Bicycles -- design and construction

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‘I used to walk around the playground wondering where all my friends had gone’: The reflections of how adults with developmental prosopagnosia made friends in childhood

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Current research into developmental prosopagnosia (DP) estimates a high prevalence rate in the general population, but there exist many gaps in the research. More needs to be learned about the lived experience of those with DP and how to identify it in children. Using reflexive thematic analysis, this study explored the lived experience of how
Alison Shorer
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Design Considerations Concerning an Innovative Drive System for a Manual Wheelchair

Applied Sciences
Manual wheelchairs, which are the basic means of transport for people with disabilities, are usually characterized by an inefficient adaptation to the physical capabilities of their users.
Michał Kończak, Mateusz Kukla, Dominik Rybarczyk +2 more
doaj +1 more source

The usage and perception of pedestrian and cycling streets on residents’ well-being in Kalamaria, Greece [PDF]

, 2018
Pedestrian zones are public spaces intended for the continued and safe mobility of pedestrians and people with disabilities, and they provide multiple benefits to urban areas. They counterbalance the densely built-up areas, decrease atmospheric pollution,
Kantartzis, Apostolos +4 more
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley +1 more source

The relationship between public and private bicycle use: the case of Seville [PDF]

, 2015
Despite the success achieved by Public Bicycle Sharing Systems (PBSS) across the world, several researchers provide evidence on their limitations and constraints in a medium-long term, and bicycle ownership may be considered as a complementary tool to ...
Castillo Manzano, José I. +2 more
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Take It Easy! How Flexible Work Arrangements Bust the Commuting Life Satisfaction Nexus

Bulletin of Economic Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Commuting to work can negatively affect people's well‐being. This paper analyzes the effect of commuting distance on subjective well‐being for employees under different work time regimes. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel (GSOEP) for 2003–2021.
Marco Kühne
wiley +1 more source

International Lessons for Promoting Transit Connections to High-Speed Rail Systems [PDF]

, 2016
As the California High-Speed Rail (HSR) project becomes reality, many communities involved in, or affected by, the California HSR project have considered how to connect the new HSR passenger services to local urban transportation systems – such as bus ...
Feinsod, Stan +3 more
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Homo luzonensis and the role of homoplasy in the morphology of hominin insular species

Cladistics, EarlyView.
Abstract Homo luzonensis lived during the upper Pleistocene in the northern Philippines, east of the Wallace line. The few specimens attributed to this species show a mosaic of plesiomorphies for the genus Homo and apomorphies found in upper Pleistocene Homo species.
Pierre Gousset +4 more
wiley +1 more source

Liberty versus safety: a design review [PDF]

, 2007
It is our contention that when designing against terrorism, it is important to fully understand both terrorist perpetrator techniques and terrorism prevention principles and to establish the myths and realities about ‘fear of terrorism’, before ...
Gamman, Lorraine, Thorpe, Adam
core

Unilateral Action on Climate Change and the Moral Obligation to Take Leadership

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We claim that a moral obligation to take climate leadership by means of unilateral mitigation depends on the existence of a plausible follow‐the‐leader mechanism whereby unilateral mitigation by some increases the probability of sufficient mitigation by others to avert catastrophic climate impacts.
Daniel Steel +4 more
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