Editorial by Bronwyn Fredericks, Martin Nakata, Katelyn Barney

“…Racism continues to be particularly important to address because, as the 2022 Australian Reconciliation Barometer recently highlighted, experiences of racial prejudice have increased for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people over the last two years and certainly there is much work needed to improve relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. …”
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Spaces, Times, Architectures. the Elements of the Constructive Phenomenon by Emilio Faroldi

“…The built space, its form, the language undoubtedly represent the barometer of an era, the result of economic, social, technical, and cultural variables that come together synergistically to define the architectural meaning. …”
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Future scenarios. A cinematic perspective by François Penz

“…I regard fiction film as a barometer, an indicator of societal issues and I subscribe to Ferro’s view that «In its relation to society and history, film was for a long time treated only as a work of art [...] …”
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Public space and the contemporary city. A narrative of places, time, relationships by Emilio Faroldi

“…Logics of temporary urbanism, favoured by the weakness of previous urban policies, which have given way to urban uncertainties that are often visible and verifiable: these restore importance to the human dimension as the central soul of the project, a true barometer of the widespread perception of uncertainty that engages modern society. …”
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Effects of Simulated Nitrogen Deposition and Micro-Environment on the Functional Traits of Two Rare and Endangered Fern Species in a Subtropical Forest by Lingbo Ji, Liping Wei, Lingling Zhang, Yuanqiu Li, Yang Tian, Ke Liu, Hai Ren

“…Meanwhile, the negative effects on the <i>C. baromet</i> growth traits and <i>A. podophylla</i> defense traits were stronger for CAN than for UAN. …”
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Which Institutional Conditions Lead to a Successful Local Energy Transition? Applying Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis to Solar PV Cases in South Korea by Youhyun Lee, Bomi Kim, Heeju Hwang

“…Based on the South Korean context, we selected the solar photovoltaic (PV) generation and solar PV expansion rate as barometers for measuring the success of a local energy transition. …”
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The Long Run Relationship Between Stock Indices and Macroeconomic Variables by Yogesh Maheshwari, KT Vigneswara Rao

“…Stock indices are considered to be the barometers of any economy. This study examines the long run equilibrium relationship between stock indices and macroeconomic variables by applying the Johansen and Juselius (1990) Vector Error Correction Framework. …”
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Mediadekking in die Suid-Afrikaanse gedrukte media oor taalverwante onderwerpe, in besonder taalregte en taalbeleidskwessies by E. Truter

“…Coverage of issues related to language, in particular language rights and language policy, in the South African print media The print media are both important and reliable barometers for determining the feelings and attitudes of the reading public. …”
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The Long Run Relationship Between Stock Indices and Macroeconomic Variables by Maheshwari, Yogesh, Rao, KT Vigneswara

“…Stock indices are considered to be the barometers of any economy. This study examines the long run equilibrium relationship between stock indices and macroeconomic variables by applying the Johansen and Juselius (1990) Vector Error Correction Framework. …”
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Estimation of mercury emissions into the Slovene environment in 2001 by Martina Svetina, Barbara Justin, Polona Druks, Mateja Gosar

“…The following sectors have been identified in Slovenia as the potential sources of mercury into environment: the thermal power plants, dental amalgams, products of electric industry (batteries, lamps, thermometers, manometers, barometers), chemicals, cement industry, incineration and waste treatment. …”
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Smartphone-Based Activity Recognition for Indoor Localization Using a Convolutional Neural Network by Baoding Zhou, Jun Yang, Qingquan Li

“…Moreover, we have built a pedestrian activity database, which contains more than 6 GB of data of accelerometers, magnetometers, gyroscopes and barometers collected with various types of smartphones. …”
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The idealism of architectural competitions: The case of the Free State Province by Walter Peters, J. L. (Kobus) du Preez

“…However, winning designs may not necessarily always result in the best building, but they certainly indicate the paradigm of the era and in that sense can serve as architectural barometers.…”
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The globalization of public opinion research by Heath, A, Fisher, S, Smith, S

“…First, we discuss the growth of cross-national surveys such as the World Values Survey, the International Social Survey Program, the European Social Survey, and the various Global Barometers. We then turn to the issues of data quality and comparability. …”

Personal Agenda-Public Agenda Congruency: A Contingent Condition for Agenda-setting Effects by Raquel Rodríguez-Díaz, Maxwell McCombs

“…The study includes a content analysis of the El País daily newspaper for the four periods and a variety of surveys and representative electoral barometers. To those data we have added an analysis of the main search topics on Google Trends for each of the four years. …”
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Mobilités sociales et spatiales d’Africain·es-Américain·es vers la banlieue de « l’entre-deux » dans la deuxième moitié du 20ème siècle : le cas d’Euclid, Ohio by Marion MARCHET

“…It will attempt to demonstrate more precisely the extent to which, before becoming powerful barometers of the state of racial relations in the twenty-first century United States, these suburban spaces carried at first many of the dreams and ambitions of an intermediary segment of the African American population claiming its share of material comfort and security in the post-Civil Rights era.…”
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Determination of the Toxic Effects of Heavy Metals on the Morpho-Anatomical Responses of the Leaf of <i>Typha latifolia</i> as a Biomonitoring Tool by Nedjma Mamine, Nedjoud Grara, Fadila Khaldi, Viviana Maresca, Khaoula Aouaichia, Adriana Basile

“…<i>Typha latifolia</i> leaves act as sensitive barometers for trace heavy metal pollution, as revealed by their pronounced anatomical responses in a constructed wetland. …”
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Individual Wave Propagations in Ionosphere and Troposphere Triggered by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Underwater Volcano Eruption on 15 January 2022 by Chieh-Hung Chen, Xuemin Zhang, Yang-Yi Sun, Fei Wang, Tien-Chi Liu, Chi-Yen Lin, Yongxin Gao, Jun Lyu, Xiaobing Jin, Xiaoli Zhao, Xiang Cheng, Pengyu Zhang, Qiyu Chen, Dixin Zhang, Zhiqiang Mao, Jann-Yenq Liu

“…We captured the waves that erupted from the volcano propagating in the ionosphere by monitoring total electron content (TEC) perturbations utilizing ground-based global navigation satellite system (GNSS) receivers that receive electromagnetic signals transmitted from the geostationary satellites operated by the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). Meanwhile, ground barometers detected unusual enhancements of air pressure traveling in the troposphere. …”
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BioIn-Tacto: A compliant multi-modal tactile sensing module for robotic tasks by Thiago Eustaquio Alves de Oliveira, Vinicius Prado da Fonseca

“…The sensing module proposed in this paper uses off-the-shelf Microelectromechanical (MEMs) barometers and Magnetic, Angular Rate and Gravity (MARG) systems. …”
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Humans Among the Clouds by Sidik, Saima

“…They continue to use thermometers, barometers, anemometers, and other equipment from as far back as the 1800s to avoid disrupting their record by changing their instrumentation. …”
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Economics, urban planning, and food systems: from “chrematistike” to “oikonomia” toward sustainable cities by Sandrine Simon

“…However, while efforts are being focused on transforming urbanism to face this challenge, urbanists are not sufficiently questioning the economic barometers they rely on. In an attempt to explain that making cities sustainable cannot emerge from relying on paradigms that create un-sustainability in the first place, this article suggests that insights from alternative approaches to economics (such as ecological economics) and to urban planning (that view cities as ecosystems) could help in understanding better what a transition toward sustainable cities could mean. …”
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