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WASTE MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY OF ORADEA – AN APPROACH IN THE LIGHT OF TRANSITION FROM A LINEAR TO A CIRCULAR ECONOMY
Published 2023-07-01“…Transition from the linear to the circular economy is not only a desideratum of all developed economies; it ultimately represents the chance for the world we all live in will to continue to exist. If in the first part of our paper we analysed the main characteristics of both the linear economy and the circular economy, in the light of an extensive literature, while focusing on the mechanisms that would allow a transition as smoothly as possible; in the second part of the paper, we aimed to analyse the state of play in the city of Oradea in terms of intelligent, selective waste management. …”
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Exploring the Factors Controlling Nighttime Lights from Prefecture Cities in Mainland China with the Hierarchical Linear Model
Published 2020-07-01“…Meanwhile, industry-information and living-standard factors at the provincial level can further significantly increase these differences by 18.30% and 29.01%, respectively. (3) The natural-greenness factor displayed a significant negative lights effect, and its interaction with natural-ecology will continue to decrease city lights by 11.99%. …”
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Energy Management System of Luminosity Controlled Smart City Using IoT
Published 2024-02-01“…The concept of smart cities, leveraging digital technologies, offers a promising solution to elevate urban living. …”
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Living on the edge: urban fireflies (Coleoptera, Lampyridae) in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
Published 2023-12-01“…Because some fireflies are considered bioindicators of ecosystem integrity as they are associated to specific habitats, are highly diverse and due to their sensitivity to environmental changes, we consider that sites from Morelia’s urban core and extinction sites show the highest levels of environmental degradation, threatening most fireflies and other insects living in the urban core with local extinction. At the same time, our results also suggest that implementing conservation strategies and sustainable planning for the urban development of Morelia in the short term could allow fireflies and other vital elements of the city’s insect communities to persist for future generations. …”
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Live Spoofing Detection for Automatic Human Activity Recognition Applications
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SLMAS: A Secure and Light Weight Mutual Authentication Scheme for the Smart Wheelchair
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Energy Efficiency Analysis in the Case of Sustainable Lighting Design Butterfly Valley Park (Konya)
Published 2023-10-01“…The need to reflect the historical, cultural and aesthetic values of the city has brought the issue of urban lighting to the agenda. …”
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Business Circle Identification and Spatiotemporal Characteristics in the Main Urban Area of Yiwu City Based on POI and Night-Time Light Data
Published 2021-12-01“…This paper takes the main urban area of Yiwu city as the research object. Based on POI data and night-time light remote sensing data, two-factor mapping, kernel density analysis, DBSCAN clustering, and local contour tree methods are adopted to identify the business circle structure of the main urban area of Yiwu city and analyse the relationship between business circle characteristics and the night-time economy. …”
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A Study on Transformation of Housing Typology and Its Environmental and Social Effects on the Living Conditions of Residents in Planned Residential Neighborhoods of Kabul City
Published 2022-07-01“…Second, we examined residents’ views of residential development and its impacts, as well as their daily lives. In order to identify the relationship between these two aspects, the study examined the characteristics of the area (variables) from the perspectives of privacy, natural light, shading, sound pollution, air pollution, and energy use. …”
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« And in the sky, the dead and dancing sky, there are a million yesterdays » : l’horizon du passé dans City of the Mind de Penelope Lively
Published 2011-05-01“…In City of the Mind, Penelope Lively probes into spatial and temporal horizons as she revisits the topos of the city of London as palimpsest. …”
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“Small Tragedies of Individuals’ Lives”: London’s Migrant Division of Labour and Migrant Language Educational Settings
Published 2023-10-01“…In this context, my research highlights the ways in which my interlocutors find themselves caught up in entrenched forms of intersecting inequalities, unequal power relations, and the dynamics and conditions of London’s migrant division of labour. I shed light on how my participants deal with and navigate these complex processes whilst questing for the “right” linguistic competence to somehow propel their lives forward despite being aware that this might not necessarily come to fruition. …”
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Smart Cities, Livable Cities
Published 2017-05-01“…One of the key challenges in many cities is providing safe drinking water. Other major issues in many cities across the developing world are traffic, parking, waste management, lighting, security, education and health care. …”
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A Woman between the Sky and Earth: An Ethnographic Study of the Lives of Abandoned Women and Their Understanding of Abandonment in the Cultural Context of One of the Marginal Neigh...
Published 2024-03-01“…This research sought to shed light on the lives of these women, their challenges, and the impact of abandonment on their overall well-being. …”
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