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Barriers and facilitators to public bicycle scheme use: A qualitative approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore barriers and facilitators to using CityCycle, a public bicycle share scheme in Brisbane, Australia. Focus groups were conducted with participants belonging to one of three categories.
Fishman, Elliot   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

The analysis of intention to purchase electric bicycles by students: Marketing and financial implications [PDF]

open access: yesMarketing (Beograd. 1991), 2023
Air pollution is a challenge faced by a large number of both developed and developing countries. Its consequences are particularly visible in urban areas, where the concentration of cars is the highest.
Milićević Nikola   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of suspension systems on the physiological and psychological responses to sub-maximal biking on simulated smooth and bumpy tracks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of this study was to compare the physiological and psychological responses of cyclists riding on a hard tail bicycle and on a full suspension bicycle. Twenty males participated in two series of tests. A test rig held the front axle of the bicycle
Arthur Whittaker   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Ways of Knowing and Doing STS: Niki Vermeulen Talks with Wiebe Bijker

open access: yesEngaging Science, Technology, and Society, 2018
It is a special moment in the history of STS. With the young discipline transitioning into a not so-young-field-anymore, there is plenty of reason for celebrations: defining groups are celebrating remarkable anniversaries and individual careers are ...
Niki Vermeulen, Wiebe Bijker
doaj   +1 more source

Multivalent bicyclic peptides are an effective antiviral modality that can potently inhibit SARS-CoV-2

open access: yesNature Communications, 2023
COVID-19 has stimulated the rapid development of new antibody and small molecule therapeutics to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection. Here we describe a third antiviral modality that combines the drug-like advantages of both.
Katherine U. Gaynor   +31 more
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical Analysis of an Autonomous Emergency Braking System for Rear-End Collisions of Electric Bicycles

open access: yesSensors, 2023
The rapid growth in the number of electric bicycles (e-bicycles) has greatly improved daily commuting for residents, but it has also increased traffic collisions involving e-bicycles.
Ying Zhao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Unveiling E-bike potential for commuting trips from GPS traces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Common goals of sustainable mobility approaches are to reduce the need for travel, to facilitate modal shifts, to decrease trip distances and to improve energy efficiency in the transportation systems.
Astegiano, Paola   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Bicycles, ‘informality’ and the alternative learning space as a site for re-engagement: a risky (pedagogical) proposition? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The great possibility of alternative education programs rests in the affront to established conventions that these present for what counts as learning, engagement and the experience of schooling.
Hickey, Andrew   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

Human Identity, Immanent Causal Relations, and the Principle of Non-Repeatability: Thomas Aquinas on the Bodily Resurrection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Can the persistence of a human being's soul at death and prior to the bodily resurrection be sufficient to guarantee that the resurrected human being is numerically identical to the human being who died? According to Thomas Aquinas, it can.
Dyke, Christina van
core   +1 more source

“Cyclist at 12 o’clock!”: a systematic review of in-vehicle advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) for preventing car-rider crashes

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
IntroductionWhile Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) have become a prominent topic in road safety research, there has been relatively little discussion about their effectiveness in preventing car collisions involving specific vulnerable road users,
Sergio A. Useche   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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