Florida's Water Resources by Tara Wade, Tatiana Borisova

“…Drought and water shortages in the state have caused urban planners and policy makers to pay closer attention to water use, water supply development, and water resource management. …”
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Entre o comércio e a governação local. Fernão Gonçalves Façanha: um mercador eborense de finais da Idade Média by Joaquim Bastos Serra

“…This is a powerful businessman who held various positions in the municipal administration and in other urban institutions and played a relevant role in the public life of the city. …”
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Assessment and Diagnosis of Musculoskeletal Shoulder Disorders over the Internet by Leah Steele, Hannah Lade, Stephanie McKenzie, Trevor G. Russell

“…For those living outside of urban areas, however, access to physiotherapy can be limited. …”
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El Madrid de la Bestia : l’apocalypse urbaine d’Álex de la Iglesia by Diane Bracco

“…Through the deployment of strategies of grotesque distortion, de la Iglesia invites us to see in his filmic re-elaboration of the metropolis the metonymy of a Spain that has lost all its points of reference: while taking possession of the urban landscape, integrated into a spectacular production, de la Iglesia lifts the veil on the paradoxes of a postindustrial society which longs for modernization, at the dawn of the third millennium, although it still harbours the residues of a dictatorial past that the advent of democracy has not enabled to eradicate.…”
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Through Infrastructure: Pneumatic Transport and the Continuity of the Technical Fix from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-first Century by Laura Meneghello

“…In fact, air pollution occupies a crucial position in the hierarchy of urban problems. The article analyses sustainability discourses related with nineteenth-century atmospheric railways and similar air-driven transport solutions up to the present day, showing how techno-scientific plans and utopian representations put forward the idea that environmental problems could be solved through technology. …”
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FRAGSTATS: A Free Tool for Quantifying and Evaluating Spatial Patterns by Benxin Chen, Basil V. Iannone III

“… Human activities such as urbanization and agriculture have triggered rapid land cover change, resulting in the loss of natural ecosystems. …”
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Optimization Model of Traffic Sensor Layout considering Traffic Big Data by Xu Sun, Zixiu Bai, Kun Lin, Pengpeng Jiao, HuaPu Lu

“…In order to improve the accuracy, reliability, and economy of urban traffic information collection, an optimization model of traffic sensor layout is proposed in this paper. …”
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Del papel en blanco y negro al Do it yourself digital. La evolución de la prensa graffitera en Madrid by Celeste Martín-Juan

“…Madrid has witnessed, since the seventies, the socio-cultural transformation of Spanish society and the emergence of different urban cultures (Rock, Punk, Heavy, etc.). At the same time, the city has seen the emergence of a new independent press movement specialized in these new cultural movements, such as fanzines. …”
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Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City by Ryan Love

“…This trend is seen as attendant to still larger city-transformative processes of gentrification and neoliberalisation, or ‘urban entrepreneurialism.’ The essay concludes, finally, with an exposition of the central challenges at hand, and presents an alternative envisioning of participation as a mode of nonintegrative or counterhegemonic praxis.…”
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Espaces de l’insécurité : réalités territoriales et réponses locales à la délinquance by Igor Lefèvre

“…It thus questioned the relevance of the résidentialist paradigm (that is to say, the assumption of a crime would depend in form and intensity of urban, sociological , economic and demographic patterns and trends) and its impact on work organization and missions of law enforcement forces, but also all the local actors involved in security policy and crime prevention. …”
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De la matière conquérante à la matière troublante by Ilona Woronow

“…To conclude, comparing the discourse on matter in both urban and rural settings allows us to interpret formal achievements as a response to the second facet of fascination – anxiety.…”
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Evaluation of the Fresh and Hardened Properties of Steel Fibre Reinforced Self-Compacting Concrete Using Recycled Aggregates as a Replacement Material by N. Nalanth, P. Vincent Venkatesan, M. S. Ravikumar

“…In this world of rapid urbanization the demand for natural construction materials is increasing day by day which has created a necessity for alternative construction materials. …”
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Le LiDAR : vers une meilleure connaissance des paysages du karst by Kamila Bensaadi, Anne Hecker

“…This lack of knowledge, and particularly the lack of knowledge of the ordinary open-air karst, leads to it being neglected by elected representatives and urban planners. For a long time, knowledge of this landscape involved major field studies which were complex and lacked exhaustivity because of natural obstacles. …”
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Modeling Pan Evaporation for Kuwait by Multiple Linear Regression by Jaber Almedeij

“…The data used here for the modeling are daily measurements of substantial continuity coverage, within a period of 17 years between January 1993 and December 2009, which can be considered representative of the desert climate of the urban zone of the country. Multiple linear regression technique is used with a procedure of variable selection for fitting the best model forms. …”
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Mandatory Lane Changing for Bus Exiting by Ronghan Yao, Xiaojing Du, Wenyan Qi, Li Sun

“…This research provides some references for intelligent decision-making of lane changing in urban public transportation.…”
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Evolutionary Analysis of Innovation Development in a Metropolitan Area from a Symbiosis Perspective: Empirical Research on the Shanghai Metropolitan Area by Quanxiang Xue, Can Liu, Min Zhao, Jie Wu

“…We used the Shanghai metropolitan area as a sample for empirical analysis to explore the evolution of the comprehensive development level of urban innovation under different symbiotic relationships. …”
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Apports de l’imagerie satellite pour le suivi de l’impact des événements cycloniques à Madagascar by Thibault Catry, Christophe Révillion, Pascal Mouquet, Gwenaëlle Pennober

“…The synergetic use of optical and SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) sensors, with high temporal and spatial resolution allowed to : (i) carry out a near-real time monitoring of floods caused by Haruna during the crisis and a characterization of water level subsidence in post-crisis (combining SPOT 5, RADARSAT-2 and Pléiades images), (ii) a mapping of floods related to Enawo in urban areas and in rice fields in the regions of Sambava and Maroantsetra (combining Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and participatory mapping).…”
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Nursing Home Resident Symptomatology Triggering Transfer: Avoiding Unnecessary Hospitalizations by Alyce S. Ashcraft, Jane Dimmitt Champion

“…A retrospective chart review of documented transfers was conducted at a 120-bed, nonprofit urban Continuing Care Retirement Center nursing home facility located in the southwestern United States. …”
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Road Markings and Their Impact on Driver Behaviour and Road Safety: A Systematic Review of Current Findings by Dario Babić, Mario Fiolić, Darko Babić, Timothy Gates

“…The aim of this paper is to provide a systematic review of the most significant academic activities to date regarding the influence of longitudinal and transverse road markings as well as road markings for hazard locations (curves, intersections, and rural-urban transitions) on driver’s behaviour and overall road safety. …”
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A Dynamic Control Method for Signalized Intersections Using the Flow Fluctuation Amplitude by Jiayu Hang, Xizhao Zhou, Jiawen Wang

“…Intersections are a vital component of the urban road network. Their use is essential for traffic efficiency and operational stability. …”
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