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Big and Open Linked Data (BOLD) in Research, Policy and Practice

Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Kuk, G. (author)

The value of data as a new economic asset class is seldom realized on its own. With less reliance on self-administered survey, it offers new insights into behaviors and patterns. Yet it is a huge undertaking of bringing together multiple actors from different disciplines and diverse practices to examine the underexplored relationships between...

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New perspectives on ethnic segregation over time and space: A domains approach

Van Ham, M. (author), Tammaru, T. (author)

Ethnic segregation has most often been studied at the place of residence, segregation being defined on the basis of the relative presence of different groups within city neighbourhoods. It is increasingly recognized, however, that segregation occurs in different ways in different domains (such as the workplace, leisure, social media, etc.), the...

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Economic decline and residential segregation: A Swedish study with focus on Malmö

Andersson, R. (author), Hedman, L.K. (author)

Economic crises are often associated with increasing levels of income segregation and income polarization. Poor neighborhoods generally hit more severely, with unemployment levels increasing and income levels dropping more than in better-off neighborhoods. In this article, we study the correlation between economic recession and income...

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Neighborhood decline and the economic crisis: An introduction

Van Kempen, R. (author), Bolt, G. (author), Van Ham, M. (author)

Urban neighborhoods are still important in the lives of its residents. Therefore, it is important to find out how the recent global financial and economic crisis affects these neighborhoods. Which types of neighborhoods and which residents suffer more than others? This introduction provides an overview of the papers in this special feature that...

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A scientometric analysis of selected GIScience journals

Biljecki, F. (author)

A set of 12436 papers published in 20 GIScience journals in the period 2000–2014 were analysed to extract publication patterns and trends. This comprehensive scientometric study focuses on multiple aspects: output volume, citations, national output and efficiency (output adjusted with econometric indicators), collaboration, altmetrics (Altmetric...

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The global financial crisis and neighborhood decline

Zwiers, M.D. (author), Bolt, G. (author), Van Ham, M. (author), Van Kempen, R. (author)

Neighborhood decline is a complex and multidimensional process. National and regional variations in economic and political structures (including varieties in national welfare state arrangements), combined with differences in neighborhood history, development, and population composition, make it impossible to identify an ideal-type process of...

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Macro-, Meso- and Microscale Segregation: Modeling Changing Ethnic Residential Patterns in Auckland, New Zealand, 2001–2013

Manley, D.J. (author), Johnston, R. (author), Jones, K. (author), Owen, D. (author)

“David Manley's contribution was partially supported by funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventy Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n.615159 (ERC Consolidator Grant “DEPRIVEDHOODS, Socio-spatial inequality, deprived neighbourhoods, and neighbourhood effects.)” Most world cities can now be...

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Does ethnicity matter in intentions to study abroad? Analysis of High School students in Estonia

Pungas, E. (author), Täht, K. (author), Realo, A. (author), Tammaru, T. (author)

This paper examines factors that shape intentions to study abroad. Previous research highlights the importance of various forms of capital - human, economic, social, cultural and mobility capital - as well as of personality traits in the formation of the intention to complete education in foreign countries. Our specific focus is on ethnic...

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Using Social Media and Mobile Technologies to Foster Engagement and Self-organisation in Participatory Urban Planning and Neighbourhood Governance

Kleinhans, R.J. (author), Van Ham, M. (author), Evans-Cowley, J. (author)

This editorial explores the potential of social media and mobile technologies to foster citizen engagement and participation in urban planning. We argue that there is a lot of wishful thinking, but little empirically validated knowledge in this emerging field of study. We outline key developments and pay attention to larger societal and...

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Influence of thermal effect on sugars composition of Mexican Agave syrup

Muniz-Marquez, D.B. (author), Contreras, J.C. (author), Rodriguez, R. (author), Mussatto, S.I. (author), Wong-Paz, J.E. (author), Teixeira, J.A. (author), Aguilar, C.N. (author)

Agave syrup is a fermentable by-product from the Agave industry that is used for pulque production, a typical Mexican fermented beverage. However, to date, the information available on its physicochemical composition is scarce, with this study being one of the first contributions on the subject. Here the influence of thermal treatment at 121ºC...

