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Custom Bike Urbanism

open access: yesMateria Arquitectura, 2010
The physical space of the city is a reflection of intertwined social realities and represents the multiple desires of different actors in the city. Urban planning must ensure a variety of spaces and places where a variety of activities can be performed ...
Hiroyuki Shinohara
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Linking distribution and return‐on‐investment models to optimize woody management for prairie grouse in Nebraska

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
We modeled prairie grouse abundance across Nebraska and projected future woody encroachment to estimate population losses. By combining predicted gains from woody treatments with avoided losses and treatment costs, we mapped return on investment to identify areas for woody treatments that maximize benefits to greater prairie‐chickens and sharp‐tailed ...
Kevin W. Barnes   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navigating the digital landscape: Exploring the relationship between social media affordances and Chinese Generation Z’s online prosocial and antisocial behaviors

open access: yesCyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace
Online prosocial and antisocial behaviors are increasingly prevalent on social media, highlighting the need to explore the factors that shape these online social behaviors.
Wu Li   +3 more
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Ephemeral by design

open access: yesArchitectural Research Quarterly, 2022
Between the months of September and October, Kolkata celebrates the Hindu religious festival of Durgapuja on a grand scale. Organised by local clubs and neighbourhood voluntary associations, approximately 2,500 temporary structures – pandals – are built for the worship or ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Bazaar as a Model for Knowledge Work

open access: yesKnowledge and Process Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents fieldwork that extends existing metaphors of knowledge work as a process shaped by hierarchical or market forces. A qualitative, ethnographic study of six knowledge‐intensive businesses in two countries identifies striking parallels with the Middle Eastern bazaar in contrast to Western impersonal markets and hierarchies. We
Reed Elliot Nelson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lateral Carbon Transport Induced by Watershed Erosion: Driving Effects of Land Use, Rainfall, and Landscape Controls

open access: yesLand Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Lateral carbon transport induced by soil erosion is a key component of the global carbon cycle. Over the past 50 years, ecological restoration projects in the Loess Plateau of China have increased vegetation coverage. However, the effects of land use, precipitation variability, and landscape factors on lateral carbon transport remain unclear ...
Ganggang Ke   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Set in Stone

open access: yesVenezia Arti, 2017
This article explores how and why the fifteenth-century Venetian painter, Carlo Crivelli (1430/5-c. 1494), signed his pictures. Until recently, Crivelli’s work has received comparatively little critical attention; this is ironic given that he was ...
Hilliam, Amanda
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Lonely and Sick: The Role of Social Media in Consumer Practices of Relief

open access: yesPsychology &Marketing, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Loneliness is increasingly recognized as a major mental health concern, yet the role of social media in alleviating it remains poorly understood. This study asks how social media help consumers cope with loneliness amid chronic illness. Focusing on women living with endometriosis, an under‐recognized and often stigmatized condition marked by ...
Beatrice Medici   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Problems of Archiving Activist Art in Russian Museums

open access: yesThe Garage Journal, 2021
The article analyzes the problems that contemporary art historians and archivists face when working with activist art. Some of these problems are linked to the issues of archiving contemporary art in general, like the ephemerality and fragility of ...
Tatyana Volkova
doaj  

The bricoleur’s figure in artistic practices

open access: yesVisualidades, 2014
Art as process and reflection of the lived moment deals many times with issues that refers to its context and with the available materials in the current scenario. In a society marked by consumption and ephemerality, this article promotes a reflection on
Mariana Resende Côrrea   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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