Understanding the Internet of Nano Things: overview, trends, and challenges by Mainor Alberto Cruz Alvarado, Patricia Alejandra Bazán

“… Over the years, technological advancements have led to rapid growth of smart environments (offices, homes, cities, etc.). The increase of intelligent environments suggests the interconnectivity of applications and the use of the Internet. …”
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Low-Power Wake-Up Receivers for Resilient Cellular Internet of Things by Siyu Wang, Trevor J. Odelberg, Peter W. Crary, Mason P. Obery, David D. Wentzloff

“…Smart Cities leverage large networks of wirelessly connected nodes embedded with sensors and/or actuators. …”
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Measuring Accessibility of Green Spaces for the Health and Wellbeing of Inhabitants of the Milan Metropolitan Area by Maria Chiara Pastore, Claudia Ida Maria Parenti, Corinna Patetta

“…Several studies have recognised the importance of urban green spaces (UGSs) in modern cities. However, the distribution and accessibility of green spaces represent a challenge for the sustainable development of territories in terms of fair distribution, reducing inequalities, and mitigating the effects of climate change, such as urban heat islands and runoff. …”
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Creating accountable hospital service areas in China: a case analysis of health expenditure in the metropolis of Chengdu by Jay Pan, Peiya Cao, Xiaoshuang Zhao, Yili Yang

“…Objectives To delineate hospital service areas (HSAs) using the Dartmouth approach in China and identify the hypothesised demand-side, supply-side and region-specific factors of health expenditure within HSAs.Design Population-based descriptive study.Setting We selected the metropolis of Chengdu, one of the three most populous cities in China as a case for the analysis, where approximately 16.33 million residents living.Participants Individual-level in-patient discharge records (n=904 298) during the fourth quarter of 2018 (from 1 September to 31 December) were extracted from Sichuan Health Commission. …”
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Sustainable Architectural Design Under the Effect of Global Warming by Nihal Zengin, Ruşen Yamaçlı

“…For this reason, by proposing Biophilic Design, it has been determined that the need for air conditioning and energy consumption will decrease, and thus more sustainable cities will emerge by reducing greenhouse gas and gaseous reactive nitrogen compounds emissions. …”
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Construction land transition in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its eco-environmental effects during 2000-2020 by ZHANG Zining, LUO Junqiang, ZHANG Peilei, RONG Han, LIU Haiyang, AN Shuang, CHANG Genying

“…The primary areas of change were the Qinghai Plateau and the Qaidam Basin, with significant changes observed in provincial capitals along river valleys, industrial cities in the basins, and tourist cities. (2) In earlier years, construction land mainly transitioned to cropland and grassland, while in later years, it primarily converted to water bodies and water conservancy land. …”
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Dilthey and Darwin Combined? 19th Century Geisteswissenschaft for 21st Century Cultural Science by Herrmann-Pillath Carsten

“…New disciplines, with Cultural Science and Technosphere Science as prime examples, must be established to cope with the challenges of our times: where human agency, culture and technology have blurred long-established boundaries separating nature, culture and society; where identity and meaning have become global, fluid, contested and reflexive phenomena; and where nature (the environment) and culture (cities) are inextricably interrelated in the dynamics of the emergent Anthropocene system.…”
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Learning from Large-Scale Wearable Device Data for Predicting the Epidemic Trend of COVID-19 by Guokang Zhu, Jia Li, Zi Meng, Yi Yu, Yanan Li, Xiao Tang, Yuling Dong, Guangxin Sun, Rui Zhou, Hui Wang, Kongqiao Wang, Wang Huang

“…In this study, we propose a framework, which is based on the heart rate and sleep data collected from wearable devices, to predict the epidemic trend of COVID-19 in different countries and cities. In addition to a physiological anomaly detection algorithm defined based on data from wearable devices, an online neural network prediction modelling methodology combining both detected physiological anomaly rate and historical COVID-19 infection rate is explored. …”
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Improving VANETs Connectivity with a Totally Ad Hoc Living Mobile Backbone by Joilson Alves Junior, Emilio C. G. Wille

