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    A project to develop inclusive models of sanitation for persons with disabilities by Manu Sinha, Rohit Trivedi, Sam Godfrey

    Published 2006
    “…One of the major issues affecting persons with disabilities is the issue of marginalization. Due to inaccessibility of places and sanitary facilities in major public locations, the PWDs are forced to stay indoors further leading to their marginalization. …”
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    An oxygen transport model of human bone marrow for hemolytic sickle cell anemia by Ahsan Islam, R. Kumar

    Published 2006
    “…Currently, due to the inaccessibility of the BM, it is not possible to measure the spatial distribution of the oxygen tension (concentration) levels in the tissue. …”
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    Optimizing the user environment : leading towards an accessible and usable experience by Jatinder Dhiensa, Colin Machin, Francesca Smith, Roger Stone

    Published 2005
    “…Although standards and legislation such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 have come into place, the inaccessibility of web content still exists. This paper presents the Essentiality and Proficiency Tool. …”
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    Assistive technology : going beyond the disability by Jatinder Dhiensa, Colin Machin, Roger Stone

    Published 2005
    “…The research has stemmed from the inaccessibility of the web content even though standards and legislations such as Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 and the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 have come in to place (Elizabeth 1995; Brewer 1999). …”
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    Child's play and recreation in Dhaka City, Bangladesh by Afroza Ahmed, M. Sohail

    Published 2008
    “…The main reasons for their inaccessibility to most children in Dhaka City are lack of security, poor maintenance and inadequate play facilities and accessories. …”
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    Novel rework techniques for electronic assemblies by A.D. Stennett, David Whalley

    Published 1998
    “…Area array components, such as ball grid arrays (BGAs), further increase rework process complexity due to the number and inaccessibility of the solder joints and, for some devices, the necessity to remove and replace the solder balls before component replacement. …”
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    Trabecular bone organoids: a micron-scale ‘humanised’ prototype designed to study the effects of microgravity and degeneration by Alexandra Iordachescu, Erik AB Hughes, Stephan Joseph, Eric Hill, Liam M Grover, Anthony D Metcalfe

    Published 2021
    “…These events are difficult to study in this particular tissue in vivo, due to its rigid, mineralised structure and inaccessibility of the cellular component located within. …”
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    Assessing the potential impact of glacial lake outburst floods on individual objects using a high-performance hydrodynamic model and open-source data by Huili Chen, Jiaheng Zhao, Qiuhua Liang, Sudan Bikash Maharjan, Sharad Prasad Joshi

    Published 2021
    “…Yet in most of the cases, this is confronted with the challenges of limited availability of data and inaccessibility to most of the glacial lakes in the high-altitude areas. …”
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    Characterization of macroinvertebrate communities in the hyporheic zone of river ecosystems reflects the pump-sampling technique used by Rachel Stubbington, Marie-Jose Dole-Olivier, Diana M. Galassi, John-Paul Hogan, Paul Wood

    Published 2016
    “…However, effective methods for sampling this community have proved difficult to establish, due to the inaccessibility of subsurface sediments. The aim of this study was to compare the two most common semi-quantitative macroinvertebrate pump-sampling techniques: Bou-Rouch and vacuum-pump sampling. …”
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    The potential effect of a 100-year pluvial flood event on metro accessibility and ridership: A case study of central Shanghai, China by Mengya Li, Mei-Po Kwan, Jie Yin, Dapeng Yu, Jun Wang

    Published 2018
    “…Metro accessibility in central Shanghai is quite equitable, even in the PF scenario. 87% of the communities can access the metro stations at the medium and medium-high accessibility levels in the normal scenario, but 80% can access only at the low and medium levels in the PF scenario. Due to the inaccessibility of neighboring station(s) in the PF scenario, 15 more stations may face the challenge of serving more than 50,000 passengers, which is much larger than their normal ridership. …”
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    City-scale accessibility of emergency responders operating during flood events by Daniel Green, Dapeng Yu, Ian Pattison, Robert Wilby, Lee Bosher, Ramila Patel, Philip Thompson, Keith Trowell, Julia Draycon, Martin Halse, Lili Yang, Tim Ryley

    Published 2017
    “…Furthermore, total inaccessibility was shown to increase with flood magnitude from 6.0 % under the 1 in 20-year scenario to 31.0 % under the 1 in 100-year flood scenario. …”
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    Flood impacts on emergency responders operating at a city-scale by Daniel Green, Dapeng Yu, Ian Pattison, Robert Wilby, Lee S. Bosher, Ramila Patel, Philip Thompson, Keith Trowell, Julia Draycon, Martin Halse, Lili Yang, Tim Ryley

