All Outputs (1310)

Animal-visitor interactions in semi-contrived tourism settings: A study of ‘meet & greets’ in UK zoos (2022)
Journal Article

Animal-visitor interactions are common in captive-wildlife tourism settings, but there is a lack of research exploring what is on offer. This study defines and examines ‘Meet & Greet’ animal experiences in UK zoos within the context of the wider wild... Read More about Animal-visitor interactions in semi-contrived tourism settings: A study of ‘meet & greets’ in UK zoos.

Reconstructing rainfall using dryland dunes: Assessing the suitability of the southern Kalahari for unsaturated zone hydrostratigraphies (2022)
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Time-series of dryland rainfall over 100–1000s of years are scarce but are needed to underpin improved predictions under future climate change. Dryland sand dunes are established Quaternary geomorphic archives, which also contain pore moisture as par... Read More about Reconstructing rainfall using dryland dunes: Assessing the suitability of the southern Kalahari for unsaturated zone hydrostratigraphies.

A comprehensive review of incorporating steel fibers of waste tires in cement composites and its applications (2022)
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Accumulating vast amounts of pollutants drives modern civilization toward sustainable development. Construction waste is one of the prominent issues impeding progress toward net-zero. Pollutants must be utilized in constructing civil engineering stru... Read More about A comprehensive review of incorporating steel fibers of waste tires in cement composites and its applications.

Assessment and mitigation of the fire vulnerability and risk in the historic city centre of Aveiro, Portugal (2022)
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Identifying fire risk in urban centres is instrumental for supporting informed decision-making and outlining efficient vulnerability mitigation strategies. Historic centres are particularly complex in this regard due to the high density of combustibl... Read More about Assessment and mitigation of the fire vulnerability and risk in the historic city centre of Aveiro, Portugal.

Bullet impacts in building stone excavate approximately conical craters, with dimensions that are controlled by target material (2022)
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Bullet impacts are a ubiquitous form of damage to the built environment resulting from armed conflicts. Bullet impacts into stone buildings result in surficial cratering, fracturing, and changes to material properties, such as permeability and surfac... Read More about Bullet impacts in building stone excavate approximately conical craters, with dimensions that are controlled by target material.

Shear response of Lime/GGBS-Stabilised High-Sulphate-Bearing Clay under consolidated-undrained conditions (2022)
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This study investigated the consolidated undrained shear behaviour of a stabilised high-sulphate soil system. Lime was used to stabilise the soil with the inclusion of ground granulated blast furnace slag (GGBS) as an ettringite suppressor. Both volu... Read More about Shear response of Lime/GGBS-Stabilised High-Sulphate-Bearing Clay under consolidated-undrained conditions.

Comparison of the performance of hybrid traffic signal patterns and conventional alternatives when accounting for both pedestrians and vehicles (2022)
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Traffic control systems are crucial for managing traffic flows. Their main function is to reduce interactions among users for safety reasons, while minimizing the travel times. Researchers often concentrate on the cycle length, whose impact on travel... Read More about Comparison of the performance of hybrid traffic signal patterns and conventional alternatives when accounting for both pedestrians and vehicles.

Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline (2022)
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As extinction becomes one of the most pressing crises of our time, projects that engage with nonhuman lives have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This raises the question of what role creative explorations might play in shaping... Read More about Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline.

Impacts of sea level rise on wave overtopping rates around the coast of England (2022)
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There is unequivocal evidence that global sea levels are rising. It is therefore inevitable there will be socioeconomic impacts as a result of this. To aid mitigation, and the implementation of adaptation measures, it is vital the magnitude of the po... Read More about Impacts of sea level rise on wave overtopping rates around the coast of England.

Performance of sustainable road pavements founded on clay subgrades treated with eco-friendly cementitious materials (2022)
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Clays encountered during road construction are mostly weak and result in major pavement failures due to their low California bearing ratio (CBR) and high swelling potential. In this study, sustainable and eco-friendly waste materials including brick... Read More about Performance of sustainable road pavements founded on clay subgrades treated with eco-friendly cementitious materials.

