POPULATION-BASED ASSESSMENT OF THE RECTAL CANCER STAGE STRUCTURE AND INCIDENCE AFTER IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL PROJECT “HEALTH” AND ALL-NATIONAL DISPENSARIZATION IN THE ARKHAN... by D. M. Dubovichenko, M. Y. Valkov, A. A. Karpunov, A. Yu. Pankrat'eva

“…The ASR of RC incidence in female increased significantly by 4.6% per year in 2011–2015. RC ASRs for both urban and rural populations were growing, 12.3 and 20.4 per 100000 in 2015, respectively. …”
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Youthful Choices: A Secondary Analysis of the NFHS-5 Data to Examine Tobacco Use in Indian Adolescent Girls and Young Women by Jobinse Jose, Aditi Chaudhary, Abhishek Ghosh, Sonu Goel

“…Significant determinants included age, urban residence, religion, scheduled tribe status, wealth index, education, alcohol co-use, region, and pregnancy/lactation status. …”
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Assessment of the Effect of Flooding on Agricultural Lands in Kaharo Sub-County of Kabale District South Western Uganda. by Nyakiti, Dorcas Awino

“…The study also recommended areas for further studies like assessment of the effects of flooding on agricultural production in Kaharo sub-county and assessing Vulnerability of Peri-Urban Areas to Floods.…”
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Protocol of the Nutritional, Psychosocial, and Environmental Determinants of Neurodevelopment and Child Mental Health (COINCIDE) study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Eunice Lobo, Jyothi S. Menon, Deepa R., Supriya Bhavnani, Onno CP van Schayck, Shweta Dixit, Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas, Aditi Roy, Sumathi Swaminathan, Ruby Gupta, Poornima Prabhakaran, Prashanth Thankachan, Giridhara Rathnaiah Babu, Debarati Mukherjee, Siddhartha Mandal, Gauri Divan

“…Methods A mixed-methods prospective cohort study will be conducted on 1600 caregiver-child dyads (child age 3–10 years) in urban and rural India. Nutritional status, psychosocial adversities, environmental pollutants, and child mental health outcomes will be assessed using parent-report questionnaires. …”
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Mobile health van as an intervention to provide clinical support and health promotion to street children and marginalised populations in the National Capital Region of Delhi: a mix... by Shanti Raman, Rajeev Seth, Yawar Qaiyum, Tanu Girotra Girotra, Id Mohammad, Indra Taneja

“…Background Urban health challenges, particularly for street and slum-dwelling children and families, have emerged as one of the most significant health concerns in India. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Enhancing MPPT performance for partially shaded photovoltaic arrays through backstepping control with Genetic Algorithm-optimized gains by Serge Raoul Dzonde Naoussi, Kenfack Tsobze Saatong, Reagan Jean Jacques Molu, Wulfran Fendzi Mbasso, Mohit Bajaj, Mohamed Louzazni, Milkias Berhanu, Salah Kamel

“…The presence of variable weather conditions in Maroua, including potential partial shadowing caused by cloud cover or urban buildings, poses challenges to the efficiency of solar systems. …”
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Spatial identification of regions exposed to multi-hazards at the pan-European level by T.-E. Antofie, T.-E. Antofie, S. Luoni, A. Tilloy, A. Sibilia, S. Salari, G. Eklund, D. Rodomonti, C. Bountzouklis, C. Corbane

“…We find that beyond population density, the income level (i.e. high, medium, low) is the primary driver that influences risk status at the local level, within both rural and urban areas. On average, we find higher multi-hazard exposure for people living in high-income urban areas or low-income rural areas. …”
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Seasonal Variations and Health Risk Evaluation of Trace Elements in Atmospheric PM_2.5 in Liaocheng, the North China Plain by Yanhui Wang, Zhanfang Hou, Jiangkai Ma, Xiaoting Zhang, Xuan Liu, Qizong Wang, Chen Chen, Kaiyue Yang, Jingjing Meng

“…Despite extensive research on PM_2.5, there remains a limited understanding of the seasonal variations, origins, and associated health risks of specific elements in urban areas of the North China Plain. PM_2.5 samples across four seasons were collected to investigate the seasonal variations, provenance, and health risks of 18 elements in urban Liaocheng. …”
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Changes in Tropospheric Nitrogen Dioxide Vertical Column Densities over Japan and Korea during the COVID-19 Using Pandora and MAX-DOAS by Yongjoo Choi, Yugo Kanaya, Hisahiro Takashima, Kihong Park, Haebum Lee, Jihyo Chong, Jae Hwan Kim, Jin-Soo Park

