cohering concept is a complex relationship to both gender and modernity through original experiments with language. Leading scholars explore writers who both fit and extend orthodox modernist histories: Marianne Moore, H.D., Edna St Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Katherine Mansfield, and Charlotte Mew were born around the cusp of the twentieth century and flourished during the 1920s and 1930s; Lynette Roberts, Helen Adam and Hope Mirrlees were contemporaries but publishing or recognition came later; the next generation can include Gwendolyn Brooks, Stevie Smith and Muriel Spark; Veronica Forrest-Thomson represents a third generation who published into the 1980s, while Frances Presley and M. NourbeSe Philip hinge this group with the contemporary poets Carol Watts and Natasha Trethewey, whose works continue and rejuvenate progressive stylistics. The essays offer new readings of both well-known and unfamiliar poets. They are truly groundbreaking in plundering diverse theoretical fields in ways that disturb any lingering notions of a homogenized women’s poetry. The authors supplant into literary poetic analysis notions of geometry and mathematics, maritime materialities, tourism and taxonomy, architecture, classicism, folk art, Christianity and death, whimsy and empathy.
    Keywords: H.D. ; Helen in Egypt ; Adorno ; late modernism ; epic ; avant-garde ; Gwendolyn Brooks ; architecture ; modernity ; Chicago ; Katherine Mansfield ; symbolism ; fin-de-siècle ; decadence ; modernism ; poetry ; Arthur Symons ; Stevie Smith ; T.S. Eliot ; The Waste Land ; Greek gods ; female protagonists ; Christianity ; suicide ; death ; Charlotte Mew ; Modernism ; empathy ; Edna St. Vincent Millay ; masculinity ; lyric ; drama ; verse drama ; gender ; genre ; race ; tourism ; taxonomy ; poetics ; Marianne Moore ; Natasha Trethewey ; Thomas Jefferson ; Scotland ; ballads ; kaleidoscope ; Charles Bernstein ; Edwin Morgan ; folk art ; Welsh Modernism ; Feminism ; nationalism ; ethnography ; geomodernisms ; modernist poetics ; Caribbean poetry ; Zong! ; M. NourbeSe Philip ; black poetry ; critical ocean studies ; multispecies ; materiality ; ecocriticism ; Moore ; Parker ; whimsy ; New York ; geometry ; place ; site-specific poetry ; mathematics ; metaphor ; Exmoor ; mid-Wales ; stone settings ; Zeta function ; prime numbers ; pastoral ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
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    Civil Engineering and Symmetry (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: A topic of utmost importance in civil engineering is finding optimal solutions throughout the life cycle of buildings and infrastructural objects, including their design, manufacturing, use, and maintenance. Operational research, management science, and optimization methods provide a consistent and applicable groundwork for engineering decision-making. These topics have received the interest of researchers and, after a rigorous peer-review process, eight papers have been published in this Special Issue. The articles in this Printed Edition demonstrate how solutions in civil engineering, which bring economic, social, and environmental benefits, are obtained through a variety of methodologies and tools. Usually, decision-makers need to take into account not just a single criterion, but several different criteria and, therefore, multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) approaches have been suggested for application in five of the published papers; the rest of the papers apply other research methods. Most approaches suggested decision models under uncertainty, proposing hybrid MCDM methods in combination with fuzzy or rough set theory, as well as D-numbers. The application areas of the proposed MCDM techniques mainly cover production/manufacturing engineering, logistics and transportation, and construction engineering and management. We hope that a summary of the Special Issue as provided here will encourage a detailed analysis of the papers included in the Printed Edition.〈false,〉
    Keywords: TA1-2040 ; T1-995 ; railway wagon ; rough sets ; Additive Ratio Assessment (ARAS) ; neural network ; cost estimation ; boarding/deboarding strategies ; optimisation ; multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) ; Step-Wise Weight Assessment Ratio Analysis (SWARA) ; ruled surface ; seat preference ; image processing ; risk management ; fuzzy sets ; supply chain ; Grasshopper ; experimental test ; parametric design ; rough Best–Worst Method (BWM) ; EDAS ; artificial neural networks ; 3D modelling ; civil engineering ; shovel machine ; interval-valued fuzzy Additive Ratio Assessment ; airplane turn time ; oil and gas well drilling projects ; MCDM ; roof shell ; consistent fuzzy preference relation (CFPR) ; DEMATEL ; tool-flank-wear monitoring ; analytical network process (ANP) ; logistics ; multi criteria decision making ; internal transport ; conceptual design ; hybrid MCDM ; structural analysis ; D number ; construction ; architecture ; multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) ; performance evaluation ; rough number ; construction project risk ; multi-attributive border approximation area comparison (MABAC) ; finite element method (FEM) ; manufacturing engineering ; transportation ; experimental testing ; hybrid model ; flexible manufacturing ; rough Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) ; D numbers ; multivariate regression ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Architecture and Engineering (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The book is addressed to architects and civil engineers. Design and research are areas connecting their activities. The contents of the book confirm the fact that the interface between architecture and engineering is multidimensional. The ways of finding points of contact between the two industries are highlighted. This is favored by the dynamically changing reality, supported by new design paradigms and new research techniques. The multithreaded subject matter of the articles is reduced to six sections: Research Scopes, Methods, Design Aspects, Context, Nature of Research, and Economy and Cost Calculation. Each of the articles in these six blocks has its weight. And so, in the Nature of Research section, the following areas have been underscored: laboratory tests, in situ research, field investigations, and street perception experiments. The section Design Aspects includes design-oriented thinking, geometrical forms, location of buildings, cost prediction, attractor and distractor elements, and shaping spatial structures. The new design and research tools are an inspiration and a keystone bonding architects and engineers.
    Keywords: high-rise buildings ; development ; geometrical forms ; structural system ; advanced materials ; damping systems ; sustainability ; sustainable smart city ; architect ; image of the city ; participatory design ; body of the building ; facades ; roofs ; built environment ; design thinking method ; multi-criteria decision-making ; multi-criteria decision analysis ; fuzzy AHP ; sustainable development ; design solutions ; concrete performance ; concrete durability ; EIPI method ; waste copper slag ; natural radioactivity ; cost estimates ; construction costs ; bridge construction projects ; machine learning ; support vector machines ; regression ; technical condition ; performance characteristics ; prediction ; degree of wear ; building information modeling ; BIM ; construction management ; SWOT ; eye tracking ; visual perception ; the architecture of Cologne ; case study ; application in architecture and management ; assembly works ; computer planning ; Monte Carlo method ; selection ; construction ; application ; a curvilinear structure ; a hyperbolic paraboloid ; shaping structures ; structural optimization ; parametric design ; genetic algorithms ; multi-objective optimization ; topology ; Grasshopper ; FEM ; steel trusses ; semi-rigid joints ; RHS braces ; H-section chords ; overlapped joints ; resistance of welds ; Kraków Zabłocie ; Podolski Boulevard ; development of riverside embankment ; downtown riverside areas ; urban local centre ; community ; historical context ; multifunctional complex ; living environment quality ; spatial location conditions ; air pollution ; urban ventilation ; EU subsidies targeting environmental quality improvement ; masonry structures ; stiffening walls ; wall joints ; connectors ; bed joint reinforcement ; design for circularity ; design support tools ; circular construction ; circular economy ; architecture ; architectural design ; photovoltaic modules in architecture ; green building ; benefits of BIM ; public construction clients ; project outcomes ; engineering ; design paradigms ; research methods ; circular building ; spatial structures ; design-oriented thinking ; MCDM ; SVM ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Experiments with Body Agent Architecture (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Experiments with Body Agent Architecture puts forward the notion of body agents: non-ideal, animate and highly specific figures integrated with design to enact particular notions of embodied subjectivity in architecture. Body agents present opportunities for architects to increase imaginative and empathic qualities in their designs, particularly amidst a posthuman condition. Beginning with narrative writing from the viewpoint of a body agent, an estranged ‘quattrocento spiritello’ who finds himself uncomfortably inhabiting a digital milieu (or, as the spiritello calls it, ‘Il Regno Digitale’), the book combines speculative historical fiction and original design experiments. It focuses on the process of creating the multi-media design experiments, moving from the design of the body itself as an original prosthetic to architectural proposals emanating from the body. A fragmented history of the figure in architecture is charted and woven into the designs, with chapters examining Michelangelo’s enigmatic figures in his drawings for the New Sacristy in the early sixteenth century, Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s physically ephemeral ‘putti’ adorning chapels and churches in the seventeenth century, and Austrian artist-architect Walter Pichler’s personal and prescient figures of the twentieth century.
