The Architecture of Logistics by Negar Sanaan Bensi, Francesco Marullo

“…The first trajectory attempts to define what logistics is and how it operates, focusing on the inherent ambivalence of its apparatus, able to cope with different scales and various temporal dimensions – from barcodes and gadgets to global routes and territorial infrastructures – constituting both a physical and abstract framework supporting, measuring and quantifying movements and actions, thoughts and desires. …”
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THE NEW CHALLENGES OF TOURISM AIRPORTS - THE CASE OF FARO AIRPORT by CLÁUDIA RIBEIRO DE ALMEIDA

“…Airport infrastructures play an important role in the heart of the regions in which they are located, as well as in certain sectors of activity, such as tourism. …”
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Du livre à l’information : un tournant historiographique by Jérôme Lamy, Johann Petitjean

“…Recent works on the dissemination of news and the information infrastructures that support these flows confirm the hypothesis of the emergence of a first information society during the early modern age. …”
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Studying and Analyzing Regional Inequalities (case study: cities of Ardabil province, Iran 2006 – 2011) by Bahram Imani, Roghayyeh Farshi, Reza Hashemi Masoomabad

“…In this study, to show the inequality between different cities in Ardebil province, 60 developmental indicators in different sections including health care, social, educational, cultural and infrastructural sections have been analyzed through VIKOR model. …”
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State of the practice on energy-based liquefaction evaluation and research significance by Takaji Kokusho

“…Since the 1964 Niigata and Alaskan earthquakes, which incurred severe liquefaction damage, liquefaction-related design for infrastructures and buildings has been developed exclusively on the principle of force equilibrium. …”
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The neglected governance challenges of solid waste management in Uganda: Insights from a newly created City of Mbarara by Mesharch, W. Katusiimeh, Boaz, Nabimanya, Derrick, Komwangi

“…ere is therefore need to strengthen capacity ( nancial, institutional, technological and infrastructural) to drive environmentally solid waste management practices for sustainable solid waste management.…”
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Individual, collective and contextual dimensions of sustainable lifestyle change in daily life contexts: an integrated perspective by Eugenio De Gregorio, Giuseppe Carrus, Christian Andreas Klöckner, Erica Löfström, Lassi Similä, Michael Brenner-Fliesser

“…., regulations, technology, infrastructures, economic resources, etc.). For each of these three levels, we will present and discuss some classical and recent literature findings, and we will provide a summary of the current state of the art knowledge about sustainable lifestyle adoption in neighbourhoods’ contexts.…”
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An Energy-Efficient Clustering Routing Algorithm Based on Geographic Position and Residual Energy for Wireless Sensor Network by Ali Jorio, Sanaa El Fkihi, Brahim Elbhiri, Driss Aboutajdine

“…Recently wireless sensor network (WSN) has become one of the most interesting networking technologies, since it can be deployed without communication infrastructures. A sensor network is composed of a large number of sensor nodes; these nodes are responsible for supervision of the physical phenomenon and transmission of the periodical results to the base station. …”
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Onboard energy storage in rail transport: Review of real applications and techno‐economic assessments by Emanuele Fedele, Diego Iannuzzi, Andrea Del Pizzo

“…Their primary efforts aim to reduce traction energy demand, replace diesel, and limit the impact of electrified overhead infrastructures. From a system‐level perspective, the integration of alternative energy sources on board rail vehicles has become a popular solution among rolling stock manufacturers. …”
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DYSSS: A Dynamic and Context-Aware Security System for Shared Sensor Networks by Claudio M. de Farias, Luci Pirmez, Luiz F. R. C. Carmo, Davidson Boccardo, Flávia C. Delicato, Igor L. dos Santos, Renato Pinheiro, Rafael O. Costa

“…As Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) design starts shifting from application-specific platforms to shared system infrastructures, a pressing research challenge is security. …”
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A double hurdle estimation of crop diversification decisions by smallholder wheat farmers in Sinana District, Bale Zone, Ethiopia by Dereje Derso, Degefa Tolossa, Abrham Seyoum

“…Conclusions These findings support the need for resources to strengthen available extension packages, support existing farmers’ cooperatives, and develop rural infrastructures in order to improve the smallholder farmers’ extent of crop diversifications.…”
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Barriers and pathways to environmental surveillance of antibiotic resistance in middle- and low-income settings: a qualitative exploratory key expert study by Ann-Christin Peters, D. G. Joakim Larsson, Ramanan Laxminarayan, Christian Munthe

“…Results Barriers were identified across infrastructural, institutional and social dimensions, and pathways to manage them were mostly counterproductive from an ABR management perspective, including avoiding entire regions, applying substandard methods and failing to include local collaborators. …”
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Intelligent Wireless Sensors with Application to the Identification of Structural Modal Parameters and Steel Cable Forces: From the Lab to the Field by Y. Lei, W. A. Shen, Y. Song, Y. Wang

“…Thus, the intelligent wireless sensors offer scalable network solutions that are power-efficient for the health monitoring of civil infrastructures.…”
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Portable motorized telescope system for wind turbine blades damage detection by Alejandro Carnero, Cristian Martín, Manuel Díaz

“…This open‐source project aims to detect and classify possible surface damages on wind turbine blades to facilitate and improve the inspection of such infrastructures. The system consists of a stand‐alone Android application that makes use of convolutional neural networks for image processing, a portable telescope to take precise photographs of the turbine blades, and a motorized mount that allows the movement of the telescope. …”
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Unsupervised machine and deep learning methods for structural damage detection: A comparative study by Zilong Wang, Young‐Jin Cha

“…Abstract While many structural damage detection methods have been developed in recent decades, few data‐driven methods in unsupervised learning mode have been developed to solve the practical difficulties in data acquisition for civil infrastructures in different scenarios. To address such a challenge, this article proposes a number of improved unsupervised novelty detection methods and conducts extensive comparative studies on a laboratory scale steel bridge to examine their performances of damage detection. …”
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Structured P2P Overlay of Mobile Brokers for Realizing Publish/Subscribe Communication in VANET by Tulika Pandey, Deepak Garg, Manoj Madhava Gore

“…In one approach, lots of preinstalled infrastructures are needed whereas, in another, the quality of service is not guaranteed due to unpredictable moving and stopping patterns of vehicles. …”
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A System Identification-Based Damage-Detection Method for Gravity Dams by Masoud Mirtaheri, Mojtaba Salkhordeh, Masoud Mohammadgholiha

“…Dams are essential infrastructures as they provide a range of economic, environmental, and social benefits to the local populations. …”
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A Database for the Future. Major Contributions from 47 Years of Database Development and Research at the Demographic Data Base by Sören Edvinsson

“…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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The ‘Agency of Mapping’ in South Asia: Galle-Matara (Sri Lanka), Mumbai (India) and Khulna (Bangladesh) by Kelly Shannon

“…This paper will argue that an understanding of contexts, based on fieldwork, is necessary in order to project feasible urban visions and strategic urban design projects that can make more evident particular sites’ inherent qualities and creatively marry ecological, infrastructural, and urbanisation issues by solutions that cut across multiple scales and sectoral divisions. …”
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High-tech marketing: Challenges and opportunities for the Russian Federation by I. V. Alyoshina

“…It is noted that the holistic concept of high technology marketing as an element of national, technological and global innovation systems involves decisions at the institutional and infrastructural levels.…”
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