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Vehicle Fires: Significant Fire Hazard in Transportation Infrastructure
Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Vehicle flammability poses a critical threat to transportation infrastructure, with recent fires in depots, tunnels, and car parks highlighting systemic vulnerabilities. These incidents often result in the total loss of vehicles and buildings, revealing the inadequacy of current fire safety standards for vehicle materials.
Anja Hofmann‐Böllinghaus +2 more
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This essay examines how gendered expectations, structural precarity, and institutional hierarchies shape research practices, knowledge production, and career trajectories in biological anthropology. Taking the figure of the “strong woman” as an entry point, it questions celebratory narratives of resilience that frame endurance as an individual
Lumila Paula Menéndez
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Journal of the Civil Engineering Forum, 2014 Multi-airport system development is becoming a common solution to capacity constraint problems in metropolitan areas around the world. GJMA, as the biggest air transport market in Indonesia, have a plan to change their airport system from a single ...
Faiz Agung Perdana, Richard Moxon
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Quiet activism as feminist practice
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we discuss how women combat silencing in the face of violence and increased political turmoil through quiet activism in their day‐to‐day lives. Centering lengthy conversations with Arab women across London and notes from an ongoing collaboration with a feminist activist based in the US, we examine how wearable rhetorical ...
Vicky Panossian, Catherine A. Evans
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Bearing Capacity Assessment of Rubble Mounds Composed of Porous Rock: A Case Study Toward Practical Application [PDF]
EPJ Web of ConferencesPorous rock is generally not adopted in rubble mound foundations due to its lower unconfined compressive strength (UCS). However, in response to rising material costs, a rubble mound at Shimizu Port, Japan, is planned to utilize materials from Mount Fuji,
Sukhumkitcharoen Rawiwan +4 more
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Expansion of Airport Capacity at London Heathrow Airport
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2004 Civil aviation has been confronted with the problem of matching its capacity to growing demand long term. This has been a particularly important issue at some large European and U.S. airports where increasing operational, economic, and, particularly, environmental constraints have affected expansion and development.
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Research advances in metal halides for flexible indirect X‐ray imaging
FlexMat, EarlyView.This review focuses on the preparation of flexible scintillators and provides an in‐depth discussion of the preparation methods and optimization of flexible films and flexible amorphous materials for MHs X‐ray indirect detectors. The content covers characterization methods for flexible materials, the selection of flexible substrates, optimization ...
Tianyu Xie +3 more
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Factors influencing passengers’ choice of transport mode to Warsaw Chopin Airport
Logistics & Sustainable Transport, 2016 Airport accessibility is an important factor for airport choice and therefore also for airport competition. When air passengers choose an itinerary, they reflect on the transport chain from door to door.
Górecka Aleksandra
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Operating in perpetual motion? Coping with the dark side of global boundary spanning
Global Strategy Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This paper explores how individuals experience and cope with the demands of global boundary spanning in multinational enterprises (MNEs). We foreground temporary colocation as a modality through which mobile global boundary spanners repeatedly traverse multiple boundaries, triggering intense demands with adverse consequences ...
Kieran M. Conroy +2 more
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Neoantigen cancer vaccines: a new star on the horizon
Cancer Biology & MedicineImmunotherapy represents a promising strategy for cancer treatment that utilizes immune cells or drugs to activate the patient’s own immune system and eliminate cancer cells.
Xiaoling Li +5 more
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