The assessment of the use of vehicles with different types of drive in car-sharing systems by Ewelina Sendek-Matysiak

“…Over the past decades, many solutions have been developed to support the reduction of car traffic, most of which are implemented in urban areas, including short-term car rental services - car-sharing. …”
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Optimizing network locations of weigh-in-motion stations: A multi-objective approach for enhancing infrastructure management by Chan Yang, Tu Lan, Patrick Lou, Hani Nassif, Kaan Ozbay, Chaekuk Na

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Trends in vegetation cover changes in Bonny area of the Niger Delta by A Adoki

“…Secondary Forest (Forest II) covered 11.18km2 in 1986, but increased to 43.49km2 in 1998 and decreased to 23.30km2 in 2007. Urban/Industrial/Sand class had a steady increase across the epochs. …”
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TCF7L2 gene polymorphism in populations of f ive Siberian ethnic groups by L. E. Tabikhanova, L. P. Osipova, T. V. Churkina, E. N. Voronina, M. L. Filipenko

“…The transition from a traditional to an urbanized lifestyle leads to a higher incidence of civilizational diseases associated with metabolic disorders, including type 2 diabetes mellitus. …”
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Riesgo de contagio por COVID-19 en un entorno urbano (Málaga, noviembre del 2020) by Ángel Miramontes Carballada, Rubén Lois González, María Jesús Perles Roselló, Jesús Miranda Páez

“…Contagion risk by COVID-19 in an urban environment (Málaga, November 2020) The pandemic has revitalized and given a new perspective to territorial approaches to risk sharing, and the importance of the where and when. …”
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Impact of power ultrasound on the quality of leafy green produce through a multifrequency, multimode, modulated system by Bin Zhou, J. Atilio de Frias, Yaguang Luo, Jorge M. Fonseca, Hao Feng

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Population- and Gender-Based Investigation for Prevalence of Helicobacter pylori in Dhamar, Yemen by Dhary A. Almashhadany, Sara M. Mayas, Hero I. Mohammed, Abdulwahed A. Hassan, Izhar U. H. Khan

“…Of the total 460, 215 rural (male: n = 120 and female: n = 95) and 245 urban (male: n = 130 and female: n = 115) specimens were investigated for identification of H. pylori by serological test using Helicobacter pylori stool antigen (HpSA) test. …”
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Variable factors in literary critical evaluation (on the examples of selected literary critical polemics from the 1930s and 1940s) by Martin Makara

“…These include Hmly na úsvite (Mists at dawn, 1930) by Milo Urban, Kus cukru (A lump of sugar, 1934) by Peter Jilemnický, Cesta zarúbaná (Blocked road, 1934) by Fraňo Kráľ, Kamarát Jašek (My friend Jašek, 1937) by Dobroslav Chrobák, and the poetry of Slovak Nadrealism.…”
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Determinants of Health Seeking Behavior among Caregivers of Infants Admitted with Acute Childhood Illnesses at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya by Winfred Muringi Wambui, Samuel Kimani, Eunice Odhiambo

“…Caregivers who resided in urban setting and/or near a health facility were linked to immediate health seeking. …”
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Identifying high-risk population segments for underweight, overweight, and obesity among reproductive-age women in sub-Saharan Africa by Amare Abera Tareke, Amare Abera Tareke, Anissa Mohammed, Amare Muche, Yeshimebet Ali

“…In designing interventions for overweight and obesity, emphasis should be given to the wealthy, reproductive-age women in later age, urban residents, and multiparous. Whereas the poorest and youngest is priority intervention segments for underweight.…”
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Molybdate delays sulphide formation in the sediment and transfer to the bulk liquid in a model shrimp pond by Torun, Funda, Hostins, Barbara, De Schryver, Peter, Boon, Nico, De Vrieze, Jo

