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The Right to Housing: A Quick Broader Overview
The right to housing is a fundamental human right recognized in international law, asserting that all individuals should have access to safe, secure, habitable, and affordable housing. It is not merely a right to shelter. Still, it encompasses the right to live in dignity and peace, with access to necessary infrastructure and services, free from forced eviction, discrimination, and violence. This right obliges states to progressively realize access to housing for all, utilizing their maximum available resources and ensuring a standard of living adequate for health and well-being.
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  • 18 Aug 2025
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Auxology in Transition: From Anthropometric Growth Assessment to Algorithmic Evaluation of Skeletal Maturation in Contemporary Clinical Practice
Auxology is the scientific discipline dedicated to the study of human growth and development, with particular emphasis on the patterns, timing, and biological regulation of physical growth from infancy through adolescence. It integrates medical, biological, anthropological, and clinical perspectives to examine both normal and pathological growth processes, including somatic development, skeletal maturation, and pubertal progression. Historically, Auxology evolved from early anthropometric observations and the emergence of statistical reasoning, which established growth as a measurable and variable biological phenomenon. The discovery of X-rays in the late nineteenth century represented a major methodological advance, enabling direct assessment of skeletal maturation and leading to the development of standardized bone age methods, such as the Greulich and Pyle atlas and the Tanner–Whitehouse system. In recent decades, digital imaging and computational approaches, including machine learning and artificial intelligence, have further enhanced the accuracy and reproducibility of growth assessment. Today, auxology constitutes a fundamental scientific framework in pediatric medicine, epidemiology, and public health for understanding human growth as a dynamic, multifactorial, and context-dependent process.
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  • 10 Feb 2026
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Digital Twin for Sustainable Social Housing: Integrating BIM and MMC Towards Industry 5.0
MMC has been globally recognised as a promising solution for the current global social housing crisis, although persistent challenges remain in relation to limited early-stage design coordination and chronic design inconsistencies, which often cause costly post-design modifications. In response, digital twinning enabled through BIM has emerged as a compelling approach to tackle these challenges. BIM serves a transformative role in advancing sustainable social housing supply by integrating BIM with advanced smart technologies such as AR/VR, IoT, AI, and robotics. Nevertheless, significant constraints continue to impede a wide adoption of BIM due to technical capacity, organisational readiness, knowledge dissemination, and legal frameworks that support embracing BIM and associated smart technologies. Moreover, a notable knowledge gap persists in the application of BIM-enabled digital twinning across the entire project lifecycle of MMC projects, which may be addressed through the integration of Industry 5.0 principles with BIM, emphasising human-centricity, resilience, and sustainability as foundational pillars for future innovation.
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  • 10 Feb 2026
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Current Understanding of Health and Urban Environment: Focus on Neuroaesthetics
The Neuroaesthetics-informed approach to the urban environment examines how the sensory properties of buildings, streets, and public spaces are processed by the human brain, and how this processing affects health, well-being, and behavior. Drawing on neuroscience, psychology, and architectural research, it examines how attributes such as organized visual complexity, fractal structure, materiality, color, light, scale, and spatial configuration shape perceptual fluency, stress regulation, affective states, cognition, and even influence social interaction in cities. The literature discussed was identified through targeted searches of peer-reviewed journals in neuroscience, psychology, architecture, urban design and public health, with emphasis on studies examining perceptual processing, affective responses, psychophysiological indicators, and health-related proxies in relation to environmental form, as opposed to general environmental health work. Practical applications are discussed.
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