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Rossana Merola,Douglas Sutherland
Pág. 26
This paper sheds light on the scale of fiscal consolidation that will be needed toensure long-term sustainability and on the potential benefits of institutional reforms inmitigating budget pressures of social spending. Based on alternative scenarios, res...
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Vineesh Vijayan, Konstantinos Mantalovas, Francesco Acuto and Gaetano Di Mino
Asphalt binder is a crucial component of asphalt pavements that undergoes ageing over time, which can result in the reduced performance and deterioration of pavements. Consequently, artificial ageing methods play a significant role in providing valuable ...
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Elena Matei, Despina Saghin, Liliana Dumitrache and Mariana Nae
Residential care centres for elders (RCCEs) in Romania have rapidly developed over the last two decades. In the absence of coherent policies regarding elderly people, RCCEs are mainly the result of businesses arising from an acceleration of the ageing pr...
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Yanlei Wang, Wanxin Zhu, Xue Zhang, Gaochuang Cai and Baolin Wan
This paper first presented an experimental study on water absorption and tensile properties of basalt fiber-reinforced polymer (BFRP) laminates with different specimen thicknesses (i.e., 1, 2, and 4 mm) subjected to 60 °C deionized water or alkaline solu...
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Tereza Valentová, Jan Altman, Jan Valentin
Pág. 768 - 777
Bitumen-aggregate adhesion is one of the crucial characteristics related to an asphalt mix. It affects the mix durability mainly in terms of its moisture susceptibility. Wide range of adhesion promoters is available to the market and can be used in regul...
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Gisela Lameira, Rui Jorge Garcia Ramos, Nuno Valentim and Azar Mohammadpanah
Custom-built solutions for ageing, urban regeneration, energy efficiency, thermal performance, and well-being are contemporary challenges that have prompted considerable research over the past decades. In the construction field, subjects such as energy e...
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Dimitar Yalamov, Petar Georgiev and Yordan Garbatov
Natural gas is cheaper than fuel on an energy basis, making it an alternative ship fuel which leads to a reduced operating cost and clean gas environmental conditions. The current study analyses the retrofit of an ageing multi-purpose ship to use liquefi...
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Nicolas Afflatet
Pág. 68 - 77
Population ageing is one of the major long-term challenges industrialized countries face. Forecasts predict that public debt is going to rise sharply for most countries due to population ageing. However, until now there has been little research on how po...
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Paula M. Carmona-Quiroga, Robert M. J. Jacobs and Heather A. Viles
The durability of anti-graffiti coatings is of special relevance since, unlike other protective treatments, they are not only affected by environmental factors, but also by often aggressive cleaning procedures. However, little is known about the long-ter...
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Paula M. Carmona-Quiroga, Robert M. J. Jacobs and Heather A. Viles
The durability of anti-graffiti coatings is of special relevance since, unlike other protective treatments, they are not only affected by environmental factors, but also by often aggressive cleaning procedures. However, little is known about the long-ter...
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Boucham Belhadj, Lousdad Abdelkader, Alaa Chateauneuf
Pág. 27 - 37
Advanced mechanical and structural applications require accurate assessment and better knowledge of the damage state during elaboration and service. The development of life prediction methodologies for Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymers (GFRPs) has increase...
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Marco Roveri, Sara Goidanich and Lucia Toniolo
During the last ten years, photocatalytic nanocomposites combining titania nanoparticles with silicon-based matrices have received increasing attention in the stone conservation research field, because they offer an effective multifunctional approach to ...
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Alessandra Beretta, Gianpiero Groppi, Chiara Ribani, Giuseppe Fares and Carlo Tregambe
In this work, we address the development of a combined heat and power unit for residential applications, fed by natural gas, air and H2O; focus is on the design of the first catalytic stage of the fuel processor, that is the steam reforming unit. A comme...
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Kazuki Nakamura, Hiroyoshi Morita, Varameth Vichiensan, Takuya Togawa, Yoshitsugu Hayashi
Pág. 3188 - 3202
As sustainable transport systems need to secure long-term benefits of users, it is useful to compare the social benefits of land-use transport development between cities at different development stages based on different values of local residents. In Asi...
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Dariusz J. Michalczyk, Magdalena Krupka, Jan Kaminski, Marta Wierzbicka, Sonia Floryanska, Wiktor Kopec and Agnieszka I. Piotrowicz-Cieslak
Changes occurring in seeds of two field bean cultivars during long-term storage at -14 °C, +4 °C and +20 °C were examined. It was found that after 33 years of storage at low temperatures, the seeds showed a significant decline in biological quality, and ...
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Yann Lecieux, Emmanuel Rozière, Virginie Gaillard, Cyril Lupi, Dominique Leduc, Johann Priou, Romain Guyard, Mathilde Chevreuil and Franck Schoefs
This paper presents the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) system developed for a port wharf of a freight terminal, in Saint-Nazaire, France. This concrete structure has been equipped with a multi-sensor system for the monitoring of concrete ageing. The ...
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Kathleen A. Law, Stephen Parry, Nicholas D. Bryan, Sarah L. Heath, Steven M. Heald, Darrell Knight, Luke O?Brien, Adam J. Fuller, William R. Bower, Gareth T. W. Law and Francis R. Livens
One of the most challenging components of the UK nuclear legacy is Magnox sludge, arising from the corrosion of Mg alloy-clad irradiated metallic U fuel that has been stored in high pH ponds. The sludges mainly comprise Mg hydroxide and carbonate phases,...
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Kathleen A. Law, Stephen Parry, Nicholas D. Bryan, Sarah L. Heath, Steven M. Heald, Darrell Knight, Luke O?Brien, Adam J. Fuller, William R. Bower, Gareth T. W. Law and Francis R. Livens
One of the most challenging components of the UK nuclear legacy is Magnox sludge, arising from the corrosion of Mg alloy-clad irradiated metallic U fuel that has been stored in high pH ponds. The sludges mainly comprise Mg hydroxide and carbonate phases,...
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Larissa Lacher, Martin Steinbacher, Nicolas Bukowiecki, Erik Herrmann, Assaf Zipori and Zamin A. Kanji
Ice nucleation is the source of primary ice crystals in mixed-phase clouds. Only a small fraction of aerosols called ice nucleating particles (INPs) catalyze ice formation, with their nature and origin remaining unclear. In this study, we investigate pot...
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Mat Jones, Richard Kimberlee, Toity Deave and Simon Evans
Developed countries are experiencing high levels of mental and physical illness associated with long term health conditions, unhealthy lifestyles and an ageing population. Given the limited capacity of the formal health care sector to address these publi...
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