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Ethno-Political effects of suburbanization in the Vilnius urban region: An analysis of voting behavior

Ubareviciene, R. (author), Burneika, D. (author), Van Ham, M. (author)

We use electoral data to analyze the ethno-political consequences that may arise from the fact that the region surrounding the city of Vilnius is dominated by residents with a Polish identity, while those who move to the suburbs are mainly ethnic Lithuanians. In the suburban ring we found increasing voting turnout, a decreasing share of votes...

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'Doing more with less' or 'doing less with less'? Assessing EU cohesion policy's financial instruments for urban development

Dabrowski, M.M. (author)

In the context of a severe economic crisis and austerity, new ideas were put forward to reform cohesion policy to enhance its effectiveness and the return on investment. Among them, financial engineering instruments, such as JESSICA, expected to offer a means to ‘do more with less’ in this difficult budgetary context. In the case of such...

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Cities (and regions) within a city: Subnational representations and the creation of European imaginaries in Brussels

Hein, C.M. (author)

This article explores how sub-national institutions – representations from cities and regions – help create a European imaginary in Brussels. Political scientists and other scholars have noted the importance of these city and regional institutions, but have paid little attention to their physical form. Through a select set of case studies, this...

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Assessing sustainability in nature-inspired design

De Pauw, I.C. (author), Kandachar, P.V. (author), Karana, E. (author)

In the field of sustainable product development, a new perspective for approaching sustainability has been advocated, challenging designers and engineers to aim beyond ‘reducing unsustainability’. Several design strategies – including Biomimicry and Cradle to Cradle – have been suggested for developing truly sustainable, or ‘beneficial’,...

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Comparison of optical coherence tomography and histopathology in quantitative assessment of goat talus articular cartilage

Cernohorsky, P. (author), Kok, A.C. (author), De Bruin, D.M. (author), Brandt, M.J. (author), Faber, D.J. (author), Tuijthof, G.J.M. (author), Kerkhoffs, G.M. (author), Strackee, S.D. (author), Van Leeuwen, T.G. (author)

Background and purpose — Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a light-based imaging technique suitable for depiction of thin tissue layers such as articular cartilage. Quantification of results and direct comparison with a reference standard is needed to confirm the role of OCT in cartilage evaluation. Materials and methods — Goat talus...

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The Impact of Soil Erosion in the Upper Blue Nile on Downstream Reservoir Sedimentation

Ali, Y.S.A. (author)

Population growth in the Blue Nile Basin has led to fast land-use changes from forest to agricultural land, which resulted in speeding up the soil erosion processes producing highly negative impacts on the local soil fertility and agricultural productivity. The eroded sediment is transported downstream by water and sinks in the lower basin where...

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Developing Multi-Layer Information Infrastructures: Advancing Social Innovation through Public–Private Governance

Klievink, A.J. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)

Information infrastructures of businesses and government are increasingly interwoven and highly dependent on each other. Though often referred to as sociotechnical innovations, the development of these information infrastructures often has a technological focus. The related and even concurrent development of new social practices is understudied....

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Improving the allocation of flood-risk interventions from a spatial quality perspective

Nillesen, A.L. (author)

This paper describes an integral approach to flood-risk protection and spatial design that allows for an active involvement of landscape architects and urban designers in the allocation of flood-risk interventions within the Dutch Delta. The Dutch Rijnmond–Drechtsteden area is used as a case study to demonstrate how choices regarding the scale...

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Evaluation of a new experimental test procedure to more accurately determine the surface infiltration rate of permeable pavement systems

Lucke, T. (author), Boogaard, F. (author), Van den Ven, F. (author)

Permeable pavements are specifically designed to promote the infiltration of stormwater through the paving surface in order to reduce run-off volumes and to improve water quality by removing sediment and other pollutants. However, research has shown that permeable pavements can become clogged over time and this reduces their infiltration...

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Late Cretaceous extension and Palaeogene rotation-related contraction in Central Anatolia recorded in the Ayhan-Büyükkışla basin

Advokaat, Eldert L. (author), van Hinsbergen, Douwe J.J. (author), Kaymakcıc, Nuretdin (author), Vissers, Reinoud L.M. (author), Hendrikse, Bart W. H. (author)

https://doi.org/10.1080/00206814.2014.954279

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