    Keywords: architecture ; figurines ; design ; Renaissance ; Baroque ; Modernism ; architectural theory ; built environment ; architect ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art ; thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6R Styles (R)::6RC Renaissance style ; thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6B Styles (B)::6BA Baroque ; thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6M Styles (M)::6MC Modernism ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design
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    Indoor Environment Quality and Health in Energy-Efficient Buildings (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: This Special Issue addresses a topic that is of great relevance as, nowadays, in developed countries, individuals spend most of their time indoors and, depending on each person, the presence at home ranges between 60% and 90% of the day, with 30% of that time spent sleeping. Considering these data, indoor residential environments have a direct influence on human health, especially considering that, in developing countries, significant levels of indoor pollution make housing unsafe, having an impact on the health of inhabitants. Therefore, housing is a key health factor for people all over the world, and various parameters, such as air quality, ventilation, hygrothermal comfort, lighting, physical environment, and building efficiency, can contribute to healthy architecture, as well as to the conditions that can result from the poor application of these parameters. The articles in this Special Issue thus address issues concerning indoor environmental quality (IEQ), which is described, more simply, as the conditions inside a building. This includes air quality, but also access to daylight and views, pleasant acoustic conditions, and occupant control over lighting and thermal comfort. IEQ also includes the functional aspects of the space, such as whether the layout provides easy access to tools and people when needed and whether there is sufficient space for the occupants. Building managers and operators can increase building occupant satisfaction by considering all aspects of IEQ rather than focusing on temperature or air quality alone.
    Keywords: indoor air quality ; thermal comfort ; airtightness ; natural ventilation ; educational buildings ; thermal insulation ; sustainable materials ; fique ; thermal conductivity ; thermogravimetry ; green architecture ; urban heat island ; microclimate ; feed-forward neural networks ; air temperature measurements ; in-situ measurements ; urban models ; urban environment ; climate change ; COVID-19 ; MgO-based cement ; sustainability ; energy efficiency ; architecture ; building evaluation ; functional adequacy ; human-centered ; IEQ ; learning space ; place attachment ; social interaction ; social participation ; sustainable building ; quality air ; epidemiology ; data analysis ; statistics ; nursing homes ; geopolymer ; fly ash ; basalt fiber ; basalt waste aggregate ; mechanical properties ; lean manufacturing ; modular construction ; sustainability architecture ; efficient buildings ; lean construction ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general
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    St Peter-On-The-Wall (2023)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: The Chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, built on the ruins of a Roman fort, dates from the mid-seventh century and is one of the oldest largely intact churches in England. It stands in splendid isolation on the shoreline at the mouth of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex, where the land meets and interpenetrates with the sea and the sky. This book brings together contributors from across the arts, humanities and social sciences to uncover the pre-modern contexts and modern resonances of this medieval building and its landscape setting. The impetus for this collection was the recently published designs for a new nuclear power station at Bradwell on Sea, which, if built, would have a significant impact on the chapel and its landscape setting. St Peter-on-the-Wall highlights the multiple ways in which the chapel and landscape are historically and archaeologically significant, while also drawing attention to the modern importance of Bradwell as a place of Christian worship, of sanctuary and of cultural production. In analysing the significance of the chapel and surrounding landscape over more than a thousand years, this collection additionally contributes to wider debates about the relationship between space and place, and particularly the interfaces between both medieval and modern cultures and also heritage and the natural environment.
    Keywords: archaeology;Britain;history;Essex;St Peter-on-the-Wall;chapel;Christian history;religion ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology::NKD Archaeology by period / region ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture addresses hospital architecture as a set of interlocked, overlapping spatial and social conditions. It identifies ways that planned-for and latent functions of hospital spaces work jointly to produce desired outcomes such as greater patient safety, increased scope for care provider communication and more intelligible corridors. By advancing space syntax theory and methods, the volume brings together emerging research on hospital environments. Opening with a description of hospital architecture that emphasizes everyday relations, the sequence of chapters takes an unusually comprehensive view that pairs spaces and occupants in hospitals: the patient room and its intervisibility with adjacent spaces, care teams and on-ward support for, and the intelligibility of public circulation spaces for visitors. The final chapter moves outside the hospital to describe the current healthcare crisis of the global pandemic as it reveals how healthcare institutions must evolve to be adaptable in entirely new ways. Reflective essays by practicing designers follow each chapter, bringing perspectives from professional practice into the discussion. The Covert Life of Hospital Architecture makes the case that latent dimensions of space as experienced have a surprisingly strong link to measurable outcomes, providing new insights into how to better design hospitals through principles that have been tested empirically. It will become a reference for healthcare planners, designers, architects and administrators, as well as for readers from sociology, psychology and other areas of the social sciences.
    Keywords: architecture ; health ; hospitals ; space syntax ; urban studies ; planning ; built environment ; urban ; hospital architecture ; patient safety ; COVID-19 ; healthcare institutions ; building design ; healthcare planners ; healthcare administrators ; sociology ; psychology ; social sciences. ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMG Architecture: public, commercial and industrial buildings ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy
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    Advances in Textile Structural Composites (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-07
    Description: The direction of fiber orientation plays a crucial role in deciding the mechanical performance of textile structural composites. Unlike conventional composite materials, geometrically oriented textile structures, e.g., woven, knitted, and braided constructions, can be designed and developed for load bearing in a particular direction. Their properties can be enhanced by modifying the geometry and material composition. One major challenge in producing textile structural composites with superior mechanical properties at a reasonably lower price is cost effective prepreg. Composites constructed from reinforcement having a well-defined geometry perform better than randomly oriented fibers at a reasonable cost. Their flex fatigue is superior to conventional preforms in specific applications. This Special Issue invites research as well as review articles dealing with different types of (2D, 3D, multiaxial) woven, knitted, and braided structures for load bearing structural composite applications. Use of industrial multifilament yarns of pure and hybrid composition in textile geometrical reinforcement structures can also be included. The methods of impregnation of such structures by thermoplastic and thermoset resins should be described. The superior performance in such structural composites must be highlighted. Methods of characterizing woven, knitted, and braided textile reinforced composites is the focus of this issue. Current and future applications of advanced textile structural composites can be summarized in the submitted articles. Theoretical (computational, numerical simulation etc.) as well as experimental work can be submitted with sufficient scientific innovation.
    Keywords: hybrid composite ; polyester waste fiber ; olive root fiber ; coir pith filler ; building materials ; mixture design analysis ; recycled cotton ; glass ; hollow knitted composite ; compression ; flexural modulus ; impact energy ; quasi-static test ; cyclic fatigue ; wavy-lap bond ; natural cotton fabric ; polymer composite ; mechanical properties ; service life ; safety ; SEM ; pressure-actuated cellular structure ; shape morphing ; compliant mechanism ; anisotropic flexure hinges ; textile-reinforced polymer composite ; integrally woven structure ; resin ; glass cloth ; substrate ; glass transition temperature ; surface finish ; pad cratering ; thermal resistance ; textile structural composite ; 3D weaving ; hollow structure ; spacer fabric ; woven honeycomb ; sandwich ; waste cotton ; impact ; flexural rigidity ; hybrid woven reinforcement ; preforming ; carbon-Kevlar ; epoxy resin ; add-on (%) ; amount of hardener (%) ; curing temperature ; curing time ; molding pressure ; fiber composites ; FRP ; architecture ; architectured materials ; hysteresis ; auxetic ; non-Newtonian fluids ; low-velocity impact ; personal protection ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Drawing Futures (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Drawing Futures brings together international designers and artists for speculations in contemporary drawing for art and architecture. Despite numerous developments in technological manufacture and computational design that provide new grounds for designers, the act of drawing still plays a central role as a vehicle for speculation. There is a rich and long history of drawing tied to innovations in technology as well as to revolutions in our philosophical understanding of the world. Drawing Futures focuses on the discussion of how the field of drawing may expand synchronously alongside technological and computational developments. The book coincides with an international conference of the same name, taking place at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in November 2016. Bringing together practitioners from many creative fields, the book discusses how drawing is changing in relation to new technologies for the production and dissemination of ideas.
    Keywords: drawing ; technology ; architecture ; art ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UY Computer science::UYZ Human–computer interaction::UYZG User interface design and usability
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    New Islamic Urbanism (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New Islamic Urbanism’ constitutes for some an important element of piety. For others, it enables alternative ways of life, indulgence in banned social practices, and the formation of both publics and counterpublics.
    Keywords: Saudi Arabia ; architecture ; anthropology ; Islam ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam::QRPP Islamic life and practice ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam::QRPP Islamic life and practice ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy
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    Encyclopedia of ZEMCH Research and Development (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-08-08
    Description: The concept of the ‘Zero Energy Mass Custom Home’ or ZEMCH is emerging with the aim of exploring opportunities to make our built environment more socially, economically, environmentally, and humanly sustainable. The built environment is indeed a system of energy and environment that is occupied by the masses, embracing diverse cultural and economic backgrounds. Today, the United Nations articulates the 17 Sustainable Development Goals that reflect necessary global actions for humanity and the planet. In view of these agendas, the delivery of built environments is becoming more demanding and complex than ever, and it is now required that developers accommodate the social, economic, environmental, and human dimensions of these sustainability challenges. This volume encompasses a wide spectrum of ZEMCH research and development knowledge that concerns design engineering, construction management, material innovation, renewable energy technology, and community planning.
    Keywords: sustainable ; architecture ; Zero Energy Mass Custom Homes (ZEMCH) ; energy ; efficiency ; forecasting ; ethics ; climate change ; log burning ; natural ventilation ; solar chimney ; Trombe wall ; renewable energy ; passive ventilation ; building application ; energy management ; green building performance ; office building ; SEM-PLS ; domestic environment ; occupant experience ; environmental design ; health and wellbeing ; housing production ; low-cost ; design quality ; social housing ; government programs ; post-occupancy ; healthy environments ; mass customization ; age-friendly ; active ageing ; ageing in place ; walkability ; bikeability ; accessibility ; BREEAM ; CASBEE ; Green Star ; LEED ; multi-criteria assessment ; sustainable building ; degrowth ; post-growth ; built environment ; sustainability transformations ; wood ; additional floor construction ; sustainability ; Finland ; (summer) cottage ; second home ; (summer) villa ; holiday home ; urban regeneration ; phytoremediation ; Bagnoli former area ; thermal bridge ; sustainable architecture ; finite element modeling ; energy performance ; heat transfer ; heat equation ; simulation ; computational design ; thermal modeling ; computational methods ; bio-based material ; construction ; environment ; circular economy ; life cycle ; behavioural factors ; developing and developed countries ; domestic sector ; electricity use per capita ; energy subsidy ; Iran ; Passivhaus ; ZEMCH ; affordable housing ; synergies ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering & technology
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    Eco-Friendly Wood Composites: Design, Characterization and Applications (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: Traditional wood composites are produced with synthetic, formaldehyde-based adhesives, commonly made from fossil-derived constituents, such as urea, phenol, melamine, etc. Along with their undisputable advantages, these adhesives are characterized by certain problems, connected with the emission of hazardous volatile organic compounds (VOCs), including free formaldehyde emission from the finished wood composites, which is carcinogenic to humans and harmful to the environment. The growing environmental concerns, connected with the adoption of circular economy principles, and the new, stricter legislative requirements for the emission of harmful VOCs, e.g., free formaldehyde, from wood composites, have posed new challenges to researchers and industrial practice, related to the development of sustainable, eco-friendly wood composites, optimization of the available lignocellulosic raw materials, and use of alternative resources. This reprint presents a collection of 10 high-quality original research and review papers providing examples of the most recent advances and technological developments in the fabrication, design, characteristics, and applications of eco-friendly wood and wood-based composites.
    Keywords: max stress ; Tsai-Wu ; Tsai-Hill ; Puck ; Hoffman ; Hashin ; failure criteria ; beech ; finite element modelling ; composites ; biomaterials ; bio-composites ; bio design ; mycelium-based composites ; biopolymers ; interior design ; architecture ; wood ; mycelium ; fungi ; patent documents ; advanced biocomposites ; natural fibers ; green flame retardants ; fire retardancy ; product safety ; acid precipitation ; single and fractionation step ; kraft lignin ; physical and chemical properties ; A. mangium black liquor ; antibacterial ; biocomposite ; mechanical properties ; poly (lactic acid) ; wood leachate ; wood-based panels ; fiberboards ; adhesive system ; hydrolysis lignin ; phenol–formaldehyde resin ; optimization ; hot-pressing ; birch outer bark ; suberinic acids ; particle boards ; Gigantochloa pruriens ; chemical properties ; physical and mechanical properties ; wood-based composites ; particleboard ; thermoplastic starch ; Arenga pinnata ; modification ; benzoyl peroxide ; twin-screw extruder ; coating ; heat treatment ; nanotechnology ; nanosilver ; permeability ; porous structure ; solid wood ; thermal modification ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Fabricate 2011 (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: FABRICATE is an international peer reviewed conference that takes place every three years with a supporting publication on the theme of Digital Fabrication. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE brings together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Discussion on key themes includes: how digital fabrication technologies are enabling new creative and construction opportunities from component to building scales, the difficult gap that exists between digital modelling and its realisation, material performance and manipulation, off-site and on-site construction, interdisciplinary education, economic and sustainable contexts. FABRICATE features cutting-edge built work from both academia and practice, making it a unique event that attracts delegates from all over the world.
    Keywords: architecture ; design ; buildings ; bartlett ; Facade ; Geometry ; Numerical control ; Prototype ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBG Engineering graphics and draughting / technical drawing ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TD Industrial chemistry and manufacturing technologies::TDP Other manufacturing technologies
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    Fabricate (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Bringing together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation, Fabricate is a triennial international conference, now in its third year (ICD, University of Stuttgart, April 2017). Each year it produces a supporting publication, to date the only one of its kind specialising in Digital Fabrication. The 2017 edition features 32 illustrated articles on built projects and works in progress from academia and practice, including contributions from leading practices such as Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup, and Ron Arad, and from world-renowned institutions including ICD Stuttgart, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton University, The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the Architectural Association.
    Keywords: technology ; design ; architecture ; bartlett ; 3D printing ; Concrete ; Fibre-reinforced plastic ; Geometry ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFF Drawing and drawings ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBG Engineering graphics and draughting / technical drawing
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    Heritage Patterns—Representative Models (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: The Heritage Patterns—Representative Models issue of Heritage welcomed twelve articles that discussed traditional and contemporary methodologies, as well as scholars from different backgrounds who intended to seek patterns of tangible heritage and its underlying principles to understand the diversity of heritage approaches. The Special Issue aims to research the patterns in heritage and the underlying rules that define tangible heritage as a universal value in spatial coexistence, economics, urban life, and design via case studies and theoretical proposals that could be implemented in the future. The pattern language and the heritage phenomenon could act as a base of observation to deduct logic and create generative algorithms (generative design); to understand the importance of spatial connection with tangible heritage and urban forms (space syntax, urban morphology, and urban morphometrics) and its visibility; as well as archaeological, architectural, and urban heritage. Based on the UNESCO-ICOMOS doctrines and the examination of morphological regions, urban morphological research and its different layers (urban forms, structural components, built environment, urban tissue, and their interaction) act as a background and foundation for general urban heritage conservation and protection proposals, and also as the base of specific interventions in the built environment caused by natural disasters.
    Keywords: urban morphology ; historico-geographical ; town plan ; preservation ; design guidelines ; conservation ; heritage ; urban form ; town-plan ; streets ; plots ; block-plans of buildings ; New York ; urban planning ; pattern language ; generative modelling ; Vienna ; Austria-Hungary ; Barnet ; suburban centres ; spatial morphology ; heritage syntax urbanism ; community heritage ; tangible heritage ; intangible heritage ; space syntax ; cultural heritage ; industrial landscape planning ; industrial landscape ; post-industrial landscape ; industrial tourism ; industrial heritage ; spatial layout ; spatial distribution ; spatial structure ; mapping ; surveying ; indigenous place values ; colonisation ; Michel de Certeau ; lost landscapes ; design reparation ; architecture ; healing architecture ; ergonomics ; community building ; ecology ; architecture for children ; low-tech ; universal design ; vernacular architecture ; regionalism ; visibility analysis ; isovist ; field of view ; urban heritage ; built environment ; Istanbul ; architectural heritage ; spatial distribution characteristics ; influencing factors ; UNESCO heritage ; heritage protection ; urban history ; urban design of 19th century ; system of public squares and city parks ; Zagreb ; Croatia ; urban block ; urban transformation ; urban reconstruction ; historical core ; sustainable urbanisation ; liveable urbanism ; evidence-based design ; Asian cities ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This book comprises six papers published in the Special Issue “Environmental and Economic Evaluations of Building Energy Retrofits”. The six papers each adopt different perspectives in investigating building energy retrofit practices in Hong Kong, Poland, the Netherlands, Finland, and Italy. The target of the studies includes campus buildings, renovation options for modernist housing estates, green building certification schemes, practitioners’ views and practices, and energy system performance.
    Keywords: building energy performance ; building energy retrofits ; green building certification ; transaction costs ; agency theory ; incentives ; facility management ; KPI ; refurbishment ; renovation ; retrofit ; survey ; building energy system optimization ; renewable energy retrofit ; life cycle emission ; building energy retrofitting ; building information modelling (BIM) ; energy performance evaluation ; BREEAM-NL ; energy transition ; RACI matrix ; LCOH ; life-cycle cost ; heating ; cooling ; heat pump ; fossil fuel ; biomass ; greenhouse gas ; architecture ; “Renovation Wave” ; energy-efficiency ; CO2 emissions ; well-being ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Religion meant far more in early modern England than church on Sundays, a baptism, a funeral or a wedding ceremony. The Church was fully enmeshed in the everyday lives of the people; in particular, their morals and religious observance. The Church imposed comprehensive regulations on its flock, such as sex before marriage, adultery and receiving the sacrament, and it employed an army of informers and bureaucrats, headed by a diocesan chancellor, to enable its courts to enforce the rules. Church courts lay, thus, at the very intersection of Church and people. The courts of the seventeenth century – when ‘a cyclonic shattering’ produced a ‘great overturning of everything in England’ – have, surprisingly, had to wait until now for scrutiny. Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England offers a detailed survey of three dioceses across the whole of the century, examining key aspects such as attendance at court, completion of business and, crucially, the scale of guilt to test the performance of the courts. While the study will capture the interest of lawyers to clergymen, or from local historians to sociologists, its primary appeal will be to researchers in the field of Church history. For students and researchers of the seventeenth century, it provides a full account of court operations, measuring the extent of control, challenging orthodoxies about excommunication, penance and juries, contextualising ecclesiastical justice within major societal issues of the times and, ultimately, presents powerful evidence for a ‘church in danger’ by the end of the century.
