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Different Ways of Thinking about Street Networks and Spatial Analysis

open access: yes, 2014
Street networks, as one of the oldest infrastructures of transport in the world, play a significant role in modernization, sustainable development, and human daily activities in both ancient and modern times.
Jiang, Bin, Okabe, Atsuyuki
core   +1 more source

Cool Kitchen: Processing Starch and Eggshell Powder into Sustainable Coatings for Passive Daytime Cooling

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A food‐grade cooling composite made from starch and recycled eggshell powder offers a scalable, ultra‐low‐cost solution for passive daytime radiative cooling. Easily prepared using basic kitchen tools, this material empowers communities, even in areas with limited infrastructure, to stay cooler during worsening summer heat waves.
Qimeng Song   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Divergence – Is it Geography? [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper tests directly a geography and growth model using regional data for Europe, the US, and Japan during di®erent time periods. We set up a standard geography and growth model with a poverty trap and derive a log- linearized growth equation that ...
Dieter Urban   +2 more
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When Languages Die: The Extinction Of The World\u27s Languages And The Erosion Of Human Knowledge [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In When Languages Die, K. David Harrison illustrates the individual face of language loss, as well as its global scale. Languages are the accretion of thousands of years of a people\u27s science and art - from observations of ecological patterns to ...
Harrison, K. David
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Micro and Nanostructural Diversity of Lizard Osteoderm Capping Tissue in Relation to Mechanical Performance

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study shows that lizard osteoderm capping tissue is a hyper‐mineralized hydroxyapatite layer consistently covering the superficial osteoderm surface in those species studied here, yet it varies greatly in morphology, nanostructure, and mechanical performance across species.
Adrian Rodriguez‐Palomo   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geography is not Destiny. Geography, Institutions and Literacy in England, 1837-1863 [PDF]

open access: yes
Geography made rural society in the south-east of England unequal. Economies of scale in grain growing created a farmer elite and many landless labourers.
Gregory Clark, Rowena Gray
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Towards the environmental geography concept [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Authors introduce the environmental geography concept. Environmental geography describes the spatial aspects of interactions between the human society and the natural environment.
Костріков, С.В.   +1 more
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In Vivo Skin 3‐D Surface Reconstruction and Wrinkle Depth Estimation Using Handheld High Resolution Tactile Sensing

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A compact handheld GelSight probe reconstructs in vivo 3‐D skin topography with micron‐level precision using a custom elastic gel and a learning‐based surface normal to height map pipeline. The device quantifies wrinkle depth across various body locations and detects changes in wrinkle depth following moisturizer application.
Akhil Padmanabha   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Employing geographical principles for sampling in state of the art dialectological projects [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The aims of this paper are twofold: First, we locate the most effective human geographical methods for sampling across space in large-scale dialectological projects.
Allen   +47 more
core   +3 more sources

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