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Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices (2022)
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In this paper we explore migrants' and minorities' memories and memory-making associated with death, funerary and remembrance practices, with particular attention to how this intersects with experiences of migration and/or being part of a cultural or... Read More about Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices.

Teaching about the hidden climate threat of UK drought (2022)
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Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco) (2022)
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The interest in assessing seismic risk in earthquake-prone regions in Morocco has been increasing over recent decades, to a large extent due to the substantial amount of damage imposed by recent events and because the population in these regions has... Read More about Urban seismic risk assessment and damage estimation: Case of Rif Buildings (North of Morocco).

Failure is the greatest teacher: Embracing the positives of failure in primate conservation (2022)
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“Failure” is recognised as being vital for success in many fields but is seldom embraced in primate conservation or conservation more generally. In this paper, we use examples from the literature, particularly around reintroduction, to reflect on fai... Read More about Failure is the greatest teacher: Embracing the positives of failure in primate conservation.

Integrating the Budyko framework with the emerging hot spot analysis in local land use planning for regulating surface evapotranspiration ratio (2022)
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Land use planning regulates surface hydrological processes by adjusting land properties with varied evapotranspiration ratios. However, a dearth of empirical spatial information hampers the regulation of place-specific hydrological processes. Therefo... Read More about Integrating the Budyko framework with the emerging hot spot analysis in local land use planning for regulating surface evapotranspiration ratio.

DMRB flexible road pavement design using re-engineered expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index (2022)
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Pavement thickness is a very vital component during the design stage of a road construction project. Pavement design helps to determine the costs of the project over a certain period to ascertain how the cost of road pavement construction affect the... Read More about DMRB flexible road pavement design using re-engineered expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index.

Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities (2022)
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Benchmarking and monitoring of urban design and transport features is crucial to achieving local and international health and sustainability goals. However, most urban indicator frameworks use coarse spatial scales that either only allow between-city... Read More about Using open data and open-source software to develop spatial indicators of urban design and transport features for achieving healthy and sustainable cities.

Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis (2022)
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Understanding the impacts of multi-hazard risk in urban areas is a fundamental step towards the adoption of resilience-enhancement and disaster prevention strategies, underpinning institutional adjustments aimed at improving the capacity of the autho... Read More about Exposure and physical vulnerability indicators to assess seismic risk in urban areas: A step towards a multi-hazard risk analysis.

The tale of an ecological whodunit (2022)
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This article considers how the colony collapse disorder crisis framed the decline of honeybee populations as an ecological whodunit. The work examines how this framing led to global interest in the bee decline, and has since encouraged significant ac... Read More about The tale of an ecological whodunit.

Road pavement thickness and construction depth optimization using treated and untreated artificially-synthesized expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index (2022)
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Road pavement thickness and their depth of construction take a chunk of the overall cost of road construction. This has called for a need for reduced road pavement thickness by improving the engineering properties of subgrade such as the California b... Read More about Road pavement thickness and construction depth optimization using treated and untreated artificially-synthesized expansive road subgrade materials with varying plasticity index.

Development of hybrid optimization algorithm for structures furnished with seismic damper devices using the particle swarm optimization method and gravitational search algorithm (2022)
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Previous studies about optimizing earthquake structural energy dissipation systems indicated that most existing techniques employ merely one or a few parameters as design variables in the optimization process, and thereby are only applicable only to... Read More about Development of hybrid optimization algorithm for structures furnished with seismic damper devices using the particle swarm optimization method and gravitational search algorithm.

Efficient Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification (2022)
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Time-series shapelets are discriminative subsequences, recently found effective for time series classification (tsc). It is evident that the quality of shapelets is crucial to the accuracy of tsc. However, major research has focused on building accur... Read More about Efficient Shapelet Discovery for Time Series Classification.

The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre (2022)
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Traditionally, the Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures have always adopted a deficit model for communication, with one or two invited scientists giving lectures to an audience present at the Royal Institution (Ri) and, since 1936, an audience watc... Read More about The Christmas Lectures: extending the experience outside the lecture theatre.

Toward the sustainable use of groundwater springs: a case study from Namibia (2022)
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The water supply in drylands mainly relies on groundwater, making it a crucial resource. Springs in southern Africa are often underutilized, and are neither protected nor monitored. Thus, the aim of this study was to evaluate their quality in a sampl... Read More about Toward the sustainable use of groundwater springs: a case study from Namibia.

Parameter-based seismic vulnerability assessment of Mexican historical buildings: Insights, suitability, and uncertainty treatment (2022)
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The seismic vulnerability assessment of large sets of constructions is meaningful for anticipating post-earthquake scenarios in the context of loss prevention and resilience. These activities must overcome several difficulties related to the size and... Read More about Parameter-based seismic vulnerability assessment of Mexican historical buildings: Insights, suitability, and uncertainty treatment.

Community voices: The importance of diverse networks in academic mentoring (2022)
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Mentor relationships are crucial to retention, success, and wellbeing of women and underrepresented minority scientists in academia. A network of diverse mentors may support achieving long-term career goals, advancement, and retention of both mentors... Read More about Community voices: The importance of diverse networks in academic mentoring.

Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks* (2022)
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Reconfiguring energy infrastructure networks to accommodate the expansion of renewable energy can have specific regional manifestations with regional advocacy being used to promote innovations and solutions on the ground. The paper introduces the ana... Read More about Reshaping energy landscape: A regional approach to explore electricity infrastructure networks*.

The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments (2022)
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Drought events are influenced by a combination of both climatic and local catchment characteristics. In Great Britain the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) has long been recognised as the leading mode of climate variability, and studies have also note... Read More about The influence of the North Atlantic oscillation & East Atlantic pattern on drought in British catchments.

On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas (2022)
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European countries are affected by various levels of seismic hazard, including many areas with medium to high seismicity. Heavy damage over large areas has been observed in past earthquakes in these countries, particularly in masonry buildings locate... Read More about On the use of web mapping platforms to support the seismic vulnerability assessment of old urban areas.

Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions (2022)
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Historic urban centres are, almost by definition, risk-prone areas. The buildings in the historical sites are often highly vulnerable to natural and human-made hazards, not only due to their construction and material characteristics but also because... Read More about Assessing and Managing Risk in Historic Urban Areas: Current Trends and Future Research Directions.