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The influence of vegetation and shape-related features in making parks more noise resistant [PDF]
, 2016 The aim of this paper is to assess the effect of vegetation-related parameters and shape-related features on noise levels in park areas. For the current research, eight case study parks of various sizes were identified in Antwerp and noise levels were ...
Botteldooren, Dick +3 more
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On Being Receptive: Listening and Compliance on a University Campus
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 249-258, June 2026.ABSTRACT How should you listen when you hear about harms in interpersonal life, such as sexual harassment or anti‐Black racism? Across a range of sites on a university campus, from bystander intervention workshops to reporting systems for sex‐ and gender‐based misconduct, we spotlight the way “listening” is mobilized to address harms of various kinds ...
Michael Lempert +2 more
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AcousticsIndoor soundscape is a relatively new and developing field compared to urban soundscape in practice. To address this gap, this study aims to identify the key influencing factors as a first step of the indoor soundscape intervention approach.
Uğur Beyza Erçakmak Osma +1 more
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsSoundscape quality is important for fostering social interactions in urban public spaces. This study focuses on how and to what extent the compositions of the soundscape affect the sociability of urban public spaces where human sound is focused. Four 360°
Jingwen Cao, Jian Kang
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Moving tales, exploring narrative strategies for scalable locative audio drama. [PDF]
, 2009 This paper reports on a recent collaboration between the Lansdown Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University and the BBC Radio Drama Department, which was designed to investigate the narrative possibilities of locative media in a drama context ...
Bendon, Helen +3 more
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Creating Home Territories During Housing Relocation: Affects and Activity Rhythms
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT This paper expands understandings of home by developing the concept of home territory to comprehend the experiences of older adults who experienced housing relocation and how they reconstituted a sense of home. The study draws on the experiences of 41 older adults who underwent the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (SERS) in Singapore ...
Siyao Gao, Elaine Lynn‐Ee Ho
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Rethinking the Race–Nation Nexus: Spatial Narratives of Racialised Italians in the United Kingdom
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 51, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Nation and race are often theorised as closely intertwined, with nationalism frequently positioned as a driving force behind racism. The article advances an empirically grounded argument that challenges this assumed relationship. In particular, it explores how space, understood as a socially constructed category, is discursively mobilised in ...
Marco Antonsich
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Computer Applications in Engineering Education, Volume 34, Issue 3, May 2026.ABSTRACT The rise of automation and robotics in construction demands educational shifts to develop core cognitive skills like computational thinking (CT). However, current learning environments often lack hands‐on, iterative problem‐solving opportunities due to safety, cost, and logistical constraints.
Rahat Hussain +5 more
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Visual Mental Imagery and Neural Dynamics of Sensory Substitution in the Blindfolded Subjects
NeuroImageAlthough one can recognize the environment by soundscape substituting vision to auditory signal, whether subjects could perceive the soundscape as visual or visual-like sensation has been questioned. In this study, we investigated hierarchical process to
HongJune Kim +2 more
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