Bridge Assessment and Health Monitoring with Distributed Long-Gauge FBG Sensors by Chunfeng Wan, Wan Hong, Jianxun Liu, Zhishen Wu, Zhaodong Xu, Shu Li

“…It shows that structural assessment and health monitoring based on the proposed technique have great potential in maintenance of civil engineering infrastructures.…”
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Autogobierno y modernización de Galicia durante las cuatro últimas décadas by Xoaquín Fernández Leiceaga, Santiago Lago Peñas

“…European funds have facilitated development and companies have been able to adapt to a more internationalized environment. The infrastructures have improved. Difficulties persist: regressive demographics, the abandonment of fertile agricultural land or the difficulty in attracting foreign investment. …”
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Une ponction dans le fonds Paul Guadet : les plans de pose du revêtement de l’Hôtel Carnot, 1906-1908 by Valentin Gillet

“…Previously only realised in infrastructural projects and industrial buildings, the introduction of reinforced-concrete frames in domestic and commercial architecture during the first years of the twentieth century in Paris required new solutions for the infill and the cladding of such filigree structures. …”
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Barriers and trust: Perceptions of the healthcare system among Roma mothers in Serbia by Pantović Ljiljana, Đorđević Ivan

“…While pediatric services are generally perceived positively, significant infrastructural obstacles, especially in rural areas, hinder access to healthcare facilities. …”
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Le paysage périurbain, outil de coopération entre métropoles européennes alpines by Aurore Meyfroidt

“…This article provides feedback on a project for the creation of a network of metropolitan areas combining landscapes and green infrastructures. The diversity of terrains and the inter-cultural context raise questions about how public landscape policies are defined, in the sense that these are conditioned by the respective positions of stakeholders in an action research perspective. …”
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Static Testing of a Bridge Using an Interferometric Radar: The Case Study of “Ponte degli Alpini,” Belluno, Italy by Devis Dei, Daniele Mecatti, Massimiliano Pieraccini

“…Ground-based radar interferometry is an increasingly popular technique for monitoring civil infrastructures. In this paper, the static testing of a bridge is reported. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…It successively identifies and defines the urban design practises predominantly influenced by the “plant” component, and which involve the notions of the embellishment, re-enchantment and "re-naturing" of open spaces, and the practises that specifically concern the landscape component of the parks, “green and blue” infrastructures, and “extra-urban” spaces of different neighbourhoods, suburbs and garden cities. …”
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Cholec80-Boxes: Bounding Box Labelling Data for Surgical Tools in Cholecystectomy Images by Tamer Abdulbaki Alshirbaji, Nour Aldeen Jalal, Herag Arabian, Alberto Battistel, Paul David Docherty, Hisham ElMoaqet, Thomas Neumuth, Knut Moeller

“…Acquiring surgical data is challenging due to ethical constraints and the complexity of establishing data recording infrastructures. For machine learning tasks, there is also the large burden of data labelling. …”
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Impediments for the Uptake of the Botswana Government's Male Circumcision Initiative for HIV Prevention by Motshedisi Sabone, Mabel Magowe, Lesego Busang, Jonathan Moalosi, Benjamin Binagwa, Janet Mwambona

“…The impediments were organized into sociocultural factors, knowledge/informational factors, and infrastructural and system factors.…”
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L’inadéquation entre l’offre et la demande d’éducation au Nord Cameroun : le cas du Département du Logone- et- Chari by Collins Etienne Kana

“…The objective is to address the infrastructural deficit, which is seen as the major cause of low school enrollment across the country, particularly in it northern part. …”
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Technology for Good? Tencent’s Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Chameleon, and the Future of Platform Economies by Luzhou Li, Zhian Zhang

“…However, while Tencent’s enhanced CSR initiatives have certainly yielded some social benefits, the SSV initiatives are increasingly emerging as a new business frontier for the company, leveraging its vast infrastructural capacities to capitalize on the very social fabric it purports to support. …”
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Ethical Reflections on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Construction of Smart Cities by Bingjie Wang

“…With the increasing reliance and demand for artificial intelligence in the construction of smart cities, AI has been embedded in various applications and infrastructures. However, uncertainties, concerns, and even fears about AI are constantly emerging. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…Firstly, viability hints at the infrastructural aspects, such as when Soninke speakers imagine kinship as a road or a network of roads connecting and channelling kinsfolk. …”
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Cartografia do saneamento básico do Rio Grande do Norte by Lucas Costa Rodrigues, Joselito da Silveira Junior, Izabela Cristiane de Lima Silva, Aldo Dantas

“…The objective of this article is to present a summary of the situation of basic sanitation in Rio Grande do Norte State, based on the spatial mapping of certain variables that characterize the state from the institutional point of view, the norms and infrastructures of sanitation services, presenting the current situation of water supply, sanitary sewage, management and management of solid waste and urban drainage and management of rainwater in the State. …”
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Rating Agencies in Russia and their Influence on Subfederal Borrowing by O. I. Larina, N. V. Moryzhenkova

“…This article analyzes the infrastructural component of the market of subfederal and municipal borrowings - rating agencies in Russia. …”
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Viabilità relazionale: una prospettiva im/mobile delle relazioni nel Gambia transnazionale by Paolo Gaibazzi

“…Firstly, viability hints at the infrastructural aspects, such as when Soninke speakers imagine kinship as a road or a network of roads connecting and channelling kinsfolk. …”
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Acque, fiumi e progetti utopici nel paesaggio veneto by Matteo Proto

“…This initiative failure raises today the issue of reutilization of the expropriated areas in the global context of environmental and infrastructural challenges, faced by the Veneto.…”
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Sprawl urbano em Londrina e os desafios para o planejamento urbano by Maurício Polidoro, José Augusto de Lollo, Osvaldo Coelho Pereira Neto

“…In consequence of this process, the infrastructures, a major component of urban development and the more costly to the Government, are increasingly scattered and obsolete due to the unplanned occupation of the soil of the city. …”
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Numerical analysis of reinforced concrete beams pre-cracked reinforced by composite materials by Fatima Benaoum, Foudil Khelil, Ali Benhamena

“…The mechanical properties of concrete and steels are likely to deteriorate depending on the environmental conditions defined by the geographic location of infrastructures in civil engineering. In this field, external bonding of FRP plates or sheets is one of the most popular methods for strengthening reinforced concrete structures. …”
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Preserving Differential Privacy for Similarity Measurement in Smart Environments by Kok-Seng Wong, Myung Ho Kim

“…Advances in both sensor technologies and network infrastructures have encouraged the development of smart environments to enhance people’s life and living styles. …”
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