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Heat stress in tropical highland regions: the case of Kenya during February 2024
Weather, EarlyView.Understanding and awareness about heat stress remain low in sub‐Saharan countries despite high exposure and vulnerability. After the national media in Kenya reported that people had complained about unusual heat stress during February 2024, we combine in situ and reanalysis data to (i) put this event into climatological perspective, and (ii) give ...
G. Chagnaud +3 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsDecarbonisation has increasingly become a major policy direction globally, deeply intertwined with urban socio-economic development. However, the connection between such a process and urban liveability remains underexplored.
Yizhao Du
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International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2018 We surveyed households within Cirebon Metropolitan Region (CMR) in Indonesia to assess ecohydrological changes and their impacts on urban and peri-urban liveability.
Titih Titisari Danielaini +2 more
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Evolution of mobility governance in Flanders: opening up for bottom-up initiatives or suffering from lock-in? [PDF]
, 2015 Mobility policy in Flanders lacks a clear discourse on implementing the policy objectives for 2020 and beyond. Though mobility planning can show success stories, mobility problems seem to aggravate.
Boelens, Luuk +2 more
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CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.Abstract Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) has typical advancements in the healthcare sector with rapid potential proof for decentralised communication systems that have been applied for collecting and monitoring COVID‐19 patient data. Machine Learning algorithms typically use the risk score of each patient based on risk factors, which could help ...
Chandramohan Dhasaratha +9 more
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An Agent Based Model for the Simulation of Transport Demand and Land Use [PDF]
, 2015 Agent based modelling has emerged as a promising tool to provide planners with insights on social behaviour and the interdependencies characterising urban system, particularly with respect to transport and infrastructure planning.
Barthelemy, J. +5 more
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Putting the Femme in Feminist: Trans Feminism and the ‘Male Lesbian’ in the American Second Wave
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A slur, a joke or a post‐structuralist case of mistaken identity. To the extent that the male lesbian has been discussed, she has figured dismissively. Yet throughout the period historicised as American feminism's second wave, potentially thousands of trans femmes organised under this identity. Despite being entirely overlooked in scholarship,
Aino Pihlak, Emily Cousens
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Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В.Н. Каразіна. Серія Геологія. Географія. ЕкологіяIntroduction: Urbanization is a global phenomenon on the rise in recent decades. In this context, the concept of liveability has emerged as a fundamental instrument for assessing living standards in urban areas.
Anwesha Mahanta, Parijat Borgohain
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CONCEPTUALIZING THE LIVEABLE AFRICAN CITY
Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation, 2013 This paper attempts to conceptualize the liveable African City using indices of liveability as advanced by Africans. The concepts of City Liveability and the City as a living system are used as the theoretical underpinnings to the study.
Taibat Lawanson +2 more
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Communities of Co-presence and Surveillance: how public open space shapes awareness and behaviour in residential developments [PDF]
, 2007 12-15 June ...
Hanson, J, Zako, R
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