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Josana Gabriele Bolzan Wesz, Luciana Inês Gomes Miron, Ioanni Delsante and Patricia Tzortzopoulos
The built environment has great influence over the sustainability of societies as well as over people?s quality of life. Quality of life (QoL) is a broad concept that has different definitions across diverse bodies of knowledge. The social?cultural envir...
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Jesse T. Richman and Ryan J. Roberts
Big search data offers the opportunity to identify new and potentially real-time measures and predictors of important political, geographic, social, cultural, economic, and epidemiological phenomena, measures that might serve an important role as leading...
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Fotios Katimertzopoulos, Charis Vlados and Theodore Koutroukis
The primary aim of this paper is to identify key similarities and differences in the conceptualization of culture across the major theories of regional socioeconomic science, including economic, business, administrative, social, cultural and political di...
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Dimitrios Kalfas, Stavros Kalogiannidis, Fotios Chatzitheodoridis and Ermelinda Toska
Sustainable development has attracted the attention of social-economic, spatial well-being, and cultural continuity advocates across the world. However, the processes involved in land use as well as urban development have continued to affect the attainme...
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Amanda Yates, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Sibyl Bloomfield, Andrew Burgess, Charles Walker, Kathy Waghorn, Priscila Besen, Nick Sargent and Fleur Palmer
The institutional frameworks within which we conceive, design, construct, inhabit and manage our built environments are widely acknowledged to be key factors contributing to converging ecological crises: climate change, biodiversity loss, environmental d...
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Valerio De Luca, Giorgia Marcantonio, Maria Cristina Barba and Lucio Tommaso De Paolis
The use of information technology in the field of cultural heritage makes it possible to involve more and more people in the promotion of cultural heritage, fostering social, cultural, economic and community growth. This work stems from the interest in u...
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Prosper Kandabongee Yeng, Muhammad Ali Fauzi and Bian Yang
Recent reports indicate that over 85% of data breaches are still caused by a human element, of which healthcare is one of the organizations that cyber criminals target. As healthcare IT infrastructure is characterized by a human element, this study compr...
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Yi Yang, Hong Wang, Shuhong Qin, Xiuneng Li, Yunfeng Zhu and Yicong Wang
As a representative indicator for the level and sustainability of urban development, urban vitality has been widely used to assess the quality of urban development. However, urban vitality is too blurry to be accurately quantified and is often limited to...
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Mohammadreza Shekari, Hamidreza Arasteh, Alireza Sheikhi Fini and Vahid Vahidinasab
Demand-side response programs, commonly known as demand response (DR), are interesting ways to attract consumers? participation to improve electric consumption patterns. Customers are encouraged to modify their usage patterns in reaction to price increas...
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Katsutoshi Mizuta, Sabine Grunwald, Wendell P. Cropper, Jr. and Allan R. Bacon
New concepts within the soil science community have emerged through multiple actions: (1) reflection on the social, cultural, and/or political needs that exist outside the soil science community, and (2) by being progressive and relevant to new emergent ...
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