A techno-economic study on the utilisation of airborne wind energy for reverse osmosis seawater desalination by Mahdi Ebrahimi Salari, Milad Zabihi, Jimmy Murphy

“…Airborne wind energy is an emerging technology that can harness stronger and more consistent winds in higher altitudes using less mechanical and civil infrastructures than conventional wind energy systems. …”
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Barriers and Enablers of AI Adoption in Human Resource Management: A Critical Analysis of Organizational and Technological Factors by Mitra Madanchian, Hamed Taherdoost

“…This paper presents a complex analysis that questions the common perception of AI as only disruptive by delving into the relationship between power dynamics, corporate culture, and technology infrastructures. In this paper, we bring together research from several fields to help scholars and practitioners understand the nuances of AI adoption in HRM, with an emphasis on the importance of inclusive methods and ethical frameworks.…”
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Borehole heat exchangers in coastal areas may reduce heatwave seagrass loss by Rotman Criollo, Víctor Vilarrasa, Alejandro Orfila, Núria Marbà, Angels Fernández-Mora

“…Borehole heat exchangers (BHE), a renewable heat source from the ground used for thermal regulation of infrastructures, could significantly reduce CO2 emissions. …”
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3D Limit Analysis of the Transient Stability of Slope during Pile Driving in Nonhomogeneous and Anisotropic Soil by Pingping Rao, Jian Wu, Zhihao Mo

“…In addition, these results highlight that the adverse effects of pile driving on slope stability should be highly concerned during the design of geotechnical infrastructures, rather than emphasizing the reinforcement effect of a pile only.…”
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Tooling with ethics in technology: a scoping review of responsible research and innovation tools by Julian “Iñaki” Goñi, Eugenia Rodrigues, Maria Jesus Parga, Martín Illanes, María José Millán

“…We find that (1) these tools tend to frame responsibility as general training or aimed at the development phase of technologies, while monitoring is underrepresented. (2) These toolkits often lack substantive conceptualisations of ethics ignoring contested paradigms. (3) Emerging digital and biotechnologies are over-represented in relation to other socio-technical infrastructures, and (4) there is a risk of a PDF-ization of ethics, as most toolkits are materially constructed as reading material and checklists. …”
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How civilian casualty information shapes support for US involvement in an ally country’s war effort by Alon P. Kraitzman, Tom W. Etienne, Dolores Albarracin

“…This paper examines how information about civilian casualties and infrastructural damage, commonly found in media coverage, shapes public opinion on whether the US should provide military, diplomatic, and economic aid to foreign nations. …”
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A Model for the Analysis of Ultimate Capacity of RC and PC Corroded Beams by Antonino Recupero, Nino Spinella, Francesco Tondolo

“…Corrosion of steel in reinforced and prestressed concrete beams is very common for structures and infrastructures. It can drastically reduce the resisting section of rebar, modify the mechanical response of the steel rebar, and also determine cracking of the surrounding concrete because of the volume expansion effect of rust. …”
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Typologie des auréoles bocagères en milieu rural by Ion Lucian Ceapraz, Elisa Marraccini, Anne-Maïmiti Dulaurent-Mercadal, Antoine Lacheré, Marie-Cécile Lombart, Sylvane Rava, Anne Combaud

“…Their state of preservation can not be correlated with technical and economic trends, with typologies of municipalities, or with the presence of road infrastructures. The study reveals the importance of taking into account the historical background of the territory and the shortcomings of a statistical method which does not provide a sufficiently detailed picture of the local landscape.…”
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L’indispensable accès à internet à la campagne : la capillarisation de l'information au Brésil et en France by Mait Bertollo

“…An analysis of the players involved in the development, dissemination and connection of these systems and their impact on agricultural production can provide answers on the use of IoT in the Brazilian countryside and also in the French countryside, in the second step, as a possibility to mitigate the disparities between large and small producers through the dissemination and trivialization of the use of information technologies and internet infrastructures in the context of family farming, taking advantage of the diverse knowledge of small and medium-sized producers, actions in cooperatives and the strengthening of food production and agroecology.…”
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Trajectoires géographiques et paysagères de friches sportives en montagne by Laurent Astrade, Marie Forget, Christophe Gauchon, Camille Girault, Caroline Meynet

