Assessing Damage and Restoring Trees After a Hurricane by Edward F. Gilman, Mary L. Duryea, Eliana Kampf, Traci Jo Partin, Astrid Delgado, Carol J. Lehtola

“…Duryea, Eliana Kampf, Traci Jo Partin, Astrid Delgado, and Carol Lehtola was funded by the Florida Division of Forestry and the USDA Forest Service, Southern Region as part of the Urban Forest Hurricane Recovery Program. Includes sections with guidelines for chainsaw safety, how to hire tree care professionals, how to tell which damaged trees can recover and which should be removed, how to restore trees to health after a hurricane by pruning -- both immediately after the storm and after few years' growth, specialized information for dealing with palm and pine trees, how to prevent damage by using effective design and management practices, and lists of decay resistant and wind resistant tree species for Florida. …”
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Środowiskowe aspekty procesów poszukiwania i wydobycia gazu ze złóż niekonwencjonalnych typu shale gas by Monika Wójcik

“…The degree of potential environmental impact depends especially on location and size of a drilling rig, level of urbanization of an area, sensitivity of environment to pollution, and type of technological operations which depends on shale formation. …”
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Mobile Off-grid Achitecture. A potential tool for the resilience of rural communities in the event of natural disasters by Shota Tajima, Satoko Nasu

“…In order to cope with the effects of climate change that have severely affected human lives and natural ecosystems, to counter population ageing, migration to larger urban centres and the inefficiency of outdated infrastructure, Japan’s rural areas need to increase their resilience to ensure human continuity in their territories. …”
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Simulation and prediction of the expansion of OpenStreetMap building data based on the Markov-FLUS model in Shenzhen, China by Sidan Chen, Lingjia Liu, Kaixiang Li, Xiaohui Ding, Wei Jiang

“…OpenStreetMap (OSM), an open, crowdsourced geographic information platform, holds significant potential in fields like urban planning and resource management. Currently, most research focuses primarily on data quality issues, without considering the evolution of OSM buildings. …”
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Digital economy and coal consumption in emerging Asian economies by Minjing Zhu, Lei Zhu

“…The inflation rate inversely affects coal consumption, indicating economic instability, while GDP growth is positively related, fueled by increased economic activity and urbanization. The study recommends prioritizing initiatives to boost high-tech imports and address the positive links between e-banking payments and ICT expenditure. …”
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Wind Tunnel Measurement of Turbulent and Advective Scalar Fluxes: A Case Study on Intersection Ventilation by Libor Kukačka, Štĕpán Nosek, Radka Kellnerová, Klára Jurčáková, Zbyněk Jaňour

“…The objective of this study is to determine processes of pollution ventilation in the X-shaped street intersection in an idealized symmetric urban area for the changing approach flow direction. …”
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A Spatially Extended Model for Residential Segregation by Antonio Aguilera, Edgardo Ugalde

“…We analyze urban spatial segregation phenomenon in terms of the income distribution over a population, and an inflationary parameter weighting the evolution of housing prices. …”
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Estação Carandiru e o mundo construído pelas formas de nomeação by Maria Aparecida Silva Ribeiro

“…Joined by the set of texts whose authors are mostly beginners and which comprises also Cidade de Deus by Paulo Lins, Pavilhão Nove by Hosmany Ramos and Capão Pecado by Ferréz, among others, the novel presents a urban reality, contemporary, realistic and violent according to the common sense that guided their reports. …”
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From below: the work experience of youths in low-income homes by Margarita Estrada, Julieta Sierra, Lourdes Salazar

“…From this perspective and grounded in 74 case studies in 27 urban and rural localities in the country in 2017, this article studies the diversity of work experiences that these adolescents have lived. …”
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De la pleine terre sous le terre-plein : géomorphologie du polder de la rive droite de Bordeaux by TVK, Pierre Alain Trévelo, Antoine Viger-Kohler, David Malaud, Phoebe Eddleston, Amandine Nana

“…These types of projects which are now for the most part developed within a context of limiting urban sprawl require an in-depth geomorphological understanding of the landscape. …”
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¿Donde esta el pollo? Cuba, sovranità alimentare e ontologia della scarsezza by Elena Zapponi

“…The analysis focuses on changes rooted in the long-lasting crisis that followed the 1990s and on an 'ontology of scarcity', a consequence of the pandemic, the exacerbated economic crisis, and the recent reorganisation of the monetary system; a time marked by an increased sense of daily lucha on the part of citizens who experience supply difficulties, urban peregrinations in search of food, and an unprecedented migratory exodus. …”
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Influence of Local Sand on the Physicomechanical Comportment and Durability of High Performance Concrete by Nadia Tebbal, Zine El Abidine Rahmouni

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A Path-Based Gradient Projection Algorithm for the Cost-Based System Optimum Problem in Networks with Continuously Distributed Value of Time by Wen-Xiang Wu, Hai-Jun Huang

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Sol LeWitt. The Conceptuality of Drawing by Paolo Belardi

“…In the first fax, dated March 22, 1995, LeWitt (at the time residing for long periods in Spoleto) tells his friend Bruno Corà (then professor of Art History in the Academy) about the delivery of the maquette of a work created specifically for Perugia [1]: an ‘open cube’ (the solid form most loved by LeWitt [2]) which, as an element of the exhibition project City and Art, aimed at injecting viral works into extra moenia urban areas of symbolic interest, was to be exhibited in the portico of the large public building built in those same years by Aldo Rossi and located on the western side of the Piazza Nuova in Fontivegge [3]. …”
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The Flâneur’s Scopic Power or the Victorian Dream of Transparency by Estelle Murail

“…This article focuses on the dream of transparency which pervaded the nineteenth-century literary cityscape, and which, I argue, is embodied in the figure of the flâneur, the ubiquitous observer of urban life. To shed light on the function and makeup of this enigmatic figure, I analyze the flâneur through the lens of transparency and through the prism of three objects which use transparency as their core functioning principle. …”
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Water Sensitivity and Structural Properties of Loess by Longfei Zhang, Zaiqiang Hu, Hongru Li, Haicheng She, Xiaoliang Wang, Xi Yang, Xiaoning Han

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Ethical Reflections on the Application of Artificial Intelligence in the Construction of Smart Cities by Bingjie Wang

“…This study based on actor-network theory (ANT) showcases the application practices of artificial intelligence in smart city, including smart transportation, smart water management, smart healthcare, smart grids, and smart city evaluation standards, and analyzes the process of constructing an actor-network involving governments, technology development companies, and urban residents. It demonstrates the interactive network processes such as problem statement, interest alignment, recruitment, and mobilization. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of a Displacement-Amplified Torsional Damper by Huimin Mao, Xueyuan Yan, Xiangliang Ning, Shen Shi

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Rutas de extracción. Caminos antiguos, comunidades, arqueología y Estado en Bolivia by Juan Villanueva

“…These historical references serve to justify natural and cultural extractive politics through tourism, which the Bolivian state executes from its urban centers, especially Andean ones. Archaeological practices and discourses serve the function of the State at the expense of community relations with their roads and pasts.…”
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Finite-Time Admissibility and Controller Design for T-S Fuzzy Stochastic Singular Systems with Distinct Differential Term Matrices by Liang Qiao, Zhaomin Lv

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