    Keywords: history;religion;justice;seventeenth century;Early Modern England;church;dioceses;religious courts;religious history;English history;CHURCH COURTS;CONSISTORY COURTS;CANON LAW;EX OFFICIO OATH;PENANCE;EXCOMMUNICATION;JURIES;BASTARDY;ADULTERY;FORNICATION;INCEST;CLANDESTINE MARRIAGE;RECUSANCY;DISSENT;UNIFORMITY;TOLERATION ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAX History of religion ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVP Religious life and practice ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVS Religious institutions and organizations ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFR Religious and theocratic ideologies ; thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAZ Legal history
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    Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground (2023)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Architecture in Dialogue with an Activated Ground sets out to validate the role of the unreasonable in the design process. Using case study projects, architect Urs Bette gives an insight into the epistemological processes of his creative practice, and unveils the strategies he deploys in order to facilitate the poetic aspects of architecture within a discourse whose evaluation parameters predominantly involve reason. Themes discussed include the emergence of space from the staged opposition between the architectural object and the site, and the relationship between emotive cognition and analytic synthesis in the design act. In both cases, there is a necessary engagement with forms of ‘unreasonable’ thought, action or behaviours.
    Keywords: design ; architecture ; space ; form ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture
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    Suburban Urbanities (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-29
    Description: Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth. Anchored in the architectural research discipline of space syntax, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change, touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges, with a particular focus on suburban centres. Studies of the high street as a centre for social, economic and cultural exchange provide evidence for its critical role in sustaining local centres over time. Contributors from the architecture, urban design, geography, history and anthropology disciplines examine cases spanning Europe and around the Mediterranean. By linking large-scale city mapping, urban design scale expositions of high street activity and local-scale ethnographies, the book underscores the need to consider suburban space on its own terms as a specific and complex field of social practice.
    Keywords: suburbs ; urban studies ; planning ; architecture ; Built environment ; Islington ; London ; Space syntax ; Surbiton ; Upper Street ; bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
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    Design for London (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: Design for London was a unique experiment in urban planning, design and strategic thinking. Set up in 2006 by Mayor Ken Livingstone and his Architectural Advisor, Richard Rogers, the brief for the team was ‘to think about London, what made London unique and how it could be made better’. Sitting within London government but outside its formal statutory responsibilities, it was given freedom to question and challenge. The team had no power or money, but it did have the licence to operate without the usual constraints of government. With introductions from Ken Livingstone and Richard Rogers, Design for London covers the tumultuous and heady period of the first decade of this century when London was a test bed for new ideas. It outlines how key projects such as the London Olympics, public space programmes, high street regeneration and greening programmes were managed, critically examines the lessons that might be learnt in strategic urban design and considers how a design agenda for London could be developed in the future. By providing an engaging account of the strategic approaches and work of Design for London, and documenting the particular methodology and approach to urban theory it developed, Design for London will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students of planning, urban design and architecture, and to current practitioners from the public, private and community sectors who are struggling to achieve regeneration through poorly understood ‘placemaking’ concepts.
    Keywords: London ; design ; urban planning ; Richard Rogers ; Ken Livingstone ; public space ; Olympics 2012 ; high street regeneration ; greening programmes ; urban studies ; architecture ; built environment ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects
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    Encyclopedia of Engineering (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Encyclopedia of Engineering aims at providing a collection of entries concerning several fields of Engineering Sciences. The reprint provides a historical overview, starting from the investigation of Mechanics and Science in Ancient Greece and showing their evolution over time. The topical collection focuses on Civil, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering providing basic concepts as well as novel trends in modeling, design and construction of engineering systems, structures, and materials. Special attention is also given to the recent developments and achievements in the framework of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.
    Keywords: ball burnishing ; acoustoplasticity ; vibration-assistance ; surface integrity ; surface topology ; classical mechanics ; fundaments ; history ; epistemology ; analytical mechanics ; nanoparticles ; colloidal solutions ; electrical charging ; self-polarization ; mixed-electrode ; particle growth ; particle interaction ; machine learning ; supervised learning ; unsupervised learning ; reinforcement learning ; additive manufacturing ; design for additive manufacturing ; additive manufacturing process ; additive manufacturing monitoring ; limits of nanotechnology ; nanofacility shrinking ; modularity ; sustainability ; hierarchical organization ; entropy export ; time scales ; life cycles ; non-thermal extraction ; bioactive compounds ; nanoencapsulation ; ultrasound ; cold plasma ; high-pressure processing ; supercritical extraction ; pulse electric field ; speed ; infrastructure ; rolling stock ; in-cab signaling system ; absence of level crossing ; approach alignment ; outer radius ; circulatory roadway ; apron ; splitter island ; roundabout entry ; roundabout exit ; longitudinal slope ; smart factory ; cloud computing ; fog computing ; edge computing ; knowledge integration ; knowledge management ; data analytics ; text analytics ; knowledge graph ; high carbon steel wire ; reinforcing material ; automobile tire ; steel cord ; bead wire ; drawing ; patenting ; brass-plated wire ; laying ; cooling systems ; turbine casings ; Active Clearance Control ; silicon micro-strips ; tracker detectors ; positioning algorithms ; least-squares method ; track reconstructions ; natural hazards ; disasters ; global impacts ; disaster management ; built environment ; GNSS ; ionosphere ; remote sensing ; catalysis ; buildings ; heat pumps ; dehumidification ; carbon capture ; emissions ; indoor air quality ; cogeneration ; non-precious metals ; photo-catalysis ; electrocatalysis ; aircraft icing ; aircraft safety ; computational fluid dynamics ; OpenFOAM ; data-driven modeling ; offsite manufacturing ; inter-modular connections ; Design for Manufacturing and Assembly (DfMA) ; structural design ; modularisation ; modular construction ; panelised construction ; connection design—worked example ; design for transportation ; lifting and handling ; mechanics ; mathematics ; natural philosophy ; Aristotle ; Euclid ; flywheel energy storage ; high-speed rotors ; mechanical design ; manufacturing ; analytical modeling ; failure prediction ; decision matrix ; tsunami alert ; tsunami awareness ; tsunami efficiency ; tsunami hazard ; tsunami messages ; tsunami preparedness ; tsunami ready ; tsunami risk ; tsunami warning ; polyelectrolyte microcapsules ; decapsulation ; controlled release ; infilled RC frames ; nonstructural elements ; earthquake damages ; macro-models ; seismic behavior ; two-lane highways ; rural ; passing ; platooning ; access ; mobility ; low-volume roads ; desiccation cracking ; hydromechanical coupling ; unsaturated soil mechanics ; release node technique ; urban transportation ; transportation demand management ; electrification of urban transportation ; intelligent transportation system ; transit-oriented development (TOD) ; GNSS-RTN ; real-time network ; highly accurate geospatial data ; transportation ; tall buildings ; gravity-load systems ; lateral-load systems ; shear walls ; bracings ; rigid frames ; structural systems charts ; tube structures ; core-outrigger systems ; interior and exterior systems ; solar architecture ; energy engineering ; solar solution ; application category ; application group ; solar surface ; energy conversion ; energy harvesting ; energy losses ; solar irradiation ; life cycle assessment ; balance ; carbon ; cost ; return on investment ; road markings ; road signs ; road safety ; traffic control devices ; road infrastructure ; maintenance ; rehabilitation ; sewer history ; sewer system ; architecture ; biology ; bioinspiration ; biomimetics ; biomimicry ; interdisciplinarity ; analogical design process ; nonlocal continuum mechanics ; nanostructures ; integral elasticity ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: Italy and the UK experienced a radical re-organisation of urban space following the devastation of many towns and cities in the Second World War. The need to rebuild led to an intellectual and cultural exchange between a wave of talented architects, urbanists and architectural historians in the two countries. Post-war Architecture between Italy and the UK studies this exchange, exploring how the connections and mutual influences contributed to the formation of a distinctive stance towards Internationalism, notwithstanding the countries’ contrasting geographic and climatic conditions, levels of economic and industrial development, and social structures. Topics discussed in the volume include the influence of Italian historic town centres on British modernist and Brutalist architectural approaches to the design of housing and university campuses as public spaces; post-war planning concepts such as the precinct; the tensions between British critics and Italian architects that paved the way for British postmodernism; and the role of architectural education as a melting pot of mutual influence. It draws on a wealth of archival and original materials to present insights into the personal relationships, publications, exhibitions and events that provided the crucible for the dissemination of ideas and typologies across cultural borders. Offering new insights into the transcultural aspects of European architectural history in the post-war years, and its legacy, this volume is vital reading for architectural and urban historians, planners and students, as well as social historians of the European post-war period.
