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Mlecnik, E. (author), Qian, QK (author), Straub, A. (author), Ersoy, A. (author), Remøy, H.T. (author), Gruis, V.H. (author), Hobma, Fred (author), Rooij, R.M. (author), Vande Putte, H.J.M. (author), van Bortel, G.A. (author), Roeling, M.M. (author)It is recommended to integrate specific management competencies in academic education to support the transition towards environmentally sustainable practices, particularly in the construction and real estate sector. This paper explores how architectural management education can integrate environmental sustainability within its current university...book chapter 2024
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Stocker, Volker (author), Lehr, William (author), Smaragdakis, G. (author)The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the ‘real’ world and substantially impacted the virtual world and thus the Internet ecosystem. It has caused a significant exogenous shock that offers a wealth of natural experiments and produced new data about broadband, clouds, and the Internet in times of crisis. In this chapter, we characterise and...book chapter 2023
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Timmer, W.A. (author), Bak, Christian (author)This chapter focuses on airfoils for wind turbine blades and their characteristics. The use of panel codes such as XFOIL and RFOIL and CFD codes for the prediction of airfoil characteristics is briefly described. This chapter then discusses the requirements for wind turbine blade airfoils and the effect of leading edge roughness and Reynolds...book chapter 2023
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Schulze Balhorn, L. (author), Hirtreiter, E.J. (author), Luderer, Lynn (author), Schweidtmann, A.M. (author)Artificial intelligence has great potential for accelerating the design and engineering of chemical processes. Recently, we have shown that transformer-based language models can learn to auto-complete chemical process flowsheets using the SFILES 2.0 string notation. Also, we showed that language translation models can be used to translate...book chapter 2023
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Leliveld, André (author), Bhaduri, Saradindu (author), Knorringa, Peter (author), van Beers, Cees (author)This chapter sets the scene for the Handbook on Frugal Innovation. First, it describes the origins of the concept of frugal innovation and its emergence as an academic field of interest. Then, main drivers behind frugal innovation are explored. From the scholarly discussion on frugal innovation major themes are distilled that inform the...book chapter 2023
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Li, Jie (author), Cesar, Pablo (author)Virtual reality (VR) is the experience in a simulated interactive virtual space. It provides synthetic sensory feedback to users' actions that can physically and mentally immerse the users. Social VR is one type of VR system that allows multiple users to join a collaborative virtual environment and communicate with each other, usually by...book chapter 2023
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Tušar, M. (author), Poulikakos, L. D. (author), Kakar, M. R. (author), Pasquini, E. (author), Pasetto, M. (author), Porot, L. (author), Wang, D. (author), Varveri, Aikaterini (author), Jing, R. (author)RILEM TC-279 WMR task group TG 1 studied the performance of waste Polyethylene (PE) in bituminous binders and bituminous mixtures. Several laboratories participated in this study following a common protocol. Locally sources aggregates and bituminous binder and same source of waste PE were utilized. The binder experiments showed that at high...book chapter 2023
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Kavoura, Dr. Florentia (author), Veljkovic, M. (author)The technical solutions and design strategies for deconstruction are reviewed and investigated in the building sector in order to achieve the sustainability goals set in the EU Commission´s “Green Deal” towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The demountable and reusable steel–concrete composite structures could contribute...book chapter 2023
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Taylor, Zac (author)Re/insurance plays a multifaceted and increasingly powerful role in the expansion of financialised forms of climate risk governance. While re/insurance markets are global(-ising), they are also geographically uneven, contingent, and provisional. This chapter reflects on this tension by examining how catastrophe capital markets evolve through...book chapter 2022
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Dewilde, Caroline (author), Haffner, M.E.A. (author)The nature of housing as a service (fulfilling basic needs) and a capital-intensive commodity (houses and the ‘underlying’ land have exchange value) hampers comparative understandings of ‘housing policy’, and its relation to social policy research. On the one hand, housing is a pillar of social policy, addressing social problems in the urban...book chapter 2022
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Sušnik, Janez (author), Masia, Sara (author), Jewitt, G.P.W. (author)Water, energy, and food (WEF) systems form a complex interconnected network, operational at scales from the household up to the global. These scales, like the nexus sectors themselves, and mutually interconnected, with lower-level characteristics help drive higher-level resource management, and vice versa. This chapter highlights recent WEF...book chapter 2022
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Pasman, Hans (author), Sun, H. (author), Yang, M. (author), Khan, Faisal (author)Digital technologies have been reshaping how the process industries operate. The extensive use of physical and information digitalization called by ambitious revolution to redesign process plants significantly transforms the process safety landscape in the process industries. Digitalization depends on the reliable use of data. This becomes a new...book chapter 2022
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Romein, A. (author), van Rijn, Susanne (author)In many graduation projects in Spatial Planning and Strategy (SP&S), empirical research and spatial design are intertwined. This chapter introduces regression analysis; a ’family’ of related models of quantitative statistical analysis in empirical research. It is very appropriate to study interactions between the built urban environment and...book chapter 2022
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Chaves-de-Plaza, Nicolas F. (author), Mody, P. (author), Hildebrandt, K.A. (author), Staring, M. (author), Astreinidou, Eleftheria (author), de Ridder, Mischa (author), de Ridder, H. (author), van Egmond, R. (author)Delineation of tumours and organs-at-risk permits detecting and correcting changes in the patients' anatomy throughout the treatment, making it a core step of adaptive external beam radiotherapy. Although auto-contouring technologies have sped up this process, the time needed to perform the quality assessment of the generated contours remains a...book chapter 2022
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Yarce Botero, A. (author), Quintero Montoya, O.L. (author), Lopez Restrepo, S. (author), Pinel Pelaez, N. (author), Hinestroza Ramirez, J.E. (author), Nino-Ruiz, Elias David (author), Anderson Flórez, Jimmy (author), Rendón, Angela María (author), Alvarez-Laínez, Monica Lucia (author), Heemink, A.W. (author)This chapter book presents Medellín Air qUality Initiative or MAUI Project; it tells a brief story of this teamwork, their scientific and technological directions. The modeling work focuses on the ecosystems and human health impact due to the exposition of several pollutants transported from long-range places and deposited. For this objective,...book chapter 2021
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Giunti, Guido (author), Claes, Maëlick (author), Zubiete, Enrique Dorronzoro (author), Rivera-Romero, Octavio (author), Gabarron, Elia (author)Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is one of the world's most common neurologic disorders. Social media have been proposed as a way to maintain and even increase social interaction for people with MS. The objective of this work is to identify and compare the topics on Twitter during the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Data was...book chapter 2021
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van Nes, A. (author), Yamu, Claudia (author)In this chapter, we discuss the application of space syntax in consultancy for urban planning design and practice. First, we present the scientific challenges to tying general understandings and theories to urban planning and design practice. Some elementary principles for communicating results from research and theories to practitioners are...book chapter 2021
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Wagner, Ben (author), Kuklis, Lubos (author)This chapter provides an overview of the main problems associated with basing public regulatory decisions on unverified data, before sketching out some ideas of what a solution might look like. In order to do this, the chapter develops the concept of auditing intermediaries. After discussing which problems the concept of auditing intermediaries...book chapter 2021