Flume experimental evaluation of the effect of rill flow path tortuosity on rill roughness based on the Manning–Strickler equation
The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of rill morphology on roughness and hence to assess the Manning–Strickler roughness coefficient (kSt) by rill morphological data. A laboratory experiment was set up to analyse rill hydraulics
Evaluation of erosion control geotextiles on steep slopes. Part 1 : Effects on runoff and soil loss
on both the 45° and 60° slopes, whereas the synthetic geogrid did not give significantly different runoff rates from the control. Geotextiles were more effective in reducing soil loss at 45° than at 60°. The synthetic geogrid produced the lowest soil loss
followed by the coir blanket .However, when buried, the geogrid did not effectively control erosion, at least not that of the upper soil layer. Thus, its surface installation seems to be a better option. In cases where burial is preferred for aesthetic
This article assesses the relative housing price effects of neighborhood characteristics and accessibility in Nanjing, China. A crucial finding is that the effect of job accessibility on house price varies depending upon the specific sector
of employment. However, housing proximity to heavy industries has a spatially nonlinear effect: negative in close proximity, but positive at a larger distance. Second, when we control for job accessibility, access to public transport has an added positive effect
Human-driven topographic effects on the distribution of forest in a flat, lowland agricultural region
. However, these conditioning effects were themselves geographically variable. The findings show that topography by shaping human land-use can affect forest distribution even in flat, lowland regions, but especially via localized, geographically variable
The effect of globalization on the distribution of taxes and social expenditures in Europe : do welfare state regimes matter?
This article examines the effect of globalization on the distribution of taxes and social expenditures in Europe. It demonstrates that in the conservative regimes, both social expenditures and taxes on labor increase due to globalization. Conversely
, in the liberal regimes, the ITR on labor is rising, while social expenditures are declining. In the southern welfare regime globalization does not have any significant effects on the distribution of taxes or social spending. In Eastern Europe, in the Baltic
A study of the contribution of mass elevation effect to the altitudinal distribution of timberline in the Northern Hemisphere
This paper collects 516 data sites of timberline, and takes latitude, continentality and mass elevation effect (MEE) as independent variables and timberline elevation as dependent variable to develop a ternary linear regression model. Continentality
is calculated using the meteorological data released by WorldClim and mountain base elevation (as a proxy of mass elevation effect) is extracted on the basis of SRTM 90-meter resolution elevation data. The results show that MEE is simply the primary factor
Out of place? the effects of demolition on youths’ social contacts and leisure activities—A case study in Utrecht, the Netherlands
This article analyses the effects of demolition on youths’ social contacts and leisure activities in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The findings indicate that, although the first months after displacement youths lose some social contacts and stop
and those in a control group of non-displaced youths as reported at the time of the study. This confirms that in the long term the effects of displacement are limited.
in promoting the improvement of regions’ performance. However, the effects produced by bad neighbors should not be underestimated, especially when they are concentrat-ed in an area of the country and show a time-space persistence. The effect of a persistent
Adopting an econometric approach, this paper investigates administrative scale effects and the determinants of administrative intensity at the corporate level for 22 local authorities in the Malaysian state of Sabah from 2000 to 2009. The results
indicate that there is an inverted U-shaped scale effect for staff size on administrative intensity in the small urban sample, while own-source revenue is the most important factor in determining administrative intensity in all local authorities and big
a stronger positive effect on their location choice, while for firms with high technological capability knowledge externalities from co-located firms from related and complementary industries, or complementary specialization, more strongly influence
their location choice. Furthermore, the differential effect of agglomeration economies between low- and high-capability firms is more pronounced in industries with strong non-legal appropriability, implying that firms can use their location choice as a strategic
Deterritorialization ; Flow ; Local population ; Mobility ; Neighbourhood ; Neighbourhood effect ; Paradigm ; Place ; Social capital ; Social geography ; Urban area
in a deterritorialization of social practices. It argues that the neighbourhood has to be re-imagined as a collection of hybrid nodes connecting a multiplicity of flows that bind actors and objects in order to understand the potential effectiveness of these policies. From
This study examines the effect of democratization on a key education reform across the Mexican states of Guanajuato, Puebla and Michoacán. First, it shows that the dominant teachers’ union has used its leverage to exact greater control over
to the empowerment of entrenched interests rather than voters, with an overall negative effect on education.
Accessibility ; Australia ; Land ; Land value ; Neighbourhood effect ; New South Wales ; Regression analysis ; Spatial variation ; Suburbs ; Sydney ; Urban transport
, Australia. Results indicate that property prices are mainly determined by the property’s internal features and the neighbourhood effects, but accessibility by car and accessibility to employment along the transitway also contribute nonmarginally
This article focuses on the emergency family tent and the shelter kit and traces the topological associations of humanitarian spaces as enacted through humanitarian practice. The former is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations
of a network topology by acting as an ‘immutable mobile’, connecting different places of humanitarian crises with each other. In contrast, the latter is shown to effect humanitarian space within the associations of a fluid topology by acting as a ‘mutable
A strong direct effect of regional economic and social characteristics on the concentration of the banking industry in Italy is found, as well as on the agglomeration of acquiring banks in well-developed regions. This effect survives to a number