Making friends with local government by Mahlubonke Makunga, Joannette Bos, Andrew Macdonell

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A decision support tool for sustainable freight transportation by Fahham Qaiser

“…The research provides practical implications to the managers of RFT companies by developing a decision support system (DSS) to manage their sustainability performance. …”
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Everyone everywhere: accessible household sanitation for persons with disabilities by Siddhartha Das, Pragya Gupta, Shyni D. Stephen

“…As part of the national effort to enable everyone, everywhere to access improved sanitation, the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation (MDWS), Government of India in collaboration with WaterAid India (WAI) finalised a handbook on accessible sanitation options for PwDs. …”
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Valorising wood ash as an effective green alternative pulping agent for achieving a high yield of banana micro-lignocellulose fibres of enhanced crystallinity by Piyushaa Emrith, H Ramasawmy, D Surroop, Diganta Das

“…This study aims to explore the use of wood ash, a common waste, as an alternative and eco-friendly pulping agent. The first and most important singularity of the study is that wood ash solution, though mild in nature, has proven to be an effective pulping agent (in comparison with the common pulping solution, sodium hydroxide): comparable lignin (45%) and hemicellulose (50%) removal, high crystallinity (72–77%) and high pulp yield (70%) were obtained. …”
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An improved enzymatic pre-hydrolysis strategy for efficient bioconversion of industrial pulp and paper sludge waste to bioethanol using a semi-simultaneous saccharification and fer... by Pinaki Dey, Vivek Rangarajan, Jayato Nayak, Diganta Das, Steeve Branden Wood

“…Thus, the current study demonstrated the potential application of PPS waste as a feedstock material for ethanol production, which can be adopted by industries as an environment-friendly alternative to common solid waste management.…”
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Using design to improve the healthcare experiences for children and young persons in primary care practices by Jennifer L. Day

“…The design of healthcare facilities has focused on functional effectiveness but has tended to ignore the psychological needs of the patients. …”
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Lidocaine-loaded fish scale-nanocellulose biopolymer composite microneedles by Pangkhi Medhi, Ololade Olatunji, Atul Nayak, Chandrateja Uppuluri, Richard T. Olsson, Buchi N. Nalluri, Diganta Das

“…Microneedle (MN) technology has emerged as an effective drug delivery system, and it has tremendous potential as a patient friendly substitute for conventional methods for transdermal drug delivery (TDD). …”
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Life cycle assessments of bio-based sustainable polylimonene carbonate production processes by Dongda Zhang, Ehecatl Antonio del Rio-Chanona, Jonathan Wagner, Nilay Shah

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Energy efficient out-of-oven manufacturing of natural fibre composites with integrated sensing capabilities and improved water barrier properties by Yushen Wang, Xudan Yao, Thomas D.S. Thorn, Shanshan Huo, Harshit Porwal, Mark Newton, Yi Liu, Dimitrios Papageorgiou, Emiliano Bilotti, Han Zhang

“…The use of natural fibres in composites can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the carbon footprint compared to many synthetic fibres. …”
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The future decision support system, deliverable 8.5 of the H2020 project SafetyCube by Ashleigh Filtness, Pete Thomas, Rachel Talbot, Eleonora Papadimitriou, George Yannis, S. Kaiser, Klaus Machata, Rob Eenink, Wendy Weijermars

“…A short promotion video is available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-mVUde3knU. The DSS (www.roadsafety-dss.eu) has a user friendly web-based interface allowing users access to compressive information about a large range of road safety risk (problems) and measures (solutions), and links between the two. …”
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Integrative Verhandlungen fördern - ein experimenteller Ansatz zur Nutzung farbiger Beleuchtung in Verhandlungssituationen by Olga Kombeiz, Anna Steidle

“…Die Autoren nahmen an, dass rotes Licht eine angenehme, sozialfreundliche Raumatmosphäre schafft und somit den Verhandlungserfolg fördert. …”
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The application of systems approach for road safety policy making, Deliverable 8.1 of the H2020 project SafetyCube by Ashleigh Filtness, Pete Thomas, Rachel Talbot, Claire Quigley, Eleonora Papadimitriou, George Yannis, Athanasios Theofilatos, E. Aigner-Breuss, S. Kaiser, Klaus Machata, Wendy Weijermars, Ingrid van Schagen, T. Hermitte

“…WP8 of the SafetyCube project has a number of specific aims, including developing the European DSS for supporting evidence-based policy making. …”
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Simplified, fast, and efficient microwave assisted chemical recycling of poly (ethylene terephthalate) waste by Karzan H Zangana, Antonio Fernandez-Mato, Justin D Holmes

“…Herein, we report a simple PET glycolytic process that combines an environmentally friendly and cheap heterogenous catalyst, calcium oxide (CaO) with microwave irradiation to obtain the monomer bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET), which can be easily separated by crystallisation. …”
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Supplementary information files for: Simplified, fast, and efficient microwave assisted chemical recycling of poly (ethylene terephthalate) waste by Karzan H Zangana, Antonio Fernandez-Mato, Justin D Holmes

“…Herein, we report a simple PET glycolytic process that combines an environmentally friendly and cheap heterogenous catalyst, calcium oxide (CaO) with microwave irradiation to obtain the monomer bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET), which can be easily separated by crystallisation. …”
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Synthesis of well-defined epoxy-functional spherical nanoparticles by RAFT aqueous emulsion polymerization by Fiona Hatton, Joseph R Lovett, Steven P Armes

“…The environmentally-friendly synthesis of epoxy-functional spherical nanoparticles has been achieved using polymerization-induced self-assembly (PISA) in aqueous solution. …”
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Optimal charging of electric vehicles using a stochastic dynamic programming model and price prediction by Sagar Mody, Thomas Steffen

“…To achieve this, a smart meter and a tariff with variable electricity prices has to be in place. In Day Ahead tariff (DA), prices are announced in advance for the next day, and this information can be used to select the cheapest times to charge the battery by the required amount. …”
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Post occupancy evaluation of daylighting and the thermal environment in education building by Sura Al-Maiyah, D Brett Martinson, Hisham Elkadi

“…The School of Architecture at Portsmouth has moved into its new building in December 2013. …”
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