How can urban expansion and ecological preservation be balanced? A simulation of the spatial dynamics of production-living-ecological spaces in the Huaihe River Eco-Economic Belt by Tonghui Yu, Shanshan Jia, Yu Zhang, Xufeng Cui

“…The findings reveal: (1) a distinct geographical differentiation of the PLES within the Huaihe River Eco-Economic Belt, with production and living spaces dispersed across urban areas and ecological space predominantly situated in the central and western regions; (2) an expansion of living space while production and ecological spaces are contracting, indicating significant urbanization, with the transition of living space primarily occurring through the conversion of agricultural land; (3) a relatively stable structural composition of the PLES projected by 2030, with production space still prevailing. …”
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Modeling the role of healthcare access inequalities in epidemic outcomes by Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Muntaser Safan, Sherry Towers, Jay Taylor

“…Urban areas, with large and dense populations, offer conditions that favor the emergence and spread of certain infectious diseases. …”
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TIPIFICACIÓN MORFOLÓGICA DE CURSOS PRINCIPALES. CUENCA DEL ARROYO EL NEGRO, SISTEMA DE VENTANIA, ARGENTINA by Alicia M. Campo, Verónica Gil, Guadalupe Ybarra Alcaráz, Antonela Volonté

“…The corresponding portion of the lower basin was selected for morphological characterization as the one showing major changes due to being in the urbanized area. The investigation was done based on Thorne’s methodology (1998), and afterwards typified following Rosgen’s criteria (1994). …”
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Hierarchical Recognition for Urban Villages Fusing Multiview Feature Information by Zhenkang Wang, Nan Xia, Song Hua, Jiale Liang, Xiankai Ji, Ziyu Wang, Jiechen Wang

“…The results demonstrated an “urban village ring” pattern in the city, with central urban areas showing a “multicenter and multicluster” spatial distribution, while suburban areas exhibited “large and concentrated” characteristics. …”
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First Comprehensive List of Phlebotomine Sand Fly Species (Diptera: Psychodidae) in a Leishmaniasis Focus (Djelfa, Algeria), Including the First Record of Phlebotomus langeroni Fem... by Fatma Messaoudene, Slimane Boukraa, Said Chaouki Boubidi, Ahlem Guerzou

“… Background: The wide distribution of phlebotomine vectors complicates the leishmaniasis situation in the world, with the risk of spreading from rural to urban areas. Our study investigates for the first time the ecology and distribution of sand fly populations in leishmaniasis focus (Djelfa, Algeria). …”
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Patterns and trends of heat and wildfire smoke indicators across rural–urban and social vulnerability gradients in Idaho by Seyd Teymoor Seydi, Jennifer Pierce, John T Abatzoglou, Anna Radin, Ethan Sims, Hilary Flint, Stephanie Wicks, Eric Henderson, Bhaskar Chittoori, Mojtaba Sadegh

“…We show that in rural regions in Idaho, low vulnerability populations had both the highest long-term average and the highest increase rate of exposure to heatwaves from 2002–2020, coincident with a higher population density in low—as compared to high—vulnerability rural census tracts. In urban areas, however, high vulnerability populations accounted for the highest long-term average and increase rate of heatwave exposure; they also accounted for highest population density. …”
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Hybrid parking space prediction model: integrating ARIMA, Long short-term memory (LSTM), and backpropagation neural network (BPNN) for smart city development by Anchal Dahiya, Pooja Mittal, Yogesh Kumar Sharma, Umesh Kumar Lilhore, Sarita Simaiya, Mohd Anul Haq, Mohammed A. Aleisa, Abdullah Alenizi

“…It is essential for addressing traffic congestion challenges and low parking availability in urban areas. The present research mainly focuses on proposing a novel scalable hybrid model for accurately predicting parking space. …”
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Improving Fugitive Dust Emission Inventory from Construction Sector Using UAV Images Recognition by Yuyao He, Jicheng Jang, Yun Zhu, Pen-Chi Chiang, Jia Xing, Shuxiao Wang, Bin Zhao, Shicheng Long, Yingzhi Yuan

“…This study provides valuable insight for improving construction dust and PM emission inventories, which should be benefiting the development of air pollution prevention and control strategies over this study area as well as other rapidly growing urban areas.…”
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Landfill site selection in hilly terrains: An integrated RS-GIS approach with AHP and VIKOR by Shobhit Chaturvedi, Naimish Bhatt, Vatsal Shah, Keval H. Jodhani, Dhruvesh Patel, Sudhir Kumar Singh

