Effect of Chemical and Physical Properties of River Water in Shatt Al-Hilla on Phytoplankton Communities by Fikrat M. Hassan, Nuha F. Kathim, Falah H. Hussein

“…The study was revealed the city sewage discharge, agriculture and urban run-off were affecting the water quality of Shatt Al-Hilla.…”
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Racial Differences by Ischemic Stroke Subtype: A Comprehensive Diagnostic Approach by Sarah Song, Richard E. Burgess, Chelsea S. Kidwell

“…Methods. 350 acute ischemic stroke patients admitted to an urban hospital with standardized comprehensive diagnostic evaluations were retrospectively analyzed. …”
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Analysis Method for Ground Settlement Induced by Ultra-Deep Excavation in Hangzhou Soft Clay Considering Time-Space Effect by XIONG Yifan, YING Hongwei, ZHANG Jinhong, CHENG Kang, LI Binghe

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Trajectory Simulation of Emergency Vehicles and Interactions with Surrounding Traffic by Cristián E. Cortés, Bruno Stefoni

“…The efficient dispatch of emergency vehicles (EMVs) requires realistic shortest-path algorithms involving the movement of EMVs within an urban network under emergency conditions. Trip-time estimates used in shortest-path algorithms would be much more precise if it were possible to model more realistically the interactions between EMVs and surrounding traffic, as well as the reactions of other vehicles in the presence of an EMV. …”
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Geospatial Design of Optimal Water Distribution Network in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria by G.C. Ufoegbune, D.O. Ayodele, A.O. Eruola, A.A. Makinde, Z.O. Ojekunle, O.O. Ilevbaoje

“… The supply of water to both rural and urban centres of Nigeria is extremely poor with reference to quantity and access. …”
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La première formation de paysagistes concepteurs en France, ruptures et continuités by Bernadette Blanchon

“…After a brief review of the reasons for its creation and of the people who were instrumental in establishing it, the description of the first period (1946-1961) focuses on architects and urban planners from the École des Beaux-Arts who taught the French tradition of garden design. …”
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THE ROLE OF PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP IN DEVELOPING CATASTROPHE INSURANCE MARKET by Darko Blazhevski

“…The conclusions suggest that the insurance of catastrophic risks should be organized as compulsory insurance for households in urban areas. Regarding the risks, we consider that compulsory insurance should cover earthquake and flood, although at the individual level the consequences of the flood affect a relatively smaller population coverage. …”
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The politics of gating (A response to Private Security and Public Space by Manzi and Smith-Bowers) by Rowland Atkinson

“…I argue that the key ‘problematic’ raised by gated communities is less one of empirical evidence on their impacts, since much work already points to a range of problems, and rather what these developments forecast for the character and dynamics of the urban spaces and societies we wish to live in. At the heart of my position lies a concern that either bolstering the case for gated communities or seeing them as neutral objects in the landscapes around us risks amplifying the further construction of impermeable boundaries. …”
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The impact of roosting birds on the abundance of two groups of soil mesofauna by Krassimira Ilieva-Makulec, Dawid Kozacki, Grzegorz Makulec

“…The aim of the study was to assess the influence of corvid urban roosts on the abundance of two groups of soil mesofauna: mites and springtails. …”
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Charging ahead: Prioritizing renewable energy for electric minibuses in the Philippines by Thomas Stringer, Sandy Mae Gaspay, Varsolo Sunio, Manuel Burelo

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PHOTOPROBER® Biotin: An Alternative Method for Labeling Archival DNA for Comparative Genomic Hybridization by Dirk Korinth, Konrad Donhuijsen, Ulrike Bockmühl, Iver Petersen

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Impact of Digital Inclusive Finance on Rural High-Quality Development: Evidence from China by Le Sun, Congmou Zhu

“…We found that digital inclusive finance plays a significant and positive role in promoting rural high-quality development, mainly through the channel of economic efficiency, urban and rural structure, green ecological development, harmony of people’s livelihood, and innovative development potential. …”
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Financial Openness, Bank Systematic Risk, and Macroprudential Supervision by Yanling Chen, Liangyu Deng, Chengliang Peng

“…Notably, the impact of financial openness on the systemic risk of joint-stock commercial banks, urban commercial banks, and rural commercial banks is more significant. …”
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Ontology-Based Representations of User Activity and Flexible Space Information: Towards an Automated Space-Use Analysis in Buildings by Xingbin Chen, Tae Wan Kim, Jiayu Chen, Bin Xue, WoonSeong Jeong

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Discussion on Optimization of Public Transportation Network Setting considering Three-State Reliability by Zhang Xiaoliang, Jia Limin

“…The research of this paper will provide a new perspective for the optimization of public transit network, complement the traditional methods, and support the optimization and reliability improvement of urban public transit network. More reliable bus networks and other modes of transportation, such as walking, bike-sharing, and rail, will become more suitable for people to get around.…”
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Evaluation of Shared Space to Reduce Traffic Congestion by Colin Frosch, David Martinelli, Avinash Unnikrishnan

“…A major pedestrian crossing location on West Virginia University’s Downtown campus along a major urban arterial was chosen as the case location upon which the model was to be built. …”
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Path-Based Approach for Expanding Rail Transit Network in a Metropolitan Area by Anjun Li, Dian Wang, Qiyuan Peng, Lisha Wang

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State Participation in Energy Security Provision of the People’s Republic of China by I. F. Rakhimyanova

“…Due to unprecedented scale industrial processes of modernization and urbanization in China, high rates of economic development, the growth of living standards, China's dependence on energy imports every year is growing significantly. …”
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Lung cancer classification with Convolutional Neural Network Architectures by Shivan H. M. Mohammed, Ahmet Çinar

“…With the continuous advancement of urbanization and industrialization, the problem of air pollution has become more and more serious. …”
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Regulatory mechanisms for underground waste disposal in Nigeria: review and implications for environmental management by Irwin Anthony Akpoborie

“…@JASEM Keywords: underground waste disposal; waste injection; urban runoff management; waste management regulations; ground water protection J. …”
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