High-resolution meteorological information is essential for attaining sustainable and resilient cities. To elucidate high-resolution features of surface and air temperatures in high-rise building blocks (BBs), a 3-dimensional BB meteorological observ...
The article focuses on the erection of residential buildings from large-sized volumetric blocks as a modern and progressive trend in housing construction. It is noted that one of the major tasks in the development of this promising area of constructi...
Block morphology refers to critical parameters influencing building energy performance on the block scale. However, analysis of the combined effect of block morphological parameters on building energy consumption with real blocks is lacking. In this...
Top-down tissue engineering aims to produce functional tissues using biomaterials as scaffolds, thus providing cues for cell proliferation and differentiation. Conversely, the bottom-up approach aims to precondition cells to form modular tissues unit...
Starch is a water-insoluble polymer of glucose synthesized as discrete granules inside the stroma of plastids in plant cells. Starch reserves provide a source of carbohydrate for immediate growth and development, and act as long term carbon stores in...
We provide a new method to represent all potential flowsheet configurations for the superstructure-based simultaneous synthesis of work and heat exchanger networks (WHENS). The new representation is based on only two fundamental elements of abstract...
Controlling building carbon emissions (CEs) is key to achieving the goal of carbon neutrality. Residential blocks are the main contributors of buildings’ carbon emissions and intensity, and thus can be manipulated to achieve carbon neutrality....
The geographical feature extraction of historical maps is an important foundation for realizing the transition from human map reading to machine map reading. The current methods for building block extraction from historical maps have many problems, s...
The increase in energy consumption in Bahrain is a significant issue. Insulation blocks are crucial for reducing heat transfer from outside to inside buildings. However, there’s limited research on the thermal performance of Bahrain’s ins...
Hygroscopic effects in ionic liquids and salts in general, and how to suppress said hygroscopy, often needs to be considered during the everyday work routine. Chemicals that decompose, undergo hydrolysis or in any way change their composition when ex...
Semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images plays an important role in applications for building extraction. However, the current algorithms have some semantic information extraction limitations, and these can lead to poor segmenta...
(1) Polyfunctional molecules are versatile building blocks for efficient syntheses of novel phenothiazine-based materials with promising electronic properties. A prerequisite is a facile, high yielding access to these building blocks that bear solubi...
The five-step synthesis of a polydentate building block combining a cyclen-based macrocycle (DO3A) with N-(2-aminoethyl)propane-1,3-diamine, which are linked through the xylylen moiety as a rigid C-spacer is described. These two molecular parts were...
A green, fast and selective approach for the synthesis of mono-substituted closo-decaborate derivatives [2-B10H9COR]2− has been established via a nucleophilic addition reaction between the carbonyl derivative of closo-decaborate [2-B10H9CO]&min...
In this work, we present the synthesis of a novel Zn-Salphen complex containing an allyl group, which was used as building block in the further preparation of a new family of functional terpolymers. These polymers were obtained through radical co-pol...
In high-density cities, integrating photovoltaic shading devices (PVSDs) with urban block typology optimization is crucial for low-carbon development, yet the understanding of their synergistic effects remains limited. This study develops a novel mul...
Small-signal models of DC-DC converters are often based on a state-space averaging approach, from which both control-oriented and other frequency-domain characteristics, such as input or output impedance, can be derived. Updating these models when ex...
The Euler–Lagrange and Newton–Euler methods are typically used to derive equations of motion for serial-link manipulators. We previously proposed a partial Lagrangian method, which is similar to the Lagrangian method, for handling the equ...
Water regulation and flood control of rivers are changing due to streamflow depletion following industrialization and urbanization, significantly impacting aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, restoration of the ecological environment is necessary to maint...
A general protocol for the synthesis of 3,4-dihalogen substituted 1,8-naphthalimides is proposed, starting from available and cheap 1,8-naphthalic anhydride. The reported new compounds have only bromine or chlorine atoms as substituents, in contrast...
Three-dimensional urban morphology has gained renewed analytical relevance as advances in remote sensing, photogrammetry, and geospatial data processing have made it possible to derive 3D data and high-resolution digital surface and elevation models....
Several organic acids have been indicated among the top value chemicals from biomass. Lignocellulose is among the most attractive feedstocks for biorefining processes owing to its high abundance and low cost. However, its highly complex nature and re...
In regions with hot climates such as Bahrain, the utilization of air conditioning is indispensable in both public and private buildings to attain thermally comfortable indoor environments. External walls, constructed with building blocks, play a cruc...
System architecture plays a crucial role in the establishment of Digital Government infrastructure. Over recent decades, various architectures have been introduced by scholars for the establishment of Digital Government infrastructure. However, there...
This study investigates the feasibility of recycling various waste paving blocks as raw materials for concrete. The recycling rate of waste blocks in Korea remains around 11%. Therefore, three types of waste paving blocks, i.e., recycled clay-, grani...
Operational building energy consumption accounts for 55% of global energy consumption. Most of this is attributed to residential buildings, as they make up the largest building type when compared to the total building stock worldwide. As the building...
Fossil fuels deliver most of the flexibility in contemporary electricity systems. The pressing need to reduce CO2 emissions requires new methods to provide this flexibility. Demand response (DR) offers consumers a significant role in the delivery of...
The development of diversity-oriented synthesis based on fluorine-containing building blocks has been one of the hot research fields in fluorine chemistry. β-CF3-1,3-enynes, as one type of fluorine-containing building blocks, have attracted more...
The construction sector remains a major contributor to global energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Heat loss through building envelopes plays a key role, especially in regions with long heating seasons. Hollow building blocks are widely u...
Hydroxy-terminated polyoxymethylene-co-polyoxyalkylene multi-block telechels were obtained by a new methodology that allows for the formal substituting of ether units in polyether polyols with oxymethylene moieties. An interesting feature is that, un...
Therapeutic peptides are a unique drug class due to their high-specificity binding with biological targets. However, the low bioavailability of peptides, as well as the lack of enzymatic stability, imposes a number of limitations on their biomedical...
Articular cartilage lesions are prevalent and affect one out of seven American adults and many young patients. Cartilage is not capable of regeneration on its own. Existing therapeutic approaches for articular cartilage lesions have limitations. Cart...
The propargyl group is a highly versatile moiety whose introduction into small-molecule building blocks opens up new synthetic pathways for further elaboration. The last decade has witnessed remarkable progress in both the synthesis of propargylation...
In the past decade there has been a significant growth in the sales of pharmaceutical drugs worldwide, but more importantly there has been a dramatic growth in the sales of single enantiomer drugs. The pharmaceutical industry has a rising demand for...
Conventional antenna designs generally have fixed configurations and are difficult to assemble rapidly and flexibly. To address this limitation, this paper proposes a magnetic antenna building block that enables the rapid assembly of functional anten...
Sustainability has become an important focus in the construction industry due to growing environmental concerns, resource depletion, and the urgency to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The construction sector contributes significantly to the world&rs...
Given the increasing demand for higher construction productivity and better thermal resistance, adopting innovative building envelope systems is crucial. Dry-stack masonry blocks have emerged as a viable solution, due to their rapid assembly, mortar-...
Each year, hundreds of millions of tons of processed sugarcane generate, by weight, 25 to 30% of bagasse as waste, whose destination is combustion for energy cogeneration. This research proposes an alternative and more sustainable use for this waste....
Security of currently deployed public-key cryptography algorithms is foreseen to be vulnerable against quantum computer attacks. Hence, a community effort exists to develop post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms, most notably the NIST PQC standar...
Forest fires can result in loss of life, damage to infrastructure, and adverse environmental impacts. This study showcases an integrated approach for conducting high-detail fire risk assessment and supporting strategic planning and management of fire...
Growing environmental awareness has prompted a resurgence in traditional building techniques that rely on natural or recycled materials since many believe that structures made from these resources are ecologically friendly. Using Life Cycle Assessmen...
A chemoenzymatic approach towards benzoylated uronic acid building blocks has been investigated starting with benzoylated hexapyranosides using regioselective C-6 enzymatic hydrolysis as the key step. Two of the building blocks were reacted with the...
The interplay of high-resolution rotational spectroscopy and quantum-chemical computations plays an invaluable role in the investigation of biomolecule building blocks in the gas phase. However, quantum-chemical methods suffer from unfavorable scalin...
This communication reports a reliable one-pot synthetic protocol for preparation on a multigram scale of 3-bromo- and 3,4-dibromo-6-nitro-1,8-naphthalic anhydride from commercially available and economical 1,8-naphthalic anhydride. The synthetic step...
Management frameworks (MFs) and management system standards (MSSs) are essential tools for improving organisational management practises. They inherently include a range of fundamental building blocks that facilitate the creation of structured manage...
In this paper, we propose a methodology to accurately evaluate and compare the performance of efficient neural network building blocks for computer vision in a hardware-aware manner. Our comparison uses pareto fronts based on randomly sampled network...
Heparins are linear sulfated polysaccharides widely used as anticoagulant drugs. Their nonreducing-end (NRE) has been little investigated due to challenges in their characterization, but is known to be partly generated by enzymatic cleavage with hepa...
An effective method for the construction of functionalized indolizines has been developed in which β,β-difluoro peroxides act as novel C2-building blocks to implement [3+2] annulation with pyridinium ylides under base-mediated conditions. W...
The DEVS formalism has been recognized to support generic open architectures that allow incorporating multiple engineering domains within integrated simulation models. What is missing for accelerated adoption of DEVS-based methodology for intelligent...
This work presents a highly compact and scalable 1.2-kV SiC MOSFET half-bridge building-block module enabled by a die-integrated 3D PCB packaging technology. Compared with conventional DBC-based or TO-247-based SiC half-bridge modules, the proposed d...
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