“…Abstract We investigated the impact of human activity during COVID-19 on the tropospheric nitrogen dioxide vertical column density (NO2 TropVCD) at three urban sites (Gwangju and Busan in Korea and Yokosuka in Japan) and one remote site (Cape Hedo in Japan) from Multi-Axis Differential Optical Absorption Spectroscopy (MAX-DOAS) and Pandora. …”
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Smart GNSS Integrity Monitoring for Road Vehicles: An Overview of AI Methods by Ines Viveiros, Helder Silva, Yuri Andrade, Cristiano Pendao

“…This work explores two integrity frameworks: the classical methods and their respective evolution towards the road vehicle urban scenario, and the artificial intelligence-based methods, where the monitoring process is accomplished by data analysis and learning techniques. …”
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A Bilevel Multiobjective Optimisation Approach for Solving the Evacuation Location Assignment Problem by Ahmed W. A. Hammad

“…The model incorporates the two decision-makers’ spaces, namely, urban planners and evacuees. In order to solve the proposed problem, it is first reformulated into a single-level problem using the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions. …”
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Cheminements écoliers dans un shared space : l’urbain au service des apprentissages by Melissa Bellesi, Maribel Casas

“…This paper proposes to examine the determinism that may exist between the urban configuration of the school space and the preferred modes of travel to access it : could a specific spatial arrangement around schools alleviate the congestion generated by minute drop-offs and contribute to a resurgence in the use of walking — or ‘soft’mobility — in order to make the journey between home and school a learning-rich space-time ? …”
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Ten Common Flowering Trees of the Tampa Bay Area by Gitta Hasing, Andrew K. Koeser, Gary W. Knox, Melissa H. Friedman

“… Blooming trees serve as key focal points in the urban landscape. Florida’s flowering trees can be quite spectacular and leave you wondering, Wow, what tree is that?  …”
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"Give us this day our daily bread" - clergy's lived religion in Pretoria central areas by M. Rabe, C. Lombaard

“…Based on the interviews and the diaries, the main themes that could be identified in relation to faith in their everyday lives, are responding to the challenges associated with urban ministry, including poverty and trauma, and dealing with the sometimes overwhelming experience of stress that the demands of this ministry can create. …”
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Strategie d'impresa e processi di etnicizzazione in alcuni percorsi lavorativi di migranti by Gianfranca Ranisio

“…I will consider, on the one hand, the fact that they belong to transnational communities, and on the other hand, the effects of their activities in the urban context by adapting the supply to a demand for products that can be connoted as exotic or “ethnic”. …”
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La fiscalidad sobre el consumo en una ciudad mediterránea by Lluís Sales i Favà

“…The article underlines the importance of these products in the urban economy of the period. Finally, this study describes some features about the origins of the Lleuda and its mechanics.…”
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Migrant integration in the EU. The role of place-based policies by Carlotta Fioretti, Paola Proietti, Guido Tintori

“…It highlights the EU's recognition of cities in this process and investigates EU-funded policies for urban and local development that foster migrant inclusion. …”
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The Fado Museum: Heritage Infrastructure or Tourist Attraction? by Salwa El-Shawan Castelo-Branco, Iñigo Sánchez-Fuarros

“…By recognizing the importance of the Fado Museum in the institutionalization and legimitization of fado as city heritage —and its significance to the social and symbolic production of Alfama as a fado neighborhood—, we ultimately aim to problematize the function of this kind of heritage infrastructures in the complex relationship between tourism, heritagization, and urban regeneration in the era of overtourism.…”
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Ten Common Flowering Trees of the Tampa Bay Area by Gitta Hasing, Andrew K. Koeser, Gary W. Knox, Melissa H. Friedman

“… Blooming trees serve as key focal points in the urban landscape. Florida’s flowering trees can be quite spectacular and leave you wondering, Wow, what tree is that?  …”
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Isolation of Streptococcus bovis in a Patient with Undiagnosed Colon Cancer. A Case Report by Ledys Pérez Morales, Jorge Emilio Barletta del Castillo, Odette Quiñones Cherta

“…Hence, it was decided to present the case of a 57-year-old patient from an urban area with a 6-year history of diabetes mellitus type I and alcoholism, who was admitted to the hospital in Cienfuegos because of significant gastrointestinal bleeding and fever (39-40 o C). …”
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