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Empowering a sustainable urban future: The key role of coordinated settlement development for optimising energy efficiency and socio-economic welfare
(2024)Sustainable Cities and SocietyThe nexus between urbanisation and energy transition represents a critical juncture in the pursuit of sustainable development. As cities continue to grow and expand, their energy needs rise, driving consumption and emissions. Simultaneously, efforts to transition towards renewable energy sources and improve energy efficiency are underway to mitigate climate change and reduce dependence on fossil fuels. However, urbanisation poses a challenge ...Journal Article -
Greenhouse gas emissions from cattle enclosures in semi-arid sub-Saharan Africa: The case of a rangeland in South-Central Kenya
(2024)Agriculture, Ecosystems and EnvironmentExtensive livestock production in pastoral areas supports millions of livestock keepers in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). However, it is also linked to environmental externalities such as greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Corralling of livestock overnight in fenced enclosures (“bomas” in Kiswahili) is common to protect animals from theft and predation and is practiced across SSA. Boma manure is usually not removed and accumulates over years, ...Journal Article -
Influence of seed mass and shape on light plasticity of germination of alpine plants on the Tibetan Plateau: The role of photoblastic taxa, dispersal ability, and life history
(2024)Global Ecology and ConservationResponses of post-disposal germination to light play a crucial role in shaping germination niches and determining the success of seedling establishment, ultimately impacting species distribution and community composition. Seed traits are pivotal factors that influence species' germination, dispersal, and life history strategies. However, it remains unclear whether the relationship between seed traits and the light plasticity of germination ...Journal Article -
Trust at Risk: The Effect of Proximity to Cyberattacks
(2024)Journal of Global Security StudiesProximity is a core feature of theories of political violence, with the effects of attacks rippling outward so that geographically proximate individuals experience more severe effects than those more distant. However, this model of proximity and exposure is unlikely to recur for cyberattacks. The incorporeality of cyber incidents and the absence of a physical epicenter constrain the mechanism coupling physical distance with harm. To ...Journal Article -
Enhanced co-design and evaluation of a collective robotic construction system for the assembly of large-scale in-plane timber structures
(2024)Automation in ConstructionCollective robotic construction (CRC) is an emerging approach to construction automation based on the collaboration among teams of small mobile robots. This paper enhances an existing modular CRC system, showcasing its capability to assemble full-scale in-plane timber structures. Utilizing strategies of co-design, the robotic actuators were updated to accommodate material tolerance in the passive building material, timber struts, which ...Journal Article -
Particle removal from solid surfaces via an impinging gas jet pulse: Comparison between experimental and CFD-DEM modeling results
(2024)Journal of Aerosol ScienceComputational and experimental studies are performed to investigate the influence of a gas jet pulse impinging perpendicularly onto a flat solid surface seeded with a monolayer of spherical particles. A numerical resuspension model is derived to predict particle release into the gas phase during jet impingement. To this end, discrete particles are immersed in a continuous gas phase modeled via Large Eddy Simulation to capture the effect ...Journal Article -
Intervertebral disc microbiome in Modic changes: Lack of result replication underscores the need for a consensus in low-biomass microbiome analysis
(2024)JOR SpineIntroduction: The emerging field of the disc microbiome challenges traditional views of disc sterility, which opens new avenues for novel clinical insights. However, the lack of methodological consensus in disc microbiome studies introduces discrepancies. The aims of this study were to (1) compare the disc microbiome of non-Modic (nonMC), Modic type 1 change (MC1), and MC2 discs to findings from prior disc microbiome studies, and (2) ...Journal Article -
Causes for Decadal Trends in Surface Solar Radiation in the Alpine Region in the 1981–2020 Period
(2024)Journal of Geophysical Research: AtmospheresExtending across seven countries, the Alps represent an important element for climate and atmospheric circulation in Central Europe. Its complex topography affects processes on different scales within the atmospheric system. This is of major relevance for the decadal trends in surface solar radiation (SSR), also known as periods of global dimming and brightening (GDB). In this study we analyzed data from 38 stations in and around the Swiss ...Journal Article -
m-nitrobenzyl alcohol supercharging reagent enhances the chromatographic separation and the charging of disulfide bond linked and His-tag peptides
(2024)Journal of Chromatography AThe linkages of disulfide bond (DSB) play important roles in protein stability and activity. Mass spectrometry-based (MS-based) techniques become accepted tools for DSB analysis in the recent decade. In the bottom-up approach, after enzyme digestion, the neighbouring amino acids of cysteines have great impacts on the physicochemical properties of resulting disulfide bond peptides, determining their retention behaviour on liquid chromatography ...Journal Article -
A feature selection method for multimodal multispectral LiDAR sensing
(2024)ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote SensingOptical remote sensing techniques can indicate the properties of objects by observing different modalities (physical quantities) of the backscattered light at different optical wavelengths. Established examples are reflectance, fluorescence, Raman, or depolarization spectroscopy. LiDAR sensing, on the other hand, allows acquiring the geometry of objects by measuring the propagation delay of optical probing signals. Multimodal multispectral ...Journal Article