    Published 2016
    “…Furthermore, total inaccessibility was shown to increase with flood magnitude, increasing from 6.0 % to 31.0 % under the 1 in 20-year and 1 in 100-year surface water flooding scenarios respectively. …”
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    Assessing national exposure to and impact of glacial lake outburst floods considering uncertainty under data sparsity by Huili Chen, Qiuhua Liang, Jiaheng Zhao, Sudan Bikash Maharjan

    Published 2025
    “…However, this is challenged by the limited availability of data and the inaccessibility to most of the glacial lakes in high-altitude areas. …”
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    Supplementary information files for "Assessing national exposure to and impact of glacial lake outburst floods considering uncertainty under data sparsity" by Huili Chen, Qiuhua Liang, Jiaheng Zhao, Sudan Bikash Maharjan

    Published 2025
    “…However, this is challenged by the limited availability of data and the inaccessibility to most of the glacial lakes in high-altitude areas. …”
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    Development of an evidence-based toolkit to support safe design for children by Suzanne M. O'Connor

    Published 2018
    “…After this, empirical study through interviews and observations is used to outline some problem areas: the development and implementation of human-factors methods in design, lack of available resources and inaccessibility of data. Three empirical studies were conducted to meet the requirements of this study: Study 1 in Chapter 4 involves documentary analysis of existing models and methods, Study 2 in Chapter 5 involves formal interviews with designers (N = 30), and Study 3 in Chapter 7 involves an online survey for initial feedback about the prototype-persona (N = 50) respondents. …”
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    From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme (PDF) by Maja Kominko

    Published 2015
    “…Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. …”
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    How can we make born-digital and digitised archives more accessible? Identifying obstacles and solutions by Lise Jaillant

    Published 2022
    “…Yet, the vast majority of digital cultural data preserved in archives is inaccessible due to privacy, copyright or technical issues. …”
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    Learning from the participatory practices of urban observatories to co-create a new town observatory in Loughborough, UK by Aline Fernandes Barata, Robert G. Harland, Mihyun Kim, Taimaz Larimian, Asya Natapov, Falli Palaiologou, John Weightman

    Published 2025
    “…As urban information may seem distant and inaccessible to a range of stakeholders, this paper investigates the potential of urban observatories in promoting collaboration and citizen engagement. …”
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    QuestionBuddy – a collaborative question search and play portal by Will M. Davies, Hugh C. Davis

    Published 2006
    “…Generally itembanks are inaccessible to students. Current use of itembanks focus on the teacher as having responsibility to organise questions (place them in pools, associate them with course content) and make them available/deliver them to students. …”
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    When faecal sludge reuse doesn’t work: a look at access for the poorest and people with disabilities in urban Malawi by Adrian Mallory, Rochelle Holm, Martin Crapper

    Published 2018
    “…Both existing approaches to faecal sludge management and reuse were found to be inaccessible and not working when implemented for the poorest and people with disabilities.…”
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    Electrified EHL line contact with dielectric breakdown of lubricant - a numerical model by Yang Xu, Nick Morris, Yue Wu

    Published 2025
    “…This paper sheds light on electrical characteristics at the inaccessible lubrication interface during discharge, highlighting the significance of roughness radius of curvature on current density. …”
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    Robust high-precision trajectory planning for payload transportation in overhead cranes: a disturbance-aware approach by Zheng Tian, Qin Rao, Dan Niu, Shihua Li, Jun Yang

    Published 2025
    “…The coordinated motion of the trolley and hoisting rope improves crane flexibility but poses challenges in precise trajectory conversion and tracking due to disturbances and inaccessible low-level controllers. This letter proposes a disturbance-aware high-precision trajectory planning method integrating a high-order disturbance observer (HODOB), an actuated trajectory generation (ATG) module, and a high-precision trajectory modifier (HPTM). …”
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    Establishing the fundamental magnetic interactions in the chiral Skyrmionic Mott insulator Cu2OSeO3 by terahertz electron spin resonance by M. Ozerov, Judit Romhanyi, M. Belesi, H. Berger, J.P. Ansermet, Jeroen van den Brink, J. Wosnitza, S.A. Zvyagin, Ioannis Rousochatzakis

    Published 2014
    “…In addition to the previously observed long-wavelength Goldstone mode, this technique probes also the high-energy part of the excitation spectrum which is inaccessible by standard low-frequency electron spin resonance. …”
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    Accessible school latrines in Uganda: the gap between design and construction by Nightingale Kasumba, Hazel Jones

    Published 2013
    “…However physical infrastructure barriers remain, including inaccessible latrines, in spite of the existence of accessible designs. …”
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    Scaling up rural sanitation in Vietnam: a collective analysis and recommended actions by Lalit M. Patra, Chandler Badloe, A.H. Tran

