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La falta de ordenamiento territorial en la Gran Área Metropolitana (GAM) de Costa Rica ha provocado que el crecimiento urbano se haya dado de forma dispersa y desordenada (Rodríguez, 2017).
Daniela Segura-Segura +1 more
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ABSTRACT Education is a cornerstone of sustainable development, yet large disparities in access persist across and within countries—particularly in Africa, where millions remain underserved. Among several factors influencing educational participation, physical accessibility to schools (in terms of travel time) is not comprehensively understood ...
Diana Jaramillo‐Araujo, Jim W. Hall
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Introduction. Excessive axle loads and environmental influences cause permanent deformation, cracking, residual deformations in the form of rutting, fatigue and shortening the service life of highways.
Artur Onyshchenko +2 more
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Modelación de demanda de transporte urbano en Costa Rica, de Emme a TransCAD
En julio de 2016 la Escuela de Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Costa Rica y el Laboratorio Nacional de Materiales y Modelos Estructurales iniciaron el proyecto de investigación Modelo de Demanda de Transporte Urbano de la Gran Área Metropolitana en
Leonardo Castro Rodríguez +2 more
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Abstract Automating bridge inspections requires more than detecting individual damage instances. It demands systems capable of describing, contextualizing, and interpreting damage in an inspection‐relevant manner. Conventional computer vision approaches, such as object detection and segmentation, primarily address visual recognition tasks and are ...
Rona Firdes Çelik +2 more
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Abstract Several test methods have been proposed in the literature for measuring the level of residual prestress, most of them involving either semi‐ or fully destructive techniques for local measurements which could be highly sensitive to boundary conditions and execution details.
Giuseppe Zarrella +2 more
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STRATIFIED ADAPTATION: Infrastructure, Elevation, and Cascading Floods in the Urban Mekong Delta
Abstract Flood‐prone cities in the global South are increasingly the target of infrastructure projects aimed at building climate ‘resilience’. At the same time, residents of these cities take adaptation to flooding into their own hands. In this article we examine the interrelationship between household‐scale and urban‐scale flood mitigation projects in
Lizzie Yarina +3 more
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La adición de productos industrializados como el caucho y el plástico podrían hacer parte constitutiva de la estructura de un pavimento al dar a las mezclas asfálticas un mejor comportamiento mecánico y por ende una mayor duración de vida.
Fredy Alberto Reyes Lizcano
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Homenaje a la Ingeniera e Investigadora Fabiola Miranda Argüello
Fabiola Miranda Argüello Máster en Ingeniería Civil de la Universidad de Costa Rica Investigadora de la Unidad de Materiales y Pavimentos del Pitra, LanammeUCR.
María José Miranda Argüello +5 more
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Abstract A surge in the number of shopping malls across many African cities reflects capital's responses to the continent's growing middle class and deepening neoliberal globalization. This article develops an analysis of the transcalar nature of these urban investments using the case of the West Hills Mall (WHM) in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (
Rosina Sheburah Essien +5 more
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