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Of cables and threads

American Ethnologist, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 283-295, August 2026.
Abstract Over the past two decades, gondola lifts have become central to interventions in urban Latin America's auto‐constructed peripheries. As cable car urbanism reshapes the city's edge, it raises fundamental questions about the notion of the “urban fabric” as a sociomaterial practice, an epistemology, and a site of politics.
Federico Pérez Fernández
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Socio‐Biophysical Flood Vulnerability Analysis in Urban Informal Settlements in Kenya

Geo: Geography and Environment, Volume 13, Issue 2, July‐December 2026.
Short Abstract Flooding in Mukuru kwa Reuben emerges from the overlap of low‐lying terrain, poor drainage and everyday socio‐economic and governance inequalities. By combining GIS mapping with participatory and survey methods, the study uncovers small‐scale ‘risk hotspots’ that remain invisible in formal flood models.
Maria M. Mugeni, Ida Nadia S. Djenontin, Helen Greatrex   +2 more
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Evaluating vibrations on a small-scale model of a timber footbridge

Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología, 2011
In Brazil, the study of pedestrian-induced vibration on footbridges has been undertaken since the early 1990s, for concrete and steel footbridges. However, there are no recorded studies of this kind for timber footbridges.
Pedro Gutemberg de Alcântara Segundinho, Antonio Alves Dias, Marcelo Rodrigo Carreira   +2 more
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Numerical and experimental assessment of a typical brazilian footbridge

Revista IBRACON de Estruturas e Materiais, 2018
For the range of medium spans, around 30 to 40m, composite footbridges are getting popular in Brazil. This kind of structure consists on longitudinal steel truss beams providing support for a concrete deck usually made of precast elements.
G. N. DOZ, J. L. V. BRITO, A. BRASILIANO
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From Dilemma to Decision: How Moral and Emotional Reactions Shape Trust and Adoption of Autonomous Vehicles

Human Factors and Ergonomics in Manufacturing &Service Industries, Volume 36, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly deployed across diverse domains, and in some instances, their decisions may conflict with human ethical standards. Ethical dilemmas involving autonomous vehicle (AV) accidents, in particular, have attracted substantial scholarly attention.
Yujung Ahn, Taehyun Ha
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Vibration analysis of footbridges: an overview of the current practice

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The design of a footbridge is typically controlled by serviceability criteria. The dynamic forces induced by pedestrians may result in high-amplitude vibrations that the users may feel as uncomfortable, or unsafe. As a consequence of the several cases of
De Luca Antonio, Bauer Michael, Pinto Marguerite, Malsch Elisabeth   +3 more
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Digital Inclusion in Public Spaces of Access to Information Technology and Communication: The Voice of Community Telecenters in Recife's City

THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, Volume 92, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how community telecenters operate as public spaces for digital inclusion within e‐government initiatives in Recife, Brazil. Although Community Technology Centers (CTCs) are frequently promoted in ICT4D policies as mechanisms for expanding digital citizenship and access to public services, less is known about how these ...
Nelson Tomé Cossa, Tiago de Sousa Ribeiro, Antonio Reinaldo Silva Neto, Jairo Simião Dornelas   +3 more
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Bending Analysis of Thickness‐ and Shear‐Deformable Materially Imperfect Composite Shells With von Kármán‐Type Geometric Nonlinearities

International Journal of Mechanical System Dynamics, Volume 6, Issue 2, Page 169-186, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Geometrically nonlinear static analysis of materially imperfect composite doubly curved shells is investigated via the generalised differential quadrature method. The effects of both shear and thickness deformation are considered through a thickness‐ and shear‐deformable third‐order theory formulated in curvilinear coordinates, while the ...
Behrouz Karami, Mergen H. Ghayesh, Shahid Hussain, Marco Amabili   +3 more
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Impact of half‐joint failures on RC girder bridges: A robustness quantification study

Structural Concrete, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 3309-3324, June 2026.
Abstract The robustness of bridge structures is critical to ensuring safety and service continuity, particularly in aging infrastructure exposed to degradation and unexpected loads. Reinforced concrete (RC) half‐joint bridges—widely built in Italy between the 1950s and 1970s—exhibit specific vulnerabilities due to inspection challenges, durability ...
Paolo Martinelli, Matteo Colombo
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Vibration serviceability assessment and vibration mitigation of through-truss footbridges in Iran under human-induced excitation

Scientific Reports
This study evaluates the vibration serviceability of widely implemented steel through-truss footbridges in Iran, with a detailed analysis of three representative case studies.
Hamed Nazifkerdar, Saman Bagheri, Majid Barghian, Nasser Khanlou   +3 more
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