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Evaluating qualitative behavioral assessment and ethogram techniques for captive black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) (2025)
Journal Article

Maintaining high animal welfare in zoos is a persistent concern for practitioners and regulators, yet assessing welfare remains challenging. Welfare assessment techniques should be rapid and noninvasive, as traditional methods are often invasive, tim... Read More about Evaluating qualitative behavioral assessment and ethogram techniques for captive black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis).

Briefing: Lessons to learn from Welsh roads policy (2025)
Journal Article

This briefing note reviews the development of roads policy in Wales. It demonstrates that the foundations for roads policy are built on the Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015). The Act has influenced strategy in relation to net zero carbon di... Read More about Briefing: Lessons to learn from Welsh roads policy.

Decarbonising last-mile deliveries: When the national strategy fails to meet local needs and expectations (2025)
Journal Article

This paper explores views and perceptions of 35 local authorities towards potential solutions to decarbonise last-mile deliveries in England and presents their perspectives towards potential challenges and drivers to their implementation. The methodo... Read More about Decarbonising last-mile deliveries: When the national strategy fails to meet local needs and expectations.

Automatic pre-screening of outdoor airborne microplastics in micrographs using deep learning (2025)
Journal Article

Airborne microplastics (AMPs) are prevalent in both indoor and outdoor environments, posing potential health risks to humans. Automating the process of spotting them in micrographs can significantly enhance research and monitoring. Although deep lear... Read More about Automatic pre-screening of outdoor airborne microplastics in micrographs using deep learning.

Buzzing about bees: Exploring action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency (2025)
Journal Article

This article considers innovative research in neuroscience and psychology showing that we need to transform environmental storytelling, moving away from stories focused on awareness raising, to ones which develop people’s capacity for action. We inve... Read More about Buzzing about bees: Exploring action-based storytelling as a tool for children’s environmental engagement and agency.

Natural history traits influence winners and losers for herpetological communities in disturbed tropical habitats (2025)
Journal Article

Habitat alteration can lead to a few ‘winning’ species outcompeting many ‘losing’ species, an effect commonly termed as ‘Winner-Loser-Replacements’ or WLRs. This can lead to homogenisation of species assemblages at phylogenetic and functional levels.... Read More about Natural history traits influence winners and losers for herpetological communities in disturbed tropical habitats.

Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications (2025)
Journal Article

As global energy demand continues to rise, the importance of effective solar management in building design becomes increasingly critical. Solar management encompasses strategies for harvesting, regulating, and utilizing solar energy, contributing sig... Read More about Biomimetic adaptive solar building envelopes: Trends, challenges, and opportunities for sustainable applications.

Hybrid graph convolutional LSTM model for spatio-temporal air quality transfer learning (2025)
Journal Article

The short-term air quality forecasting models serve as an early warning system for local agencies, aiding in preparing mitigation strategies against severe pollution episodes. This paper explores the application of Transfer Learning to enhance short-... Read More about Hybrid graph convolutional LSTM model for spatio-temporal air quality transfer learning.

On-site identification of black soil thickness based on drill-core imaging and deep learning (2025)
Journal Article

Accurate identification of the black soil thickness from soil profiling is usually time-consuming and labor-intensive, while the on-site identification of black soil thickness by experts is challenging due to the notable transitional layer in the thi... Read More about On-site identification of black soil thickness based on drill-core imaging and deep learning.

Deep Huber quantile regression networks (2025)
Journal Article

Typical machine learning regression applications aim to report the mean or the median of the predictive probability distribution, via training with a squared or an absolute error scoring function. The importance of issuing predictions of more functio... Read More about Deep Huber quantile regression networks.

Precarious mobilities on the axis of changing labour and mobility dynamics: The case of female domestic workers in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic (2025)
Journal Article

In this paper, we examine the overlapping challenges that arose from domestic work, gender, and class in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, with implications that extend beyond this timeframe. We explore how these factors intersect with reproducti... Read More about Precarious mobilities on the axis of changing labour and mobility dynamics: The case of female domestic workers in Istanbul during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool (2025)
Journal Article

Purpose - Sustainability practices and reporting have consistently evolved over the years with trends towards more holistic approaches with respect to environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG). In the real estate sector over the last deca... Read More about Insights into the use of GRESB as an ESG benchmarking tool.

Water, sanitation, and hygiene inequities in high-income countries: An introduction and agenda (2025)
Journal Article

In recent years, several research communities have turned their focus onto the matter of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services in high-income countries. Growing attention has shown that WASH problems in these settings are far more common tha... Read More about Water, sanitation, and hygiene inequities in high-income countries: An introduction and agenda.

Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers (2025)
Journal Article

To overcome the shortage of construction workers in developed countries, the construction industry recruits a minority workforce from developing countries. However, ethnic minority construction workers (EM-CWs) experience numerous stressors in the h... Read More about Moderating effects of coping behaviors on stressors–Stress relationships of ethnic minority construction workers.

SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells (2025)
Journal Article

The Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) project explored digital workflows from the design to the construction of reinforced concrete building floor elements, reducing carbon emissions and increasing efficiency of building processes. The resulti... Read More about SQUIRREL: Balancing design automation and user interaction in a computational tool for designing segmented concrete shells.

Local policies and interventions to reduce a city’s carbon footprint using plant-based diets: Bristol as a case study (2025)
Journal Article

Net zero strategies are needed to mitigate the effects of the climate emergency. Food systems are responsible for one third of global GhG emissions. This study explores policies and interventions that can be applied at a local level to decarbonise th... Read More about Local policies and interventions to reduce a city’s carbon footprint using plant-based diets: Bristol as a case study.

Towards developing a predictive model for interpersonal communication quality in construction projects: An ensemble artificial intelligence-based approach (2025)
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High-quality communication among stakeholders is salient to securing and maintaining collaboration in construction projects. Indeed, the absence of such communication among the workforce leads to inefficiency, low productivity, and substandard delive... Read More about Towards developing a predictive model for interpersonal communication quality in construction projects: An ensemble artificial intelligence-based approach.

Flexibility in nationally significant infrastructure planning in England: An implementation perspective on an ongoing planning dilemma (2025)
Journal Article

Debates about flexibility in the granting of planning permission have a long history. Increased flexibility is often associated with pro-development planning and reduced control. However, flexibility can help to achieve enhanced planning outcomes and... Read More about Flexibility in nationally significant infrastructure planning in England: An implementation perspective on an ongoing planning dilemma.

Clinical agility – an essential foundation for high quality healthcare. An experience report of the lessons learnt from designing a new cancer centre (2025)
Journal Article

Agility is essential for healthcare given its dynamic and constantly changing nature. Healthcare organisations that lack agility face deteriorating care quality, impacting negatively on patient outcomes and staff. Simultaneously improving and deliver... Read More about Clinical agility – an essential foundation for high quality healthcare. An experience report of the lessons learnt from designing a new cancer centre.

Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques (2025)
Journal Article

This study proposed an accident data-driven approach using hybrid AI techniques for the quantification of falling risks at workplaces. Six machine learning models and one ensemble learning model were deployed for automatic extraction of causal factor... Read More about Falling risk analysis at workplaces through an accident data-driven approach based upon hybrid Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques.