Cohort profile: the BangladEsh Longitudinal Investigation of Emerging Vascular and nonvascular Events (BELIEVE) cohort study by Anisur Rahman, Stephen Sutton, Mahbubur Rahman, Jason Crawte, Tahmeed Ahmed, Md Saimul Islam, Aliya Naheed, Adam S Butterworth, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Matthew Walker, John Danesh, Angela Wood, Sarah Hawkes, Sadika Akhter, Catherine Perry, Aytalina Azarova, Ruchira T Naved, Meerjady Sabrina Flora, Nusrat Khan, Rajiv Chowdhury, Sohel Reza Choudhury, Nusrat Jahan, Stephen Kaptoge, Md Zahidul Islam, Kaniz Fatema, Kim Robin van Daalen, Shammi Luhar, Roderic L Jones, Abbas Bhuiya, Md Khalequzzaman, Syed Shariful Islam, Henry Taylor, Shamima Akter, Simon Griffin, Khairul Islam, Salma Akter, Ruchira Tabassum Naved, Abdul Malik, Rubhana Raqib, Animesh Talukder, Richard Houghton, Tahmina Shirin, Lawrence King, Kamrun Nahar, Samantha Farrow, Giulia Loffreda, Samsad Rabbani Khan, Valerie Rhenius, Nahida Akter, Md Mostafa Monower, Sabina Akter, Mantaka Rahman, Lisa Pennells, Maria L C Iurilli, Md Taslim Uddin Miah, Khan Mohammad Thouhidur Rahman, Sharraf Samin, Kazi Nazmus Saqeeb, Ishrat Tasmin, Eleanor Farrow, Ank Michielsen, Sarah Spackman, Charlotte van Coeverden, James Ajioka, Khondker Abdul Abdul Awal, Evangelia Chatzidiakou, Jörg Feldmann, Richard Fenner, Tuhin Haque, Sirajul Islam, Kamrul Hasan Khan, Fazila-Tun-Nesa Malik, Olalekan Popoola, Nicholas Mascie Taylor, Md Alfazal Khan, Israt Akter, Laboni Akter, Shoriful Islam, Mohammad Kamruzzaman, Monalisa Moni, A H M Rezwan, K M Thouhidur Rahman, Monjeline Sultana, Jesmin Akhter, Ayasha Akter, Bakul Akter, Jharna Akter, Jesmin Akter, Juba Akter, Khadiza Akter, Khadija Akter, Lipi Akter, Maksuda Akter, Mousumi Akter, Mst Lovely Akter, Nasima Akter, Samima Akter, Sema Akter, Shahida Akter, Shahnaj Akter, Taslima Akter, A T M Zorjis Alam, Mahmuda Atique, Lutfa Begum, Mst Nazma Begum, Farjana Choudhury, Mitali Paul Chowdhury, Robin Reza Chowdhury, Mukul Rani Debnath, Nahid Ferdash, Naima Ferdous, Md Rakib Al Hasan, Khandaker Hashanuzzaman, Shamima Haq, Md Riazul Haque, Alamgir Hossain, Md Ibrahim, Shahi Israt Jahan, Israt Jahan Jarin, Zohora Pradhan Jonaki, Asik Kabir, Tonema Kader, Md Mostafa Kamal, Sayed Kamruzzaman, Sadik Fatima Kanon, Nazmul Karim, Shamsul Karim, Tanuja Khanom, Shamim Ara Khatun, Badrun Nahar Lorin, Mst Sirajum Manira, Farhana Jahan Mary, Kazi Dilruba Mita, Lipi Mitra, Basudeb Mollik, Sudipta Nargis, Nusrat Alam Nawmee, Esrat Zahan Nesa, Mahmuda Akter Nipa, Mehenaz Parvin, Sanjida Parvin, Shahnaj Parvin, Suraiya Parvin, Nayan Rabidash, Rulia Rahman, Madhabi Rani, Shahjalal Sarker, Smriti Sarker, Razia Sultana Shathi, Fatema Shelly, Ireen Sultana, Rovaiya Sultana, Israt Jahan Sumi, Sharmin Tamanna, Khadija Akter Topy, Umme Habiba Urmee, Suraya Yesmin, Julianne Halley, Charlotte van Coeverden, Mahmuda Akther Akhi, Asia Akter, Labony Akter, Ms Mili Akter, Mst Shamima Akter, Setu Akter, Tahmina Akter, Md Sabdar Ali, Mst Jesmin Ara, Edyta Bujnik, Apu Chandra Das, Many Das, Nurjahan Fatema, Md Riyad Hasan, Soniya Jannat, Mst Amena Khatun, Most Nurnahar Khatun, William Mossman, Robyn Murdoch, Zannaton Naeem, Evrikleia Ntasi, Silvia Alonso Rodriguez, Tripty Roy, Most Abida Sultana, Laryssa Amado, Tanya Braune, Eilidh Cowan, Steve Ellis, Ellie Farrow, Hannah Lombardi, Niko Ovenden, Tamara Sabri, Md Khalid Sultan, Jim Ajioka, Khondker Abdul Awal, Arul Baradi, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Camilla Faidutti, Joerg Feldmann, Louise Hair, Sharifuddin Hasnat, Shahid Akhter Hossain, Md Mominul Islam, Shafiul Islam, Joe Lavallée, Fazila Tun-Nesa Malik, Nick Mascie-Taylor, Md Sirajul Islam, Laurie Savage, Sara Shazad, Lalitha Sundaram, Aloka Tulukdar, Kim Van Daalen, Tanvir Chowdhury, Nurul Huda, Samia Naz Isha, Riaz Hossain Khan, Aliva Salmeen, Zeeba Zahra Sultana

