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Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic (2023)
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This paper reflects on what we learnt about teaching geography during the COVID-19 pandemic. We interrogate how we, as geography educators working in different contexts, navigated the novel teaching spaces created during the pandemic using two key re... Read More about Courageous and compassionate teaching: International reflections on our responses to teaching geography during the pandemic.

The spatial configuration of local climate zones reveals effects on wayfinding in human walking (2023)
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The importance of easy wayfinding in complex urban settings has been recognized in spatial planning. Empirical measurement and explicit representation of wayfinding, however, have been limited in deciding spatial configurations. Our study proposed an... Read More about The spatial configuration of local climate zones reveals effects on wayfinding in human walking.

Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
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Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience (2023)
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Across three years (2017–2020), the ESRC Seminar series, “Civil Agency, Society and Climate Adaptation to Weather Extremes” (CASCADE-NET) critically examined the changing role of civil society in extreme weather adaptation. One full-day seminar explo... Read More about Rebuffing the ‘hard to reach’ narrative: How to engage diverse groups in participation for resilience.

Identifying the impacts of land-use spatial patterns on street-network accessibility using geospatial methods (2023)
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While the land use-street network nexus is well acknowledged, evidence for the one-way impacts of land-use patterns on street accessibility is still inadequate. The measurements of land-use patterns and street accessibility lack systematic knowledge.... Read More about Identifying the impacts of land-use spatial patterns on street-network accessibility using geospatial methods.

Creative practices for planning urban mobility (2023)
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Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow (2023)
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Amid growing interest in the creative industries and their influence on urban planning and regeneration strategies, this article revisits cultural backstages and their underlying infrastructural conditions. By cultural backstages, we mean those urban... Read More about Cultural backstages as urban creative ecologies: The case of Glasgow.

Leadership, urban structure and place: Evidence from Bristol and Dorset (2023)
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Local leadership has become of increasing interest in the context of a renewed focus on local government and local development. In parallel, new interpretations of thinking about leadership drawing on Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Foucault suggest that... Read More about Leadership, urban structure and place: Evidence from Bristol and Dorset.

Buckling-restrained bracing system with ultra-high-performance fiber concrete (2023)
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Recently, buckling-restrained braces (BRBs) have been widely implemented as seismic load resistance systems in buildings to enhance their response against dynamic vibration. However, during catastrophic earthquakes, the steel core in BRB devices full... Read More about Buckling-restrained bracing system with ultra-high-performance fiber concrete.

Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research (2023)
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Microplastics are ubiquitous in our environment but their presence in air is less well understood. Homes are likely a key source of airborne microplastics and microfibres to the environment owing to the frequent use and storage of plastics and textil... Read More about Embedding citizens within airborne microplastic and microfibre research.

Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy (2023)
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Once a popular buzzword for multinational corporations, ‘professionalism’ has now become a common catchphrase in India’s emerging services economy. Today, youth aspiring to join entry-level services roles such as those in call centres, retail, and co... Read More about Professionalism as a soft skill: The social construction of worker identity in India’s new services economy.

Fuzzy logic based adaptive vibration control system for structures subjected to seismic and wind loads (2023)
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In this study, an attempt has been made to develop a Fuzzy Logic Multi Verse Optimal Control (FLMVOC) system as a new adaptive real-time vibration control mechanism for structures subjected to seismic excitation and wind load by utilizing the capabil... Read More about Fuzzy logic based adaptive vibration control system for structures subjected to seismic and wind loads.

Development of hybrid rubber damper-restrainer (HRDR) system for structures under sever dynamic excitation (2023)
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Nowadays, high damping rubber materials are extensively implementing in various types of structure to mitigate harmful effect of imposed vibration and dynamic force to the structure. Although, the rubbers exhibit noticeable damping in the shear actio... Read More about Development of hybrid rubber damper-restrainer (HRDR) system for structures under sever dynamic excitation.

Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning (2023)
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Climate change-related extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe, requiring urgent action to effectively plan for them. While disabled women are one group likely to be disproportionately and negatively affected by disasters, they a... Read More about Is there room on the broom for a crip? Disabled women as experts in disaster planning.

Methodological innovations within the RAWES framework for use in development scenarios (2023)
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Built development changes the nature of land and its ecosystems, with diverse ramifications for human well-being and the resilience of the socioecological system. Robust and replicable approaches are required to assess ecosystem services generated by... Read More about Methodological innovations within the RAWES framework for use in development scenarios.

The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19 (2023)
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This paper offers a new child-centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self-reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longit... Read More about The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19.

Who is online? A latent class analysis of internet activities and determinant characteristics of older people (2023)
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As Italy is the European country with the highest percentage of adults aged over 60, growing concerns have emerged about how the ageing population is living in an era of increasing digitalisation. According to the capability approach framework, Inter... Read More about Who is online? A latent class analysis of internet activities and determinant characteristics of older people.

Kombucha electronics: Electronic circuits on kombucha mats (2023)
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A kombucha is a tea and sugar fermented by over sixty kinds of yeasts and bacteria. This symbiotic community produces kombucha mats, which are cellulose-based hydrogels. The kombucha mats can be used as an alternative to animal leather in industry an... Read More about Kombucha electronics: Electronic circuits on kombucha mats.

Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting (2023)
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Traffic-related air pollution (TRAP) remains one of the main contributors to urban pollution and its impact on climate change cannot be overemphasised. Experts in developed countries strive to make optimal use of traffic and air qua... Read More about Deep learning-based multi-target regression for traffic-related air pollution forecasting.

Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making (2023)
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The making of low-carbon places is crucial for achieving decarbonisation, but where are such places made? In extending and combining existing research and ideas, the authors take electricity networks as their starting point to study what they term th... Read More about Where are low-carbon places made? Conceptualising and studying infrastructure junctions and the power geometries of low-carbon place-making.