Using Artificial Intelligence techniques to predict intrinsic compressibility characteristic of Clay (2022)
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Reconstituted clays have often provided the basis for the interpretation and modelling of the properties of natural clays. The term “intrinsic” was introduced to describe a clay remoulded or reconstituted at moisture content up to 1.5 times its liqui... Read More about Using Artificial Intelligence techniques to predict intrinsic compressibility characteristic of Clay.

A systematic review on the effectiveness of remediation methods for oil contaminated soils (2022)
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There is no doubt that several soil remediation methods have been applied in removing oil contaminants in the soil. Selecting an appropriate method is critical for effective cleanup of a contaminated site. The aim of this study is to review field stu... Read More about A systematic review on the effectiveness of remediation methods for oil contaminated soils.

Origin of lower cretaceous quartzose arenites in northern India and the Indus Basins of Pakistan—The result of provenance composition, weathering or diagenesis? (2022)
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Lower Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) sandstones of the Ghaggar-Hakra Formation in the Barmer Basin of northwest Rajasthan, India, have a complex depositional history which is confusing given they are quartzose arenites. The heavy mineral grains are very... Read More about Origin of lower cretaceous quartzose arenites in northern India and the Indus Basins of Pakistan—The result of provenance composition, weathering or diagenesis?.

Behind the scenes of glamour: A systematic literature review of the business aviation sector (2022)
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Unlike the other air transport business models, air cargo and business aviation proved resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic setting the fundamentals for further growth in the post-pandemic business environment. In contrast to air cargo, however, bu... Read More about Behind the scenes of glamour: A systematic literature review of the business aviation sector.

Protecting great apes from disease: Compliance with measures to reduce anthroponotic disease transmission (2022)
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The emergence of infectious diseases, such as COVID-19, impacts livelihood strategies and conservation tools reliant on human-wildlife interactions, such as wildlife-based tourism and research. This is particularly relevant to great ape conservation,... Read More about Protecting great apes from disease: Compliance with measures to reduce anthroponotic disease transmission.

On beauty (2022)
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“Beauty,” a term that almost defies definition, can be highly emotive in its use: more emotive, we posit, than many other commonplace terms used to frame thinking about the future of space and place. Thus, the relationship between beauty, decision ma... Read More about On beauty.

Reflecting on deepening participation in recruitment and evaluation in citizen science - lessons from the WeCount project (2022)
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This paper focuses on an urban mobility citizen science project in which citizens participated in several ways, from technical development to engagement and evaluation. Drawing on asset-based community development, the WeCount project aimed to empowe... Read More about Reflecting on deepening participation in recruitment and evaluation in citizen science - lessons from the WeCount project.

Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange (2022)
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This paper evaluates a unique, transdisciplinary participatory research and knowledge exchange methodology developed in the Drought Risk and You (DRY) project and offers it as a transferable framework for others engaging stakeholders and systemic con... Read More about Building local capacity for managing environmental risk: A transferable framework for participatory, place-based, science-narrative knowledge exchange.

Repower to the people: The scope for repowering to increase the scale of community shareholding in commercial onshore wind assets in Great Britain (2022)
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Internationally, commercial onshore wind farms are starting to reach the end of their operational or consent life, posing a new and mounting challenge with potentially dramatic permutations for the sector. Replacing existing turbines with new infrast... Read More about Repower to the people: The scope for repowering to increase the scale of community shareholding in commercial onshore wind assets in Great Britain.

Investigating and predicting spatiotemporal variations in vegetation cover in transitional climate zone: A case study of Gansu (China) (2022)
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Vegetation ecosystems are sensitive to large-scale climate variability in climate transition zones. As a representative transitional climate zone in Northwest China, Gansu is characterized by a sharp climate and vegetation gradient. In this study, th... Read More about Investigating and predicting spatiotemporal variations in vegetation cover in transitional climate zone: A case study of Gansu (China).