    Published 2014
    “…The remaining rural sanitation coverage poses challenge to outreach inaccessible and poorest communities with limited resource. …”
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    Remote sensing with special reference to pollution by H.S. Mehta, A.N. Patel

    Published 1982
    “…The synoptic regional coverage availability of data from inaccessible areas, and repeated coverage are advantages of satellite imagery. …”
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    Artificial intelligence and food security: swarm intelligence of AgriTech drones for smart AgriFood operations by Konstantina Spanaki, Erisa Karafili, Uthayasankar Sivarajah, Stella Despoudi, Zahir Irani

    Published 2021
    “…The design (artefact) appears here as a solution for supporting farming operations in inaccessible land, so as unmanned aerial devices contribute and improve the productivity of farming areas with limited capacity. …”
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    Educational research as a foundation for curriculum development in D&T by David Barlex, Malcolm Welch

    Published 2000
    “…Educational research has been criticized for being inaccessible to practising teachers and both removed from and irrelevant to their needs. …”
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    Incidental terrestrial imagery for post disaster spatial data capture of debris flows by Rene Wackrow, Jim Chandler, Tom Dijkstra, Enoc Sanz-Ablanedo, Meng Xingmin

    Published 2011
    “…The portability of the equipment creates opportunities for data collection in difficult and inaccessible mountainous terrain. In this context it provides an important tool enabling rapid response post-disaster planning in regions affected by large scale natural hazard events. …”
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    Behaviour change and water quality by Krishna Jafa

    Published 2002
    “…Currently available strategies and technologies to make water safe to drink are unaffordable and inaccessible to most low-income households, particularly those without a regular piped water supply.…”
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    Heat transport across graphene/hexagonal-BN tilted grain boundaries from phase-field crystal model and molecular dynamics simulations by Haikuan Dong, Petri Hirvonen, Zheyong Fan, Ping Qian, Yanjing Su, Tapio Ala-Nissila

    Published 2021
    “…B 100, 165412 (2019)] that captures slow diffusive relaxation inaccessible to molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. …”
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    Building a metadata-centric archive for experimental aerodynamics by Dhamotharan Veerasamy, Gary Page, Daniel Butcher, Lara Skelly

    Published 2026
    “…High-quality experimental aerodynamic datasets are essential for advancing CFD validation and AI-driven flow modelling, yet much experimental data remains inaccessible or poorly structured. Existing archives often suffer from usability, standardization, and discoverability issues. …”
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    Monuments on a migrating Nile by John Hillier, Judith M. Bunbury, Angus Graham

    Published 2007
    “…Satellite data are demonstrated to be a relatively quick and easy constraint upon ancient river courses, and a basis for investigations along the Egyptian Nile, even in logistically inaccessible regions.…”
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    Beyond video-conferencing: telepresence technologies for extending expertise reach and specialised skill sharing by Andriana Boudouraki, Niki Chouliara, Laura Fiorini, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Pratyusha Ghosh, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Houda Elmimouni, Praminda Caleb-Solly

    Published 2025
    “…Despite resurgent interest in remote work technologies, many forms of specialised work remain inaccessible. Participation in remote activities often requires more than video-conferencing. …”
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    More data, less process: a user-centered approach to email and born-digital archives by Lise Jaillant

    Published 2022
    “…There is a danger of repeating the mistakes that were made in the twentieth century with large paper archives, which have often remained uncataloged, hidden, and inaccessible to users. The first section looks at the impact of the More Product, Less Process (MPLP) movement on archival repositories over the past fifteen years. …”
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    High resolution 3D printed biocatalytic reactor core with optimized efficiency for continuous flow synthesis by Simon J. Attwood, Damien Leech, Yinfeng He, Anna Croft, Richard J.M. Hague, Derek J Irvine, Ricky D. Wildman, Anca Pordea

    Published 2024
    “…At a scale previously inaccessible, channels with optimized dimensions are included to increase reactor efficiency and mass transport. …”
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    Somewhere in between: blogging as an intermediate and accessible space by Mhairi Morris

    Published 2018
    “…Regenring scientific writing as a blog can enhance student learning by breaking down the barriers to learning posed by ‘intellectually inaccessible’ information. Here, I describe an experimental approach to teaching cancer biology by regenring a classic review article in the field as a series of blog pieces, using everyday metaphors and analogies to describe the characteristics and behaviour of cancer cells. …”
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    Ballistic thermal phonons traversing nanocrystalline domains in oriented polyethylene by Andrew B. Robbins, Stavros Drakopoulos, Ignacio Martin-Fabiani, Sara Ronca, Austin J. Minnich