    Keywords: architecture ; urban planning ; Italy:UK ; postwar ; cultural exchange ; built environment ; urban studies ; Architectur ; urbanism ; Italy ; UK ; architect ; building ; urban design ; town ; city ; planning ; town planning ; architectural criticism ; Welfare state ; post-war ; reconstruction ; historic centre ; exhibition ; magazine ; CIAM ; Team X ; AA ; Abercrombie ; New Towns. ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy
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    Global Goods and the Country House (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-01
    Description: Global goods were central to the material culture of eighteenth-century country houses. Across Europe, mahogany furniture, Chinese wallpapers and Indian textiles formed the backdrop to genteel practices of drinking sweetened coffee, tea and chocolate from Chinese porcelain. They tied these houses and their wealthy owners into global systems of supply and the processes of colonialism and empire. Global Goods and the Country House builds on these narratives, and then challenges them by decentring our perspective. It offers a comparative framework that explores the definition, ownership and meaning of global goods outside the usual context of European imperial powers. What were global goods and what did they mean for wealthy landowners in places at the ‘periphery’ of Europe (Sweden and Wallachia), in the British colonies of North America and the Caribbean, or in the extra-colonial context (Japan or Rajasthan)? By addressing these questions, this volume offers fresh insights into the multi-directional flow of goods and cultures that enmeshed the eighteenth-century world. And by placing these goods in their specific material context - from the English country house to the princely palaces of Rajasthan - we gain a better understanding of their use and meaning, and of their role in linking the global and the local.
    Keywords: eighteenth century;global trade;object-based learning;empires;trade routes ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    Fonthill Recovered (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
    Keywords: wiltshire ; fonthill abbey ; architecture ; country house ; London ; William Beckford (novelist) ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AB The arts: general topics::ABC Conservation, restoration and care of artworks ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMX History of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GL Library and information sciences / Museology::GLZ Museology and heritage studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building::TNK Building construction and materials::TNKX Conservation of buildings and building materials ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGA History of art ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MG 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3ML 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 ; thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6B Styles (B)::6BA Baroque ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MN 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899 ; thema EDItEUR::6 Style qualifiers::6R Styles (R)::6RA Romanticism ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999
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    Fabricate 2020 (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Fabricate 2020 is the fourth title in the FABRICATE series on the theme of digital fabrication and published in conjunction with a triennial conference (London, April 2020). The book features cutting-edge built projects and work-in-progress from both academia and practice. It brings together pioneers in design and making from across the fields of architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation. Fabricate 2020 includes 32 illustrated articles punctuated by four conversations between world-leading experts from design to engineering, discussing themes such as drawing-to-production, behavioural composites, robotic assembly, and digital craft.
    Keywords: design ; architecture ; construction ; engineering ; Bartlett ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture
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    Engineering of Smart Agriculture (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: This Special Issue presents an extract from the reality of smart agriculture, where the combination of modern technologies, innovative solutions, and sustainable approaches to food production classifies this part of science as highly interdisciplinary, multifaceted, and technologically advanced. The need to increase productivity, optimize natural resources, and minimize environmental impact requires new approaches. In this context, smart agriculture is emerging as a solution that combines technology, data, and science to achieve sustainable, efficient, and innovative food production. This Special Issue introduces the field of smart farming, which encompasses a range of advanced technologies. The use of these tools allows for the monitoring and optimization of crop conditions, precise fertilization, the minimization of water and energy usage, and the improvement of crop quality and quantity. In addition, plant monitoring systems are described, which, by means of sensors and data analysis, provide farmers with valuable information about plant health, soil moisture, temperature, and other factors affecting crop growth. A significant part of this monograph deals with the automation of agricultural processes, where robots and machines undertake tasks with high precision and accuracy, contributing to the farmer’s efficiency. This Special Issue aims not only to provide an understanding of smart agriculture but to also inspire the reader to think about the future of agriculture and the ways in which modern food production methods can be improved.
    Keywords: recirculating aquaculture system ; variable-flow regulation model ; circulating pump-drum filter linkage working technique ; machine learning methods ; gene algorithm support vector machine ; controlled environment agriculture ; digital twin ; productivity ; architecture ; optimization ; NDVI ; image processing ; SURF ; SIFT ; SVM ; BP algorithm ; performance ; sweet pepper ; deep neural network ; sprouts ; stimulation with a pulsed magnetic field ; micro and macro components ; ICP-OES ; ground pressure ; paddy soil ; seeding skateboard ; internet of things ; wireless measurement system ; calcium ; magnesium ; phosphorus ; potassium ; copper ; iron ; manganese ; sodium ; zinc ; wild leafy vegetables ; real-time kinematic (RTK) ; precision agriculture ; ISO standard ; global positioning system (GPS) ; GLONASS ; agricultural tractor ; Korean ginseng ; root-rot-disease ; plant segmentation ; deep learning ; Spodoptera frugiperda ; convolutional neural network ; corn insect ; electrical fields ; magnetic fields ; high-voltage electric field ; growth of fruits ; ripening of fruits ; shelf life of fruits ; fungicide resistance ; PCR ; broad-spectrum fungicides ; Fusarium solani ; toxicity ; asymmetric machine-tractor unit ; motion ; stability ; resistance coefficients ; amplitude-frequency characteristic ; phase-frequency characteristic ; quality parameters ; firmness ; total soluble solid ; titratable acidity ; dry matter ; respiration rate ; apple fruit ; model predictive control ; energy management system ; renewable energy ; smart irrigation ; agriculture 4.0 ; maize bulk ; kernel breakage ; vertical pressure ; deformation ; heat production ; sustainable ; agriculture ; rural ; mobile internet technology ; bivariate probit model ; agricultural modernization ; Pakistan ; wheat ; smart ; Zea mays ; stalk diseases ; crop rotation ; stubble ; suppressive soils ; biomass combustion ; broadleaved tree ; pulsed electric field ; calorific value ; UV-C radiation ; stress response ; mechanical properties ; stimulation ; potato tuber ; CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) ; terminal velocity ; winnowing machine separation ; chili pepper harvester ; water and fertilizer integration ; pH adjustment ; BP-PID-Smith algorithm ; estimated compensation ; convolutional neural networks ; MATLAB ; hybrid system ; mobile application ; aeration ; airflow resistance ; pore volume ; semi-empirical modelling ; self-compaction ; spatial and temporal ; energy ; environmental contamination ; lettuce ; life cycle assessment ; winter wheat ; leaf greenness index (SPAD) ; protein ; photosynthesis ; nitrogen ; smart agriculture ; weed management ; crop productivity ; computer vision ; analytical procedure ; forklift truck ; interchangeable equipment ; static stability assessment ; typical meteorological sequence ; typical meteorological week ; wastewater treatment ; high-rate algae pond ; solar irradiance ; Finkelstein-Schafer statistics ; southern rice ; threshing loss ; fuzzy PID ; adaptive algorithm ; hilly mountainous areas ; rapeseed pod ; surface area measurement ; 3-D measurement ; side area of oblique cylinders ; rapeseed pod seed testing machine ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TG Mechanical engineering and materials
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    From Revolt to Riches (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: This collection investigates the culture and history of the Low Countries in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from both international and interdisciplinary perspectives. The period was one of extraordinary upheaval and change, as the combined impact of Renaissance, Reformation and Revolt resulted in the radically new conditions – political, economic and intellectual – of the Dutch Republic in its Golden Age. While many aspects of this rich and nuanced era have been studied before, the emphasis of this volume is on a series of interactions and interrelations: between communities and their varying but often cognate languages; between different but overlapping spheres of human activity; between culture and history. The chapters are written by historians, linguists, bibliographers, art historians and literary scholars based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and the United States. In continually crossing disciplinary, linguistic and national boundaries, while keeping the culture and history of the Low Countries in the Renaissance and Golden Age in focus, this book opens up new and often surprising perspectives on a region all the more intriguing for the very complexity of its entanglements.
    Keywords: low countries history ; dutch studies ; Netherlands ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    Learning Environment Design and Use (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Amid burgeoning international interest in the built environment of education, this SI examines the research, policy, and practice that lies behind the global trends in architecture and pedagogy. It contributes to the developing interdisciplinary understanding of the processes and products of school design at all stages, from ‘visioning’ and brief, through habitation and use, to post-occupancy evaluation. The intention is to build knowledge relating to successful design, educational affordances and outcomes, change management, and the alignment of physical resources with teaching and learning needs. The papers explore the multiprofessional landscape of educational spaces as they are planned, built, and used. Reflecting the diversity of the area, the SI features empirical work using a range of methodologies, transdisciplinary work and novel theoretical framings. It includes co-authored papers whose authorship bridges academic disciplines, research and practice, or research and policy. The over-arching aim was to capture the diversity of research related to learning environments.
