INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti +2 more
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Prediction of pavement performance via smatrphone vibration-induced unevenness signature using machine learning. [PDF]
Wasiq S +3 more
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CAPITALIZING CRISIS: Urban Extractivism in Athens Amidst Neoliberal Restructurings
Abstract In this article we examine the post‐2009 transformation of Athens through the analytical lens of urban extractivism. We argue that the Greek sovereign debt crisis did not operate as a temporary disruption, but as a durable political condition that enabled the institutionalization of extractive urban governance.
Konstantinos Zafeiris +2 more
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Valorization of marble powder with lime for mine haul road base courses: experimental and numerical study. [PDF]
Abdelkader HAM +3 more
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NOCTURNAL INFORMALITY: Rethinking the Temporal Politics of Urban Informality
Abstract Urban informality has long been theorized as a spatial condition of urban life—an expression of negotiation, improvisation, and survival within the uneven terrains of legality and governance. Yet this emphasis on space has obscured the temporalities through which informality is lived, governed, and contested. This essay develops the concept of
Elmond Bandauko
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Extreme Polyploidy Reveals Functional Trade-Offs in Plant Drought Responses. [PDF]
López-Jurado J +5 more
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Rapid urbanization reshaped rodent populations, morphology, and gut microbiota along an urban–rural gradient. The synanthropic rat (Rattus norvegicus) increased in abundance toward the urban core and exhibited reduced ear and tail length, whereas the farmland mouse (Apodemus agrarius) and woodland rat (Niviventer confucianus) declined.
Chao Zhang +8 more
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Sustainable Stabilization of Silty Sand Using Recycled Industrial Polymer Reinforcement with a Hybrid Lime-Cement Binder. [PDF]
Lounas A +3 more
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Maximizing eDNA detections of rare marine organisms: A case study of a delphinid species
Abstract Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging tool for surveying marine organisms. Advances in molecular assay designs and bioinformatic methods provide new opportunities for detecting rare species; however, overcoming methodological challenges of rare species detection remains an important obstacle for the widespread deployment of eDNA methods for ...
Nastassia V. Patin +12 more
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