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Shrinkage behavior enhancement of infra-lightweight concrete through FRP grid reinforcement and development of their shr...
Infra-lightweight concrete (ILC) is an efficient alternative of normal concrete (NC) for structural applications with low strength but high thermal performance requirements. Three types of ILCs with dry densities 600, 700 and 800 kg/m3 have been manufactured by using high water to cement ratio (w/c) and expanded clay lightweight aggregates (ECLAs)....
Synthesize of magnetite Mg-Fe mixed metal oxide nanocatalyst by urea-nitrate combustion method with optimal fuel ratio f...
In the present study, Mg0.25Fe2.75O4 nanocatalyst for reduction of emissions in diesel engine was fabricated via urea-nitrate combustion method. The effect of urea concentrations as fuel on its structural characteristics and Oxygen Storage Capacity (OSC) was thoroughly investigated. The results of various characterization analyses showed that fuel ...
Bioinspired scaffolds with hierarchical structures for tailored mechanical behaviour and cell migration
Replacement and regeneration of damaged bone, particularly for those defects with critical size, are still major challenges in orthopaedic surgery. The conventional bone implants, normally with poor internal architecture design, may cause significant issues owing to the mechanical and structural mismatches between target bone and the implants. In t...
A Bourdieusian rebuttal to Bourdieu’s rebuttal: Social network analysis, regression, and methodological breakthroughs
Bourdieu carved out a distinctive analytical niche for his reflexive sociology. His epistemological tool of field analysis, sometimes coupled with statistical correspondence analysis, is particularly powerful when deciphering the matrix of objective structures and subjective structures within social spaces (field) where agents vie for positions (ca...
Chinese education and Pierre Bourdieu: Power of reproduction and potential for change
In the edited book “Bourdieu and Chinese Education”, a group of scholars in China, Australia, Canada, and the USA engage in a dialogue with Bourdieu and raise persistent questions not only about issues of equity, competition, and change in Chinese education, but also about the value, venture, and violence in using established Western intellectual f...
Recognising localised pedagogical capital: A reflexive revisit of an alternative teacher preparation programme in China
In recent years, alternative teacher preparation programmes are globally emerging to address teacher quality in ‘hard-to-staff’ schools. These programmes commonly attract graduates from prestigious universities to teach in disadvantaged schools for two years. One programme of this kind in China is the ‘Exceptional Graduates as Rural Teachers’ (EGRT...
Key stakeholder values in encouraging green orientation of construction procurement
Poor environmental management of construction projects contributes greatly to environmental degradation. While many changes have been introduced in the global industry, such as the development of green materials and green building certification, limited effort has been done by stakeholders to bring about any improvement in Malaysia. Green procureme...
County-level variation in the long-term association between PM2.5 and lung cancer mortality in China
Introduction : The relative risk (RR) of long-term exposure to PM2.5 in lung cancer mortality (LCM) may vary spatially in China. However, previous studies applying global regression have been unable to capture such variation. We aimed to employ a geographically weighted Poisson regression (GWPR) to estimate the RRs of LCM among the elderly (≥65 yea...
Influential factors on microplastics occurrence in river sediments
Rivers are regarded as sinks and pathways of plastic pollutants from terrestrial environments to various other aquatic systems such as lakes and oceans. Although extensive research has been conducted in recent years on microplastic pollution in river sediments, knowledge on the relationships between potential influential factors such as catchment c...