“…Mean BMI was also higher in urban than slum and rural areas.Future plans The collection of information during the baseline visit was completed in 2020. …”
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Revealing Land-Use Dynamics on Thermal Environment of Riverine Cities Under Climate Variability Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Techniques by Nazia Iftakhar, Fakhrul Islam, Mohammad Izhar Hussain, Muhammad Nasar Ahmad, Jinwook Lee, Nazir Ur Rehman, Saleh Qaysi, Nassir Alarifi, Youssef M. Youssef

“…Urbanized riverine cities in southern Asian developing countries face significant challenges in understanding the spatiotemporal thermal impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) changes driven by rapid urbanization and climatic variability. …”
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A Cosmopolitan Ghetto: The Shifting Image of Kibera Slum From ‘Flying Toilets’ to a Centre for Metropolitan Innovation by John M. Wambui

“… It has become customary, when conceptualising twenty-first-century urban landscapes, to describe them as existing in two states. …”
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West Indian Drywood Termite Cryptotermes brevis (Walker) (Insecta: Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) by Johnalyn M. Gordon, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Nan-Yao Su

“…This article is also published on the UF/IFAS Featured Creatures website at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/termites/heterotermes.htm. …”
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West Indian Drywood Termite Cryptotermes brevis (Walker) (Insecta: Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) by Johnalyn M. Gordon, Rudolf H. Scheffrahn, Nan-Yao Su

“…This article is also published on the UF/IFAS Featured Creatures website at http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/urban/termites/heterotermes.htm. …”
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Voir les fantômes. Sentir la multiplicité temporelle de la ville grâce aux œuvres d’art by Estelle Grandbois-Bernard

“…Through the study of temporal experiences shaped by three contemporary works of art about the transformation in cities (Souvenirs de Berlin-Est by Sophie Calle, The Writing on the Wall by Shimon Attie and Phantom Shangai by Greg Girard), I try to think about how they let fell the presence of the past in urban space, and how they all seem to suggest that “living together” also mean “living with our ghosts”.…”
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Parking Permit Scheme for Morning Commute considering Parking Search by Duo Xu, Huijun Sun

“…Improving parking efficiency is essential to promoting the reform in urban transportation. But the large amount of deadweight costs caused by the parking is often underestimated because it is difficult to measure. …”
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Commoning Cosmopolitanism: Solidarity Beyond Capital, Borders, and Sameness by Óscar García Agustín, Martin Bak Jørgensen

“…Approaches to situated and located cosmopolitanism offer the opportunity to think of the formation of a universal community, which demands equality and social justice and is rooted in urban and local practices. This article delves into this perspective by connecting the literature on cosmopolitanism, the commons, and solidarity. …”
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Pathways to Progress: Unveiling Structural Change in Africa Through Economic Transformation, Technology, Talent, and Tourism by Hugo Pinto, Evans Odoi, Carla Nogueira, Luiz Fernando Câmara Viana

“…African economies are undergoing significant structural transformation, transitioning from agriculture to manufacturing, services, and technology-driven industries. Driven by urbanization, technological innovation, and global trade, this shift offers opportunities for sustainable growth but faces challenges such as infrastructure gaps and institutional hurdles. …”
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Mechanical Properties and Optimization Strategies of Tree Fork Structures by Yi-Sen Peng, Bai-You Cheng, Tung-Chi Liu

