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The digital revolution and worthwhile use of travel time: implications for appraisal and forecasting (2015)
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© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Savings in travel time and more specifically their monetary value typically constitute the main benefit to justify major investment in transport schemes. However, worthwhile use of travel time is an i... Read More about The digital revolution and worthwhile use of travel time: implications for appraisal and forecasting.

Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa (2015)
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© 2015 by the author(s). Consideration of biophysical impacts has historically dominated environmental impact assessment (EIA) practice. Despite the emergence of social impact assessment, the consideration of socioeconomic impacts in EIA is variable,... Read More about Toward an analytical framework for understanding complex socialecological systems when conducting environmental impact assessments in South Africa.

Urine-activated origami microbial fuel cells to signal proof of life (2015)
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© The Royal Society of Chemistry 2015. The adaptability and practicality of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are highly desirable traits in the search for alternative sources of energy. An innovative application for the technology could be to power portab... Read More about Urine-activated origami microbial fuel cells to signal proof of life.

Micro- and nano-structure based oligonucleotide sensors (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. This paper presents a review of micro- and nano-structure based oligonucleotide detection and quantification techniques. The characteristics of such devices make them very attractive for Point-of-Care or On-Site-Testing biosensin... Read More about Micro- and nano-structure based oligonucleotide sensors.

The urban dimension in cohesion policy: Past developments and future prospects (2015)
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Over the last 20 years the EU has implemented a wide range of initiatives on urban policy and urban matters more generally; a ‘European Urban Agenda’ has emerged and gradually the European Commission is working to ‘create’ a ‘consensus’ that may one... Read More about The urban dimension in cohesion policy: Past developments and future prospects.

The road investment strategy is a victory for ‘predict and provide’ over transport planning (2015)
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Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. This article outlines issues affecting the functionality of Ugandan water user committees responsible for managing communal water and sanitation (WASH) services. Research undertaken demonstrated that their effectiveness is... Read More about Improving the effectiveness of Ugandan water user committees.

The future of transport (2015)
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This document was prepared for Future Agenda 2.0. Future Agenda is billed as the world's largest open foresight initiative (www.futureagenda.org). Future Agenda 2.0, running throughout 2015, encompasses 20 topics looking at key changes in the world b... Read More about The future of transport.

A GIS-based assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY satellite sensor measurements for estimating reliable CO concentrations in a low-latitude climate (2015)
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© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland. An assessment of the reliability of the Scanning Imaging Absorption Spectrometer for Atmospheric Cartography (SCIAMACHY) satellite sensor measurements to interpolate tropospheric concentrations o... Read More about A GIS-based assessment of the suitability of SCIAMACHY satellite sensor measurements for estimating reliable CO concentrations in a low-latitude climate.

Book reviews: Performativity, Politics and the Production of Space and Geographies of Peace (2015)
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An emerging field of geographical research is making a concerted effort to engage with the everyday “off the page” political geographies and the alternative spaces of politics and geopolitics. Human Geography has benefited from the “cultural turn” th... Read More about Book reviews: Performativity, Politics and the Production of Space and Geographies of Peace.

Editorial: Special issue on ground robots operating in dynamic, unstructured and large-scale outdoor environments (2015)
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Real-world outdoor applications of ground robots have, to date, been limited primarily to remote inspection of suspected explosive devices and, with less success, to the broader domain of remote survey and inspection in hazardous environments. Such r... Read More about Editorial: Special issue on ground robots operating in dynamic, unstructured and large-scale outdoor environments.

Multimodal neurophysiological evaluation of primary progressive multiple sclerosis - An increasingly valid biomarker, with limits (2015)
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© 2015 Elsevier B.V. Background The promising utility of multi-modality evoked potential batteries to objectively measure multi-tract dysfunction has been evaluated by several groups using different methods. Objective To independently evaluate the us... Read More about Multimodal neurophysiological evaluation of primary progressive multiple sclerosis - An increasingly valid biomarker, with limits.

Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In all the living organisms, the self-preservation behaviour is almost universal. Even the most simple of living organisms, like slime mould, is typically under intense selective pressure to evolve a response to ensure thei... Read More about Cellular automaton model of crowd evacuation inspired by slime mould.

The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers? (2015)
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© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. The proclamation of a marine protected area by David Miliband in the Chagos Archipelago in 2010 triggered a complaint of infringement of sovereignty by Mauritius and a huma... Read More about The Chagos marine protected arbitration-A battle of four losers?.

A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) evaluation of university student-staff partnerships in co-creating educational resources, peer support and research within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) subjects (2015)
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The aim of this research was to compare perceived opportunities and challenges of co-creating educational resources, peer learning support and research within Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) subjects. Two questions were addresse... Read More about A SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) evaluation of university student-staff partnerships in co-creating educational resources, peer support and research within STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) subjects.

The probabilistic approach to limited packings in graphs (2015)
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© 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. We consider (closed neighbourhood) packings and their generalization in graphs. A vertex set X in a graph G is a k-limited packing if for every vertex vεV(G), |N[v]∩X|≤k, where N[v] is the closed neighbourhoo... Read More about The probabilistic approach to limited packings in graphs.

Power, place and the New Civic Leadership (2015)
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© The Author(s) 2015 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav. In the years since Local Economy was launched in 1986, globalisation has diminished the power of place-based leaders. Place-less actors, meaning people who are not... Read More about Power, place and the New Civic Leadership.

A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing bismuth iodine paraffin paste external ear pack and no ear pack after middle ear surgery (2015)
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© 2013, The Author(s). To pilot a substantive randomized control trial comparing post-operative external ear canal pack with no ear pack after middle ear surgery, 32 adults undergoing primary posterior bony canal wall preserving middle ear surgery we... Read More about A pilot randomized controlled trial comparing bismuth iodine paraffin paste external ear pack and no ear pack after middle ear surgery.

Microbial fuel cells continuously fuelled by untreated fresh algal biomass (2015)
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© 2015. Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are energy transducers that convert organic matter directly into electricity, via the anaerobic respiration of electro-active microorganisms. An avenue of research in this field is to employ algae as the organic c... Read More about Microbial fuel cells continuously fuelled by untreated fresh algal biomass.

Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism (2015)
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© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In many holiday destinations, the tourism industry exerts an enormous strain on water supplies. This generates a range of social problems, not least because local inhabitants often have to compete with the tourism sector ov... Read More about Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism.