‘A sort of breviary’: Arthur Symons, J. K. Huysmans and British Decadence by Matthew Creasy

“…Huysmans’s À rebours as ‘the breviary of decadence’ is widely cited by critics. It has had a significant influence on our understanding of Huysmans and upon histories of the Decadent movement more generally. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

Abastecimento alimentar em contextos de crise: uma análise sobre o Haiti by John Osthe, Valdemar João Wesz Junior

“…Both locally and nationally, a large part of the supply dynamic involves madan sara, independent individual women entrepreneurs who buy the produce of local farming families and take it to the bigger cities, bringing back other goods, especially imported products. …”
Get full text

Nouveaux et anciens espaces de circulation internationale au Maroc by Mehdi Alioua

“…The analysis of such migration dynamics is a good platform from which to observe how the « bottom-up » introduction – by populations in constant mobility – of this alterity inside Maghrebi societies affects these societies, and their own cities.…”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

Retail transformation concepts development under the influence of industrial revolutions by L. S. Klimchenia

“…The author has identified five concepts of retail trade, substantiated the transition timeframes to them, and cited the trade service transformation factors. The author substantiates that during the industrial revolutions change the content of the trade process does not change, but the resources that ensure its implementation are transformed in order to improve trade services quality to population.…”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

L’établissement routier de la Goudagne (Auch, Gers) : une hôtellerie ? by Fabien Colleoni, Catherine Petit-Aupert

“…Indeed the architectural model suggested by the aerial surveys is similar to those that are considered as mansiones or praetoria. The examples cited in this paper reveal similarities with the morphology of the Goudagne site. …”
Get full text

Efficient Hamiltonian encoding algorithms for extracting quantum control mechanism as interfering pathway amplitudes in the Dyson series by Erez Abrams, Michael Kasprzak, Gaurav Bhole, Tak-San Ho, Herschel Rabitz

“…In this paper, following Mitra and Rabitz \cite{abhra_1}, we define mechanism via pathways of eigenstates that describe the evolution of the system, where each pathway is associated with a complex-valued amplitude corresponding to a term in the Dyson series. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

Methodological Challenges in Estimating Trends and Burden of Cardiovascular Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jacob K. Kariuki, Eileen M. Stuart-Shor, Suzanne G. Leveille, Laura L. Hayman

“…Although 80% of the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is in developing countries, the 2010 global burden of disease (GBD) estimates have been cited to support a premise that sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is exempt from the CVD epidemic sweeping across developing countries. …”
Get full text

Assessment of Lifestyle Behaviors of Nursing Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Şeyma Nur Hepokur Yıldırım, Yeter Kitiş

“…Fourth-year students ate less junk food and experienced less anxiety and stress than first- and second-year students. Participants in big cities adopted more unhealthy diets than those in small towns. …”
Get full text

GLOBAL ACADEMIC TRENDS OF METABOLIC AND ELECTRICAL BIOMEDICAL TOOLS IN MARKETING by Ahmed H. Alsharif, Salmi Mohd Isa, Lina Pilelienė

“…The findings revealed that the United States emerges as the predominant contributor, with 19 papers, while influential authors such as Balconi, M., and the most-cited article, "The Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Influence of Pavlovian Cues on Human Decision Making," signify pivotal contributions to the field. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

Comprehensive Bibliometric Analysis and Systematic Review of Two Decades of Food Vendors Study: Deciphering the Dynamics of Food Vendor Research by Ajay Adithya Manoharan, Geetha Rangaswamy

“…The bibliometric analysis reveals major study issues, such as food safety, sustainability, and the informal sector, while a systematic examination of the top 20 most-cited publications provides additional insight into the research landscape. …”
Get full text

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. …”
Get full text

Corrigendum / Erratum / Retraction by Yanmi A

“…Re-use of any data should be appropriately cited. As such this article represents a severe abuse of the scientific publishing system. …”
Get full text