“…From an observation of the current traces in the landscape complemented by documentary, cartographic and dendro-chronological analyses of three sites in the Vercors (Gresse-en-Vercors, the Arzelier pass and Saint-Nizier-du-Moucherotte), we study the dynamics of their abandonment through time and space. The infrastructures linked to the ski lifts that remain in place are often particularly significant and evocative, but they are the least prevalent remains and many other landscape markers, such as earthworks and woodlands, allow us to reconstruct the recent yet partly forgotten history of these sites developed as winter resorts. …”
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An edge cloud–based body data sensing architecture for artificial intelligence computation by TaeYoung Kim, JongBeom Lim

“…Our cloud storage architecture is designed to support both stateful and stateless applications, which are compatible with traditional infrastructures and provide server consolidation with a CPU-aware scheduling of virtual machines. …”
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Olive Tourism motivations, activities and experiences: Perspectives from a Portuguese Delphi Panel by Francisco Dias, Fernanda Oliveira

“…The olive heritage is a central element of many of the Mediterranean rural territories and is the basis for the development of a range of infrastructures, activities and experiences that make up olive tourism. …”
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Physicalities in Transition: The Case of Hydropower Dams in French Alpine Valleys by Emmanuelle Santoire, Jean Desroche, Romain Garcier

“…It asks a simple question: does the energy transition agenda affect the materiality of infrastructures which remains ostensibly identical? To answer this question, we use Philippe Descola’s distinction between materiality and physicality and apply it to a case study of the Sautet hydroelectric dam in the French Alps. …”
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Effects of Concrete on Propagation Characteristics of Guided Wave in Steel Bar Embedded in Concrete by Zhupeng Zheng, Ying Lei

“…Techniques based on ultrasonic guided waves (UGWs) play important roles in the structural health monitoring (SHM) of large-scale civil infrastructures. In this paper, dispersion equations of longitudinal wave propagation in reinforced concrete member are investigated for the purpose of monitoring steels embedded in concrete. …”
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Al-Ḥudayyda sous occupation ottomane (1849-1918) by Patrice Chevalier

“…The town is then chosen as one of the strategic points (military and political) of the Ottoman colonial system.Thanks to the various infrastructures set up by the Ottoman administration, but thanks also to the opening of Suez canal in 1869, al- Ḥudayyda slowly attracts a multiethnic and cosmopolitan population: a part of it having come for trading aims, another part just taking refuge in the town, the political context being quiet unsettled in the area. …”
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Les TIC et la surveillance des zones maritimes sensibles. Penser globalement, agir localement by Mélanie Fournier

“…Even if in recent decades information systems have modified the geographical space and allowed the acceleration of decision making, the role of the information in a conflict is not new (alert, deciphering, jamming, damaging the enemy’s infrastructures, destabilization etc.). Nevertheless from a technical point of view the industrialists began the trend of the integrated systems. …”
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The Other California by Neeraj Bhatia

“…The surface, container and conduit have become the primary infrastructural formats for logistics, operating and negotiating the scale of urbanism and landscape. …”
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La production d’un paysage par et pour le ski by Caterina Franco

“…Indeed, the creation of ski resorts is not only realised by the implantation of buildings and infrastructures at high altitudes. On the contrary, various components of the environment such as the forest, the morphology of the soil and the hydrography are modified. …”
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Deconstructing esports by Tom Legierse, Maria Ruotsalainen

“…Building on scholarship that highlights inequities in (competitive) gaming and esports, we identify four ways in which bodies are made relevant in esports: 1) the obscuring of the playing body and establishment of an idealized and normative masculine athletic body; 2) the ‘visibility’ of women's bodies as deviant from the norm; 3) the invisibility (and impossibility) of disabled bodies through design (embodied nature of design of both games and gameplay); and 4) the embodied nature of infrastructural issues that cannot be reduced to materiality. …”
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Quelques considérations sur la spatialité du cycliste et sa traversée du paysage à vélo by Hervé Davodeau

“…Particular attention is paid to these roads, not only as infrastructures from which the landscape is perceived, but as objects of the landscape themselves with their own qualities (what is a beautiful road from the point of view of a cyclist?). …”
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