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Planning for the integration of refugee and host communities in Turkana County, Kenya

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2017
The Kalobeyei New Settlement focuses on the creation of a spatial plan to guide settlement in both the short and the long term to the benefit of both host community and refugees.
Yuka Terada, David Evans, Dennis Mwaniki
doaj  

Exceptional atmospheric events resilience of the curtain wall

open access: yesTechne, 2018
The paper presents the results of a research conducted on codes and standards adopted internationally for the design, construction and testing of hurricane- and tornado-resistant façades.
Angela Mejorin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Factors Affecting The Food Security of The Bajo Community Households In West Muna District During The Covid-19 Pandemic

open access: yesHabitat, 2021
This study aims to determine the factors that affect the household food security of the Bajo community in Napano Kusambi Sub District. The research was conducted in Napano Kusambi Sub District, West Muna District, the selection of the research location ...
Muhammad Aswar Limi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Butterfly‐Inspired Hierarchical Hybrid Composites for Lightweight Structural Thermal Management Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Emulating nature's unparalleled engineering, this work introduces butterfly‐inspired hybrid composites for high‐performance transportation and defense sectors. Leveraging biomimicry, these lightweight composites feature butterfly leg‐inspired hierarchical fibrous assemblies and butterfly wing‐inspired sandwich‐structured architecture, to achieve ...
Nello D. Sansone   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Predicting invasion risk of grasses in novel environments requires improved genomic understanding of adaptive potential

open access: yes, 2022
American Journal of Botany, Volume 109, Issue 12, Page 1965-1968, December 2022.
Emily S. Bellis   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Analysis of Millennial Farmers’ Communication Networks on Hydroponic Vegetable Marketing Topics Via Whatsapp Application (Hydroponic Farmers in Situbondo)

open access: yesHabitat, 2021
The large-scale social restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic have hampered the communication process for millennial hydroponic farmers in Situbondo. The farmers could not have their regular offline meetings.
Sandis Wahyu Prasetiyo   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Correlated percolation models of structured habitat in ecology [PDF]

open access: yesPhysica A, 416, 290 (2014), 2014
Percolation offers acknowledged models of random media when the relevant medium characteristics can be described as a binary feature. However, when considering habitat modeling in ecology, a natural constraint comes from nearest-neighbor correlations between the suitable/unsuitable states of the spatial units forming the habitat.
arxiv   +1 more source

A Strong and Water‐Retaining Biomass Adhesive Inspired by Tofu

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Drawing inspiration from the formation mechanism of the traditional food tofu, a strong and water‐retaining adhesive is designed using the soybean meal (SM) oxidized by glucose oxidase (GOx) and calcium sulfate oligomer (CSO). This design strategy effectively addresses the conflicting requirements of water‐resistant bonding strength and water retention
Jiawei Shao   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A global perspective on the value of multi-level analysis as an enabler for achieving SDGs

open access: yesEuropean Spatial Research and Policy
With more than 50 percent of the global population living in urban areas, Sustainable Development Goal 11 on Sustainable Cities and Communities provides a critical lever for us to realise all other SDG goals.
Robert Ndugwa, Dennis Mwaniki
doaj   +1 more source

Improving Employee Productivity Through TQM with the Meditating effect of ICR

open access: yesHabitat, 2022
Because of the high level of competition, businesses need to have an excellent quality management system, which they may attain through Total Quality Management (TQM), to improve their chances of succeeding in the marketplace.
Renno Werdiavy   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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