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Analysing the potential for modal shiftbased on the logic of modal choice

Vincent Kaufmann, Eloi Antoine Maël Bernier, Florian Lucien Jacques Masse, Ludy Juliana González Villamizar

This article explores how the logic underlying modal practices tends to modulate the population’s responsiveness to improvements in global transport supply. Based on a quantitative survey conducted in 2018–2019 among the working population of the cantons o ...

2023

Global Mapping of Potential and Climatic Plant‐Available Soil Water

Sara Bonetti, Dani Or

The estimation of plant-available soil water (PASW) is essential to quantify transpiration fluxes, the onset of heatwaves, irrigation water management, land-use decisions, vegetation ecology, and land surface memory in climate models. PASW is the amount of ...

2023

Combined desiccant-ejector cooling system assisted by Organic Rankine Cycle for zero-power cooling and dehumidification

Dolaana Khovalyg, Amirreza Heidari

This study presents a novel set-up for desiccant-based cooling and dehumidification systems. In this cycle, a solid desiccant and conventional combined cooling and power (CCP) systems, based on the ejector refrigeration cycle (ERC) and the organic Rankine ...

IOP2019

WHY CAN’T WE LIVE TOGETHER? Stockholm – Vienna’s large courtyard blocks

Chiara Monterumisi, Alessandro Porotto

The purpose of this paper is to look back on some valuable accomplishments at the beginning of the 20th century, built in Stockholm (1916-1930) and Vienna (1919-1933). Far from a mere process of revising history, those first dwelling attempts demonstrate h ...

2017

Significance of sacred sites for riparian forest conservation in Central Benin

Natalie Claire Ceperley

Ibu odo, or sacred pools or points in the river, are generally respected by Tchabe communities along the Oueme and Okpara Rivers of Central Benin (West Africa). Ibu odo are governed by rules that may influence conservation practices, including bans on fish ...

2010

Working with extreme urban density: Hong Kong. A prototype of mixed-use building in Hong Kong

Joana Varela, Wing-Chung Cheung

Urban sprawl, a solution to house fast-growing metropolitan populations, dilutes the substance of cities and generates extensive uniformly built fabrics lacking structural poles of attraction. Hong Kong is one of the seldom exceptions of this general tende ...

2008

Emission and fate assessment of methyl tertiary butyl ether in the Boston area airshed using a simple multimedia box model : Comparison with urban air measurements

Jeremy Samuel Arey

Expected urban air concentrations of the gasoline additive methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) were calculated using volatile emissions estimates and screening transport models, and these predictions were compared with Boston, MA, area urban air measurement ...

2003

Factors controlling the distribution and transport of trichloroethene in a sand aquifer: Hydrogeology and results of an in situ transport experiment

David Andrew Barry

Groundwater underlying the Perth metropolitan area was found to be contaminated by extensive plumes of trichloroethene (TCE), ammonium and sulphate, and regions of high dissolved organic carbon concentration. At the study site, approximately 600 m downgrad ...

1997

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