Using twitter to investigate responses to street reallocation during COVID-19: Findings from the U.S. and Canada.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged and encouraged local governments to reallocate street space. The chief purpose of new regimes of street management is to expand spaces for walking and bicycling, and to ease business interactions such as curbside pickup and dining while maintaining social distancing guidelines. We investigated how North Americans on Twitter viewed alternative uses and forms of street reallocation, specifically during the early months of the pandemic from April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2020.

Seeing the food swamp for the weeds: Moving beyond food retail mix in evaluating young people's food environments.

Nutritional health of children and youth is an increasing cause for concern in Canada. Through food and beverage messaging in multiple environments, young people develop eating behaviours with ramifications throughout their life course. Unhealthy food retailers near schools, recreation facilities, and childcare centres-key activity settings for healthy eating promotion-present repeated, compounding exposures to commercial geomarketing.

Understanding urban accessibility: A community-engaged pilot study of entrance features.

The accessibility of the built environment is an equity issue. Accessibility standards for buildings exist, but often apply to new buildings or major renovations. This renders historic neighborhoods inaccessible.

Vanadium-Manganese Redox Flow Battery: Study of Mn Disproportionation in the Presence of Other Metallic Ions.

The Mn /Mn redox couple with a standard potential of +1.51 V versus the standard hydrogen electrode (SHE) has attracted interest for the design of V/Mn redox flow batteries (RFBs). However, Mn disproportionation leads to a loss of capacity, an increase in pressure drop, and electrode passivation caused by the formation of MnO particles during battery cycling.

On-Site Purification of Copper-Contaminated Vanadium Electrolytes by using a Vanadium Redox Flow Battery.

Corrosion of carbon-based electrodes and bipolar plates is a major hurdle and can be a cause of failure in commercial vanadium redox flow batteries (VRFBs). Carbon corrosion was found to occur in a commercial VRFB (10 kW/40 kWh), whereby cracks through bipolar plates enabled the electrolyte to leach the copper current collectors at the end of the stacks, contaminating the entire electrolyte solution. In this work, the effects of copper contaminants on the operation of a VRFB were studied.