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    How sharing can contribute to more sustainable cities

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    \ua9 2017 by the authors. Recently, much of the literature on sharing in cities has focused on the sharing economy, in which people use online platforms to share underutilized assets in the marketplace. This view of sharing is too narrow for cities, as it neglects the myriad of ways, reasons, and scales in which citizens share in urban environments. Research presented here by the Liveable Cities team in the form of participant workshops in Lancaster and Birmingham, UK, suggests that a broader approach to understanding sharing in cities is essential. The research also highlighted tools and methods that may be used to help to identify sharing in communities. The paper ends with advice to city stakeholders, such as policymakers, urban planners, and urban designers, who are considering how to enhance sustainability in cities through sharing

    Traditional family and women's condition: The reciprocal perception of Turkish and Italians

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    Community psychology considers gender as a central organizing category for understanding power imbalances and directing social change. The geopolitical events of these last years are heightening the contraposition between Islamic and Western countries with significant effects on ethnic prejudices, including the perception of gender roles and women’s condition. The present study focused on two different Mediterranean countries, an Islamic and Eastern one, i.e., Turkey, and a Catholic and Western one, i.e., Italy. It aimed at investigating the reciprocal perception concerning family and the women’s condition in the two states. Participants were 400 university students, both Turkish (N=199) and Italians (N=201). We performed 2 (Italian vs. Turkish) x 2 (Italy vs. Turkey) mixed ANOVAs for repeated measures testing the significance of the differences between rater countries and rated countries. Findings demonstrated an interesting “mirror effect”: Turkish and Italians perceived their home country in similar way, and similarly different from the country of comparison. Implications are discussed.

    Permo-Triassic unconformity- related Au-Pd mineralisation, south Devon, UK : new insights and the European perspective

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    An integrated mineralogical-geochemical study of unconformity-related Au-Pd occurrences within and around the Permo–Triassic basins of southwest England, UK, has confirmed the importance of low temperature (86±13°C), hydrothermal carbonate veins as hosts for the mineralisation. Fluid inclusion data for the carbonate gangue, supported by stable isotope (13C and 18O) and radiogenic (87Sr/86Sr) data, have identified three principal fluids: (1) a reducing calcic brine [>25 wt% salinity, 2)] originating in the sub-unconformity basement and an expression of advanced mineral–fluid interaction; (2) an oxidising sodic brine [~16 wt% salinity, >0.9 NaCl/(NaCl+CaCl2)] originating in the post-unconformity red beds under evaporitic conditions, and (3) an oxygenated, low salinity groundwater (<3 wt% salinity).="" the="" sodic="" brine="" is="" reasoned="" to="" be="" the="" parent="" metalliferous="" fluid="" and="" to="" have="" acquired="" its="" enrichment="" in="" au="" and="" pd="" by="" the="" leaching="" of="" immature="" sediments="" and="" intra-rift="" volcanic="" rocks="" within="" the="" local="" permo–triassic="" basins.="" metal="" precipitation="" is="" linked="" to="" the="" destabilisation="" of="" au="" and="" pd="" chloride="" complexes="" by="" either="" mixing="" with="" calcic="" brines,="" dilution="" by="" groundwaters="" or="" interaction="" with="" reduced="" lithologies.="" this="" explains="" the="" diversity="" of="" mineralised="" settings="" below="" and="" above="" the="" unconformity="" and="" their="" affinity="" with="" red="" bed="" brines.="" the="" paucity="" of="" sulphide="" minerals,="" the="" development="" of="" selenides="" (as="" ore="" minerals="" and="" as="" mineral="" inclusion="" in="" gold="" grains),="" the="" presence="" of="" rhodochrosite="" and="" manganoan="" calcites="" (up="" to="" 2.5 wt%="" mn="" in="" calcite)="" and="" the="" co-precipitation="" of="" hematite="" and="" manganese="" oxides="" are="" consistent="" with="" the="" overall="" high="" oxidation="" state="" of="" the="" ore="" fluids.="" a="" genetic="" model="" is="" proposed="" linking="" permo–triassic="" red="" beds,="" the="" mixing="" of="" oxidising="" and="" reducing="" brines,="" and="" the="" development="" of="" unconformity-related="" precious="" metal="" mineralisation.="" comparison="" with="" other="" european="" permo–triassic="" basins="" reveals="" striking="" similarities="" in="" geological="" setting,="" mineralogy="" and="" geochemistry="" with="" au,="" au-pd="" and="" selenide="" occurrences="" in="" germany="" (tilkerode,="" korbach-goldhausen),="" poland="" (lubin)="" and="" the="" czech="" republic="" (svoboda="" nad="" úpou="" and="" stupná).="" though="" the="" known="" au-pd="" occurrences="" are="" sub-economic,="" several="" predictive="" criteria="" are="" proposed="" for="" further=""
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