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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Building Networks"”.
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Urban Building Networks' Thermal-Energy Dynamics: Exploring, Mitigating, and Optimizing Inter-Building Effects
… growing global energy expenditures, urban buildings are often designed and operated inefficiently despite their significant contributions to carbon emissions, triggering environmental deterioration locally and worldwide. Moreover, ongoing industrialization and urbanization pose challenges …
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Morphisms of networks of hybrid open systems
This dissertation develops a theory of networks of hybrid open systems and morphisms. This theory builds upon a framework of networks of continuous-time open systems as product and interconnection. We work out categorical notions for hybrid systems, deterministic hybrid systems, hybrid open …
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Universities and Regional Advantage in the Knowledge Economy: Markets, Governance and Networks as Developing in English Regions
… evidence concerning different institutional networks in different spatial contexts, in particular, in the West Midlands Region and at the University of Birmingham. Applying Jessop’s strategic-relational approach to institutions, networks are conceptualised as strategic alliances creating the …
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Intermediaries and Migration in the United States
… in each organization played an important role in building networks in multiple fields. Furthermore, these organizations faced different outcomes despite they worked on the same agenda. A Chicago Workers' Center generated a space where powers of democratic governance were deployed. The Interfaith …
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A Bio-inspired Solution to Mitigate Urban Heat Island Effects
… of energy expenditure is attributable to buildings. Urbanization is intensifying these trends with tighter spatial interrelationships among buildings. This is escalating building energy consumption due to the mutual impact of buildings on each other and, as a result, exacerbating Urban …
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Civil Society Organisations and Food Poverty in the UK: A Case Study of the London Borough of Islington
… primarily through engagement in the market and building networks with other organisations in order to manage their resource dependence.
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Leveraging Human-environment Systems in Residential Buildings for Aggregate Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
… have consisted of physical interventions to buildings and/or behavioral modifications of occupants. However, such methods may not only suffer from their own disadvantages, e.g. high cost and transient effect, but also lose aggregate energy saving potential due to the oftentimes-associated …
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The Impact of Graduate Assistantships on the Preparation of Early Career Student Affairs Professionals
… not only for developing skills but also for building networks and support systems. Finally, the study participants identified keystone projects and experiences that allowed them to show autonomy and take ownership as the most vital aspects of their assistantships. These opportunities gave …
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Factors influencing seniors’ community projects: a descriptive and interpretive analysis
… social and educational programs for seniors, building networks, and developing committed working groups. Groups identified 27facilitating factors; fifteen factors identified by more than half of the groups formed four categories: (i) building an organization; (ii) a sense of community; (iii) …
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ACTS OF QUEER RESILIENCE: TRAUMA AS IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN LGBTQ POLITICAL ASYLUM
… and systems of power, different spaces, building networks, and obtaining resources. Trauma offers both a useful entry into the legal aspects of political asylum processes and also advances discussions of subjectivity and epistemology. Using narrative analysis, grounded theory, …
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A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of Social Housing Residents in Relation to their Digital Exclusion
… activities, information and the possibility of building networks outside of individuals’ modest social networks. This study seeks to understand how digital exclusion influences the experience of overall inclusion in South African social housing. This dissertation is a qualitative study employing …
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A phenomenological study of the lived experiences of social housing residents in relation to their digital exclusion
… activities, information and the possibility of building networks outside of individuals' modest social networks. This study seeks to understand how digital exclusion influences the experience of overall inclusion in South African social housing. This dissertation is a qualitative study employing …
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Childhood Memories of Post-war Merseyside: Exploring the Impact of Memory Sharing Through an Oral History and Reminiscence Work Approach
… bridging gaps between generations and cultures, building networks and bringing communities closer together. The research contributes to the body of knowledge by providing insight into the social conditions of childhood in post-war Merseyside through a set of unique and candid childhood memories. …
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Sustainable Energy Transitions in Conflict Contexts: The Role of Local Governance in Palestine
… Palestine. The analysis suggests that governance networks are currently leading the efforts whereas LGUs are not systemically engaged in policy making due to central governance approach, despite LGUs contributions so far such as having implemented 50% of the total renewable energy installations. …
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Enterprising Somali refugees in Cape Town: beyond informality, beyond the spaza shop
… the micro township-based informal spaza sector, building networks between township and city formal economies, and linking multiple economic sectors. In doing so, they act as a medium between producers of goods and general city consumers. The research demonstrates that Somali immigrant …