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Street network patterns for mitigating urban heat islands in arid climates
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 This study explores the impact of street pattern measurements on urban heat islands (UHI) in the arid climate of Mashhad, Iran. The Landsat-8 top-of-the-atmosphere (TOA) brightness images from 2013 to 2021, average values of normalized difference ...
Kimia Chenary +2 more
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Re-reading the Map of Middle-earth: Fan Cartography\u27s Engagement with Tolkien\u27s Legendarium [PDF]
, 2018 J.R.R. Tolkien provided an elaborate textual history for his writings about Middle-earth, but did not do so for his now-iconic maps. This paper examines how this difference, in concert with the general tendency of readers to treat maps as objective ...
Danielson, Stentor
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Reproducing National Distinction: How Cultural Capital Shapes Estonia's Russian School Field
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on nationalism has long emphasized the homogenizing role of education in producing shared language, history and identity, while studies in the sociology of education have examined how cultural capital and social class structure school hierarchies.
Léo Henry
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Spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of urban landscape forms on PM2.5 in China from 2001 to 2020
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 Urban landscape forms can be effective in reducing increasing PM2.5 concentrations due to urbanization in China, making it crucially important to accurately quantify the spatiotemporal impact of urban landscape forms on PM2.5 variations.
Shoutao Zhu +8 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This essay demonstrates how a gender‐informed, more‐than‐human lens can provide new ways to analyse how the role of a queen in forestry management was conceptualised by sixteenth‐century professional men. It explores these ideas as they are presented in a work published by Guillaume Martin, Lieutenant General of the forests and waterways of ...
Susan Broomhall
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New Geography Studies at the University of Zadar
Kartografija i Geoinformacije, 2006 Introduction of new geography studies at the Department of Geography at the University of Zadar enables and encourages the realization of new concepts in teaching, use of ECTS scores, more optional courses that suit the students' interests, improved ...
Damir Magaš
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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2023 There has been a significant increase in the availability of global high-resolution land cover (HRLC) datasets due to growing demand and favorable technological advancements. However, this has brought forth the challenge of collecting reference data with
Gorica Bratic +2 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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International Journal of Digital Earth, 2022 The normalization of LST relative to environmental parameters is of great importance in various environmental applications. The purpose of this study was to develop a new approach for LST normalization relative to environmental variables.
Majid Kiavarz +5 more
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Mapping cyberspace: visualising, analysing and exploring virtual worlds [PDF]
, 1999 In the past years, with the development of computer networks such as the Internet and world wide web (WWW), cyberspace has been increasingly studied by researchers in various disciplines such as computer sciences, sociology, geography, and cartography
Jiang, B., Ormeling, F.
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