“…Insights from this study may facilitate safety assessments and inform pruning strategies for urban tree management.…”
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Innovative Integration and Optimization of RE and Smart Energy Management Systems in Skyscrapers: Enhancing Sustainability and Energy Self-Sufficiency in Vertical Cities by Yan Bingzhuo

“…Skyscrapers have become a vital part of modern urban development, offering efficient space utilization in increasingly dense cities. …”
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The role of local initiatives and social networks in solving the problem of waste disposal in the cities of Apatity and Kirovsk, Murmansk region: the experience of participant obse... by N. A. Koldobskaya

“…In each city, more and more people are involved in the process of cleaning the territory from garbage and separate collection of waste. In many ways, urban initiatives in Kirovsk and Apatity in the conditions of urban shrinkage exist not because of, but in spite of the socio-economic processes that are taking place there. …”
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Computer-Aided Efficient Routing and Reliable Protocol Optimization for Autonomous Vehicle Communication Networks by Alaa Kamal Yousif Dafhalla, Mohamed Elshaikh Elobaid, Amira Elsir Tayfour Ahmed, Ameni Filali, Nada Mohamed Osman SidAhmed, Tahani A. Attia, Badria Abaker Ibrahim Mohajir, Jawaher Suliman Altamimi, Tijjani Adam

“…Longer Hello intervals improve AODV performance by 10% in urban settings but reduce it by 6% on highways. Extending route validity time increases GPSR’s Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) by 10% in cities, underscoring the need to optimize routing parameters for enhanced VANET performance.…”
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The world’s first “Smart Nation” vision: the case of Singapore by Esra Banu SIPAHI, Zabihullah SAAYI

“… “Smartization” is the policy that Singapore as a city-state with a small geographical territory, limited natural resources, increasing urban density and aging population but determined to become an exceptional city-state has adopted to overcome various national challenges, improve the quality, efficiency and performance of urban services, sustainable development and overall improvement of citizens’ lives. …”
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Human mobility is well described by closed-form gravity-like models learned automatically from data by Oriol Cabanas-Tirapu, Lluís Danús, Esteban Moro, Marta Sales-Pardo, Roger Guimerà

“…Abstract Modeling human mobility is critical to address questions in urban planning, sustainability, public health, and economic development. …”
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Dynamic Traffic Congestion Simulation and Dissipation Control Based on Traffic Flow Theory Model and Neural Network Data Calibration Algorithm by Li Wang, Shimin Lin, Jingfeng Yang, Nanfeng Zhang, Ji Yang, Yong Li, Handong Zhou, Feng Yang, Zhifu Li

“…Traffic congestion is a common problem in many countries, especially in big cities. At present, China’s urban road traffic accidents occur frequently, the occurrence frequency is high, the accident causes traffic congestion, and accidents cause traffic congestion and vice versa. …”
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Regards sur le séisme de Mexico de septembre 2017 : permanences et décalages par rapport à la catastrophe de 1985 by Jean-François Valette

“…Finally, we will show how the urban dynamics of the last decades raise issues of vulnerabilities and exacerbated inequalities, highlighted by the recent earthquake.…”
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Sustainable mobility as a climate adaptation response in protected world heritage areas using Perception of Outstanding Universal Value: The Case of Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta... by Kresnanto Nindyo Cahyo, Putri Wika Harisa, Raharti Rini, Luthfiana Della Nanda

“…The Cosmological Axis of Yogyakarta was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023, highlighting its Outstanding Universal Value (OUV). However, rapid urbanization and increased vehicle emissions threaten the area’s cultural and environmental sustainability. …”
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Thermal and Acoustic Design of a Shelter for High-Voltage Electrical Equipment by Somayan Basu, Edoardo Piana

“…The growing demand for electric energy requires smarter and quicker distribution systems. In urban contexts, a smarter distribution of electric power to various classes of consumers, according to their demands, is possible through compact sorters. …”
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Performance and Analysis of FCN, U-Net, and SegNet in Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Based on the LoveDA Dataset by Yang Shuhao

“…This study utilizes the LoveDA dataset to investigate the segmentation performance of three classic deep learning models: Fully Convolutional Networks(FCN), U-Net, and SegNet, in both urban and rural scenarios. By partitioning the Urban-Rural dataset of LoveDA for training and testing, it was determined that SegNet excels in detail restoration and boundary handling, while U-Net demonstrates robust adaptability across various scenarios. …”
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