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Bin Jiang and Terry Slocum
The Earth?s surface or any territory is a coherent whole or subwhole, in which the notion of ?far more small things than large ones? recurs at different levels of scale ranging from the smallest of a couple of meters to the largest of the Earth?s surface...
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Chris A. de Rijke, Gloria Macassa, Mats Sandberg and Bin Jiang
Human actions and interactions are shaped in part by our direct environment. The studies of Christopher Alexander show that objects and structures can inhibit natural properties and characteristics; this is measured in living structure. He also found tha...
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Bin Jiang
Discovered by Christopher Alexander, living structure is a physical phenomenon, through which the quality of the built environment or artifacts can be judged objectively. It has two distinguishing properties just like a tree: ?Far more small things than ...
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Xueliang Jiang, Wenjie Liu, Hui Yang, Zhenyu Li, Wenchen Fan and Feifei Wang
Although the current ecological engineering technology can reinforce shallow landslides, it cannot reinforce deep landslides. A new type of ecological engineering technology-living tree stump slope protection was developed, aiming at the deficiency of cu...
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Zhanjun He, Zhipeng Wang, Yu Gu and Xiaoya An
Urban crimes are not homogeneously distributed but exhibit spatial heterogeneity across a range of spatial scales. Meanwhile, while geographic space shapes human activities, it is also closely related to multiscale characteristics. Previous studies have ...
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Bingbing Zhao, Xiaoyong Tan, Liang Luo, Min Deng and Xuexi Yang
The inefficient use of urban resources and the imbalance of spatial structures make optimizing land use management a top priority in urban environmental management. Traditional land use classification systems that prioritize only natural features while d...
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Bin Jiang
This editorial briefly introduces Christopher Alexander, as a theorist, as a design practitioner, as an architect, and importantly as a scientist, as well as his life?s work?The Nature of Order?focusing not only on the trinity of wholeness, life, beauty,...
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Rie Nomura, Siyuan Shan and Suguru Mori
This study elucidates the spatial structure of traditional houses, and its transformation toward sustainable development of residential environments in old towns that are currently the focus of tourism development initiatives. Hexia old town in Huai&rsqu...
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Ruyi Zhang, Songnian Li, Baojing Wei and Xu Zhou
The division of the territorial space functional area is the primary method to study the rational exploitation and use of land space. The research on the Production?Living?Ecological Space (PLES) change and its motivating factors has major implications f...
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Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
The framework is proposed where matter can be seen as related to energy in a way structure relates to process and information relates to computation. In this scheme matter corresponds to a structure, which corresponds to information. Energy corresponds t...
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Emilio Del Giudice, Paola Rosa Spinetti and Alberto Tedeschi
Liquid water has been recognized long ago to be the matrix of many processes, including life and also rock dynamics. Interactions among biomolecules occur very differently in a non-aqueous system and are unable to produce life. This ability to make livin...
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L. Bilek,J. Remes,D. Zahradnik
Pág. 122 - 138
In this study, the structure and spatial patterns of adjacent beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forest stands, both those having undergone intensive management and those without management intervention over the last 50 years were analyzed. Data was collected fr...
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Cristobal Sierra, Shuva Paul, Akhlaqur Rahman and Ambarish Kulkarni
A road network is the key foundation of any nation?s critical infrastructure. Pavements represent one of the longest-living structures, having a post-construction life of 20?40 years. Currently, most attempts at maintaining and repairing these structures...
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John I. Adlish, Piero Neuhold, Riccardo Surrente and Luca J. Tagliapietra
This study presents a methodology to reveal traces of viral particles, as aerosol with known chemical and molecular structure, in a sample by means of photon and electron interactions. The method is based on Monte Carlo simulations and on the analysis of...
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Aleksandra Ciesielska, Wojciech Ciesielski, Karen Khachatryan, Henryk Koloczek, Damian Kulawik, Zdzislaw Oszczeda, Jacek Soroka and Piotr Tomasik
Treatment of water saturated with CO2 with low-temperature, low-pressure glow plasma of low-frequency (GP) produced a series of liquids. Their temperature and intensity of thermal effects non-linearly depended on the treatment time. However, the Raman sp...
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Lukas Boxberger, Linda Weisheit, Sebastian Hensel, Julia Schellnock, Danilo Mattheß, Frank Riedel and Welf-Guntram Drossel
Many living beings show the ability and necessity to develop invertible, tubular structures to enable additional functions temporarily. The biological archetypes always demonstrate a high change of volume of the structure between an inactive and active s...
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Dejan ?. Ðordevic,Danica ?antic
Pág. 071 - 082
In the age of raising global migration flows and increased mobility of the labour force in the world, there is a need to understand the main determinants of this phenomenon and to direct the focus of migration research to the various challenges it ...
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Junhua Wang, Yi Xu, Kaibin Liang, Qisheng Liu, Jiangui Li and Kaipei Liu
With the increase of urban population and electricity demand, in order to provide sufficient power to residents, distribution transformers are getting closer to residential buildings, and are even directly placed on the first floor or the basement of bui...
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Marcela Danu
On the European continent, urban population, representing a significant segment of the market, with features specific to a particular model of purchase, consumption, lifestyle, etc. , has the potential for growth. The possible effects of this increase (s...
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Marcelo M. Rivadeneira,Erico R. Carmona
In the present study, we describe and analyze the structure of a Late Pleistocene (likely last interglacial) marine macrobenthic assemblage in Caleta Patillos (20°45'S, 70°12'W), northern Chile. A taphonomic analysis suggests the existence of a shallow s...
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