Overestimating Impacts of Urbanization on Regional Temperatures in Developing Megacity: Beijing as an Example by Wei Cao, Lin Huang, Lulu Liu, Jun Zhai, Dan Wu

“…Cropland also had a negative effect on climate warming yearly and seasonally, especially in winter (−1.133°C/10a) and spring (−0.299°C/10a). Conversely, the urban area showed strong warming effects (0.438°C/10a). …”
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Spatiotemporal Evolution and PLUS Simulation Prediction of Ecosystem Service Value in the Southern Jiangsu Urban Agglomeration Based on Land Use Changes by Qingqing Ma, Shi He, Haitao Jing, Wensheng Wang, Shiye Zhang, Xiujuan Liang

“…In recent years, rapid urbanization in the Southern Jiangsu urban area has significantly altered land use patterns, impacting local ecosystem service value (ESV). …”
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Development of Corneal Astigmatism (CA) according to Axial Length/Corneal Radius (AL/CR) Ratio in a One-Year Follow-Up of Children in Beijing, China by Fenglei Wang, Lin Xiao, Xuxia Meng, Ling Wang, Dabo Wang

“…The correlations between the axial length-to-corneal radius (AL/CR) ratio and corneal astigmatism (CA) were studied by prospectively analyzing and comparing survey data from school children in the Beijing urban area from 2014 to 2015. Methods. In this longitudinal study, a total of 2,970 students were enrolled in 2014, and 2,179 students were enrolled in 2015. …”
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Knowledge of Ghana’s liberal abortion law and use of modern contraceptives among women of reproductive age by Maxwell Tii Kumbeni, Jeff Luck, S. Marie Harvey

“…Results More than half (55.4%) lived in urban area, 80.1% were 20 years or older, 52.2% were multiparous women, 61.9% had secondary or higher education, and 34.5% were in the lower two wealth quintiles. …”
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Du nomadisme à la sédentarisation by Aimé Landry Dongmo, Patrice Djamen, Éric Vall, Koussou Mian-Oudanang, Doubangolo Coulibaly, Jean Lossouarn

“…Except for those settled in the peri-urban area, they so far do not take advantage of opportunities generated by the high increase in meat and milk demand. …”
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Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Expenditures: Empirical Data from US Households by Wei-Chen Lee, Luohua Jiang, Charles D. Phillips, Robert L. Ohsfeldt

“…Five two-part utilization models were then fit to determine the likelihood of having nonzero expenses and to identify how residence in a rural versus urban area affected expenditures in our five expense categories. …”
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Evaluating the community commercial vitality using multi-source data: a case study of Hangzhou, China by Yuanzheng Cui, Guixiang Zha, Qiuting Wang, Yunxiao Dang, Kaifang Shi, Xuejun Duan, Dong Xu, Bo Huang

“…The spatial distribution characteristics of the commercial vitality values in urban area of Hangzhou are explored. Then, the validation was conducted to reveal the reliability of the results. …”
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Association between Serum Uric Acid Level and Metabolic Syndrome and Its Sex Difference in a Chinese Community Elderly Population by Miao Liu, Yao He, Bin Jiang, Lei Wu, Shanshan Yang, Yiyan Wang, Xiaoying Li

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted in a representative urban area of Beijing between 2009 and 2010. A two-stage stratified clustering sampling method was used and 2102 elderly participants were included. …”
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Determining Planetary Boundary Layer Height by Micro-pulse Lidar with Validation by UAV Measurements by Yueh-Chen Wang, Sheng-Hsiang Wang, Jasper R. Lewis, Shuenn-Chin Chang, Stephen M. Griffith

“…In this study, four PBLH determination methods (Gradient, δ–threshold, Haar wavelet transform, and hybrid image processing) are applied to estimate the PBLH from lidar observations over an urban area in East Asia, and one—the Gradient method—relied on potential temperature measurements from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights to validate our results. …”
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Rationalising blood tests in a resource-limited emergency unit: A quality improvement project by Renette Esterhuizen, Lilani I. Tribelhorn, Danielle M.J. Thomas, Eugenne Elliott, Talat Habib, Arun Nair

“…This project was conducted during the family medicine rotation of interns at a tertiary hospital in a semi-urban area. Methods: The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) method was employed. …”
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Genotoxic effects in island populations of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia due to environmental exposure to mercury and cadmium [version 3; peer review: 2 approved] by Doris Gómez-Camargo, Dacia Malambo-García, Eder Cano-Pérez

