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Pharmacological treatment with a GABA(A) receptor modulator and a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor as a mitigation strategy against aircraft noise‐induced cardiovascular and neuronal damage

open access: yesBritish Journal of Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and Purpose Noise pollution, particularly by aircraft, is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Aircraft noise activates stress response pathways in the brain, via the amygdala, the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis.
Ivana Kuntić   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

LSCD-Pose: A Feature Point Detection Model for Collaborative Perception in Airports

open access: yesSensors
Ensuring safety on busy airport aprons remains challenging, particularly in preventing aircraft wingtip collisions. In this study, first, a simplified coordinate mapping method converts pixel detections into accurate spatial coordinates, improving ...
Ruifeng Meng   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Children's Agency in Finding Happiness in the ‘Happiest Country in the World’: A Collaborative Drawing and Storytelling Case Study

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This case study explores what kinds of everyday ideas a small group of Finnish children have about happiness and unhappiness, and how these ideas relate to narrated practices and actions aimed at finding happiness. We conducted collaborative drawing and storytelling workshops with 10–12‐year‐old Finnish children (N = 8).
Jennifer De Paola   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the headlines: the intangible costs of terrorism

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract Do terrorist attacks affect life satisfaction and mental health? To explore this question, we analyse data on all casualty‐causing terrorist incidents in Great Britain from 1992 to 2020, and combine this information with individual‐level data from the British Household Panel Survey and the UK Household Longitudinal Study over the same period ...
Harry Pickard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating competitiveness of airports - Airport competitiveness index [PDF]

open access: yes
The paper introduces a concept of airport competitiveness index. The index consists of numerous indicators grouped into four categories: market potential, infrastructure, charges and recent traffic results.
Grancay, Martin
core   +1 more source

Network Resilience and Rehabilitation Strategies for an Airport Movement Area Considering Traffic Flow and Road Class

open access: yesInternational Journal of Aerospace Engineering
In this study, we propose an improved betweenness centrality (FDBC) algorithm to identify vulnerabilities in airport field operations, assist controllers in formulating emergency response strategies, and enhance the safety resilience of the maneuvering ...
Ruiling Mou, Rui Kang
doaj   +1 more source

Noise load management at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is one of the five primary hub-airports in Europe. All flight movements are controlled by Air Traffic Control the Netherlands (LVNL), whose main objective is to guarantee safety, efficiency, and protection of the environment ...
Boucherie, R.J.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A fast metaheuristic approach for the planar multiple obnoxious facility location problem

open access: yesInternational Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The multiple obnoxious facility location problem is one of the most studied problems in the literature of the obnoxious facility location problems family. In this work, we propose an alternative algorithmic approach for this problem, based on an efficient metaheuristic procedure over a discretization of the plane based on Voronoi diagrams ...
Sergio Salazar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Insights into the structure of grey reef shark aggregation, Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856), in two distinct channels of the Maldivian archipelago, Indian Ocean

open access: yesJournal of Fish Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract The grey reef shark Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos is one of the most frequently encountered reef‐associated shark species in the Maldives, yet very little is known about its local size structure or population dynamics. This study provides new insights into two aggregations of C.
Andrea Parmegiani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Becoming legal: feminism and abortion law in 1970s Italy

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Conventional top‐down approaches to legal reform tend to overlook the contributions of social movements in legal change, often resulting in a gender‐blind analysis. In response, I advance ‘becoming legal’ as an analytical framework to rethink legal change in terms of a bottom‐up process encompassing informal proceedings as well as formal ...
ELENA CARUSO
wiley   +1 more source

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