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The Ladies’ Alpine Club, Embattled Collaboration and International Communities of Knowledge, 1907–39

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article considers the development of the Ladies’ Alpine Club from its inception until the Second World War through its Yearbooks, articles and lectures, as part of a community of knowledge which was devoted to international mountaineering.
James Watts
wiley   +1 more source

Rose Bengal-derived pH-sensitive carbon quantum dots for the detection of urea and urease activity. [PDF]

RSC Adv
Geng Y, Zhang W, Li LT, Tian Y, Zhai BQ, Bi WZ, Wang YG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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

Urban environment, health, and equity: A population-based study of symptoms and annoyances related to air pollution, traffic noise, and greenness. [PDF]

Environ Epidemiol
Eiffener E, Pyko A, Axelsson Ö, Murekatete R, Merritt AS, Georgelis A, Gruzieva O, Lõhmus M, Andersson N, Eneroth K, Ögren M, Pretto M, Dorbolò L, Ljungman P, Bergström A, Eriksson C.   +15 more
europepmc   +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

An integrated method for railway fastener defect detection and geometric parameter measurement using 3D line laser sensor. [PDF]

PLoS One
Yuan X, Liu W, Ma Y, Wang Y, Liu B.
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

Microplastics in Settled Dust from Indian Long-Distance Railway Coaches: Baseline Occurrence, Relative Load, and Scenario-Based Ingestion Estimates. [PDF]

Toxics
Mehta N, Wang J, Kozielska B.
europepmc   +1 more source

UNPACKING THE SUSTAINABILITY FIX: Governance Mechanisms in Urban Redevelopment Across Central and Eastern Europe

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainability is mobilized as a governance strategy in large‐scale urban redevelopment. Focusing on the RIVUS Mall project in Cluj‐Napoca, alongside comparative cases from Bratislava and Gdańsk, it traces how environmental objectives are translated into institutional practices, planning rationales, and financial ...
MIHAI IACOB
wiley   +1 more source

DeepTrackSecure: an integrated classification-detection system with predictive risk analytics for proactive railway safety management. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell
Balakrishnan P, Leema AA, Suresh Nagarajan S, Rashmika KS, Rahul Kumar J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source