Building Research Papers

Peace in International Relations

This updated and revised second edition examines the conceptualisation and evolution of peace in International Relations (IR) theory. The book examines the concept of peace and its usage in the main theoretical debates in IR, including real...

Peace in International Relations

This book examines the way in which peace is conceptualized in IR theory, a topic which has until now been largely overlooked. The volume explores the way peace has been implicitly conceptualized within the different strands of IR theory, a...

Environmental Peacebuilding and Solar Geoengineering

Solar geoengineering, or reflecting incoming sunlight to cool the planet, has been viewed by international relations and governance scholars as an approach that could exacerbate conflict. It has not been examined through the framework of en...

Communitarian International Relations

In Emanuel Adler's distinctive constructivist approach to international relations theory, international practices evolve in tandem with collective knowledge of the material and social worlds. This book - comprising a fresh selection of his ...

Non-state actors in international relations

Part I Three perspectives - political science, policy studies, and international law: private in form, public in purpose - NGOs in international relations theory, Bob Reinalda international policy arrangements of state and non-state actors,...

International Relations in a Constructed World

Explores the application of constructivist theory to international relations. The text examines the relevance of constructivism for empirical research, focusing on some of the key issues of contemporary international politics: ethnic and na...

Architectural diplomacy: a historical review of the Japan-China Society of Architecture and Building Technology

By tracing the historical activities of the Japan-China Society of Architecture and Building Technology (JCSABT, 1973–2003), which was established in Japan in 1973, this study firstly provides an overview of the friendly exchange groups vis...

Communitarian International Relations: The Epistemic Foundations of International Relations

Part 1: Introduction 1. Communities of Practice Part 2: Cognitive Evolution 2. From Being to Becoming: Cognitive Evolution and a Theory of Non-equilibrium in International Relations 3. Cognitive Evolution: A Dynamic Approach for the Study o...

Differentiated Improvement Path of Carbon Emission Efficiency of China’s Provincial Construction Industry: A Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis Approach

Promoting carbon reduction in the construction sector is crucial to achieving China’s ‘double carbon’ target. However, due to the interaction of multiple factors, the carbon emission efficiency of Chinese construction industry (CEECI) varie...

IoT-enabled real-time outdoor monitoring of perovskite BIPV system under real climatic conditions

This study presents a first-of-its-kind IoT-enabled outdoor investigation of perovskite Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) subsystems under real environmental operating conditions at Peshawar, Pakistan. Two architecturally distinct per...

Energy characterization of residential and office buildings in a tropical location

Governments have established regulations to reduce energy consumption and polluting gas emissions from buildings. In Colombia, the government issued Resolution 0549 in 2015, a regulation that imposed savings percentages on different types o...

Making Rejected and Non-Selected Architectural Design Decisions Traceable: A Decision/Memory Model

In BIM-enabled architectural projects, information systems preserve accepted decisions far more reliably than the rejected and non-selected alternatives that shaped them. Drawings, models, specifications and common data environments record ...

City beautification through corporate social responsibility landscape branding in enhancing urban landscape identity in Kisumu City, Kenya

City identity and branding have traditionally been shaped by iconic architecture, including monumental buildings and landmarks. However, recent studies have begun to explore city branding through corporate social responsibility (CSR) initia...

Research on Parameter Influence of Offshore Wind Turbines Based on Measured Data Analysis

Offshore wind turbines are prone to structural damage over time due to environmental factors, which increases operational costs and the risk of accidents. Early detection of structural damage through monitoring systems can help reduce maint...

Viaductos de hormigón pretensado construidos por vanos sucesivos

Las dificultades que presentaba la utilización de las cimbras tradicionales al construir ciertos puentes de hormigón pretensado han forzado a encontrar una solución que superase los inconvenientes, conservando, o mejorando a ser posible, to...

Strategi Pengembangan Kampung Topeng Malang sebagai Kampung Wisata Budaya

The Desaku Menanti Program is a government program that is relocating the homeless to a new village as a tourist destination, one of the results of the program is the Mask Tourism Village. The potential of Malangan Mask cultural characteris...

THE SHAPING OF SOME LIFTING AND TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, USING AUTODESK INVENTOR

The paper presents, through the use of Autodesk Inventor software package, several mechanisms from the structure of lifting and transportation machines, in this case lifting system with winch operated by screw,lifting system type with muffl...

COMPUTER GRAPHICS USED TO OVER CONSTRAINED MECHANISMS’ MOBILITY

The objective of this study is the use of computer graphics as teaching methodology in the field of robotics, focused on over constrained mechanisms’ mobility. Because the analytical methods applied to calculate the mobility of robots have ...

Applications of artificial neural-networks for energy systems

PG-MACO Optimization Method for Ship Pipeline Layout

Aimed at the problem of low efficiency of ship pipeline design, an optimization method of pipeline layout is proposed. An optimization mathematical model is established by comprehensively considering the engineering background of safety, ec...