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Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 (HSV-2) and Cytomegalovirus (CMV) among Women with Macerated Stillbirth: A Cross-Sectional Hospital-Based Study from Mwanza, Tanzania by Helmut A. Nyawale, Elieza Chibwe, Fridolin Mujuni, Lidya Maiga, Albert Silvin, Alda Ester Chongo, Bertrand Msemwa, Vitus Silago, Mtebe Majigo, Doreen Kamori, Stephen E. Mshana, Mariam M. Mirambo

“…Significant proportion of women with macerated stillbirth residing in urban and with low age have HCMV and HSV antibodies, respectively. …”
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A holistic exploration of porous asphalt mixtures: From durability and permeability to low-temperature and functional properties by Yue Zhou, Zhiqiang Cheng, Xiaoguang Zheng, Tao Wang, Xiaoliang Wu, Xiaoxiao Yu, Shengjia Xie

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A methodology to compile multi-hazard interrelationships in a data-scarce setting: an application to the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal by H. E. Thompson, J. C. Gill, R. Šakić Trogrlić, F. E. Taylor, B. D. Malamud

“…<p>This paper introduces a multifaceted methodology to identify and compile single natural hazards and multi-hazard interrelationships within the context of data-scarce urban settings, exemplified by the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. …”
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Human and Nature Effects Detection on the Environmental Properties of Archaeological Historic Cairo City in Egypt Based on Space and Ground Remote Sensing Data by Abdelaziz Elfadaly, Osama Wafa, Ahmed Gad, Hossam Khedr, Ghada Atta

“…., flooding events, high temperatures, and land subsidence phenomena) and anthropogenic (e.g., rapid random urbanization process). These factors played a major role in increasing the groundwater level beneath these sites, causing serious damage to them. …”
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Carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic risk estimation of indoor TVOCs, RSPM, FPM and SFPM on young women dwellers: a case study from the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India by Farheen Zehra, Samridhi Dwivedi, Mohd Akbar Ali, P. S. Rajinikanth, Alfred Lawrence

“…Indoor monitoring was conducted from November 2022 to February 2023 in six different urban households of Lucknow, capital city of Uttar Pradesh state of India. …”
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Estimating rare disease prevalence and costs in the USA: a cohort study approach using the Healthcare Cost Institute claims data by Keith A Crandall, Christine M Cutillo, Ainslie Tisdale, Mahdi Baghbanzadeh, Reva L Stidd, Manpreet S Khural, Laurie J Hartman, Jeff Greenberg, Kevin B Zhang, Ali Rahnavard

“…Significant heterogeneity in each of these factors was found across RDs, geography and locality (eg, urban and rural). Building capabilities to use machine learning to accelerate the diagnosis of RDs would vastly improve with changes to healthcare data, such as standardising data input, linking databases, addressing privacy issues and assigning ICD-10 codes for all RDs, resulting in more robust data for RD analytics.…”
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Contribution of the Geodiversity knowledge to social, economic, and environmental health development by Cassio Silva, Edson Farias Mello, Gilberto Dias Calaes, Patricia Duringer Jacques, André Luiz Invernizzi

“…In the field of public health, geoscientific knowledge helps ensure the quality of water, soil, and air. In urban planning, it guides land-use restrictions or expansion. …”
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Knowledge and attitude among Egyptian medical students regarding the role of human papillomavirus vaccine in prevention of oropharyngeal cancer: a questionnaire-based observational... by Mohammed. N. Abdelaziz, Abdullah Hefnawy, Hajer Azzam, Omar Reisha, Omar Hamdy

“…There was a clear fair attitude regarding the HPV vaccination, especially among urban male students with a mean age of 21.64 ± 1.65 enrolled in clinical years mostly in Cairo, Sharqia, and Alex governorates. …”
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Regional Medical Campuses in Canada by Aaron Johnston, Amanda Bell, Kristy Penner, Trushar Patel, Grace Perez

“…Results: We found that Canadian RMCs have been deployed into a wide variety of small to medium size urban settings and have a variety of organizational profiles. …”
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