    Keywords: informal learning space ; spatial organisation ; student experience ; student behaviour ; student preference ; spatial evaluation ; built pedagogy ; educational vision ; innovation ; interior design ; learning environment ; participatory design ; school building ; school design ; school architecture ; knowledge transfer ; education ; architecture ; innovative learning environment ; open plan school ; post-occupancy evaluation ; pedagogical walk-through ; built environment of education ; learning space ; innovative learning environments ; restorative perception ; learning style ; design framework ; design principles ; educational design research ; learning and wellbeing ; learning environments ; co-design ; university classroom ; thermal perception ; building energy efficiency ; influence factor ; adaptive behaviors ; affordances ; learning spaces ; action possibilities ; affordance ecologies ; forms of life ; school space ; students ; survey ; participative design ; inclusive research tool ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education
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    Restaging the Past (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
    Description: Restaging the Past is the first edited collection devoted to the study of historical pageants in Britain, ranging from their Edwardian origins to the present day. Across Britain in the twentieth century, people succumbed to ‘pageant fever’. Thousands dressed up in historical costumes and performed scenes from the history of the places where they lived, and hundreds of thousands more watched them. These pageants were one of the most significant aspects of popular engagement with the past between the 1900s and the 1970s: they took place in large cities, small towns and tiny villages, and engaged a whole range of different organised groups, including Women’s Institutes, political parties, schools, churches and youth organisations. Pageants were community events, bringing large numbers of people together in a shared celebration and performance of the past; they also involved many prominent novelists, professional historians and other writers, as well as featuring repeatedly in popular and highbrow literature. Although the pageant tradition has largely died out, it deserves to be acknowledged as a key aspect of community history during a period of great social and political change. Indeed, as this book shows, some traces of ‘pageant fever’ remain in evidence today.
    Keywords: British history ; cultural history ; pageants ; modern Britain ; performance studies ; Edwardian ; community history ; church ; G.K.Chesterton ; second-wave feminism ; propaganda ; Greek chorus ; Festival of Britain ; Arbroath Abbey ; Kynren ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATX Other performing arts
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    Biomimetic Buildings: Copying Nature for Energy Efficiency (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Buildings are responsible for almost one third of global energy consumption. The building and construction sector could thus make a significant contribution to the communal effort needed to meet the Paris Agreement that would substantially reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. Given the importance of decarbonizing buildings and making them energy efficient in order to meet the Paris Agreement, and bearing in mind the promising role of biomimetic solutions in achieving this goal, this book reports on some recent research in the field related to bio-inspired approaches for reducing building energy use. This book includes a review of the use of biomimicry in modern building design; how both the Saharan ant and the zebra have inspired strategies for reducing energy use in Panama City; how the study of biomimetics can contribute to city regeneration; the description of a method to connect the thermal physiology of plants and animals to thermal challenges in buildings; how biomimicry could contribute to creating a circular economy in the construction sector; and how advances in electricity storage could benefit from a biomimetic approach. This book thus covers a combination of research and review articles to offer a glimpse into current biomimetic design strategies together with new directions for future research.
    Keywords: biomimicry ; buildings ; electricity ; energy ; storage systems ; regenerative design ; urban metabolism ; green city ; sustainability ; sustainable construction ; project management ; circular economy ; road map ; life cycle phases ; biomimetics ; building performance simulations ; indoor thermal comfort ; reflective nature ; zebra stripes ; energy efficiency ; architecture ; bibliometric analysis ; biomimetic design ; sustainable design ; thermal adaptation ; thermoregulation ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    The East India Company at Home 1757-1857 (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flowed to Britain from Asia. As men in Company service increasingly shifted their activities from trade to military expansion and political administration, a new population of civil servants, army officers, surveyors and surgeons journeyed to India to make their fortunes. These Company men and their families acquired wealth, tastes and identities in India, which travelled home with them to Britain. Their stories, the biographies of their Indian possessions and the narratives of the stately homes in Britain that came to house them, frame our explorations of imperial culture and its British legacies.
    Keywords: empire ; east india company ; asia ; britain ; English country house ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHQ History of other geographical groupings and regions ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
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    Urban Design Guidelines for Climate Change (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The Special Issue consists of 13 submitted papers. We acknowledge all authors for their contributions. We recognize that interest in the topics is expanding and are confident that the findings are beneficial to our readers.
    Keywords: heat island ; cool roof ; solar reflectance ; self-cleaning ; accelerated aging test ; urban ventilation performance ; local climate zone ; evidence-based analysis ; downtown ventilation performance ; relative mean wind speed ; ecological functional zone ; hourly concentration ; land-use type ; pollutant ; architecture ; assessment ; tool ; indicators ; sustainability ; cities ; building density ; mobile observation ; sea breeze ; urban heat island ; urban ventilation ; river island ; human thermal load ; surface material ; evaporation ; watering ; subjective experiment ; sunshine duration ; solar radiation ; change trend ; urbanization effect ; urban microclimate ; urban fabric ; urban densification ; microclimate simulations ; urban heat island effect ; climate adaption measures ; thermal comfort ; building refurbishment ; building simulation ; extreme precipitation ; temporal change ; CMIP6 ; prediction ; urban resilience ; sponge city ; climate change ; urban sprawl ; urban form ; land use ; physical planning ; urban transportation ; greenhouse gas emission ; energy consumption ; urban street ; temperature ; sky view factor ; cool pavements ; street orientation ; sensible heat release ; carbon dioxide emissions ; detached house ; countermeasure ; building cooling ; periodic thermal transmittance ; roof ; SRI ; thermal inertia ; thermal insulation ; thermal transmittance ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TQ Environmental science, engineering and technology
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    Sharing Cities Shaping Cities (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: The sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The consequences of the spreading of practices of sharing in urban environments and under daily dynamics are underexplored. This Special Issue aims to address if and how sharing shapes cities, the way that spaces are designed and lived in if social interactions are escalated, and the ways that habits and routines take place in post-individualistic society. In particular, the following key questions are of primary interest: Urban fabric: How is ‘sharing’ shaping cities? Does it represent a paradigm shift with tangible and physical reverberations on urban form? How are shared mobility, work, inhabiting reconfiguring the urban and social fabric? Social practices: Are new lifestyles and practices related to sharing changing the use and design of spaces? To what extent is sharing triggering a production and consumption paradigm shift to be reflected in urban arrangements and infrastructures? Sustainability: Does sharing increase the intensity of use of space and assets, or, rather, does it increase them to meet the expectations of convenience for urban lifestyles? To what extent are these phenomena fostering more economically-, socially-, and environmentally-sustainable practices and cities? Policy: How can policy makers and municipalities interact with these bottom-up and phenomena and grassroots innovation to create more sustainable cities? Scholars responded to the above questions from the fields of urban studies, urban planning and design, sociology, geography, theoretically-grounded and informed by the results of fieldwork activities.
    Keywords: Q1-390 ; Airbnb and policy innovation ; n/a ; accessibility ; Airbnb and housing typologies ; informality ; Melbourne sharing economy ; bike sharing ; local communities ; Airbnb and planning ; Airbnb and domestic design ; mobility policy ; platform cooperativism ; urban regeneration ; Airbnb and governance ; emotions ; democratic quality ; sharing ; urban studies ; stress levels ; sharing platform ; digital participation ; social relations ; spatial agency ; critical autoethnography ; cohousing ; collaborative workplaces ; participation ; Bourdieu ; co-design ; coworking ; entrepreneurial action ; coworking spaces ; Melbourne Airbnb ; coworking business ; collaborative economy ; design-research ; sustainable mobility ; urban mobility ; architecture ; architectural and urban effects of Airbnb ; ageing ; physiological sensors ; GSR ; sharing economic ; social street ; matchmaking ; socio-spatial effects of Airbnb ; sharing economy ; urban ; galvanic skin response ; coproduction ; coworking space ; emotional layer ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general
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    Re-Centring the City (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-05-09
    Description: What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today and tomorrow? Re-Centring the City zooms in on these questions, taking as its point of departure the experience of Eurasian socialist cities, where twentieth-century high modernity arguably saw its most radical and furthest-reaching realisation. It frames the experience of global high modernity (and its unravelling) through the eyes of the socialist city, rather than the other way around: instead of explaining Warsaw or Moscow through the prism of Paris or New York, it refracts London, Mexico City and Chennai through the lens of Kyiv, Simferopol and the former Polish shtetls. This transdisciplinary volume re-centres the experiences of the ‘Global East’, and thereby our understanding of world urbanism, by shedding light on some of the still-extant (and often disavowed) forms of ‘zombie’ centrality, hierarchy and violence that pervade and shape our contemporary urban experience.
