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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urban expansion is a major driver of habitat fragmentation, shrinking wildlife habitat, and restricting wildlife movements and activity patterns. In this novel environment, species must adapt to the new composition of wildlife communities. For example, red squirrels Sciurus vulgaris are commonly found in urban environments, while their potential ...
Josefa Vergara Stuardo +2 more
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Fatigue Resistance of Bituminous Mixtures and Mortars Containing High Reclaimed Asphalt Content. [PDF]
Materials (Basel), 2020 Margaritis A +4 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Urban green spaces experience a mix of natural and anthropogenic noises, which could disrupt the vocal communication of several species. This study investigated how such complex soundscapes affect the occurrence of Anaxipha pallidula, which communicates through calls, focusing on both sound level and quality.
Hiroki Mori, Takeshi Osawa
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TMSA‐Net: Transformer‐Based Multi‐Scale Attention U‐Net for Flood Image Segmentation
CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Flood detection is essential for real‐time applications, including disaster management, emergency response, and alerting people in flood zones. For successful flood detection, accurate flood region segmentation is essential. However, the flood region segmentation is challenging due to the complex background and occlusions with debris and the ...
Parham Imanzadeh Charandabi +3 more
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ALL POSSIBLE PASTS: Heritage, Simulacra, and Gentrification in Seoul
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Urban heritage scholars have often criticized simulacra as ‘bad’ copies that degrade the ‘good’ model of the past through commercialization and gentrification. This article challenges such Platonic dichotomies of good/bad and model/copy, arguing that the binary of good heritage and bad simulacra is flawed because heritage is itself actualized ...
Myung In Ji
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The Effect of Refined Separation on the Properties of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Materials
BuildingsRefined separation not only controls the variability of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP), but also improves the mixing ratio of RAP and the quality of recycled asphalt mixtures.
Yuanfu Wang +3 more
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The Outsiders: Principled Withdrawal, Whiteness, and Power in the Los Angeles Food Justice Movement
American Anthropologist, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article draws on understandings of whiteness and the misconstrual of South Central Los Angeles to analyze the power dynamics between “outsider” activists and residents of South Central as they worked toward a more equitable food system.
Hanna Garth
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SustainabilityThe average content of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) materials in asphalt mixtures for new pavements is around 22% in the current paving practices in the United States. Increasing this content has significant economic and environmental benefits. This study explored the approach of producing asphalt mixtures with 100% RAP materials by adding a small ...
Ahmed Elnihum +5 more
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The Mobile Core: Perpetuating Tourism Leakage Through the Socioecological Fix in South Korea
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT By adopting the socioecological fix concept, this study aims to examine the spatial dynamics of tourism leakage. An ethnographic examination of an ecotourism project on Jeju Island, South Korea was conducted for 18 months from 2011 to 2013.
Souyeon Nam
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Road Performance of Mica Powder Modified Asphalt Mixture
Kuangchan zonghe liyongThis is an article in the field of ceramics and composites. In order to investigate the basic road performance of mica powder modified asphalt mixture, modified asphalt with 0%, 3%, 5%, 7%, 9%, and 11% content was prepared.
Chao FENG +4 more
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