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Inexpensive street decoration and shade cover, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Tactical urbanism, also commonly referred to as guerrilla urbanism, pop-up urbanism, city repair, D.I.Y. urbanism, [1] planning-by-doing, urban acupuncture, and urban prototyping, [2] is a low-cost, temporary change to the built environment, usually in cities, intended to improve local neighbourhoods and city gathering ...
Science is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science [A 2] [1] (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals. [2] It was first published in 1880, is currently circulated weekly and has a subscriber base of around 130,000.
In computer science, hub labels or the hub-labelling algorithm is a speedup technique that consumes much fewer resources than the lookup table but is still extremely fast for finding the shortest paths between nodes in a graph, which may represent, for example, road networks.
On July 24, 2021, in the context of a review of the secondary school curriculum National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), seven University of Auckland professors and emeriti professors (known informally as the Listener Seven) published a letter titled "In Defence of Science" in the current affairs magazine New Zealand Listener, which generated considerable controversy for ...
Non-tariff barriers to trade (NTBs; also called non-tariff measures, NTMs) are trade barriers that restrict imports or exports of goods or services through mechanisms other than the simple imposition of tariffs. Such barriers are subject to controversy and debate, as they may comply with international rules on trade yet serve protectionist ...
Aerial image of the science museum "Deutsches Museum" (center) in the city center of Munich on an island of the Isar river. The Deutsches Museum, 'German Museum' of Masterpieces of Science and Technology in Munich is one of the largest science and technology museums in the world in terms of exhibition space, with about 28,000 exhibited objects from 50 fields of science and technology.
Semantic Scholar began as a database for the topics of computer science, geoscience, and neuroscience. [5] In 2017, the system began including biomedical literature in its corpus. [ 5 ] As of September 2022 [update] , it includes over 200 million publications from all fields of science.
William Edwards Deming (October 14, 1900 – December 20, 1993) was an American business theorist, composer, economist, industrial engineer, management consultant, statistician, and writer.