    Keywords: political science ; urban studies ; architecture ; socialism ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMV Landscape architecture and design::AMVD City and town planning: architectural aspects ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVS Regional / urban economics ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy
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    Parliament Buildings (2023)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: As political polarisation undermines confidence in the shared values and established constitutional orders of many nations, it is imperative that we explore how parliaments are to stay relevant and accessible to the citizens whom they serve. The rise of modern democracies is thought to have found physical expression in the staged unity of the parliamentary seating plan. However, the built forms alone cannot give sufficient testimony to the exercise of power in political life. Parliament Buildings brings together architecture, history, art history, history of political thought, sociology, behavioural psychology, anthropology and political science to raise a host of challenging questions. How do parliament buildings give physical form to norms and practices, to behaviours, rituals, identities and imaginaries? How are their spatial forms influenced by the political cultures they accommodate? What kinds of histories, politics and morphologies do the diverse European parliaments share, and how do their political trajectories intersect? This volume offers an eclectic exploration of the complex nexus between architecture and politics in Europe. Including contributions from architects who have designed or remodelled four parliament buildings in Europe, it provides the first comparative, multi-disciplinary study of parliament buildings across Europe and across history. Praise for Parliament Buildings ‘In its totality, this is an invaluable book, both as a comprehensive review of the wider implications of architecture and building in culture and society, and as a specific resource in the understanding of one highly specialised, but profoundly significant building type.’ Dean Hawkes, Cardiff University and University of Cambridge ‘Symbols of history and of hope, theatres of struggle, cradles of consensus: parliamentary buildings, as these diverse essays show, both reflect our democracies and can help them function better.’ David Anderson, House of Lords ‘Parliament Buildings is a brilliant interdisciplinary exploration of a fascinating topic. Theoretically sophisticated, empirically rich and historically informed, it demonstrates the multiple ways in which politics and the built environment intersect, and sheds light on the symbolic and material practices central to contemporary representative politics.’ Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge
    Keywords: parliament buildings;governance;politics;architecture;planning;political science;anthropology;social sciences;Europe ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMC Architectural structure and design ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    Worldwide Evaluations of Quinoa—Biodiversity and Food Security under Climate Change Pressures (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-05
    Description: This volume collates the main recent developments from studies on quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) worldwide. The most important studies focused on the study of the main agronomic practices, ecophysiological traits, genetics, and post-harvest aspects of quinoa. The result of the most recent pieces of research carried out by scientists from international universities and research centers are included.
    Keywords: quinoa ; systematic review ; bibliometric analysis ; concept network analysis ; agronomic practices ; Chenopodium quinoa ; quinoa production ; participatory plant breeding ; quinoa processing ; production cost ; pearling ; yield ; irrigation ; mechanization ; harvest ; Chenopodium quinoa Wild. ; salinity ; mineral concentration ; food ; extreme environment ; abscisic acid ; desiccation sensitivity ; gibberellin ; hormone signaling ; precocious germination ; seed morphology ; agro-morphological traits ; genotype × environment interaction ; AMMI ; stability ; Na+, K+, CO2 assimilation ; stomatal restrictions ; non-diffusional ; diffusional ; RubisCO activity ; stems ; high temperatures ; food security ; climate smart agriculture ; quinoa by-products ; antioxidant activity ; conjugated phenolics ; flavonoids ; phenolic acids ; nutraceutical properties ; postharvest ; saponin ; minerals ; processing ; seed bran ; quinoa seeds quality ; nutrition ; causal agents ; downy mildew ; pathogenicity ; Peronospora ; resistance factors ; severity ; quinoa diseases ; quinoa disease assessment ; grain quality ; ancestral crop ; morphologic descriptors ; selection index ; pseudocereal ; water use efficiency ; phenolic compounds ; gas exchange ; descriptors ; genetic diversity ; scoring card ; architecture ; panicle ; disease ; high throughput seed phenotyping ; remote sensing ; database ; insecticides ; quinoa pests ; side effects ; natural enemy ; IPM ; Fusarium ; FIESC ; Peronospora variabilis ; seed ; genotype ; nutritional traits ; seed quality ; Amaranthaceae ; chromatography ; polyphenol ; quinoa starch ; secondary protein ; quinoa grains ; phytochemicals ; anti-oxidants ; nutrients ; phytosterols ; nitrogen harvested by yield ; apparent use efficiency of N ; arid environments ; Altiplano ; Chenopodium quinoa Willd. ; North-West Europe ; saponins ; amino acids ; fatty acids ; triacylglycerols ; insects ; pests ; distribution ; Chile ; wholemeal flour ; water holding capacity ; water absorption index ; pasting behavior ; field trial ; hyperspectral imaging ; phenotyping ; reduced irrigation ; thermal imaging ; nitrogen use efficiency ; inhibitors ; chlorophyll fluorescence ; grain protein ; breeding ; genetic structure ; germplasm ; heritability ; effects of genotype by environment interaction ; Andean regions ; abiotic stresses ; nutrition profile ; value chain ; developing countries ; germplasm diversity ; deficit irrigation ; nitrogen fertilizer rate ; nitrogen uptake ; residual soil NO3-N ; n/a ; bic Book Industry Communication::G Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research & information: general ; bic Book Industry Communication::P Mathematics & science::PS Biology, life sciences ; bic Book Industry Communication::T Technology, engineering, agriculture
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    Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: At the beginning of 2020, 66 long-term refugee camps existed along the East African Rift. Millions of young children have been born at the camps and have grown up there, yet it is unknown how their surrounding built environments affect their learning and development. Architecture as a Way of Seeing and Learning presents an architect’s take on questions many academics and humanitarians ask. Is it relevant to look at camps through an urban lens and focus on their built environment? Which analytical benefits can architectural and design tools provide to refugee assistance and specifically to young children’s learning? And which advantages can assemblage thinking and situated knowledges bring about in analysing, understanding and transforming long-term refugee camps? Responding to the extreme lack of information about East African camps, Nerea Amorós Elorduy has built contextualised knowledge – nuanced, situated and participatory – to describe, study and transform the East African long-term camps, and uncover hidden agencies in refugee assistance. She uses architecture as a means to create new knowledge collectively, include more local voices and speculate on how to improve the educational landscape for young children. With this book, Amorós Elorduy brings nuance, contextualisation and empathy to the study and management of long-term refugee camps in East Africa. It is empathy, she argues, that will help change mindsets, decolonise humanitarian refugee assistance and its study. Crossing architecture, humanitarian aid and early career development, this book offers many practical learnings.
    Keywords: architecture ; East Africa ; refugee camps ; schools ; learning environments ; urban planning ; urban studies ; built environment ; refugees ; migration ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMD Architecture: professional practice ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFD Housing and homelessness ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFG Refugees and political asylum ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFH Migration, immigration and emigration ; thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PB Relating to peoples: ethnic groups, indigenous peoples, cultures and other groupings of people::5PBC Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSD Urban communities ; thema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RP Regional and area planning::RPC Urban and municipal planning and policy
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    Discord and Consensus in the Low Countries, 1700-2000 (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: All countries, regions and institutions are ultimately built on a degree of consensus, on a collective commitment to a concept, belief or value system. This consensus is continuously rephrased and reinvented through a narrative of cohesion and challenged by expressions of discontent and discord. The history of the Low Countries is characterised by both a striving for consensus and eruptions of discord, both internally and from external challenges. This interdisciplinary volume explores consensus and discord in a Low Countries context along broad cultural, linguistic and historical lines. Disciplines represented include early-modern and contemporary history; art history; film; literature; and translation scholars from both the Low Countries and beyond.
    Keywords: discord ; conflict ; dutch history ; consensus ; Arnhem ; Belgium ; Europe ; Netherlands ; Oeroeg ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    Architecture and Fire (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Architecture and Fire develops a conceptual reassessment of architectural conservation through the study of the intimate relationship between architecture and fire. Stamatis Zografos expands on the general agreement among many theorists that the primitive hut was erected around fire – locating fire as the first memory of architecture, at the very beginning of architectural evolution. Following the introduction, Zografos analyses the archive and the renewed interest in the study of archives through the psychoanalysis of Jacques Derrida. He moves on to explore the ambivalent nature of fire, employing the conflicting philosophies of Gaston Bachelard and Henri Bergson to do so, before discussing architectural conservation and the relationship between listed buildings, the function of archives, and the preservation of memories from the past. The following chapter investigates how architecture evolves by absorbing and accommodating fire, while the penultimate chapter examines the critical moment of architectural evolution: the destruction of buildings by fire, with a focus on the tragic disaster at London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017. Zografos concludes with thoughts on Freud’s drive theory. He argues the practice of architectural conservation is an expression of the life drive and a simultaneous repression of the death drive, which suggests controlled destruction should be an integral part of the conservation agenda.
    Keywords: architecture ; fire ; psychoanalysis ; Freud ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AM Architecture::AMA Theory of architecture ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TN Civil engineering, surveying and building::TNK Building construction and materials::TNKX Conservation of buildings and building materials
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    Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy (2023)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-24
    Description: Leonora Bernardi (1559-1616), a gentlewoman of Lucca, was a highly regarded poet, dramatist and singer. She was active in the brilliant courts of Ferrara and Florence at a time when creative women enjoyed exceptional visibility in Italy. Like many such figures, she has since suffered historical neglect. Drama, Poetry and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy presents the first ever study of Bernardi’s life, and modern edition of her recently discovered literary corpus, which mostly exists in manuscript. Her writings appear in the original Italian with new English translations, scholarly notes, critical essays and contributions by Eric Nicholson, Eugenio Refini and Davide Daolmi Based on new archival research, the substantial opening section reconstructs Bernardi’s unusually colourful life. Bernardi’s works reveal her connections with some of the most pioneering poets, dramatists and musicians of the day, including her mentor Angelo Grillo and the first opera librettist Ottavio Rinuccini. The second major section presents her pastoral tragicomedy Clorilli, one of the earliest secular dramatic works by a woman. It was apparently performed in the early 1590s at a Medici villa near Florence, before Grandduke Ferdinando I de’ Medici, and his consort Christine of Lorraine, but now exists in an enigmatic Venetian manuscript. The third section presents Bernardi’s secular and religious verse, which engaged with new trends in lyric and poetry for music, and was set by various key composers across Italy.
