Sensual Environmental Robots: Entanglements of Speculative Realist Ideas with Design Theory and Practice by Santer Steven C.

“…The performative behaviours of these multi-sensorial robots evoke a sense of things by removing the truthiness of data and thereby emancipating language from privilege and expertise, subverting expectations of technology, and notions of urban Nature. Through Harman’s Quadruple Object, we speculate on asymmetricality within object relations, including between the devices and the practices of design itself. …”
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Between Objective and Subjective Architectural Experiences: Conceptualizing Refractive Neuroarchitecture Phenomenology by Yongjun Shin

“…For a practical implication, it is expected to demonstrate the importance of the phenomenological aspect of architectural efficacy and ways of applying neuroscientific research for place-making, including urban renewal and historic preservation. …”
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National Spatial Planning and the Constraints pertaining to the New Territorial Governance in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia by Mourad Ben Jelloul

“…And in order to reduce territorial inequity public authorities committed themselves on the one hand to major projects in the field of infrastructure and large-scale public facilities, on the other hand to deep-reaching institutional and legislative reforms namely by issuing and adopting the new Local Authorities Code and Urban Planning Code. Indeed, the analysis of the reconfiguration of territorial policies in Tunisia after 2011 is likely to allow us to highlight the difficulty of shifting from a highly centralized model to one that takes into consideration local authority players and citizen participation. …”
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Evaluation of state administration performance in improving access to education in rural areas of Indonesia by Daniel T Todapa

“…The disparities in access to educational services between urban and rural areas in Indonesia are varied, encompassing social, economic, and cultural aspects. …”
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Simplified Method for Calculating the Active Earth Pressure on Retaining Walls of Narrow Backfill Width Based on DEM Analysis by Minghui Yang, Bo Deng

“…Spaces for backfills are often constrained and narrowed when retaining walls must be built close to existing stable walls in urban areas or near rock faces in mountainous areas. …”
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The Influence of Pile-Beam-Arch Construction on the Stratum and Station Support Structure by Nan Liu, Xiao Tong, Longfei Chang, Yong Lv

“…The PBA construction method is suitable for urban subway construction in situations with dense traffic and many surrounding buildings and can effectively reduce surface disturbance and control surface subsidence. …”
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Weavers, embroiderers, and armadoras in Yucatan: New and old work classes at home by Jimena Méndez-Navarro, María de Jesús Ávila-Sánchez

“…The findings suggest there are a set of factors connected to the proto-industry theory, specifically the relationship between the urban and rural, the extraterritorial market that strengthens the labor relationship between works and the commercial capital in the economic expansion of the state of Yucatan, Mexico.…”
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Multidimensional Determinants of National Food Security in Azerbaijan: an Application of the ARDL Approach by Ragif Huseynov

“…The ARDL model suggested that food import, exchange rate, inflation, climate change, and urban population growth harm national food security dynamics of Azerbaijan. …”
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The Influence Mechanism of BIM on Green Building Engineering Project Management under the Background of Big Data by Ning Feng

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Digital Financial Inclusion, Spatial Spillover, and Household Consumption: Evidence from China by Yao Li, Haiming Long, Jiajun Ouyang

“…Further analysis based on subsamples finds that the effect of digital financial inclusion on household consumption is more considerable for rural households than for urban households.…”
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Study of Complex Helical Drill with a “S” Type Chisel Edge Tip Orient to Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics by Yu He, Xiaolong Zhou, Ping Zou, Kun Liu

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Graph-based service recommendation in Social Internet of Things by Yuanyi Chen, Yanyun Tao, Zengwei Zheng, Dan Chen

“…In this study, we focus on the problem of service recommendation in Social Internet of Things, which is very important for many applications such as urban computing, smart cities, and health care. We propose a graph-based service recommendation framework by jointly considering social relationships of heterogeneous objects in Social Internet of Things and user’s preferences. …”
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Analysis of Stress Characteristics and the Engineering Application of the Self-Balancing Retaining Wall by Fei Gan, XiaoMing Ye, Ke Yin, Meilin Li, Jing Bi

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Capital of Feedback by Nina Stener Jørgensen

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Les services de Santé Sexuelle et Reproductive en Tunisie. Résultats d’une recherche qualitative auprès des jeunes usagers by Atf Gherissi, Francine Tinsa

“…A content analysis was carried out on the basis of group-centered interviews with 42 young people from three urban, rural and suburb environments. The data collection and analysis respected the integrity of the respondents (World Medical Association, 2008) such as anonymity, confidentiality, freedom to participate in the group interviews and to answer the questions in the preferred language. …”
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Splitting Travel Time Based on AFC Data: Estimating Walking, Waiting, Transfer, and In-Vehicle Travel Times in Metro System by Yong-Sheng Zhang, En-Jian Yao

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Le tourisme communautaire dans la ville néolibérale ? Réflexions sur un quartier populaire de Buenos Aires by Triana Sánchez Attanasio

“…Cet article analyse un projet gouvernemental appelé « Urban Community Tourism » (OCT) qui vise à rapprocher deux quartiers populaires de la ville de Buenos Aires de l’activité touristique. …”
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TEORINĖS KARTOGRAFIJOS PROBLEMOS: VILNIAUS ATVEJIS by Nerijus Milerius

“…THEORETICAL PROBLEMS OF CARTOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF VILNIUS Nerijus Milerius Summary The article deals with one of the most controversial subject of contemporary urban thought, namely, theoretical aspects of cartography. …”
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New Geographical Regionalization of Russia by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…For each region area, population size and density, level of urbanization, natural, mechanical and overall population growth, GDP per capita, the structure of employment, Human Development Index were counted, and the appropriate analysis were made.…”
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Specific receptor usage in Plasmodium falciparum cytoadherence is associated with disease outcome. by Lucy B Ochola, Bethsheba R Siddondo, Harold Ocholla, Siana Nkya, Eva N Kimani, Thomas N Williams, Johnstone O Makale, Anne Liljander, Britta C Urban, Pete C Bull, Tadge Szestak, Kevin Marsh, Alister G Craig

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