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‘They Are So Tall They Almost Reach the Sun’: Children's Experiences, Perceptions and Agency in Early Childhood School Spaces Through Participatory Research

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article studies how children between the ages of three and five perceive, inhabit, and assign meaning to school environments through a collaborative qualitative research design that emphasises children's agency and diverse forms of expression.
Katia Álvarez Díaz   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland

open access: yesStudies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

GEP‐YOLO: A Lightweight Real‐Time Detection Model for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Road Cracks Integrating Multi‐Module Optimization

open access: yesApplied Research, Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2026.
The graphical abstract summarizes GEP‐YOLO for UAV pavement crack detection, covering UAV data acquisition, dataset construction, and YOLOv11n optimization with GSConv, EUCB, and PReLU. These improvements enhance small‐crack recognition, real‐time performance, and robustness.
Ying Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Windy Metropolis—Part 1: Animation as method

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.
Abstract Based on fieldwork in Stuttgart from 2022 to 2025, the animation Wind Witnesses is a fictionalization of the sweeping wave of microclimate protests in the 2000s, demanding the protection of fresh air corridors (Frischluftschneisen) as nonhuman entities threatened by the conversion of ostensibly empty spaces into buildings. This companion essay
Indrawan Prabaharyaka
wiley   +1 more source

Comfort in the canopy: How urban treescapes affect human thermal comfort in a temperate climate

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 11, Page 3775-3793, November 2026.
Abstract People living in urban centres are exposed to higher levels of heat stress than those living outside of these areas; this is intensified by the urban heat island effect. Heat stress is a concern for the more vulnerable members of society and can exacerbate many medical conditions; excessive heat increases morbidity and mortality rates.
James Parker   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Performance of Hydraulic Asphalt Concrete with Acidic Aggregates in Severe Cold Regions [PDF]

open access: yes长江科学院院报
[Objective] To facilitate the construction of asphalt concrete core walls in the severe cold regions of Western China, this paper undertakes a systematic investigation into the influence of acidic gravel aggregates on the performance characteristics of ...
YAN Xiao-hu, LI Hai-feng, LI Da-hong, FENG Wei
doaj   +1 more source

Asphalt concrete testing device: Studying and designing based on the properties of asphalt concrete

open access: yesJournal of Science and Technology in Civil Engineering (STCE) - NUCE, 2019
With the purpose of obtaining the shear strength parameters (friction angle, φ, and cohesion, c) of asphalt concretes. At the present time, almost the testing devices were designed based on the condition of the vehicle's load when they are moving on the pavement structure.
Ngo Lam, Ung Quoc Trang, Le Hong Chuong
openaire   +2 more sources

Revealing the dark biodiversity around us through a national school‐based citizen science project

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 11, Page 4079-4090, November 2026.
Abstract School‐based citizen science holds great potential for expanding biodiversity knowledge while engaging young people in authentic scientific practices. This is particularly important for revealing ‘dark biodiversity’, defined as the vast yet often overlooked biodiversity that remains hidden due to its small size or cryptic nature, including ...
Juan Ignacio Ramirez   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Envisioning human–nature relationships in the Wadden: An embodied, arts‐based approach for exploring relational, more‐than‐human futures

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 8, Issue 11, Page 4054-4078, November 2026.
Abstract Dominant approaches to imagining futures are often anthropocentric, emphasising socio‐technical change without fully accounting for human–nature relationships. Yet sustainability transformations demand approaches to imagining alternative, desirable futures that centre respectful and reciprocal human–nature relationships and reveal the ...
Jay Marisca Gietzelt   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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