Editorial by Thomas D. Wilson

“…For a time the journal was housed on a server in the then Department of Information Studies (now the Information School) at the University of Sheffield. …”
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Les identités de la ville : Éléments analytiques pour une étude sociolinguistique by Souheila HEDID

“…The following study is part of a scientific project which aims to highlight the different configurations / reconfigurations of the sociolinguistic context of the city of Constantine (in Algeria) after the multiple development operations of the territory (carried out as part of the rehabilitation of the old city, where entire cities were moved to a new city "Ali Mendjeli"). It is based on a plural qualitative methodology where several investigative tools are used with an experimental approach and field surveys that affect the whole city.This work questions an important aspect of this circuit, that of the social integration of new housing sites. …”
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No Easy Way In by Kalev Aasmäe

“…Keywords: squatting, community, neoliberalism, solidarity, criminalisation, housing …”
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DESIGNING A COMPACT FIREFIGHTING VEHICLE FOR NARROW RESIDENTIAL AREAS ON THE BASE OF A LAWN MOWER by Thong Duc HONG, Phat Tan TRUONG, Minh Quang PHAM, Lam Quang TRAN

“…This fire truck has a maximum speed of about 15 km/h and can move in a minimal road width of only 1.3 m, which is accommodation for residential areas within a 1÷2 km radius with narrow roads, high density of population and houses in least developed and developing countries (e.g., Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia), where the normal fire engines are difficult to access in time. …”
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La derecha chilena y su “nueva forma de hacer política”: la UDI en el campamento Raúl Silva Henríquez (1983-1985) by Alejandra Araya

“…In this respect, the relations between the locals of Silva Henríquez and UDI’s party leaders determined an important social and political dynamic that moves between the housing assistance and the political co-optation of a developing party which practiced a new way of doing politics in the right-wing Chilean party in campamentos made of the poorest people in the city. …”
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Effects of a synthetic analog of the bovine appeasing pheromone on the overall welfare of dairy calves from birth through weaning by J. Garcia-Alvarez, E. Teruel, A. Cozzi, E. Harris, S.M. Rutter, A. Beaver

“…After weaning, calves were moved to group hutches according to treatment for 4 additional weeks. …”
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Les affaissements miniers dans le bassin ferrifère lorrain : quand le territoire re-politise la gestion du risque by François Duchêne

“…However, it was not just houses that were ‘moved’ by the subsidence. It likewise provoked a reaction from local stakeholders who, with a political, economic and social heritage rooted in mining and the steel industry, had been bruised and battered by deindustrialisation. …”
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Victorian Arts and the Challenge of Modernity: Analogy, the Grid, and Chemical Transformations by Francesca Orestano

“…Subsequently the article moves à rebours, in order to suggest the possible reasons for such hermeneutic proximity. …”
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Free Plan versus Free Rooms by Xavier Van Rooyen

“… Since the 1960s, open architecture has sought to move away from fixed objects built for eternity and instead towards the development of indeterminate proposals. …”
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Les aventures du Sant Calze de Valence : quand la fiction se fait objet de foi et de mémoire by Sophie Albert

“…The article focuses the Santo Cáliz or, in Valencian, Sant Calze housed in the cathedral of Valencia (Spain). According to a legend elaborated in Aragon between the 11th and 14th centuries, the object, a 1st century vase mounted in a chalice during the Middle Ages, is supposed to be the cup by which Jesus established the Eucharistic rite at the Last Supper. …”
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The Merits and Pitfalls of Participatory Action Research: Navigating Tokenism and Inclusion with Lived Experience Members by Tracy Smith-Carrier, Rana Van Tuyl

“…This paper explores the merits and pitfalls of involving people with lived and living experiences of a phenomenon of interest (e.g., poverty, hunger, housing deprivation) in Participatory Action Research (PAR). …”
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L’étalement urbain au péril des activités agro-pastorales à Abidjan. by Kouakou Yao Etienne, Koné Brama, Bonfoh Bassirou, Kientga Sonwouignandé Mathieu, N’Go Yao Alexis, Savane Issiaka, Cissé Guéladio

“…Rapid urbanization leads to challenges in housing and food access for all the international community and particularly in developing countries. …”
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Pathways to transform urban food systems: feminist action research from Cape Town and Nairobi by Nicole Paganini, Vanessa Farr, Jes Weigelt

“…Participation in the study enabled communities living in a near-permanent state of precarity and food insecurity, in the absence of culturally appropriate and readily-available supports to mental health, to move beyond an isolated focus on food to explore feelings of psychic safety and security, and also environmental wellbeing, including access to clean air and water, decent and affordable housing, safe and dignified work, and freedom from violence of all forms.…”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation Analysis on Reinforcement of Mortise-Tenon Joints with Flat Steel Strips by Shurong Gan, Wen Pan, Hexian Su, Yucheng Jin, Chuanwei Zhu, Shibin Yu

“…To study the aseismic performance after the reinforcement of the mortise-tenon joints of folk houses with traditional Chuan-Dou style wood structure and their steel plate, test specimens of joints—two for Tou mortise-tenon joints, two for Ban mortise-tenon joints, and two for dovetail mortise-tenon joints—were fabricated out of hemlock, and steel plates were utilized to reinforce one of the joint specimens of each type on the middle part of the mortise-tenon joint. …”
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Sing A Song for Home: How Displaced Iranian Song-Writers in LA Conceive of Home and Homeland by Pouya Morshedi, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

“…The borders of home are not around the songwriters’ houses or intimate families anymore, but they are around the homeland.…”
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Auch eine Gewerkschaft? Der Deutschnationale Handlungsgehilfenverband und die Angestellten by Martin Otto

“…The right-wing DHV offered its members a vast number of social activities as well as housing and insurance, and even owned a number of publishing companies. …”
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Desigualdades na mortalidade infantil no Município de São Paulo: em busca do melhor indicador by Ligia Vizeu Barrozo

“…Therefore, the urban environment, housing for the majority of the global population, needs to be seen as a strategic priority in the near future, both in terms of the impact on natural resources and equity of welfare and social justice. …”
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Toward a new interdisciplinary model to understand Alzheimer’s disease: The interplay between neurobiology and socio-economic factors by Hyun Jee Han, Clive Shrubsole

“…Conclusion: Although our model does not include other well-recognized causes of AD and needs to be tested by further in-depth epidemiological studies, more holistic and realistic views on the current approaches will allow this field to move forward and lead to an improvement to actionable policies.…”
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Co-creating and hosting PxP: a conference about patient engagement in research for and by patient partners by Dawn P. Richards, Hetty Mulhall, Joletta Belton, Savia de Souza, Trudy Flynn, Alex Haagaard, Linda Hunter, Amy Price, Sara Riggare, Janice Tufte, Rosie Twomey, Karim M. Khan

“…The PxP website, known as the PxP Hub, now houses the conference recordings along with resources about patient engagement in research. …”
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Territorial obstacles causing early school dropout in Morocco: Multivariate spatial analysis by Aomar Ibourk, Soukaina Raoui

“…The territorial targeting must move towards multidimensional corrections by multi-actors from the territorial ecosystem. …”
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