“…This approach offers a reliable, adaptable framework for landfill site selection in hilly urban areas, supporting waste management, sustainable development and environmental conservation.…”
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Land use land cover changes from 2003 to 2023 using Remote Sensing and GIS techniques in Niamotpur Upazila with a predictive study for the next decade by Nazmul Hossain, Jannatul Adnan, Tasmia Jahin Mim, Ayesha Binte Zohir, Iftakhar Ahmad, Ahmadullah Zaman, Mehedi Hasan, Noor Hossain

“…From 2003 to 2023 bare soil consistently decreased, while deep vegetation significantly increased, indicating improved land health. Urban areas and light vegetation peaked in 2013 but declined by 2023. …”
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A prediction approach to COVID-19 time series with LSTM integrated attention mechanism and transfer learning by Bin Hu, Yaohui Han, Wenhui Zhang, Qingyang Zhang, Wen Gu, Jun Bi, Bi Chen, Lishun Xiao

“…Abstract Background The prediction of coronavirus disease in 2019 (COVID-19) in broader regions has been widely researched, but for specific areas such as urban areas the predictive models were rarely studied. …”
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DESAIN PANTI SOSIAL TRESNA WERDHA DI MAKASSAR by Burhanuddin Burhanuddin, Ratriana Said, Wahdaniar Wahdaniar

“…A common problem in the elderly in urban areas was poverty, abandoned, disability, as well as the absence of relatives who accompany and help the economy. …”
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A Morphometric Approach to Bozkurt (Kastamonu-Türkiye) Flood by Vedat Avci, Ömer Ünsal

“…According to CORINE land cover data, urban areas in the Ezine Stream Basin increased by over 100% between 1990 and 2018, which is also affected by disastrous floods and overflows. …”
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Educating patients about health helps slow the progression of chronic kidney disease in the eastern region of India by Supriya Dasgupta, Reeti Debnath

“…Results: In this study, several factors were linked to elevated creatinine levels among CKD patients, including being in the middle-age range, male gender, living predominantly in urban areas, and working in business or service occupations. …”
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National and provincial prevalence of self-reported diabetes: results from the cross-sectional Demographic and Health Survey in Sri Lanka–2016 by Sobha Sivaprasad, Manjula D Nugawela, Harshana Munasinghe, Pansujee Dissanayaka, Mangalika Jayasundara

“…Prevalence of diabetes was higher among residents living in urban areas (14.39%; 95% CI: 13.72% to 15.06%) compared with their counterpart. …”
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Assessment of mechanical properties and durability of compressed mud bricks stabilized with stone dust, wheat straw, and cement by Yaqin Chen, Muhammad Saqib, Khan Shahzada, Mohammad Aizaz, Akhtar Gul

“…This work bridges traditional mud brick composition with modern engineering insight by providing a scalable, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, application to disaster-prone and rapidly urbanizing areas worldwide.…”
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Dietary Habits and Nutritional Status of Youths Living in Rural and Semi-Urban Albania in the Ongoing Nutrition Transition: Preliminary Results by Ruden Cakoni, Stefania Moramarco, Argjend Kosiqi, Angela Andreoli, Ersilia Buonomo

“…Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on a convenience sample of students (10–18 years) attending secondary schools in rural and semi-urban areas (October–November 2024). Information collected included socio-demographic data, anthropometric measurements (weight, height), and adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD) (KIDMED). …”
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Exploring health outcome disparities in African regional economics communities: a multilevel linear mixed-effect analysis by Ariane Ephemia Ndzignat Mouteyica, Nicholas Ngepah

“…Encouraging urban planning policies that prioritize developing healthcare infrastructure and facilitating healthcare access in urban areas is crucial. Furthermore, Governments should increase their health expenditure allocation in general government spending. …”
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Performance Enhancement of NavIC With Low-Cost MEMS-IMU, Barometer, and Magnetometer by Saraswathi Sirikonda, Laxminarayana Parayitam, Hari B. Hablani

“…This last ensemble of devices meets the required accuracy for identification of the lane for autonomous navigation of land vehicles in Indian urban areas, where the lane span is 3.75 m. However, further improvement in the accuracy is recommended.…”
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The Impact of (DEM) Accuracy and (LC/LU) Resolution on the Watersheds Areas by Alaa Qais Muttar, Mustafa Tariq Mustafa, Muntasir Abdl Hameed Abdl Shareef

“…In this research, the different accuracy of 30m resolution DEMs with Satellites (Copernicus (GLO-30), ASTER, and SRTM), besides to supervised classification (Support vector machines (SVM) classifier) results (LC/LU) main layers (green land, bare soil, urban areas, and water) of different spatial and spectral resolutions images with Satellites (10m Sentinel-2, 30m Landsat-8, and resampled 15m from 30m Landsat-8) are examined by using the techniques of  Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS). …”
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