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Evolution Law and Prediction Model of Anti-Skid and Wear-Resistant Performance of Asphalt Pavement Based on Aggregate Types and Deepened Texture

open access: yesInfrastructures
This study investigates the evolution laws and prediction models of anti-skid and wear-resistant performance for asphalt pavements during the operation period.
Shaopeng Zheng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Public policy implications of construction innovation research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
This report undertakes an exploratory analysis of Construction Innovation research projects\ud in order to answer the question “What are the public policy implications of Construction\ud Innovation research?

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Property Rights Entrepreneurship: The Drive for Product, Asset, and Resource Excludability

open access: yesManagerial and Decision Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Property rights are foundational to market economies, and entrepreneurial activity depends heavily on the excludability afforded by property rights. Yet, the role of entrepreneurs in shaping the evolution of property rights has been so thoroughly taken for granted that it often vanishes from analyses.
Thomas J. Dean   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green pathways to mental health: Relationships between treescapes and well‐being and distress

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract We aimed to evaluate the mental health benefits and possible mechanisms of objective and subjective treescape exposures whilst also accounting for relationships with residential area greenspace in general. Independent variables were objective measures of residential neighbourhood tree cover density and woody linear features, and a subjective ...
Ian Alcock   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and opportunities for further enhancing urban garden biodiversity: Insights from a behaviour change model for the United Kingdom

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Urbanisation poses a major threat to biodiversity, yet residential gardens offer opportunities to provide key habitats for urban wildlife. Understanding both the perceived feasibility of implementing further improvements to gardens for biodiversity and the barriers that constrain engagement is essential for designing effective conservation ...
Kelly Hitchcock   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Oregon Department of Transportation construction alternative dispute resolution program

open access: yes, 2009
This archived document is maintained by the Oregon State Library as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Title from PDF caption (viewed on Dec.

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A primer in public policy for the construction industry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The purpose of this document is to introduce non-specialists to the discipline and practice of public policy, particularly in relation to the construction sector in Australia. In order to do this, a brief overview of Australia’s government structure, and

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Participatory mapping and Nature's Contributions to People: Insights from the Amazon Delta

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Understanding how traditional and coastal communities perceive and interact with nature is key to promoting inclusive conservation. This article examines human–nature interaction in the fishing village of Jubim, located in the Marajó Archipelago, delta of the Amazon River, Brazil.
Lara Sartorio Gonçalves   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Constructing Optimal Highways

open access: yesConstructing Optimal Highways
For two points p and q in the plane, a straight line h, called a highway, and a real v > 1, we define the travel time (also known as the city distance) from p and q to be the time needed to traverse a quickest path from p to q, where the distance is measured with speed v on h and with speed 1 in the underlying metric elsewhere.
openaire   +1 more source

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