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Non-Linear Analysis of Precast Concrete Segment Joints under High Compressive Loads (2018)
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Boye, B. A., Abbey, S. J., Olubanwo, A. O., & Fonte, J. (2018). Non-Linear Analysis of Precast Concrete Segment Joints under High Compressive Loads. International Journal of Applied Engineering Research, 13(9), 6979-6988

When a precast concrete tunnel lining is loaded, the joints rotate as the lining deforms leading to varying contact lengths. This paper presents a numerical study on a precast concrete segment joint subjected to a high compressive loading, using nonl... Read More about Non-Linear Analysis of Precast Concrete Segment Joints under High Compressive Loads.

Fracture and damage localization in volcanic edifice rocks from El Hierro, Stromboli and Tenerife (2018)
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Harnett, C. E., Benson, P. M., Rowley, P., & Fazio, M. (2018). Fracture and damage localization in volcanic edifice rocks from El Hierro, Stromboli and Tenerife. Scientific Reports, 8, Article 1942. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20442-w

© 2018 The Author(s). We present elastic wave velocity and strength data from a suite of three volcanic rocks taken from the volcanic edifices of El Hierro and Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain), and Stromboli (Aeolian Islands, Italy). These rocks span... Read More about Fracture and damage localization in volcanic edifice rocks from El Hierro, Stromboli and Tenerife.

The effects of composite laminate stiffness and loading on stress resultant concentration factor around a hole (2018)
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Damghani, M., Harrison, C., & Kennedy, D. (2018). The effects of composite laminate stiffness and loading on stress resultant concentration factor around a hole. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 232(6), 1033-1049. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218755187

© 2018, © IMechE 2018. An analytical tool is developed using conformal mapping and the complex variable method for determining the stress resultant concentration factor in an infinite plate with a circular or elliptical hole. This tool is validated a... Read More about The effects of composite laminate stiffness and loading on stress resultant concentration factor around a hole.

GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online (2018)
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West, H., & Horswell, M. (2018). GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online. Teaching Geography, 43(1), 22-24

In this article, we aim to briefly introduce you to Eris’s ArcGIS Online platform. Online GIS platforms are typically far removed from the highly specialist desktop software that many teachers today trained on. ArcGIS Online is an effective and effic... Read More about GIS has changed! Exploring the potential of ArcGIS online.

Bitter gourd reduces elevated fasting plasma glucose levels in an intervention study among prediabetics in Tanzania (2018)
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Krawinkel, M. B., Ludwig, C., Swai, M. E., Yang, R. Y., Chun, K. P., & Habicht, S. D. (2018). Bitter gourd reduces elevated fasting plasma glucose levels in an intervention study among prediabetics in Tanzania. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 216, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jep.2018.01.016

Ethnopharmacological relevance: Impaired glucose tolerance and diabetes mellitus have become major health issues even in non-industrialized countries. As access to clinical management is often poor, dietary interventions and alternative medicines are... Read More about Bitter gourd reduces elevated fasting plasma glucose levels in an intervention study among prediabetics in Tanzania.

Application of ENSO and drought indices for water level reconstruction and prediction: A case study in the lower Mekong River estuary (2018)
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Fok, H. S., He, Q., Chun, K. P., Zhou, Z., & Chu, T. (2018). Application of ENSO and drought indices for water level reconstruction and prediction: A case study in the lower Mekong River estuary. Water, 10(1), Article 58. https://doi.org/10.3390/w10010058

Water level monitoring is important for understanding the global hydrological cycle. Remotely-sensed indices that capture localized instantaneous responses have been extensively explored for water level reconstruction during the past two decades. How... Read More about Application of ENSO and drought indices for water level reconstruction and prediction: A case study in the lower Mekong River estuary.

Family formation and everyday travel in Britain since c.1850 (2018)
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Pooley, C. G., Jones, T., Jones, H., Spencer, B., & Chatterjee, K. (2018). Family formation and everyday travel in Britain since c.1850. History of the Family, 23(2), 290-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/1081602X.2017.1417146

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper focuses on the extent to which everyday travel behaviour in Britain changes in relation to family responsibilities, and examines how this has alter... Read More about Family formation and everyday travel in Britain since c.1850.

Claircity project: Citizen-led scenarios to improve air quality in European cities (2018)
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Hayes, E., King, A., Callum, A., Williams, B., Vanherle, K., Boushel, C., …Longhurst, J. (2018). Claircity project: Citizen-led scenarios to improve air quality in European cities. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 230, 233-241. https://doi.org/10.2495/AIR180221

© 2018 WIT Press. Air pollution has as significant impact on the health of European citizens, particularly in urban areas, and was responsible for more than 400,000 premature deaths in Europe in 2014. It is within our cities where this public health... Read More about Claircity project: Citizen-led scenarios to improve air quality in European cities.

Facilitating stakeholder dialogues on a carbon neutral city: We need to talk about carbon (and air quality) (2018)
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Prestwood, E., Longhurst, J., Townsend, I., Haines, T., & Tsiarapa, E. (2018). Facilitating stakeholder dialogues on a carbon neutral city: We need to talk about carbon (and air quality). WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 230, 501-510. https://doi.org/10.2495/AIR180461

© 2018 WIT Press. The issues surrounding successful public engagement with climate change mitigation policy and decision-making have been extensively researched and identified as barriers to long-term civic and civil engagement. The challenge of tran... Read More about Facilitating stakeholder dialogues on a carbon neutral city: We need to talk about carbon (and air quality).

