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Tongye Guo, Yang Zhao, Jiahao Yang, Zhengnan Zhong, Kefu Ji, Ziyu Zhong and Xinyi Luo
Hot-humid areas have long, hot summers and poor outdoor thermal comfort (OTC). The urban heat island (UHI) effect exacerbates the deterioration of OTC in hot-humid areas, seriously affecting the thermal safety of children?s outdoor activities. In this st...
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Emily Talen
While scale is an essential factor in discussions about sustainable cities, there is no common understanding of what scale is or how it should be measured. This paper sheds light on the issue of scale by suggesting how it might be measured and evaluated....
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João Monteiro, Marvin Para, Nuno Sousa, Eduardo Natividade-Jesus, Carlo Ostorero and João Coutinho-Rodrigues
Compactification of cities, i.e., the opposite of urban sprawl, has been increasingly presented in the literature as a possible solution to reduce the carbon footprint and promote the sustainability of current urban environments. Compact environments hav...
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Willem Thorbecke
Inflation in 2021 and 2022 grew much faster than the Federal Reserve expected. The Fed downplayed inflation in 2021 and then increased the federal funds rate by 500 basis points between March 2022 and May 2023. This paper investigates how this unpreceden...
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Ayman Hassan Bazhair and Hamid Ghazi H Sulimany
This paper explores the moderating role of family ownership in the relationship between board diversity and financial performance. The study sampled data of 98 Saudi non-financial companies from 2012 to 2021. The data were analysed using fixed effect reg...
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