Smart urban governance: an alternative to technocratic "smartness".

This paper argues for a specific urban planning perspective on smart governance that we call "smart urban governance," which represents a move away from the technocratic way of governing cities often found in smart cities. A framework on smart urban governance is proposed on the basis of three intertwined key components, namely spatial, institutional, and technological components. To test the applicability of the framework, we conducted an international questionnaire survey on smart city projects.

Travelling without a helmet: tourists' vulnerabilities and responses to disasters in Indonesia.

Tourists are particularly vulnerable when natural disasters occur in regions that they are visiting. It is assumed that they lack awareness and understanding of the actions that they need to take in such circumstances. This study examines the responses of tourists in times of disaster, building on empirical data collected through large-scale surveys conducted in Bali and Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2015.

Large di- and heptafullerene polyelectrolytes composed of C60 building blocks having a highly symmetrical hexakisaddition pattern.

We report here on the synthesis of three new prototypes (types I-III) of very large fullerene-based polyelectrolytes which can carry up to 60 charges on their periphery. All fullerene moieties incorporated in these macromolecular structures have an octahedral hexakisaddition pattern. Dumbbell-shaped icosacarboxylate 5 (type I), which can accumulate up to twenty negative charges, is very soluble in methanol as well as in neutral and basic water.

Water solubility, antioxidant activity and cytochrome C binding of four families of exohedral adducts of C60 and C70.

Over the past decade, surface-modified, water soluble fullerenes have been shown by many different investigators to exhibit strong antioxidant activity against reactive oxygen species (ROS) in vitro and to protect cells and tissues from oxidative injury and cell death in vivo. Nevertheless, progress in developing fullerenes as bona fide drug candidates has been hampered by three development issues: 1) lack of methods for scalable synthesis; 2) inability to produce highly purified, single-species regioisomers compatible with pharmaceutical applications; and 3) inadequate understanding of structure-function relationships with respect to various surface modifications (e.g.