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Enhancing Urban Livability: Exploring the Impact of on-Demand Shared CCAM Shuttle Buses on City Life

Transport and Telecommunication
Livable cities involve such quality-of-life factors as transportation, convenience of daily life, education, and a safe and stable built and natural environment.
Raiyn Jamal
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Shifting Child Protection Assessments From a Deficit Focus to Assessments Informed by Strengths and Protective Factors: Translating Research Knowledge to Practice

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Child protection systems play a critical role in preventing and responding to child maltreatment, yet practices are often predominantly deficit focused. This paper presents a rapid literature review on the strengths, protective factors, and cultural considerations to inform child protection assessment.
Gabrielle R. Hunt, Carmela Bastian, Luke Cantley, Ulrike Marwitz, Daryl J. Higgins   +4 more
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Barriers to scaling up electric bicycles in eight African countries: infrastructure, policy, cost, and perception

Sustainable Earth Reviews
Electric bicycles have experienced rapid growth over the past decade in several regions, while their emergence in African countries has been more recent.
Emilie Martin, Vera-Marie Andrieu, Rumbi Ebbefeld, Paschal Giki, Edna Mercy Manyasa, Chris Kost   +5 more
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RETRACTED: Improvement in Collision Avoidance in Cut-In Maneuvers Using Time-to-Collision Metrics

Smart Cities
This paper proposes a new strategy for a collision avoidance system leveraging time-to-collision (TTC) metrics for handling cut-in scenarios, which are particularly challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs).
Jamal Raiyn
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Study on the Relationship between Tram Stop Location Layout and Intersection Delay Time

Chengshi guidao jiaotong yanjiu
［Objective］ In order to improve the operating service efficiency and reliability of trams, it is necessary to study the relationship between the layout of tram stop location and the intersection delay time.
ZHOU Weixia, TENG Jing, YAO Xing, ZHANG Zhongjie, SHEN Jialin   +4 more
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A perspective from the Mesozoic: Evolutionary changes of the mammalian skull and their influence on feeding efficiency and high‐frequency hearing

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The complex evolutionary history behind modern mammalian chewing performance and hearing function is a result of several changes in the entire skeletomuscular system of the skull and lower jaw. Lately, exciting multifunctional 3D analytical methods and kinematic simulations of feeding functions in both modern and fossil mammals and their ...
Julia A. Schultz
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Analyzing the link between built environment and physical activity: a spatial study in suburban area

Frontiers in Built Environment
Promoting physical activity is a significant concern that contributes to urban development, thereby fostering good health among city residents. This imperative highlights the interconnectedness between public health initiatives and the advancement of ...
Pawinee Iamtrakul, Pawinee Iamtrakul, Pawinee Iamtrakul, Sararad Chayphong, Sararad Chayphong, Sararad Chayphong   +5 more
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Morpho‐functional analyses of the jaw apparatus in the Blue‐and‐yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna, Psittaciformes, Aves): Adaptations to feeding behavior

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Macaws are renowned for processing dry, mechanically resistant fruits, yet the species‐level anatomical and functional correlates of this performance remain incompletely resolved. We examined the feeding apparatus of the Blue‐and‐yellow Macaw (Ara ararauna) using an integrated approach that combines osteology, myology, and bite‐force estimates
Sérgio R. Posso, Ana Caroline M. Barbosa, Victor R. Caciatori   +2 more
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Introducing virtual microscopy at the University of Ghana during the COVID‐19 pandemic—Identifying and overcoming obstacles in a low‐resource learning environment

Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.
Abstract The introduction of new educational technologies into resource‐challenged learning environments is often hindered by several factors, with the lack of infrastructure and computer hardware being only one critical aspect. The COVID‐19 pandemic required a sudden switch to online learning and accelerated the implementation of e‐learning approaches
Nii Koney‐Kwaku Koney, Smart Nana Omenako, David Nana Adjei, Benjamin Arko‐Boham, Michael Hortsch   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contractor selection for performance‐based maintenance partnerships

International Journal of Strategic Property Management, 2007
Dutch housing associations use new procurement methods such as performance‐based maintenance partnerships for maintaining their housing stock. Such partnerships promise a range of advantages as compared to the traditional tendering of maintenance ...
Ab Straub, Henk-Jan van Mossel
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