“…Methods Ninety-four individuals from the four island communities (study group) and 30 individuals from the urban area of Cartagena (control group) participated in this study. …”
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Visible and invisible cultural patterns influencing women’s use of maternal health services among Igala women in Nigeria: a focused ethnographic study by Uchechi Clara Opara, Peace Njideka Iheanacho, Pammla Petrucka

“…The study was conducted with 21 women for one-on-one interviews and two focus group discussions with six women in the rural area and seven women in the urban area. In addition, participant observation of nine women from the third trimester to birth was conducted, yielding 189 h of observation in two primary healthcare facilities in rural and urban areas. …”
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Using low-cost sensors to assess common air pollution sources across multiple residences by Catrin J. Rathbone, Dimitrios Bousiotis, Owain G. Rose, Francis D. Pope

“…The NMF is applied to combined data from all houses to generate source profiles that can be used to understand how PM source characteristics are similar or differ between different households in the same urban area. PM2.5 and PM10 concentrations in all three houses were greater, more variable, and significantly different to ambient concentrations recorded at a nearby ambient monitoring site. …”
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Molecular study of the status of Angiostrongylus cantonensis in rats in Haiti by Fedna Jimmy, Borne Romain, Rieffel Dominique, Bornette Gudrun, Henrys Jean-Hugues, Grenouillet Frédéric, Raoul Francis

“…Rats were trapped at 8 sites, 7 in Artibonite (rural region) and one in an urban area of Port-au-Prince. After euthanasia, hearts and lungs were sampled and preserved in 70% ethanol. …”
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Personal determinants of vandal behaviour among urban school and student youth from a gender perspective by O. V. Kruzhkova, I. V. Deviatovskaia, M. S. Krivoshchekova

“…The research was carried out among students of schools and universities in Ekaterinburg (an urban area with all the features of a modern Russian megalopolis). …”
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Prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: results from the Survey on COVID-19 and Mental Health by Murray Weeks, Danielle Marion, Anne-Marie Robert, R. Nicholas Carleton

“…Factors associated with higher PTSD prevalence were female gender; younger age; lower income (females only); living in an urban area; frontline worker status or not being at work in the past week (males only); fair or poor mental health; a weak sense of community belonging; symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder; suicidal ideation; heavy alcohol use; daily cannabis use; increased alcohol and cannabis use since the start of the pandemic; decreased alcohol consumption since the start of the pandemic (males only); concerns about violence in the home; and negative impacts of the pandemic. …”
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Bibliometric Analysis on Global Research Trends of Airborne Microorganisms in Recent Ten Years (2011–2020) by Yonghao Jia, Yihan Chen, Ping Yan, Qianli Huang

“…Firstly, we identified 11 co-citation clusters: potential pan microbiome, bioaerosol science, beneficial microbe, urban area, fungal microbiota, wastewater treatment plant, airborne microbial aerosol, modern practice, facilities—a review, airborne microbial biodiversity, and acidic electrolyzed water. …”
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AI-powered estimation of tree covered area and number of trees over the Mediterranean island of Cyprus by Anna Zenonos, Sizhuo Li, Martin Brandt, Jean Sciare, Philippe Ciais

“…This study presents a deep learning neural network model applied to high resolution (10 cm) airborne images collected during the year 2019, to generate segmented tree crowns and the number of individual trees over selected areas of Cyprus, including a large national forest park, a forest park in the capital city, and a small urban area, encompassing a total studied area of 107km2. …”
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Patch-Level and Neighborhood-Dependency Spatial Optimization Method (PNO): Application to Urban Land-Use Planning to Facilitate Both Socio-Economic and Environmental Development in... by Yuhan Cheng, Xiuyuan Zhang, Qi Zhou, Xiaoyan Dong, Shihong Du

“…Experiments were conducted in the urban area of Beijing, and the results suggested that, after optimization, the population and GDP can be improved by 667,323 people (4.72%) and USD 10.69 billion in products (2.75%) in the study area; meanwhile, the land surface temperature can be reduced by 0.12 °C (−0.32%). …”
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Location optimization of urban fire stations considering the variations in fire service demands: a bi-objective coverage model by Yulong Chen, Jing Yao, Shaohua Wang, Zhizhu Lai, Leying Wu, Guanpeng Dong

“…Then, the BOC model was applied to address the spatial optimization of fire station locations in the central urban area of Zhengzhou City. Finally, a comparative analysis was performed on the optimization outcomes and performance of both the BOC and bi-objective spatial optimization (BSO) (integrating coverage and median goals) models. …”
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