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Abstract Roadside areas are major sources of traffic-related air pollutant emissions. This study identified the spatial distribution of roadside pollutants using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) measurements and predicted t...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of roadside green infrastructure in reducing particulate matter-bound polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PM-bound PAHs) in urban soils and to assess the associated human heal...

This study examined the behavior of wild Sri Lankan Elephants Elephas maximus living in districts near Buttala-Katragama road (B035) and Habarana road (A11). Elephants at B035 were observed to be more attracted to food g...

O presente estudo teve por objetivo analisar a arborização viária de três cidades da região norte do Estado de Mato Grosso, sendo: Alta Floresta, Carlinda e Nova Monte Verde. Foi levantado um total de 663 indivíduo...

Pavement distress analysis plays a big role in keeping roads in good shape, especially in busy spots like Selangor and Kuala Lumpur, where heavy traffic and tropical weather make them wear out fast. This work introduces ...

In this research, we presented a new method for collecting data and performing calculations to obtain the required results differently from what have been studied before. In the beginning, we introduce new types of soft ...

Abstract Understanding the distributions of rare species is necessary to guide monitoring and inform species recovery efforts. The rusty patched bumble bee (RPBB; Bombus affinis, Cresson) is an endangered species with an...

Antecedentes la frecuencia de accidentes ocupacionales en áreas rurales es alta. Objetivos: Objetivos caracterizar accidentes y lesiones en la actividad ganadera en una población definida (Sarmiento) en la provincia de...

In recent years, electric bicycles have emerged as a novel and sustainable mode of transport, offering individuals and groups alike an active and environmental-friendly way to get around. It is evident that active transp...

Urban sprawl, the uncoordinated and spatially dispersed expansion of urban areas into surrounding rural lands, poses significant challenges to sustainable development, resulting in the loss of agricultural and forest lan...

Bologna is the first major Italian city to become a ‘30 km/h City’, following the example of many other European cities. Since its launch in 2022, the ‘Bologna Città 30’ Plan has marked the beginning of a techni...

This paper draws upon a detailed longitudinal survey of households living on agricultural plots in the northern three provinces of the Ecuadorian Amazon, the principal region of colonization by migrants in Ecuador since ...

Abstract Amaranthus spinosus L. is a member of the Amaranthaceae family, commonly known as the spiny amaranth, or spiny pigweed. It is native to the tropical Americas, but is present on most continents as an introduced s...

In the past, country house research was mainly concerned with individual houses and gardens. Yet, as early as the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, so many country houses were being built around the major cities that...

One of the environmental consequences and conflicts arising from land use and land cover changes is the intensification of soil erosion, which seriously threatens urban water and soil resources. Therefore, it is necessar...

After the war, the national road network was no longer suited to heavy goods vehicle traffic conditions. As a result, the Roads Directorate defined a 33.000 km national network in 1973, on which the State would make the ...

Forest fires have exhibited an escalating trend in both frequency and intensity globally, with major and catastrophic events causing significant damage to forest resources, human lives, and property. Timely and accurate ...

Most alpine ecosystems are subject to non-native species invasion as climate warms and human disturbance increases. Therefore, it is important to identify the main barriers and facilitators of alpine plant invasions. Whi...

Abstract Sun glare during sunrise and sunset and headlight glare at night can temporarily reduce contrast sensitivity and hazard detection, creating high risk driving conditions that contribute to severe crashes on speci...

Abstract This paper presents an effective way to support motion planning of legged mobile robots—Inverted Modelling, based on the equivalent metamorphic mechanism concept. The difference from the previous research is t...

Abstract The Amazon region has high lightning occurrence rates, with many lightning hot spots. Different rivers cross the Amazon rainforests and the people that live there use these rivers as roads to go from one place t...

Tropical dry forests and savannas provide important ecosystem services and harbor high biodiversity, yet are globally under pressure from land-use change. Mapping changes in the condition of dry forests and savannas is t...

Abstract Luis Fernández Moreno has given a number of arguments that descriptive knowledge or stipulations have a greater role in the fixing of the reference of natural kind terms than I allow in my book Roads to Referen...

Con el objetivo de conocer y determinar la importancia relativa de las plantas usadas como medicinales, se realizó un estudio etnobotánico en las comunidades campesinas de algunas veredas de seis municipios del Altipla...