    Published 2019
    “…While ab-initio calculations have provided insight into microscopic phonon properties for perfect crystals, such properties of actual samples have remained experimentally inaccessible. Here, we report the direct observation of thermal phonons with mean free paths up to 200 nm in semicrystalline polyethylene films using transient grating spectroscopy. …”
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    The reactions of thebaine with C-nitroso-compounds by Peter Horsewood

    Published 1972
    “…The direction of the addition was found to be highly stereospecific giving adducts that were readily hydrolysed to previously inaccessible 14-aminocodeinone derivatives. No adducts of nitrosoalkanes with thebaine could be prepared but the parent codeinone corresponding to a formal addition of monomeric hyponitrous acid to thebaine was readily formed by reaction of the latter with 1-chloro-1-nitrosocyclohexane in acid solution. …”
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    Matryoshka locally resonant sonic crystal by Daniel Elford, Luke Chalmers, Feodor Kusmartsev, Gerry Swallowe

    Published 2011
    “…The finding opens alternative perspectives for the construction of sound barriers in the low frequency range usually inaccessible by traditional means including conventional sonic crystals.…”
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    Information resilience in a digital built environment. by Karen Blay, Steven Yeomans, Peter Demian, Danny Murguia-Sanchez

    Published 2019
    “…Finally, hardware requirements encompass facilitating backup, having a high capacity system and being inaccessible to peripherals. This research will be further extended to the development of a decision-making assessment tool to measure capabilities and requirements in the entire lifecycle of built assets.…”
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    Robust steganography without embedding based on secure container synthesis and iterative message recovery by Ziping Ma, Yuesheng Zhu, Guibo Luo, Xiyao Liu, Gerald Schaefer, Hui Fang

    Published 2023
    “…In this manner, the synthesised results are modulated by secure factors and thus the secret messages are inaccessible when using fake factors, thus reducing the risk of message leakage. …”
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    Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg (PDF) by Jan Thiele, Wilferd Madelung, Omar Hamdan, Adang Camilla, Sabine Schmidtke, Bruno Chiesa

    Published 2020
    “…Consigned to oblivion for centuries, many of these manuscripts were sold in the second half of the nineteenth century to the National Library of Russia in St Petersburg, where they remained inaccessible to most scholars until the end of the Cold War. …”
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    A pint-sized conversation: publicans, brewers, and academics on the UK beer, pub and brewing industry by Bob Cary, Paul Crossman, Robert Deakin, Kelly Sidgwick, Thomas Thurnell-Read, Victoria Wells

    Published 2025
    “…Academic projects are often designed without engaging with practitioners, theory is often more valued than usable solutions and publications are written in complex, dense and inaccessible language. There has been much written about the resulting academic practitioner divide, also noted as a theory-practice divide and that ‘this dominant model has come under increasing scrutiny and criticism on the basis that it is increasingly divorcing the research conducted in business schools from the realities of practice’ (Hughes et al., Citation2008, p. 223). …”
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    Science informed design: involving the physical and natural sciences by John McCardle

    Published 2015
    “…The interdisciplinary methods of studying, replicating and harnessing natural phenomena for design education and design practice demonstrates the potential as an avenue for learning that students considered inaccessible or even irrelevant. Above all it adds to the debate of designer skill sets and the need to bridge the current gulf between design practice and science.…”
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    Energy consumption coefficient (ECC) for optimum solar PV-diesel hybrid system design by Abdul M. Mahmud, Mohd Quyyum Ab Rahman, Richard Blanchard

    Published 2018
    “…In Malaysia, solar photovoltaic (PV) based systems, implemented on a large scale, can provide round-the-clock electricity services for areas that are inaccessible by the electricity grid network. One of Malaysia’s REP initiatives is a solar PV-diesel hybrid system for 160 schools in rural Sabah. …”
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    Small-angle X-ray scattering data from stretched UHMWPE samples by Nacho Martin-Fabiani-Carrato, Stavros Drakopoulos, Sara Ronca, Austin Minnich, Andrew Robbins

    Published 2019
    “…While ab-initio calculations have provided insight into microscopic phonon properties for perfect crystals, such properties of actual samples have remained experimentally inaccessible. Here, we report the direct observation of thermal phonons with mean free paths up to 200 nm in semicrystalline polyethylene films using transient grating spectroscopy. …”
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    Wide-angle X-ray scattering data from stretched UHMWPE samples by Nacho Martin-Fabiani-Carrato, Stavros Drakopoulos, Sara Ronca, Austin Minnich, Andrew Robbins

    Published 2019
    “…While ab-initio calculations have provided insight into microscopic phonon properties for perfect crystals, such properties of actual samples have remained experimentally inaccessible. Here, we report the direct observation of thermal phonons with mean free paths up to 200 nm in semicrystalline polyethylene films using transient grating spectroscopy. …”
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