Rising groundwater table due to restoration projects amplifies earthquake induced liquefaction risk in Beijing by Yuan Li, Rui Wang, Hongbo Ma, Jian-Min Zhang

“…We find a remarkable increase in coverage and severity of liquefaction due to groundwater table rise. Infrastructures built during the rapid urbanization process are often under low groundwater table and thus illy prepared for this increased seismic risk. …”
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Sustainable Mobility in B5G/6G: V2X Technology Trends and Use Cases by Sandra Roger, Carmen Botella-Mascarell, David Martin-Sacristan, David Garcia-Roger, Jose F. Monserrat, Tommy Svensson

“…In this context, intelligent transportation systems, including connected and autonomous vehicles, will be key for developing affordable and sustainable infrastructures and services. We start by identifying three current technology trends, namely, towards climate neutral; cloudification and edge computing; and Big Data and artificial intelligence, and then we examine their capability to enable sustainable Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication systems in beyond 5G and 6G networks. …”
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Heat transfer software for local materials in Cameroon (HTSLM 1.0): simplified building energy software based on local realities by Lynda Phalone Ndjonnou Tchawa, Lucien Mandeng Mandeng, Joël Durel Tchinang Tchameu, Ramses Tanankem Menkem, Florian Kamsu Kom, Jacques Lionel Ntamag, Joseph Pondi

“…The curves obtained for hourly indoor temperatures for the chosen days in the five climatic zones defined for the software, all show a realistic bell-shaped evolution, thus prefiguring a digital decision support tool for such admitted infrastructures to be made of materials from the Local Materials Promotion Authority of Cameroon.…”
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Performance-Based Seismic Fragility and Risk Assessment of Five-Span Continuous Rigid Frame Bridges by Fangwen Wu, Jingwen Zhou, Yangyang Zhao, Guangqian Wang, Wenlong Tang, Jianfei Luo, Usama Ibrahim, Yuanying Meng

“…Earthquakes can cause serious damage to traffic infrastructures, among which the impact on bridge structure is the most important. …”
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Assessing the degree of innovative readiness of systemic transformation of management in the context of transition to the sixth technological paradigm by N. M. Kalinina, N. A. Kulik

“…The relevance of the study is due to the need for Russia to actively enter the new post-industrial technological paradigm of the sixth generation, which requires not only an infrastructural basis, but also a scientific and managerial potential. …”
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Stratégies territoriales amérindiennes dans un contexte pluri-ethnique : la région de Auaris (Roraima) by François-Michel Le Tourneau

“…Inhabited by near than 2 200 people, Sanuma and Ye’kuana, it has also seen the installation of several “white” infrastructures, thus showing a great diversity of actors. …”
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A Database for the Future by Sören Edvinsson, Elisabeth Engberg

“…The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. …”
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A Database for the Future by Sören Edvinsson, Elisabeth Engberg

“…The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. …”
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A new IoT low-cost bi-directional wire extensometer for landslide monitoring by Daniele Cifaldi, Davide Mazza, Francesco Maria Guadagno, Paola Revellino

“…The monitoring of slopes’ dynamics is essential to ensure the safety of infrastructures exposed to landslide risk and to develop mitigation strategies. …”
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3-Dimensional Dense Coverage: Opportunities and Challenges for Future Mobile Communications by Wei Chen, Dongming Wang, Jiaheng Wang, Feifei Gao, Muheng Peng

“…No doubt such an ever-increasing demand cannot be met by simply relying on the improvement of either physical layer transmission techniques or planar cellular infrastructures. As an emerging network architecture aiming to future metropolitan patterns, 3-deminsional dense coverage is expected to provide a novel spectrum reuse methodology, significantly improving the spectrum efficiency of mobile communication systems through spectrum reuse in the third dimension beyond the planar dimensions. …”
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Web-of-Objects Based User-Centric Semantic Service Composition Methodology in the Internet of Things by Safina Showkat Ara, Zia Ush Shamszaman, Ilyoung Chong

