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Ale Ebrahim Dehkordi, Molood (author), Melnyk, A. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Herder, P.M. (author)Social disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic challenged existing institutional arrangements that govern the society. During that time, nation-states had to prevent the collapse of society and rapidly establish new institutions and adapt existing ones to address public health, job security, and freedom-of-movement concerns. At the same time...journal article 2024
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Melnyk, A. (author), Edmonds, Bruce (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)This editorial paper for the special section on “Modelling Values in Socio/Technical/Ecological Systems” introduces interdisciplinary perspectives on values and reflects on growing appeals for modelling values. In public and academic discourses, values typically relate to matters of importance (e.g., beliefs, priorities) and principles about...journal article 2024
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Meenakshi Sundaram, A. (author), Goncalves, J. E. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Verma, T. (author)Governments often use price-based policies such as tax-subsidies and rebates to encourage households to shift to renewable energy sources like rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV). These policies, however, have primarily benefited high-income homeowners, leaving others behind. This paper proposes leveraging social networks’ influence on attitudes...journal article 2024
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Juárez Pastor, Lidia (author), Subramanian, Vrishali (author), Cucurachi, S. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author)Solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries like India faces significant challenges due to the increasing waste generation that surpasses the current capacity. Therefore, the informal waste sector (IWS) is more vital than ever in handling consumer waste alongside municipal solid waste management (SWM) systems. However, the...journal article 2024
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Ghorbani, R. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author), Tax, D.M.J. (author)Photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, typically acquired from wearable devices, hold significant potential for continuous fitness-health monitoring. In particular, heart conditions that manifest in rare and subtle deviating heart patterns may be interesting. However, robust and reliable anomaly detection within these data remains a challenge...journal article 2024
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Dizani, A. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Taebi, B. (author), van de Poel, I.R. (author)In recent decades, distinct national approaches to engineering ethics have evolved, each tailored to its unique contextual factors. These contextual disparities make it unfeasible to transfer one country's engineering ethics approach directly into another. This calls for a compelling need to enhance our comprehension of engineering ethics...journal article 2024
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Aleebrahimdehkordi, M. (author), Lechner, J.M. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Nikolic, I. (author), Chappin, E.J.L. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)Agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS), whether simple toy models or complex data-driven ones, is regularly applied in various domains to study the system-level patterns arising from individual behaviour and interactions. However, ABMS still faces diverse challenges such as modelling more representative agents or improving computational...journal article 2023
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Melnyk, A. (author), Cox, H.R.L. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Hoppe, T. (author)In the European Union, energy democracy (ED) is considered a socially desirable policy goal. One way to achieve ED is through empowering local communities to become agents of value change who can pursue more sustainable and equitable energy provision with community energy initiatives (CEI). However, such people-driven value change is complex in...journal article 2023
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Eslamizadeh, S. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Weijnen, M.P.C. (author)The importance of decreasing industrial CO2 footprints has become evident, as also highlighted in COP26. As such, the transition to renewable energy in the industrial sector is essential to meet the targets. To this aim, establishing industrial community energy systems (InCES) where industries collectively invest in a shared energy system is an...journal article 2023
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Saberi, Saeid (author), Nasiri, Hamid (author), Ghorbani, Omid (author), Friswell, Michael I. (author), Castro, Saullo G.P. (author)Material properties, geometrical dimensions, and environmental conditions can greatly influence the characteristics of bistable composite laminates. In the current work, to understand how each input feature contributes to the curvatures of the stable equilibrium shapes of bistable laminates and the snap-through force to change these...journal article 2023
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Bagherzadeh, Saeed (author), Mianabadi, Hojjat (author), Sadeghizadeh Bafandeh, Shahrzad (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Deylami, Behavar (author)Based on analyzing the composing elements of the water governance regime in the Hirmand River Basin, Iran, this paper examines the factors that facilitate the emergence of Adaptive Governance in a Global South context. Although the literature provides valuable insights into the characteristics of a well-established Adaptive Governance regime in...journal article 2023
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Sun, Yubo (author), Ghorbani, Saeid (author), Dai, Xiaodi (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)This study provides a detailed investigation on the reproducibility of two groups of alkali-activated slag (AAS) mixtures, from both fresh properties and strength development perspectives. Three different commercial sodium silicate solutions and one lab-produced silicate activator (made of silica fume and sodium hydroxide) were used to...journal article 2022
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Fouladvand, J. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Mouter, N. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)Energy communities are decentralized socio-technical systems where energy is jointly generated and distributed among a community of households locally. As the energy that is shared among the community is commonly electricity, the energy community's literature is dominated by electricity-systems and mostly neglects collective thermal energy as an...journal article 2022
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Sun, Yubo (author), Liu, Zhiyuan (author), Ghorbani, Saeid (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)The present study explores the possibility of replacing blast furnace slag (BFS) with coal fly ash (FA) to produce alkali-activated material (AAM) concrete with hybrid precursors. With an increased FA replacement ratio, the reaction kinetics, fresh and hardened properties of AAM mixtures have been investigated. The retardation effect on the...journal article 2022
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Ghorbani, Amineh (author)Institutional modelling is a branch of agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) that pays special attention to the social structure by incorporating institutions into these models. Institutions, in this regard, are the rules of the system that shape individual behaviour and interaction. Institutional modelling can make use of the...journal article 2022
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Sadeghizadeh Bafandeh, Shahrzad (author), Bagherzadeh, Saeed (author), Mianabadi, Hojjat (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author)Although good water governance (GWG) is a widely accepted concept, mistaking its principles for silver bullet approaches has hindered its successful applications. This highlights the idea that one-size-fits-all thinking does not satisfy the need to navigate toward sustainable outcomes in ever-changing complex water systems. This also...journal article 2022
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Eslamizadeh, S. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Araghi, Y. (author), Weijnen, M.P.C. (author)Like many other sectors, climate change strategies have put various restrictions on industry, the most prominent one being caps on CO<sub>2</sub> and other energy-related emissions. At the same time, and especially in many developing economies, the industry struggles with an increasing gap between the fast development of the sector and...journal article 2022
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Fouladvand, J. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Sarı, Yasin (author), Hoppe, T. (author), Kunneke, R.W. (author), Herder, P.M. (author)In community energy systems, the energy demand of a group of households is met by collectively generated electricity and heat from renewable energy sources. What makes these systems unique is their collective and collaborative form of organization and their distributed energy generation. While these features are crucial to the resilience of...journal article 2022
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Kreulen, Kurt (author), de Bruin, B. (author), Ghorbani, Amineh (author), Mellema, René (author), Kammler, Christian (author), Vanhee, Loïs (author), Dignum, Frank (author), Dignum, Virginia (author)Since its first appearance in Wuhan (China), countries have been employing, to varying degrees of success, a series of non-pharmaceutical interventions aimed at limiting the spread of SARS-CoV-2 within their populations. In this article, we build on scientific work that demonstrates that culture is part of the explanation for the observed...journal article 2022
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Moradi, M. (author), Ghorbani, R. (author), Sfarra, Stefano (author), Tax, D.M.J. (author), Zarouchas, D. (author)Assessment of cultural heritage assets is now extremely important all around the world. Non-destructive inspection is essential for preserving the integrity of artworks while avoiding the loss of any precious materials that make them up. The use of Infrared Thermography is an interesting concept since surface and subsurface faults can be...journal article 2022