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Exposures in Indoor Air Affecting Health
ABSTRACT Indoor air quality (IAQ) is influenced by a wide range of chemical, biological and physical agents that can negatively impact physical, immunological and mental health. Adverse health effects depend on the type and concentration of pollutants, duration of exposure, and individual susceptibility.
Maria Hartiala +38 more
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ABSTRACT According to anthropological theories of brokerage, brokers build bridges, close gaps, make connections, and construct shared norms. In this article, I argue that such structural‐functionalist approaches to brokerage do not prove adequate in addressing unsettled and unsettling scale‐making practices of refugee‐led support initiatives in ...
Lieke van der Veer
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Abstract For millions of working‐class Mexicans, property has turned into rent. This transformation has fundamentally dislocated social reproduction in Mexico by eroding households’ ability to envision themselves as holders of patrimony and as lasting social formations. To understand how and to what effect property turned into rent, we must look to the
Inés Escobar González
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Analysis of Private Participation Effects in Bus Rapid Transit Projects in Ecuador [PDF]
Juan F. Arias, Chris Bachmann
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No easy exit: Negotiating affects and researcher self‐care in car ride‐alongs
Abstract This paper explores the affective realities of car ride‐alongs by examining the ways in which researchers might be affected in the process of doing such methods. While there is an ethic of care for research participants, which often emerges from the assumption that participants are vulnerable or can be made vulnerable by participating in ...
Yi Fan Liu, Maryam Altaf, Sieun Lee
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Evaluating TOD performance through node-place model: evidence from bus stop areas in Windhoek, Namibia. [PDF]
Cui N, Yang H, Mwetuhafifa NM.
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Mobile Work: Handcart and Bicycle Workers Across the Urban Economy of Greater Accra Region
Short Abstract This article explores the role of handcart and bicycle workers—mobile workers—in the urban economy of Accra and Tema, Ghana. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, it shows how their practices of food vending, e‐waste collection and mobile trade exemplify a form of relational infrastructure that sustains urban life through improvisation ...
Kauê Lopes dos Santos +1 more
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