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Achieving safer school travel in the UK [PDF]
, 2005 This paper summarises the current UK approach to improving child road safety, focusing particularly on measures to enhance the safety of the school journey.
Cairns, S.
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article questions the moral and causal certainties attributed to the clinical assumptions of the breath of chaos. Instead of seeing chaos as an exceptional intruder that causes problems in health, I suggest that chaos underlines the changing conditions of health and it's an intrinsic part of breathing and everyday life. I discuss the five‐
Yuxin Peng
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Assessing the impacts of traffic calming at network level: A multimodal agent-based simulation
Journal of Traffic and Transportation Engineering (English ed. Online)The reduction of speed limits in urban roads through traffic calming schemes intends to ensure safer traffic conditions among road users by reducing the probability related to the occurrence of severe accident.
Eftychia Zargiannaki +4 more
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The Impacts of Using a Safety Compliance Standard in Highway Design [PDF]
, 1999 Dr. Ossenbruggen introduces an algorithmic method to objectively test and evaluate safety in the highway design ...
Ossenbruggen, Paul J.
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Upstream Interventions to Promote Oral Health and Reduce Oral Health Inequalities: A Scoping Review
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives This scoping review aimed to map global evidence on upstream interventions which promote oral health and reduce socioeconomic inequalities in oral health. Methods A review was undertaken in accordance with the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI) methodology for scoping reviews and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and ...
Michelle Stennett +6 more
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A Cognitive Study on Traffic Calming Measures at Urban Dwellings
Acta Scientiarum: TechnologyTraffic calming measures aim to lessen accidents and increase user mobility in areas with large pedestrian traffic. Reduced speed zones and infrastructural modifications are two operations carried out to achieve the same.
Kshitij Jassal, Umesh Sharma
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Safety, 2018 The speed-reducing effect of speed humps during darkness is important to ensure a consistent speed reduction and a decreased probability of accidents during darkness.
Annika K. Jägerbrand +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2020 Traffic calming measures (TCMs) have been widely adopted as the major speed control devices in Ghana. While initial evaluations have underscored their effectiveness, little research has been conducted to assess their characteristics relative to design ...
James Damsere-Derry +3 more
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Community involvement in urban design: help or hindrance? [PDF]
, 1999 This paper examines the realities of community involvement in urban design in the context of a study of the West Itchen Neighbourhood of Southampton, a diverse inner city area accommodating some 7,000 households and 18,000 people.
Gregory, Helen, Rowley, Alan
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Locating nests of endangered bumble bees: Lessons from field trials in northern Germany
Insect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.Tracking bumble bees to find their nests using coloured strips of paper stuck to their thorax proved to be the most suitable method, while radio transponders were too heavy. Tracking times of up to 2 h and distances of up to 800 m were achieved with strips of pink craft tissue paper.
Henri Greil +4 more
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