Recycling Construction and Demolition Waste in the Sector of Construction by Yuvraj R. Patil, Vaidehi A. Dakwale, Rahul V. Ralegaonkar

“…The increasing worldwide demand for concrete, fueled by rising urbanization and infrastructural expansion due to exponential population growth, has raised concerns over the depletion of natural resources, as global natural aggregate (NA) demand is estimated to surpass 50 billion tons by 2025. …”
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Role Of Political Parties In Resolving The Challenges Confronting Nigeriafrom 1960-1966 by Mas’ud Bello, Sani Ibrahim

“… Shortly after Nigeria attained its independence on the 1st October, 1960 it experienced numerous challenges of Nation-building, this is because, the conquest and imposition of colonial rule with its divide and rule tactics and other attendant consequences has set different ethnic groups in Nigeria at logger beads, mistrust has gained ground in the body polity of the Nation, couple with devastated economy, poor infrastructural facilitates. This informed the need for vibrant political parties in that critical period with good manifestoes to serve as check and balance instrument towards resolving Nigeria’s socio-economic challenges with a view to build a strong and prosperous Nation-state became imperative, therefore, this paper will examine the role of 196 0-1966 political parties in providing the required evaluation mechanisms in checkmating the excesses in democratic governance. …”
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Every Second Counts: Integrating Edge Computing and Service Oriented Architecture for Automatic Emergency Management by Lei Chen, Cristofer Englund

“…The choreography can be synthesized to generate detailed specification on peer-to-peer interaction logic, and then the specification can be enacted and deployed on cloud infrastructures.…”
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Digital horizons: understanding teacher retention challenges in Myanmar's rural basic education schools through the lens of informatization by Wynn Marlar, Mohamad Zreik

“…Key findings highlight inadequate infrastructural facilities, limited professional development opportunities, and socio-cultural barriers as primary deterrents. …”
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Demographic Oases in Shrinking Rural Areas: Exploring Trends in Galicia (Spain) and Northern Portugal by Alejandro Otero Varela, Inês Gusman, Carlos Alberto Patiño Romarís

“…Our results indicate that the origins of these demographic oases are diverse —stemming from economic, administrative, and infrastructural factors— and, collectively, they play a crucial role in supporting their surrounding communities. …”
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Rising groundwater table due to restoration projects amplifies earthquake induced liquefaction risk in Beijing by Yuan Li, Rui Wang, Hongbo Ma, Jian-Min Zhang

“…We find a remarkable increase in coverage and severity of liquefaction due to groundwater table rise. Infrastructures built during the rapid urbanization process are often under low groundwater table and thus illy prepared for this increased seismic risk. …”
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Sustainable Mobility in B5G/6G: V2X Technology Trends and Use Cases by Sandra Roger, Carmen Botella-Mascarell, David Martin-Sacristan, David Garcia-Roger, Jose F. Monserrat, Tommy Svensson

“…In this context, intelligent transportation systems, including connected and autonomous vehicles, will be key for developing affordable and sustainable infrastructures and services. We start by identifying three current technology trends, namely, towards climate neutral; cloudification and edge computing; and Big Data and artificial intelligence, and then we examine their capability to enable sustainable Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communication systems in beyond 5G and 6G networks. …”
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Heat transfer software for local materials in Cameroon (HTSLM 1.0): simplified building energy software based on local realities by Lynda Phalone Ndjonnou Tchawa, Lucien Mandeng Mandeng, Joël Durel Tchinang Tchameu, Ramses Tanankem Menkem, Florian Kamsu Kom, Jacques Lionel Ntamag, Joseph Pondi

“…The curves obtained for hourly indoor temperatures for the chosen days in the five climatic zones defined for the software, all show a realistic bell-shaped evolution, thus prefiguring a digital decision support tool for such admitted infrastructures to be made of materials from the Local Materials Promotion Authority of Cameroon.…”
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Performance-Based Seismic Fragility and Risk Assessment of Five-Span Continuous Rigid Frame Bridges by Fangwen Wu, Jingwen Zhou, Yangyang Zhao, Guangqian Wang, Wenlong Tang, Jianfei Luo, Usama Ibrahim, Yuanying Meng

“…Earthquakes can cause serious damage to traffic infrastructures, among which the impact on bridge structure is the most important. …”
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Assessing the degree of innovative readiness of systemic transformation of management in the context of transition to the sixth technological paradigm by N. M. Kalinina, N. A. Kulik

“…The relevance of the study is due to the need for Russia to actively enter the new post-industrial technological paradigm of the sixth generation, which requires not only an infrastructural basis, but also a scientific and managerial potential. …”
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A Database for the Future by Sören Edvinsson, Elisabeth Engberg

“…The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. …”
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A Database for the Future by Sören Edvinsson, Elisabeth Engberg

“…The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. …”
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Web-of-Objects Based User-Centric Semantic Service Composition Methodology in the Internet of Things by Safina Showkat Ara, Zia Ush Shamszaman, Ilyoung Chong

“…The general goal of the Web-of-Objects (WoO) is to simplify object and application deployment, maintenance, and operation of IoT infrastructures. WoO also aim to provide user-centric IoT service by enabling object virtualization and semantic ontology based service composition. …”
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Study on the Confidence and Reliability of the Mean Seismic Probability Risk Model by Xiao-Lei Wang, Da-Gang Lu

“…The mean seismic probability risk model has widely been used in seismic design and safety evaluation of critical infrastructures. In this paper, the confidence levels analysis and error equations derivation of the mean seismic probability risk model are conducted. …”
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Curating life in vacant spaces: Community action research and reversing the process of academic knowledge-making by Kelly Dombroski, Rachael Shiels, Hannah Watkinson

“…In order to recognise this ‘reversed’ order, our article utilises a reversed structure, using the concept of thinking infrastructures to understand what academic research adds to the knowledges already produced in community impact. …”
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“Baboons on the road again”: Survey of vehicle occupants on a road crossing a national park in Uganda by Jovia Nabuule, Fantine Benoit, Louise Robinet, Peter Isingoma, David Mwesigye Tumusiime, Harold Rugonge, Sabrina Krief, Odile Petit, Audrey Maille

“…Infrastructures such as roads or railways fragment the forests, but they are also places of encounter between humans and wildlife. …”
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L’accès ouvert est-il l’avenir des revues de recherche architecturale et urbaine ? by Béatrice Gaillard, Laurence Bizien, Véronique Cohoner

“…After presenting a state of the art of the resources available online and the active role of libraries in promoting this format of scientific dissemination, the present article takes stock of the conditions for setting up open access within the disciplines concerned: the importance of a support policy and the taking into account of economic issues, the sustainability of the staff working on their writing and dissemination infrastructures, the assurance of a reliable quality process in the face of the proliferation of preprints versus the requirements of funding organizations and the obstacles of the current model for evaluating researchers. …”
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A Database for the Future by Sören Edvinsson, Elisabeth Engberg

“…The databases were built to serve as national research infrastructures, useful for addressing an indefinite number of research questions within a broad range of scientific fields, and open to all academic researchers who wanted to use the data. …”
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Assessing the Role of Indonesian Companies in Sectoral Economic Cooperation Between Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Opportunities and Challenges by Muhammad Indrawan Jatmika, Melvin A Jabar

“…These companies have made investments in Timor-Leste, created jobs, transferred technology, and contributed to infrastructural development. This research highlights the challenges faced by Indonesian businesses in Timor-Leste, such as a lack of skilled labor, a lack of capital, and complicated bureaucratic burdens. …”
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Progressive Collapse Analysis of Latticed Telecommunication Towers under Wind Loads by Shan Gao, Sheliang Wang

“…As the antenna-supporting structures, latticed telecommunication steel towers are considered as critical members of telecommunication infrastructures. It is necessary to perform progressive collapse analysis of lattice telecommunication towers under wind loads. …”
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