The increasing environmental damage caused by the traditional linear “take–make–dispose” model has led to the need for sustainable economic alternatives. The Circular Economy (CE) emerges as a transformative approach that separates economic growth from environmental harm by promoting resource efficiency, recycling, remanufacturing, and closed-loop systems. Rooted in concepts like cradle-to-cradle design and industrial ecology, CE integrates renewable energy, digital technologies, and sustainable materials. Environmental sustainability in CE is measured using indicators such as carbon footprint reduction, material circularity, energy efficiency, and water reuse. Analytical tools like Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Material Flow Analysis (MFA) help evaluate its impact. Case studies across industries show significant benefits, including up to 30–70% reduction in emissions, over 80% waste reduction, and improved resource productivity. Despite these advantages, challenges such as regulatory, financial, and behavioral barriers remain. A successful transition requires coordinated efforts in policy, innovation, and stakeholder collaboration. Overall, the circular economy plays a vital role in enhancing environmental sustainability and supporting long-term economic resilience
Chloe King, Liam Walker· International Journal of Eme...· 0 citations
The twenty-first century has significantly transformed literary theory and criticism through globalization, digital humanities, interdisciplinary approaches, and evolving cultural discourses. Traditional frameworks such as formalism and New Criticism have expanded to include diverse perspectives like postcolonialism, feminism, ecocriticism, and digital literary studies, emphasizing identity, power, and cultural context. Modern literary studies increasingly adopt interdisciplinary methods, integrating insights from sociology, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, and media studies. The rise of digital humanities has revolutionized research by enabling computational analysis of texts, uncovering patterns and stylistic features that were previously difficult to identify. Contemporary criticism also prioritizes marginalized voices, with feminist, queer, and postcolonial theories challenging dominant narratives and promoting inclusivity around gender, race, and identity. Ecocriticism further highlights the relationship between literature and environmental concerns. Using qualitative and comparative analysis of pre-2024 sources, this study identifies key trends such as methodological shifts, technological integration, and hybrid theoretical models. These developments reflect a dynamic and evolving field that adapts to global and intellectual changes, ensuring the continued relevance of literary theory in understanding human experience and cultural awareness.
Chloe King, Liam Walker· International Journal of Inn...· 0 citations
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) has become an important science to help keep civil infrastructure like bridges, buildings, dams, and industrial plants safe, reliable and lasting. Traditional methods of SHM have depended primarily on wired sensor networks and periodic manual inspections that are regularly expensive, labor-intensive and lack real-time responsiveness. The present-day breakthroughs in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have made it possible to create intelligent, scalable, and energy-efficient SHM systems that would allow continuous monitoring and remote diagnostics. This paper provides an extensive exploration of Structural Health Monitoring with wireless IoT sensors in terms of system architecture, sensing modalities, communication protocols, data processing methods, and damage detection methods. The intricate literature survey reveals the development of the SHM technologies and outlines the gaps in the research. The suggested methodology will combine low-power wireless sensors, edge computing, and cloud-based analytics to track such structural parameters as strain, vibration, displacement, and temperature. Damage detection and feature extraction mathematical models are discussed and the experimental validation strategies. The findings support the idea that IoT-based SHM systems can greatly improve the accuracy of fault detection, decrease the cost of maintenance, and predictive maintenance. The paper has reached the conclusion that wireless IoT-based SHM is an innovative solution to smart infrastructure management and offers the research perspectives on its future development in terms of scalability and artificial intelligence incorporation.
Chloe King, Liam Walker, Grace Young· International Journal of Dat...· 0 citations
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