Extreme drought-heatwave exacerbates water quality deterioration in China by Jie Jiang, Zhaoli Wang, Zhenxing Zhang, Xushu Wu, Chengguang Lai, Zhaoyang Zeng, Xiaohong Chen

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Centre-periphery circulation patterns in Ghana’s print media landscape: exploring the underlying determinants by Jacob Nyarko

“…Furthermore, the study unveils that four factors contribute to newspaper concentration in urban centres, namely ownership tendencies, revenue motives, skilled labour availability and seat of government, and urban media credibility. …”
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IMPACT OF GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC FACTORS ON INFORMAL EMPLOYMENT IN WEST AFRICA by Oluwaseun Isiaka Adekoya, Musa Ilias Biala

“…The results show that quality of governance, unemployment rate, per capita income and urban population all had a negative impact on informal employment. …”
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Micromorphological and Chemical Approaches to Understand Changes in Ecological Functions of Metal-Impacted Soils under Various Land Uses by J. A. Acosta, S. Martinez-Martinez, A. Faz, J. M. Van Mourik, J. M. Arocena

“…We investigated the changes in faunal activities as measures of the ecological functions of soils impacted by potentially toxic metals (PTMs) under urban, industrial, agricultural, and natural uses. …”
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Identification of Ecological Priority Areas Based on Nested-Scale Analysis: A Case Study of Metropolitan Nanjing, China by Yuxi Zhu, Jianqiang Yang, Le Zhu, Liping Sun

“…Rapid urbanization has led to severe fragmentation of ecological spaces in high-density metropolitan regions, threatening urban ecological security and environmental well-being. …”
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An Imputation Method for Missing Traffic Data Based on FCM Optimized by PSO-SVR by Qiang Shang, Zhaosheng Yang, Song Gao, Derong Tan

“…Then, traffic data from urban expressway and urban arterial road are used to analyze spatial-temporal correlation of the traffic data for the determination of the proposed method input. …”
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The time variable in the Territorial Digital Twin: The case of Guadalajara (Spain) by Juan Luis Bermúdez González, Enrique Castaño Perea, Enrique José Fernández Tapia

“…The TDT can play a crucial role in helping governments make informed decisions based on a thorough understanding and interpretation of the evolution of both the physical territory and its urban, social, and economic development. This study develops the Territorial Digital Twin of Guadalajara (Spain), within the knowledge domain of urban planning and architectural and natural heritage. …”
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Recognition of Functional Areas Based on Call Detail Records and Point of Interest Data by Guang Yuan, Yanyan Chen, Lishan Sun, Jianhui Lai, Tongfei Li, Zhuo Liu

“…With the recent emergence of big data, there has been significant progress in the study of big data mining and rapid developments in urban computing. With the integration of planning and management in urban areas, there is an urgent need to focus on the identification of urban functional areas (UFAs) based on big data. …”
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The impact of ecological civilization construction on the resilience of green technology innovation: evidence based on double dual machine learning by Cunlin Li, Cunlin Li, Shiyu Zhang, Shiyu Zhang, Baojun Yang, Baojun Yang

“…Our analysis of the underlying mechanisms suggests that ECDZs promote urban green innovation resilience through the advancement of digitalization, green consciousness, and new quality productivity. …”
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Révéler ce qui fait patrimoine pour penser le renouvellement urbain des cités d’habitations à bon marché de Grenoble by Ryma Hadbi

“…In this sense, urban memory is a way to simultaneously read the past, the present and the possible future of a site by postulating that the memory somehow holds the "genes" of the place. …”
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Effect of Public Health Care Expenditure on Malaria Incidence in Uganda. by Mugabe, Andrew

“…However, urban population growth exhibited short-term effects on malaria incidence at the first lag. …”
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EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF NEGOTIATED PLANNING TOOLS: THE CASE OF THE LOMBARDY REGION by Marta Dell’Ovo, Marco Rossitti, Francesca Torrieri, Giulia Datola, Danny Casprini, Alessandra Oppio

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Analysis of Dynamic Biogas Consumption in Chinese Rural Areas at Village, Township, and County Levels by Gongyi Li, Tao Luo, Jianghua Xiong, Yanna Gao, Xi Meng, Yaoguo Zuo, Yi Liu, Jing Ma, Qiuwen Chen, Yuxin Liu, Yichong Xin, Yangjie Ye

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Spatial–Temporal Evolution and Influencing Mechanism of Coupling Coordination Level of Social–Ecological Systems in China’s Resource-Based Cities Under the Carbon Neutrality Goal... by Yunhui Zhang, Zhong Wang, Yanran Peng, Wei Wang, Chengxi Tian

“…Based on the above conclusions, effective policy recommendations are put forward: formulate more refined and differentiated development paths, co-ordinate the spatial layout to give full play to the role of urban agglomeration, vigorously develop the digital economy, increase investment in science and education, rely on scientific and technological innovation to create development advantages, reasonably guide the population layout and take a new urbanization development route.…”
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The age and residence impact on IgE serum level in patients with allergic asthma by Raghdah Maytham Hameed, Huda Hadi Al-Hasnawy, Haidar Abdul Amir Najim Abood

“…Depending on age groups, there was a significant difference (P = 0.047) in C. pneumonia IgE serum levels in asthmatic children who lived in urban areas. Conclusion: C. pneumonia-specific IgE decreased in early adulthood urban asthmatic children.…”
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Development Mode of Recreation Belt around the City: Ecological Authenticity or Fashion Creativity? by Liang Zhao, Yuanyuan Shen, Nailin Gu, Jingyu Dai

“…The recreational belt around the city has low population density, good ecological environment, and rich natural and cultural landscapes, which can meet the tourism needs of urban residents to get close to nature and experience culture. …”
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optimal location to reduce earthquake vulnerability of cities (Case study: Bojnord) by sana rahmani, sayed hossein vahedi, leila abedi far, saleh ebrahimi pour

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Assessment and Optimization of Ecological Networks in Trans-Provincial Metropolitan Areas—A Case Study of the Xuzhou Metropolitan Area by Yijia Zhao, Peiyuan Zhang, Hao Xu, Wei Liu

“…In the urbanization development trend, constructing inter-provincial metropolitan areas has gradually become an important pathway for China to implement its new urbanization strategy. …”
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Evaluation of tensile strength variability in fiber reinforced composite rods using statistical distributions by Hao Qin, Thierno Aliou Ka, Xiang Li, Kangxin Sun, Kaiqiang Qin, Sarkar Noor E Khuda, T. Tafsirojjaman

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An Adjustment Method for the Customized Trains of the Railway by Xiaojuan Li, Jiana Shi, Li Yang, Hongwei Wang, Miao Yan

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