By reducing greenhouse gas emissions not only during construction of new infrastructure but also by extending the lifespan of existing assets, civil engineers play a vital role in contributing to meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This paper focuses on how engineers in New Zealand have adopted clever yet elegant solutions to reuse, repurpose and revitalise existing transport structures in the past two decades. Case studies of road and rail bridges from Waka Kotahi New Zealand Transport Agency and KiwiRail network highlight the various challenges, solutions and lessons learned.
For over thirty years now a body of physiological evidence has been acquired which indicates that cognitive operations coordinate via the phase synchronization of neuronal firing. While usually ascribed to 'binding', i.e. the putting together of basic perceptual, features to form more complex perceptual units, this ascription is not without critics, who identify phase synchronization as a function of sensori-motor coordination. From the perspective of an experimental paradigm used to measure the effects of stimulus synchronization, we discuss what is 'bound', and attempt a reconciliation between perceptual and sensorimotor accounts of oscillatory synchronization. Our evidence identifies a role for synchronization in protentive coding, this is to say, coding in anticipation of a future event, and hence describes the architecture of real-time cognition for future events.
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