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Pilot studies on optimizing land use, building density and solar electricity generation in dense urban settings

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The Quiet Architecture of Informality: Negotiating Space Through Agency

Quartiers rhodaniens en transition

Vers un projet territorial du vivant L'outil des réseaux écologiques comme projet urbanistique de revitalisation du paysage agricole

Green hydrogen production using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 bioanode and cuprous oxide-based photocathode

Balancing the grid: assessing the benefits of aggregated residential batteries for frequency control and prosumers

Advanced control strategies to exploit the hydropower potential enhancing ancillary services provision to the power system

Optimal Short-Term Dispatch of Pumped-Storage Hydropower Plants Including Hydraulic Short Circuit

Using automated design appraisal to model building-specific devaluation risk due to land-use change

Network time series forecasting in photovoltaics power production

Planning urban proximities: An empirical analysis of how residential preferences conflict with the urban morphologies and residential practices

Solar-assisted clean steam generator, a cleaner production approach for sustainable healthcare facilities

On the prediction of the induced damage by the start-up sequence of Francis turbines: On operational resilience framework

Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics

Visual complexity of urban streetscapes: human vs computer vision

Quantifying the Unknown: Data-Driven Approaches and Applications in Energy Systems

The synergistic interplay of artificial intelligence and digital twin in environmentally planning sustainable smart cities: A comprehensive systematic review

Artificial intelligence of things for smart cities: advanced solutions for enhancing transportation safety

GreenEVT: Greensboro Electric Vehicle Testbed

Functional-Basis Analysis of Non-Stationary Signals in Modern Power Grids: Theory and Implementation in Embedded Systems

Teaching Not To