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Vibrational Energy Harvesting via Phase Modulation: Effects of Different Excitations. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Adesina PO, Vincent UE, Kolebaje OT.
europepmc   +1 more source

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Weather extremes and their impact on crop transportation networks: Evidence from U.S. Midwestern elevators. [PDF]

PLoS One
Skevas T, Thompson W, Brown B, Salin D, Gastelle J, Marcillo-Yepez E.   +5 more
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THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

MIRACLE URBANIZATION: Spatial Production and Political Legitimation in the Sochi 2014 and Beijing 2022 Olympics

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
wiley   +1 more source

Disparate power transmission performance reinforces Italian social inequities. [PDF]

iScience
Lonergan KE, Stankovski A, Gjorgiev B, Sansavini G.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

POPULAR ENTREPRENEURSHIP: A Grammar of Moral Economy in Contemporary Urban Peripheries

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how popular entrepreneurship operates as a cultural grammar that disrupts established practices of wageless life in urban peripheries. Drawing on four years of ethnographic research conducted in São Paulo, it analyses entrepreneurial discourses not simply as ideological impositions, but as ambivalent mediations of ...
Henrique Costa
wiley   +1 more source

Utilization of Organic Solvents for the Recycling of Waste Wooden Railroad Ties. [PDF]

Molecules
Nikolić ŽM, Tošić MS, Radivojević JM, Gigov M, Marčeta Kaninski MP, Nikolić VM, Živojinović DZ.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source