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Assessment of industrial waste lignocellulosic fibers as a sustainable additive for improving engineering waste mud

Case Studies in Construction Materials
In response to the growing ecological issues caused by engineering waste mud and the lack of effective solutions. This study first examines the physical properties and the microstructure of raw waste mud.
Pan Ding, Menghuan Chen, Minjie Wen, Yiming Zhang, Lixing Wang   +4 more
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Risk-informed local action planning against flooding: lessons learnt and way forward for a case study in Spain

E3S Web of Conferences, 2016
After 29 years of the largest flood event in modern times (with the highest recorded rainfall rate at the Iberian Peninsula with 817 mm in 24 hours), the municipality of Oliva faces the challenge of mitigating flood risk through the development and ...
Castillo-Rodríguez J.T., Porta-Sancho J.R., Perales-Momparler S., Escuder-Bueno I.   +3 more
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Framework for soft and hard city infrastructures [PDF]

, 2019
The term city infrastructures is often restricted to the physical elements of a city, while in practice it comprises both hard infrastructures for built environment and utilities, as well as soft infrastructures involving services, social groupings and ...
Gleeson, Richard, Dyer, Mark, Dyer, Rachel, Weng, Min-Hsien, García Ferrari, Tomás, Grey, Thomas, Wu, Shaoqun   +6 more
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The duality of platforms as infrastructures for urban politics [PDF]

, 2021
Scholarship has recently sprouted up around the notion of ‘platform urbanism.’ In this essay, I outline an approach to the specifically communicative politics emerging through, and in relation to, platform infrastructures by drawing on research and ...
Rodgers, Scott, Scott Rodgers
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Determinants of undergraduate bioscience engagement: Validating attendance barriers and classroom spatial behaviour across institutions

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Student engagement extends beyond simple attendance. Across 891 bioscience students from three universities, attendance behaviour was associated mainly with structural influences, whereas classroom spatial behaviour reflected affective and sensory factors.
Nigel Page, Rachel J. Hunt, Lauren J. Albee, Daniel Berwick, Alison Snape   +4 more
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Tinkering with malleable grassroots infrastructures: Kenyan local currencies in informal settlements

, 2023
The article examines how dwellers in Kenya’s informal settlements engage in continuous tinkering of a particular grassroots infrastructure: local currencies.
María José Zapata Campos, Barinaga, E., Zapata Campos, Maria Jose, Ester Barinaga, Zapata Campos, María José,, Barinaga, Ester, Barinaga, Ester,, Lund University.   +7 more
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Modeling Progressive Brain Volume Losses in Chronic Moderate Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: Extensive, but Attenuating

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Progressive brain atrophy has now been widely observed in the chronic stages of moderate–severe traumatic brain injury (msTBI), but there is only coarse information regarding its prevalence and magnitude, and whether rate of atrophy accelerates or attenuates across time. We examined these questions in a Canadian inception cohort from
Robin E. A. Green, Brenda Colella, Alana Changoor, David J. Mikulis, Adrienne Li, Kadeen Johns, Georges A. Monette   +6 more
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Usage of permeability ratio to check the stability of a pile-soil model with retaining wall support – Huizhou slope failure as a case study

International Journal of Geo-Engineering
This paper presents a comprehensive investigation into the role of soil permeability variation on the stability of slopes reinforced by retaining walls, with a focus on the Huizhou slope failure as a case study.
Muhammad Israr Khan, Jianbo Fei, Xiangsheng Chen, Yue Chen   +3 more
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Mapping and measuring urban-rural inequalities in accessibility to social infrastructures

Geography and Sustainability
Equal access to social infrastructures is a fundamental prerequisite for sustainable development, but has long been a great challenge worldwide. Previous studies have primarily focused on the accessibility to social infrastructures in urban areas across ...
Chenmeng Guo, Weiqi Zhou, Chuanbao Jing, Dawa Zhaxi   +3 more
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Effect Modification of Cigarette Smoking on the Relationship Between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Other Mental Health Conditions, and Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk: A Large Case‐Control Study in US Veterans

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We examined associations of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health disorders (OMH) with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), accounting for effects of smoking. Methods We conducted a matched case‐control study, identifying incident RA cases and controls using national Veterans Health Administration data (2006–2019).
Kelsey Coziahr, Harlan Sayles, Tate M. Johnson, Joshua F. Baker, Punyasha Roul, Grant W. Cannon, Gary A. Kunkel, Katherine D. Wysham, Gail S. Kerr, Amir A. Razmjou, Isaac Smith, Jennifer L. Barton, Maria I. Danila, Jonathan S. Richards, Bryant R. England, Ted R. Mikuls   +15 more
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