TRANSIT STATION AREA WALKABILITY: IDENTIFYING IMPEDIMENTS TO WALKING USING SCALABLE, RECOMPUTABLE LAND-USE MEASURES

Transit station area walkability: Identifying impediments to walking using scalable, recomputable land-use measures

Transit station area land-use characteristics can increase or decrease the perceived costs of riding rail relative to driving or taking other modes.This paper focuses on those characteristics that create discomfort to riders who are walking between stations Candy and destinations, with the aim of providing researchers and planners with a tool that

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Optimizing Net Transfer Capacity Calculation in Albania and the shift towards coordinated approaches between Western Balkans Transmission System Operators

Following evolving electricity markets, Transmission System Operators face challenges in processes of Net Transfer Capacity calculations.Increasing uncertainties stemming from growing electricity trade exchanges, make traditional monthly calculations obsolete.To enhance system stability, the paper proposes Saddle Riggings » Backriggings an impleme

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Geodetic Mass Balances and Area Changes of Echaurren Norte Glacier (Central Andes, Chile) between 1955 and 2015

The Echaurren Norte Glacier is a reference glacier for the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) network and has the longest time series of glacier mass balance data in the Southern Hemisphere.The data has been obtained by the direct glaciological method since 1975.In this study, we calculated glacier area changes using satellite images and histo

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Understanding vulnerability and resilience in Somalia

In the recent years, Somalia witnessed a heightened frequency of droughts and conflicts.This article explores the experiences of Somalis during the 2011 and 2016 crises, examining the link between vulnerability and resilience, and the role played by international humanitarian responders in resilience building.The aim of RCA Adapters this study is t

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Clinical benefits of a modified Cryopiece system for cryopreservation of rare ejaculated and testicular spermatozoa for ICSI

Cryopreservation of rare testicular-retrieved spermatozoa for intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) in patients with severe oligozoospermia and azoospermia remains a major challenge in clinical practice.This study WHOLE PSYLLIUM HUSKS evaluated the Cryopiece system as a potential technique to cryopreserve rare human spermatozoa for ICSI.Small num

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