    Keywords: Poetry;drama;music;Renaissance;Italy;Italian studies;translation ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Historians often assume a one-directional transmission of knowledge and ideas, leading to the establishment of spatial hierarchies defined as centres and peripheries. In recent decades, transnational and global history have contributed to a more inclusive understanding of intellectual and cultural exchanges that profoundly challenged the ways in which we draw our mental maps. Covering the early modern and modern periods, Re-Mapping Centre and Periphery investigates the asymmetrical and multi-directional structure of such encounters within Europe as well as in a global context. Exploring subjects from the shores of the Russian Empire to nation-making in Latin America, the international team of contributors demonstrates how, as products of human agency, centre and periphery are conditioned by mutual dependencies; rather than representing absolute categories of analysis, they are subjective constructions determined by a constantly changing discursive context.
    Keywords: European history ; global history ; cultural exchange ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history
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    Being Modern (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.
    Keywords: History of Science ; Modern ; Culture ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
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    Science Policy under Thatcher (2021)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-23
    Description: Margaret Thatcher was prime minister from 1979 to 1990, during which time her Conservative administration transformed the political landscape of Britain. Science Policy under Thatcher is the first book to examine systematically the interplay of science and government under her leadership. Thatcher was a working scientist before she became a professional politician, and she maintained a close watch on science matters as prime minister. Scientific knowledge and advice were important to many urgent issues of the 1980s, from late Cold War questions of defence to emerging environmental problems such as acid rain and climate change. Drawing on newly released primary sources, Jon Agar explores how Thatcher worked with and occasionally against the structures of scientific advice, as the scientific aspects of such issues were balanced or conflicted with other demands and values. To what extent, for example, was the freedom of the individual scientist to choose research projects balanced against the desire to secure more commercial applications? What was Thatcher’s stance towards European scientific collaboration and commitments? How did cuts in public expenditure affect the publicly funded research and teaching of universities? In weaving together numerous topics, including AIDS and bioethics, the nuclear industry and strategic defence, Agar adds to the picture we have of Thatcher and her radically Conservative agenda, and argues that the science policy devised under her leadership, not least in relation to industrial strategy, had a prolonged influence on the culture of British science.
    Keywords: Thatcher ; science policy ; technology ; Conservative administration ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDU United Kingdom, Great Britain ; thema EDItEUR::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AC Germanic and Scandinavian languages::2ACB English ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQX c 1980 to c 1989 ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MP 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999::3MPQ Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999::3MPQZ c 1990 to c 1999 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDK Science funding and policy ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDM Scientific research ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDR Impact of science and technology on society ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science
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    Temptation in the Archives (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: Temptation in the Archives is a collection of essays by Lisa Jardine, that takes readers on a journey through the Dutch Golden Age. Through the study of such key figures as Sir Constantjin Huygens, a Dutch polymath and diplomat, we begin to see the Anglo-Dutch cultural connections that formed during this period against the backdrop of unfolding political events in England. Temptation in the Archives paints a picture of a unique relationship between the Netherlands and England in the 17th century forged through a shared experience – and reveals the lessons we can learn from it today.
    Keywords: archives ; renaissance ; dutch history ; Christiaan Huygens ; Constantijn Huygens ; England ; Johan Huizinga ; London ; Netherlands ; The Hague ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history
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    Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia (2021)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-02
    Description: What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a number of sites of interest to explore the vanquishing of the Soviet legacy in Estonia: the railway bazaar in Tallinn where concepts such as ‘market’ and ‘employment’ take on distinctly different meanings from their Western use; Linnahall, a grandiose venue, whose Soviet heritage now poses diffi cult questions of how to present the building’s history; Tallinn’s cityscape, where the social, spatial and temporal co-evolution of the city can be viewed and debated; Narva, a city that marks the border between the Russian Federation, NATO and the European Union, and represents a place of continual negotiation of belonging; and the new Estonian National Museum in Raadi, an area on the outskirts of Tartu, that has been turned into a memory field.
    Keywords: Estonia ; Communism ; Eastern Europe ; Soviet ; Linnahall ; Narva ; Russians ; Tallinn ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements::JPFC Far-left political ideologies and movements
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    Sensors and Communications for the Social Good (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: Social good is typically defined as an actions and services that benefit the general public. In this case, internet connection, education, and healthcare are all good examples of social goods. However, new media innovations and the explosion of online communities have added new meaning to the term. Social good is now about global citizens uniting to unlock the potential of individuals, technology, and collaboration to create a positive societal impact.
    Keywords: online education ; learning analytics ; emergency remote teaching ; responsive dashboard ; eLearning and digital transformation of education ; IT for education ; automated transportation network ; collision-free routing ; grid network ; optimization algorithm ; integer linear programming ; heuristics ; Smart Campus ; smart waste management ; waste classification ; multi access edge computing ; Digital Twin ; big data ; geographic information system ; smart city ; Urban Facility Management ; Apache Spark ; ambient intelligence ; smart home in a box ; architecture ; framework ; digital libraries ; minority languages ; humanistic informatics ; computer archiving ; intercultural communication ; wearable computing ; interaction design ; neck-mounted interface ; flex sensor ; machine learning (ML) ; multi-person detection ; sensor data ; smart environment ; distributed ledger technology ; decentralized file storage ; distributed hash table ; data marketplace ; keyword-based search ; citizen-generated data ; COVID-19 ; contact awareness ; spatiotemporal analytics ; indoor positioning ; pedestrian dead reckoning ; landmark identification ; human-computer interaction ; virtual reality ; serious game ; interpersonal communications ; uncertainty ; social well-being ; behavioral responses ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues::TBX History of engineering and technology
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    Herman Gorter: Poems of 1890 (2023)
    UCL Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-25
    Description: Commonly viewed as a revolutionary and propagandist Herman Gorter (1864-1927) is often overlooked despite his lasting contribution to Dutch poetry. This selection of thirty-one poems, translated by Paul Vincent, focuses on Gorter's experimental love and nature lyrics in Poems of 1890, and the Introduction sets the poems in the context of his earlier seminal work 'Mei' (May) as well as his often neglected Socialist verse. The lyrical expansiveness, consistent use of rhyme and vivid imagery of the Dutch landscape that characterises 'Mei' evolves into more fragmentary verse in Poems of 1890, and the joyful celebratory tone of Gorter's poetry increasingly co-exists with a sense of isolation and introspection. This can be viewed in the context of a rapidly changing political scene in Europe in the prelude to the First World War and the Russian Revolution. This is a valuable collection that revisits Gorter's literary and political legacy, and introduces English-speaking readers to a selection of his most accessible and lyrical poems. Praise for Herman Gorter: Poems of 1890 'In his introduction, Paul Vincent notes that in May only fragments have been translated into English and then apparently reveals the loose wrist, his translation of the first twelve lines, as steep and sound as Gorter's text, and as beautiful as The 1890 poems in this bundle: 'A newborn springtime and a newborn sound ...' (p. 3). That tastes like more.' Filter 'A free e-book of Herman Gorter's Poems of 1890: A Selection (UCL Press) is a rare gift to the English-reading world. Translating highly lyrical poetry is probably the most challenging thing for a translator, but time and again Paul Vincent succeeds in suggesting something of the genius of the most important Dutch lyrical poet.' Times Higher Education
    Keywords: Language & Literature ; European Studies ; History ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DC Poetry ; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFP Translation and interpretation ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHB General and world history ; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CJ Language teaching and learning
    Language: Dutch
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    Energy Efficiency and Indoor Environment Quality (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-09
    Description: This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a direct influence on human health. Furthermore, in developing countries, significant levels of indoor pollution make housing unsafe, impacting the health of its inhabitants. Housing is therefore a key health factor for people all over the world: various parameters such as air quality, ventilation, hygrothermal comfort, lighting, physical environment, and building efficiency can contribute to healthy architecture; poor application of these parameters can result in conditions that negatively impact health.
    Keywords: gappy proper orthogonal decomposition ; sparse sensor observations ; contaminant distribution ; reconstruction ; CFD ; energy efficiency ; data envelopment analysis ; literature review ; future research ; weather data ; calibration ; sensors ; energy simulation ; sensors saving ; methodology ; Building Energy Models (BEMs) ; water flow glazing ; dynamic building envelope ; life cycle assessment ; building integrated PV panels ; levelized cost of energy ; daylighting ; circadian lighting ; indoor lighting ; dopamine ; myopia ; self-renovation ; habits and comfort ; sustainable building material ; cultural heritage buildings ; ventilation ; CFD analysis ; archaeology ; architecture ; native American Indians ; traditional architecture ; vernacular architecture ; indoor air quality ; COVID-19 ; educational buildings ; air purifier ; airborne transmission ; particulate matter ; dust pollution ; IAQ ; indoor–outdoor concentration ratio ; penetration factor ; air quality control ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues
    Language: English
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