“…The general goal of the Web-of-Objects (WoO) is to simplify object and application deployment, maintenance, and operation of IoT infrastructures. WoO also aim to provide user-centric IoT service by enabling object virtualization and semantic ontology based service composition. …”
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Une société montagnarde à l’épreuve des inondations : entre vulnérabilité et stratégies d’adaptation by Dominique Baud 

“…Historical archives document the impacts (damage or destruction of infrastructures, victims, destroyed roads, engraved fields, etc.) over the last centuries and make it possible to understand the efficiency of past risk management methods. …”
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Study on the Confidence and Reliability of the Mean Seismic Probability Risk Model by Xiao-Lei Wang, Da-Gang Lu

“…The mean seismic probability risk model has widely been used in seismic design and safety evaluation of critical infrastructures. In this paper, the confidence levels analysis and error equations derivation of the mean seismic probability risk model are conducted. …”
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Enabling Environment for Early Childhood Development: A Narrative Study of Preschools in Nepal by Ramila Subedi, Milan Shrestha

“…These challenges were narrated to have been occurred basically because of infrastructural constraints and divergent attitude of parents regarding how their children had to be learning at school. …”

Curating life in vacant spaces: Community action research and reversing the process of academic knowledge-making by Kelly Dombroski, Rachael Shiels, Hannah Watkinson

“…In order to recognise this ‘reversed’ order, our article utilises a reversed structure, using the concept of thinking infrastructures to understand what academic research adds to the knowledges already produced in community impact. …”
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Les nuits contestataires des néo-charbonniers du Vercors : un chronotope forestier au service d’une hétérotopie by Christophe Baticle, Philippe Hanus

“…For around two decades the charcoal burning festivals of the Vercors have been bringing together a group of individuals – with libertarian and/or ecologist aspirations – for the space of a few weeks to produce an unusual chronotope with the support of the local inhabitants: the erection then carbonisation of a charcoal pit in the forest, around which will be added the village of the “neo-wood colliers” and the festive infrastructures according to the rhythm furnished by the progress of the combustion, in the fashion of a heterotopia contesting daytime life in the valley. …”
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Privacy-preserving security of IoT networks: A comparative analysis of methods and applications by Abubakar Wakili, Sara Bakkali

“…This study serves as a valuable resource for academia, industry professionals, and policymakers, providing guidance to strengthen IoT infrastructures and influence the direction of future research.…”
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“Baboons on the road again”: Survey of vehicle occupants on a road crossing a national park in Uganda by Jovia Nabuule, Fantine Benoit, Louise Robinet, Peter Isingoma, David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Harold Rugonge, Sabrina Krief, Odile Petit, Audrey Maille

“…Infrastructures such as roads or railways fragment the forests, but they are also places of encounter between humans and wildlife. …”
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Evolution and diversity of institutions: Using institutional grammar to analyze governance changes in traditional crop-livestock systems by Irene Pérez-Ibarra, Alicia Tenza-Peral, Diego Soler-Navarro, Diego Arahuetes-de la Iglesia, Carmen Garate-Marín

“…Our objective was to analyze the institutional arrangements used over the last few decades relative to sharing common resources (pastures and water) and maintaining public infrastructures. Results show great diversity in institutional arrangements in the farming communities studied, associated mainly with the type of property rights of pastures (communal, public, private) and the level of collective actions needed in response to endogenous and exogenous drivers of change. …”
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L’accès ouvert est-il l’avenir des revues de recherche architecturale et urbaine ? by Béatrice Gaillard, Laurence Bizien, Véronique Cohoner

“…After presenting a state of the art of the resources available online and the active role of libraries in promoting this format of scientific dissemination, the present article takes stock of the conditions for setting up open access within the disciplines concerned: the importance of a support policy and the taking into account of economic issues, the sustainability of the staff working on their writing and dissemination infrastructures, the assurance of a reliable quality process in the face of the proliferation of preprints versus the requirements of funding organizations and the obstacles of the current model for evaluating researchers. …”
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