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Provision of housing services within planetary limits: A methodological framework for the urban circular economy

The provision of decent housing for all is a core sustainable development goal (SDG) and a fundamental human right. However, the construction sector is the world's largest consumer of raw materials, and 40% of global CO2 emissions are attributed to housing ...

2023

Promoting synergies for sustainability through peer-to-peer sharing: an analysis of drivers and barriers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann

Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing may foster sustainability synergistically by saving resources, reducing costs and promoting satisfaction of consumer needs and social connectivity. A survey of Swiss and Swedish consumers (N = 1522) was conducted to analyze drive ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023

A data-driven method for reconstructing and modelling social interactions in moving animal groups

Francesco Mondada, Frank Bonnet, Vaios Papaspyros

Group-living organisms that collectively migrate range from cells and bacteria to human crowds, and include swarms of insects, schools of fish, and flocks of birds or ungulates. Unveiling the behavioural and cognitive mechanisms by which these groups coord ...

2020

City and interaction: the role of space in social organization

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

How can seemingly chaotic personal acts create the coherent systems of interaction that surround us? In this paper, we attempt to answer this key question by suggesting the role for cities on how we coordinate seemingly chaotic decisions. We look into thes ...

PONTIFICIA UNIV CATOLICA PARANA-PUCPR2018

Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy

João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda

How can individual acts amount to coherent systems of interaction? In this paper, we attempt to answer this key question by suggesting that there is a place for cities in the way we coordinate seemingly chaotic decisions. We look into the elementary proces ...

2017

Aesthetics – as a dimension of society and a component of spatial theory

Mirza Tursic

The title of this paper suggests three things. First, that society’s issues are multidimensional i.e. society being a multidimensional system in a way that each dimension undergo the totality of society’s. These dimensions hold together social systems of v ...

2016

Community resilience to climate change in a cross-scale tourism governance context: a combined quantitative-qualitative network analysis

Romano Tobias Wyss

Social systems in mountain regions are exposed to a number of disturbances, such as climate change. Calls for conceptual and practical approaches on how to address climate change have been taken up in the literature. The resilience concept as a comprehensi ...

Resilience Alliance2016

An integrative analysis of energy transitions in energy regions: A case study of ökoEnergieland in Austria

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Maria Anna Hecher, Ulrike Vilsmaier

‘Energy regions’ are regional initiatives,which are engaged in becoming energy self-sufficient by using regionally available energy sources. They support the overall transition towards renewable-based energy and are of key interest to understand how the en ...

Elsevier2016

Song Recommendation with Non-Negative Matrix Factorization and Graph Total Variation

Pierre Vandergheynst, Kirell Maël Benzi, Xavier Bresson, Vasilis Kalofolias

This work formulates a novel song recommender system as a matrix completion problem that benefits from collaborative filtering through Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and content-based filtering via total variation (TV) on graphs. The graphs encode ...

Ieee2016

Social deficits induced by peripubertal stress in rats are reversed by resveratrol

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Olivia Zanoletti, Guillaume Poirier

Adolescence is increasingly recognized as a critical period for the development of the social system, through the maturation of social competences and of their underlying neural circuitries. The present study sought to test the utility of resveratrol, a di ...

2014

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