“Unfortunately, I use my car”: Commuter transport choices in Bristol, UK (2018)
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Boushel, C., Barnes, J., Chatterton, T., Devito, L., Edwards, A., Rogers, L. F., …Hayes, E. (2018). “Unfortunately, I use my car”: Commuter transport choices in Bristol, UK. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 230, 243-252. https://doi.org/10.2495/AIR180231

© 2018 WIT Press. The leading source of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) concentrations in Bristol, United Kingdom is road transport, and Bristol exceeds the annual mean national air quality objective of 40 µg/m3 for NO2 in many locations around the city. Unde... Read More about “Unfortunately, I use my car”: Commuter transport choices in Bristol, UK.

Air pollution in the Aveiro region, Portugal: A citizens' engagement approach (2018)
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Coelho, S., Rodrigues, V., Barnes, J., Boushel, C., Devito, L., & Lopes, M. (2018). Air pollution in the Aveiro region, Portugal: A citizens' engagement approach. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 230, 253-262. https://doi.org/10.2495/AIR180241

© 2018 WIT Press. Air pollution has become a growing concern in the past few years, with an increasing number of acute air pollution episodes in many cities worldwide. In Portugal, especially in the region of Aveiro, high concentrations of particulat... Read More about Air pollution in the Aveiro region, Portugal: A citizens' engagement approach.

Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change (2018)
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Atkinson, R., Dörfler, T., & Rothfuß, E. (2018). Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change. Politics and Governance, 6(1), 169-179. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.v6i1.1210

© 2018 by the authors; licensee Cogitatio (Lisbon, Portugal). The arena of locally embedded and engendered responses to climate change offers a particularly fruitful and challenging space in which to scrutinise the encounters between established form... Read More about Self-organisation and the co-production of governance: The challenge of local responses to climate change.

Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation (2018)
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Paddeu, D., Parkhurst, G., Fadda, P., Fancello, G., & Ricci, M. (2018). Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation. Transport, 33(4), 913-929. https://doi.org/10.3846/transport.2018.6593

© 2018 The Author(s). Published by VGTU Press. Due to the motivations of climate change, the health impacts of poor air quality, and the importance of cities for economic growth, transport policy at all levels of governance places emphasis on reducin... Read More about Multi-stakeholder collaboration in urban freight consolidation schemes: Drivers and barriers to implementation.

Does transport investment really boost economic growth? (2018)
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Melia, S. (2018). Does transport investment really boost economic growth?. World Transport Policy and Practice, 23(3&4), 118-128

The SACTRA (1999) report on Transport and the Economy found strong theoretical grounds for believing that transport investment could boost national economies but that the empirical evidence was “weak and disputed”. This study asks whether a differen... Read More about Does transport investment really boost economic growth?.

Developing university-society partnerships with a focus on climate change impact research using the ‘business assist’ model (2018)
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Ward, S., Butler, D., Adams, R., O'Callaghan, S., Warren, N., Wickett, M., …Uden, C. (2018). Developing university-society partnerships with a focus on climate change impact research using the ‘business assist’ model. Research for All, 2(1), 163-174. https://doi.org/10.18546/RFA.02.1.14

This article explores the experiences generated through a programme of engaged research with university–society partnerships focused on businesses, climate change impacts and environmental technologies. The programme was co-created through research a... Read More about Developing university-society partnerships with a focus on climate change impact research using the ‘business assist’ model.

Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries (2018)
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Appleby, T., Cardwell, E., & Pettipher, J. (2018). Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, 6(1), 40. https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.295

© 2018 The Author(s). Property rights are a widely advocated policy tool to encourage stewardship over a range of environmental goods. Despite the extent to which property rights are dependent upon law to work, economists rarely consider that propert... Read More about Fishing rights, property rights, human rights: The problem of legal lock-in in UK fisheries.

Investigation of intrinsic de-bonding in bonded concrete overlays: Material characterisation and numerical study (2018)
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Olubanwo, A. O., Karadelis, J. N., Saidani, M., Khorami, M., & Abbey, S. J. (2018). Investigation of intrinsic de-bonding in bonded concrete overlays: Material characterisation and numerical study. https://doi.org/10.5267/j.esm.2018.1.003

© 2018 Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. This study investigates the evolution of intrinsic interfacial de-bonding of Roller Compacted Steel Fibre Reinforced Polymer Modified Concrete (RC-SFR-PMC) bonded on substrate Ordinary Portland Cement... Read More about Investigation of intrinsic de-bonding in bonded concrete overlays: Material characterisation and numerical study.

Qualitative methods for ecologists and conservation scientists (2018)
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Sutherland, W. J., Dicks, L. V., Everard, M., & Geneletti, D. (2018). Qualitative methods for ecologists and conservation scientists. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 9(1), 7-9. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12956

© 2018 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution © 2018 British Ecological Society Conservation of biodiversity involves dealing with problems caused by humans, by applying solutions that comprise actions by humans. Understanding human attitudes,... Read More about Qualitative methods for ecologists and conservation scientists.