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Kumar, Prashant (author), Debele, Sisay E. (author), Sahani, Jeetendra (author), Rawat, Nidhi (author), Marti-Cardona, Belen (author), Alfieri, S.M. (author), Basu, Bidroha (author), Basu, Arunima Sarkar (author), Menenti, M. (author)Nature-based solutions (NBS) for hydro-meteorological risks (HMRs) reduction and management are becoming increasingly popular, but challenges such as the lack of well-recognised standard methodologies to evaluate their performance and upscale their implementation remain. We systematically evaluate the current state-of-the art on the models...review 2021
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Schweidtmann, A.M. (author), Esche, Erik (author), Fischer, Asja (author), Kloft, Marius (author), Repke, Jens Uwe (author), Sager, Sebastian (author), Mitsos, Alexander (author)The transformation of the chemical industry to renewable energy and feedstock supply requires new paradigms for the design of flexible plants, (bio-)catalysts, and functional materials. Recent breakthroughs in machine learning (ML) provide unique opportunities, but only joint interdisciplinary research between the ML and chemical engineering ...review 2021
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Jafino, B.A. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Taebi, B. (author)Models for supporting climate adaptation and mitigation planning, mostly in the form of Integrated Assessment Models, are poorly equipped for aiding questions related to fairness of adaptation and mitigation strategies, because they often disregard distributional outcomes. When evaluating policies using such models, the costs and benefits are...review 2021
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Chen, Jiaqi (author), Dan, Hancheng (author), Ding, Yongjie (author), Gao, Y. (author), Guo, Meng (author), Guo, Shuaicheng (author), Han, Bingye (author), Hong, Bin (author), Hou, Yue (author), Hu, Chichun (author), Hu, Jing (author), Huyan, Ju (author), Jiang, Jiwang (author), Jiang, Wei (author), Li, Cheng (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Liu, Yu (author), Liu, Zhuangzhuang (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Qu, Xin (author), Ren, Dongya (author), Wang, Chao (author), Wang, Chaohui (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Wang, Di (author), Wang, Hainian (author), Wang, Haopeng (author), Xiao, Yue (author), Xing, Chao (author), Xu, Huining (author), Yan, Yu (author), Yang, Xu (author), You, Lingyun (author), You, Zhanping (author), Yu, Bin (author), Yu, Huayang (author), Yu, Huanan (author), Zhang, Henglong (author), Zhang, Jizhe (author), Zhou, Changhong (author), Zhou, Changjun (author), Zhu, Xingyi (author)Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly supports the rapid development of the global social economy. New theories, new methods, new technologies and new materials related to pavement engineering are emerging....review 2021
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Okur, Ö. (author), Heijnen, P.W. (author), Lukszo, Z. (author)Flexibility coming from consumers in residential and service sectors has received significant attention to deal with uncertainty and variability of renewable energy sources. Since these consumers are too small individually to participate in the electricity markets, their assets can be pooled by an aggregator. The aggregator can implement...review 2021
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van Trigt, B. (author), Vliegen, Liset (author), Leenen, Ton (author), Veeger, H.E.J. (author)Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) weakening or tears occur in 16% of professional baseball pitchers. To prevent players from sustaining a UCL injury, it is important to understand the relationship between the UCL properties and elbow stabilizers with the load on the UCL during pitching. In-vitro studies showed that the ultimate external valgus...review 2021
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Aflaki, Ardalan (author), Esfandiari, Masoud (author), Mohammadi, S. (author)Natural ventilation has been used widely in buildings to deliver a healthy and comfortable indoor environment for occupants. It also reduces the consumption of energy in the built environment and dilutes the concentration of carbon dioxide. Various methods and techniques have been used to evaluate and predict indoor airspeed and patterns in...review 2021
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Adams, Sophie (author), Brown, Donal (author), Cárdenas Álvarez, Juan Pablo (author), Chitchyan, Ruzanna (author), Fell, Mike (author), Hahnel, Ulf (author), Hojckova, Kristina (author), Singh, A. (author), Watson, Nicole (author)In recent years, numerous studies have explored the opportunities and challenges for emerging decentralized energy systems and business models. However, few studies have focussed specifically on the economic and social value associated with three emerging models: peer-to-peer energy trading (P2P), community self-consumption (CSC) and transactive...review 2021
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Lago, Jesus (author), Marcjasz, Grzegorz (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Weron, Rafał (author)While the field of electricity price forecasting has benefited from plenty of contributions in the last two decades, it arguably lacks a rigorous approach to evaluating new predictive algorithms. The latter are often compared using unique, not publicly available datasets and across too short and limited to one market test samples. The...review 2021
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Guillou, Nicolas (author), Lavidas, G. (author), Chapalain, Georges (author)Over recent decades, the exploitation of wave energy resources has sparked a wide range of technologies dedicated to capturing the available power with maximum efficiency, reduced costs, and minimum environmental impacts. These different objectives are fundamental to guarantee the development of the marine wave energy sector, but require also...review 2020
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Rashidi, Maria (author), Mohammadi, Masoud (author), Kivi, Saba Sadeghlou (author), Abdolvand, Mohammad Mehdi (author), Truong-Hong, Linh (author), Samali, Bijan (author)Over the last decade, particular interest in using state-of-the-art emerging technologies for inspection, assessment, and management of civil infrastructures has remarkably increased. Advanced technologies, such as laser scanners, have become a suitable alternative for labor intensive, expensive, and unsafe traditional inspection and...review 2020
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Zhang, H. (author), Anupam, K. (author), Scarpas, Athanasios (author), Kasbergen, C. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Al Khateeb, Loay (author)The mechanical properties of asphalt mixture are always required for the evaluation of the durability of pavements. In order to obtain these properties without conducting expensive laboratory tests and using calibrated empirical models, research studies have been carried out to develop micromechanics-based models. Continuum-based...review 2020
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Guo, Y. (author), Zhao, Chunfa (author), Markine, V.L. (author), Jing, Guoqing (author), Zhai, Wanming (author)The discrete element method (DEM) has been confirmed as an effective numerical method for modelling railway ballast, and successfully used to analyse a wide range of ballast-related applications (e.g. geomaterials). However, there still exists some aspects under development. Among them, the model calibration can be the most significant one ...review 2020
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Lager, I.E. (author), Vandenbosch, Guy A.E. (author), Stumpf, M. (author)This article explores some dominant trends in teaching classical electromagnetic (EM) field theory in electrical engineering (EE) undergraduate curricula. The acronym EM will be used interchangeably to designate either electromagnetic or electromagnetism. The intended significance will be evident from the context.review 2020
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Guswa, Andrew J. (author), Tetzlaff, Doerthe (author), Selker, John S. (author), Carlyle-Moses, Darryl E. (author), Boyer, Elizabeth W. (author), Bruen, Michael (author), Cayuela, Carles (author), Creed, Irena F. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Grasso, Domenico (author)Nature-based solutions for water-resource challenges require advances in the science of ecohydrology. Current understanding is limited by a shortage of observations and theories that can further our capability to synthesize complex processes across scales ranging from submillimetres to tens of kilometres. Recent developments in environmental...review 2020
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Kalogianni, E. (author), van Oosterom, P.J.M. (author), Dimopoulou, Efi (author), Lemmen, CHJ (author)Land Administration practices worldwide rely mainly on 2D-based systems to define legal and other spatial boundaries related to land interests. However, the built environment is increasingly becoming spatially complex. Land administrators are challenged by an unprecedented demand to utilise space above and below earth's surface. The...review 2020
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Mianabadi, Ameneh (author), Davary, Kamran (author), Pourreza-Bilondi, Mohsen (author), Coenders-Gerrits, Miriam (author)The Budyko framework was firstly developed to estimate actual evaporation as a function of precipitation and the aridity index at steady state conditions. Based on this framework, the water storage change in the watershed is assumed to be negligible at large spatial and temporal scales. However, steady state conditions are not valid for many...review 2020
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Prina, Matteo Giacomo (author), Manzolini, Giampaolo (author), Moser, David (author), Nastasi, B. (author), Sparber, Wolfram (author)This paper reviews the classification schemes used for bottom-up energy system modelling and proposes a novel one as re-elaboration of the previous schemes. Moreover, this paper identifies that the main challenges of this research field rotate around the concept of resolution. A matrix of challenges in which four main fields are identified:...review 2020
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Baldassarre, B.R. (author), Keskin, Duygu (author), Diehl, J.C. (author), Bocken, N.M.P. (author), Calabretta, G. (author)The intensification of industrial activity within an unsustainable development paradigm caused an alarming environmental crisis intertwined with societal problems on a global scale. Sustainable design theory contains an extensive body of knowledge on how these environmental and societal issues can be addressed by rethinking industrial...review 2020
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Mercuur, R.A. (author), Dignum, M.V. (author), Jonker, C.M. (author)Evidence-driven agent-based modeling plays a useful part in understanding social phenomena. By integrating social-cognitive theories in our agent models, we bear evidence from social and psychological studies on our models for human decision-making. Social practice theory (SPT) provides a socio-cognitive theory that emphasizes three...review 2020