“…The topology can be fully connected when the flow of vehicles is high and may have low connectivity or be invalid when the flow of vehicles is low or unbalanced. In big cities, the metropolitan buses that travel on exclusive lanes may be used to set up a metropolitan vehicular data network (backbone), raising the connectivity among the vehicles. …”
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Differences in Energy Consumption in Electric Vehicles: An Exploratory Real-World Study in Beijing by Kezhen Hu, Jianping Wu, Tim Schwanen

“…Electric vehicles (EVs) are widely regarded as a promising solution to reduce air pollution in cities and key to a low carbon mobility future. However, their environmental benefits depend on the temporal and spatial context of actual usage (journey energy efficiency) and the rolling out of EVs is complicated by issues such as limited range. …”
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Harris Hawk Optimization Combined with Differential Evolution for the Estimation of Solar Cell Parameters by Francelin Edgar Ndi, Steve Ngoffe Perabi, Salome Essiane Ndjakomo, Gregoire Ondoua Abessolo

“…Solar photovoltaic (PV) energy is now more than ever at the heart of many cities’ policies. Improving the efficiency of PV systems is a current research goal. …”
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A Parameterized Method for Air-Quality Diagnosis and Its Applications by J. Z. Wang, S. L. Gong, X. Y. Zhang, Y. Q. Yang, Q. Hou, C. H. Zhou, Y. Q. Wang

“…A parameterized method is developed to diagnose the air quality in Beijing and other cities with an index termed (parameters linking air-quality to meteorological elements PLAM) derived from a correlation between PM10 and relevant weather elements based on the data between 2000 and 2007. …”
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Decolonizing Literary Studies: Unveiling Postcolonial Narratives in Post-Yugoslav Academic Curricula* by Sara Vukotić, Darko Ilin

“…This paper investigates the presence, or absence, of postcolonial theory in literature curricula within humanities faculties in the former Yugoslav countries’ capital cities. This research is based on the close interconnection of literature and postcolonial theory, whose origins lie within the literary representation of colonization relations. …”
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Dealing with Demand in Electric Grids with an Adaptive Consumption Management Platform by Diego M. Jiménez-Bravo, Juan F. De Paz, Gabriel Villarrubia, Javier Bajo

“…The control of consumption in homes and workplaces is an increasingly important aspect if we consider the growing popularity of smart cities, the increasing use of renewable energies, and the policies of the European Union on using energy in an efficient and clean way. …”
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Decentralized identifiers based IoT data trusted collection by Baitao Zhang, Rui Shi, Xiaolin Li, Mengjiao Zhang

“…These challenges are particularly critical in sectors such as smart healthcare, smart homes, and smart cities, where users often lack direct ownership or control over IoT devices. …”
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A human-machine integrated optimization method for long walkway space by Yating Wang, Zijun Wang, Hui Wang

“…With the development of cities, the design of long walkway spaces have exposed a series of issues. …”
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Online hotel ratings and its influence on hotel room rates: the case of Lisbon, Portugal by Conceição Castro, Fernanda A. Ferreira

“…Lisbon is one of the European Union cities that has one of the highest growth in the number of hotels. …”
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Assessment of Earthquake Risk in Urban Development Areas by Seyran Büşra Gök, Merve Yavaş

“…In Erzurum, one of the cities with high earthquake risk in Turkey, the extent to which the disaster is taken into account in the process of shaping the urban space, especially in new development areas, was investigated. …”
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Legal protection of KSPPS members in the use of the exoneration clause in Central Java by Moh. Arifin, Ali Maskur, Afif Noor

“…This research was conducted at KSPPS in Central Java by taking samples from five districts / cities based on residency areas. The results of this study indicate that the standard agreement containing the exoneration clause is still often used by KSPPS, therefore it is necessary to disseminate information to cooperative managers and cooperative members in order to minimize the use of standard agreements containing exoneration clauses so that the rights of the parties can be fulfilled and avoid elements of defects of will which is contrary to the principles in the agreement.…”
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Swede Midge (Contarinia nasturtii Keiffer) Phenology and Management in Minnesota Community Gardens by Cindy Tong, Eric Burkness, Jonathan Dregni, Mary Rogers, Angie Ambourn, Jonathan Osthus

“…Since 2014, when continuous trapping began in Minnesota, USA, it has primarily been found in community gardens in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. Trapping data obtained at Saint Paul community gardens over 3 years indicated that swede midge phenology in any particular garden varied from year to year. …”
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