Playing is sharing. La condivisione e il tempo libero nelle reti sociali di gioco by Aurelio Castro

“…To many people playing is a substantial part of their free time and has become an opportunity to create societal networks, spaces for participation, identity but also opportunities for consumption and sharing. …”
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Gestão ambiental integrada na Região Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro: a avaliação de impactos cumulativos e sinérgicos entre cidades milionárias – o exemplo da baia de Sepetiba (RJ... by Augusto César Pinheiro da Silva, Andressa de Oliveira Spata, Marcelle da Silva Coelho Lima

“…Among them, there are the metropolitan ones, which are made up of highly populated municipalities, undergoing major environmental transformations associated with industrial enterprises in spaces with expressive environmental resources, such as large water mirrors. …”
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How Architecture Builds Intelligence: Lessons from AI by Nikos A. Salingaros

“…The architecture in the title refers to physical buildings, spaces, and walls. Dominant architectural culture prefers minimalist environments that contradict the information setting needed for the infant brain to develop. …”
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The Potentials and Limitations of Agent-Based Models for Urban Digital Twins: Insights From a Surveillance and Behavioral Nudging Simulation by Sarah Shtaierman, Catarina Fontes, Christoph Lütge

“…To this end, we designed a simulation environment that includes cameras in public spaces and wearable sensors, and considers nudging and self-nudging processes supported by a surveillance apparatus. …”
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Equilibrium distance from long-range dune interactions by J. Vérité, C. Narteau, O. Rozier, J. Alkalla, L. Barrier, S. Courrech du Pont

“…Depending on the initial spacing, dunes either attract or repel each other to eventually converge towards a steady-state spacing. …”
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Evaluation of the Efficiency of Heat Exchanger Channels with Different Flow Turbulence Methods Using the Entropy Generation Minimization Criterion by Piotr Bogusław Jasiński, Grzegorz Górecki, Zbigniew Cebulski

“…The tested insert consisted of spaced streamline-shaped flow turbulizing the elements fixed in the axis of the pipe and spaced at equal distances from each other. …”
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Hierarchical structure Fe@CNFs@Co/C elastic aerogels with intelligent electromagnetic wave absorption by Hongwei Zhou, Ying Lin, Yongzhen Ma, Luyao Han, Zhixin Cai, Yan Cheng, Qibin Yuan, Wenhuan Huang, Haibo Yang, Renchao Che

“…The uniform distribution of metal particles and appropriate layer spacing can effectively optimize the impedance matching to achieve the best EMW absorption performance. …”
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Study on smoke spreading behavior under multi-point centralized smoke extraction in tunnel fires by Houlin Ying, Weibing Jiao, Zhisheng Xu, Jiaming Zhao, Zihan Yu

“…The research variables include heat release rate (HRR), exhaust volume, vent spacing, and total area of open vents. Results show that increasing the exhaust volume decreases the maximum temperature rise (ΔTmax), while increasing the other three factors increases the maximum temperature rise. …”
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Molecular dynamics and machine learning unlock possibilities in beauty design—A perspective by Yuzhi Xu, Haowei Ni, Fanyu Zhao, Qinhui Gao, Ziqing Zhao, Chia-Hua Chang, Yanran Huo, Shiyu Hu, Yike Zhang, Radu Grovu, Hermione He, John Z. H. Zhang, Yuanqing Wang

“…Machine learning methodologies can also facilitate physical modeling, from improving the accuracy of force fields and extending them to unseen chemical spaces to more directly enhancing the sampling on the conformational spaces. …”
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Seismic Behavior and Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Short Columns Impacted by Oblique Earthquakes by Chunyang Liu, Guixin Yu, Xisen Fan, Changqun Guo, Fei Li

“…The studied parameters include the loading angle, axial compression ratio, the high-strength stirrups with small spacing, and the carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) wrapped column end or outer steel plate mesh at the end of the column. …”
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On θ-generalized closed sets by Julian Dontchev, Haruo Maki

“…Furthermore, generalized Λ-sets [16] are extended to θ-generalized Λ-sets and R0-, T1/2- and T1-spaces are characterized. The relations with other notions directly or indirectly connected with generalized closed sets are investigated. …”
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Circulations à la frontière entre Kurdes d’Irak et Kurdes d’Iran. by Cyril Roussel

“…On the outskirts of Iran, spaces as Iraqi Kurdistan – like in Dubai where the situation is well known - benefit of the protectionist policy of the Islamic Republic and the cross-border differential to implement a significant illegal trade. …”
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Multiplicity of positive solutions to semilinear elliptic boundary value problems by Kenichiro Umezu

“…Our approach is based on super- and sub-solutions, and relies on the topological degree theory on the positive cones of ordered Banach spaces. A concrete example is also presented.…”
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Régionalisation et mondialisation by Erich Fisbach

“…Born at the beginning of the 20th century and focusing on realism, denunciation, the heterogeneity of spaces and social realities, the Bolivian novel adopts a regionalist point of view and traditional narrative techniques. …”
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À l’école de la ville : contre-cultures expérimentales dans les années 1970 by Adélaïde Boëlle-Dupouy

“…Starting from Riccardo Dalisi’s street workshops from 1971 to 1974 in Naples with children who had dropped out of school, we will see how architects, artists and designers propose the reintroduction of children into the street and public spaces of working-class neighborhoods.…”
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Touaregs en ZAD by Jérémy Sauvineau

“…Faced with chronic lack of accommodation for asylum seekers in France, activists defending the cause of foreigners have experimented with various types of alternative living spaces. This article aims to document one of these: the ZAD (Zone to be Defended) of a certain French metropolis. …”
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An electro-optically tunable arrayed waveguide grating fabricated on thin film lithium niobate by Zhe Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Yiran Zhu, Jian Liu, Lang Gao, Jianping Yu, Haisu Zhang, Min Wang, Ya Cheng

“…Experiments show that the fabricated electro-optically controlled TFLN AWG has a channel spacing of 200 GHz and a wavelength tuning efficiency of 10 pm/V.…”
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O trabalho de campo em geografia: as paisagens e os grandes espaços naturais by Raimundo Nonato Junior, François-Michel Le Tourneau, Grupo Gesto

“…This article discusses, in an analytical and discursive way, a fieldwork experience on the landscapes of the natural spaces of northeastern Brazil. The methodology follows the field description of regional analysis and uses technical procedures for demographic and statistical studies to determine the route and perform analyzes. …”
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Existence of Solutions for Generalized Vector Quasi-Equilibrium Problems by Scalarization Method with Applications by De-ning Qu, Cao-zong Cheng

“…The aim of this paper is to study generalized vector quasi-equilibrium problems (GVQEPs) by scalarization method in locally convex topological vector spaces. A general nonlinear scalarization function for set-valued mappings is introduced, its main properties are established, and some results on the existence of solutions of the GVQEPs are shown by utilizing the introduced scalarization function. …”
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Enterramientos aristocráticos y redes eclesiásticas en Navarra by Fermín Miranda García

“…Their preference for the cathedral, the parish churches and the churches of the urban convents, their interest in maintaining family traditions or establishing new criteria; the desire, in short, to signify in some way their social, juridic and economic prestige when it came to perpetuating their memory through burial spaces.…”
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