Correction Method for Resuspended Road Dust Emission Factors according to Vehicle Speed Using a Mobile Monitoring Vehicle by Sang-Hee Woo, Hyoungjoon Jang, Seung-Bok Lee, Juyoung Jeong, Choonghwan Lee, Seokhwan Lee

“…A mobile monitoring vehicle was used to determine the EFs of resuspended road dust from motorways and urban and rural roads in the Daejeon metropolitan of Korea. …”
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Analysis of COVID-19 Lockdown to Understand Air Pollution Processes and Their Impacts on Health: A Case Study in the Western Balkans by Claudio A. Belis, Djordje Djatkov, Martina Toceva, Jasmina Knezevic, Gordana Djukanovic, Aneta Stefanovska, Nikola Golubov, Biljana Jovic, Andreas Gavros

“…To that end, observations from 10 urban sites were compared with historical time series. …”
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Adsorptive removal of toxic heavy metal and dyes from wastewater by rice husk (lignocellulosic biomass) derived activated biochar: A fixed-bed column adsorption study by Md. Mahmudur Rahman, Mohd. Maniruzzaman, Nor ealam, Parvej Mahmud, Sumiya Khatun, Md. Kaowsar Hossain, Md. Ismail Hossain, Md. Hasanuzzaman, Md. Ashraful Alam, Md. Al-amin, Bijoy Chandra Ghos

“…Rapid industrialization/urbanization has been marked as a responsible factor for the creation of bulky effluent which is loaded with several harmful toxicants resulting in a hursh damage to the ecosystem and public safety/secuerity. …”
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Evaluating the potential of Nature-based solutions to mitigate land use and climate change impacts on the hydrology of the Gefersa and Legedadi watersheds in Ethiopia by Yared Bayissa, Raghavan Srinivasan, Johannes Hunink, Douglas Nyolei, Semu Moges, David de Andrade Costa, Dereje Tadesse, Assefa Melesse, Seifu Tilahun

“…New hydrological insights for the region: The results of the land use change analysis revealed a shift between 2012, 2022 and 2042, with a significant expansion of urban settlements and a decline in forestland and vegetation cover. …”
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High‐Resolution Downscaling of Disposable Income in Europe Using Open‐Source Data by Mehdi Mikou, Améline Vallet, Céline Guivarch, David Makowski

“…More broadly, this data set offers an opportunity to explore the relationships between economic inequality and environmental degradation in health, adaptation or urban planning sectors. It can also facilitate the development of future income maps that align with the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways, and ultimately enable the assessment of future climate risks.…”
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Multi-scenario simulation and eco-environmental effect analysis of “Production–Living–Ecological space” based on PLUS model: A case study of Anyang City by Li Lei, Li Genming, Ji Guangxing, Li Qingsong, Zhang Zhihao, Chen Weiqiang

“…The change rate of the ecological protection scenario is the smallest, and the decrease rate of the urban development scenario is the largest. (3) In 2060, all three scenarios show varying degrees of reduction in the Ecological environment quality index (EQI) compared to 2020. …”
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Suppression of Aedes aegypti may not affect sympatric Aedes albopictus populations: findings from two years of entomological surveillance in Singapore by Wei Jian Wong, Cheong Huat Tan, Matthew Gregory Verkaik, Lee Ching Ng, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Chee-Seng Chong

“…Here we investigate these concerns within the context of a Wolbachia-based Ae. aegypti suppression programme in highly urban Singapore, where general mosquito management is sustained through environmental management. …”
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Assessing physical activity/behavior of adolescents living in the Pacific with accelerometer data: 231 GENEActiv records in New CaledoniaZenodoZenodoZenodoZenodoZenodoZenodoZenodo by Guillaume Wattelez, Stéphane Frayon, Olivier Galy

“…This paper presents a dataset related to the physical activity behavior of 206 adolescents (107 females and 99 males) from 11 to 16 years old and 25 adults (13 females and 12 males) living in rural (77 adolescents and 15 adults) and urban (129 adolescents and 10 adults) parts of New Caledonia, an archipelago of the South Pacific. …”
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Predictive Analytics of In-Service Bridge Structural Performance from SHM Data Mining Perspective: A Case Study by Qiwen Jin, Zheng Liu, Junchi Bin, Weixin Ren

“…With the consideration of different characteristics, three targeted analysis methods are proposed. An urban concrete-filled steel tube (CFST) truss girder bridge (opened to traffic in 1995) is also presented, which once experienced some prominent vibration problems. …”
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Hospital Surgical Volume, Utilization, Costs and Outcomes of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testis Cancer by Hua-yin Yu, Nathanael D. Hevelone, Sunil Patel, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Jim C. Hu

“…RPLND was more commonly performed at large urban teaching hospitals, where men were younger, more likely to be white and earning incomes exceeding the 50th percentile (all P≤.05). …”
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Research on Dewatering Ability of Municipal Sludge under the Treatment of Coupled Acid and Microwave by Xudong Zhang, Peng Ye, Yajun Wu, Zhen Guo, Yuan Huang, Xingtao Zhang, Yuncong Sun, Haiqiang Zhang

“…Municipal sludge is a by-product of urban sewage treatment; it has high water content and contains many hydrophilic extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). …”
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STURM-Flood: a curated dataset for deep learning-based flood extent mapping leveraging Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 imagery by Nicla Notarangelo, Charlotte Wirion, Frankwin van Winsen

“…Flooding is a major global natural disaster exacerbated by climate change and urbanization. Timely assessment and mapping of inundations are crucial for preventive and emergency measures, driving the demand for curated global geospatial data to implement novel algorithms. …”
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The algorithm for foggy weather target detection based on YOLOv5 in complex scenes by Zhaohui Liu, Wenshuai Hou, Wenjing Chen, Jiaxiu Chang

“…Abstract With the rapid development of urbanization and global climate warming, complex environments and adverse weather conditions pose significant challenges to the accuracy of object detection and driving safety in autonomous driving systems. …”
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Boundary Extraction Based on Dual Stream Deep Learning Model in High Resolution Remote Sensing Images by Umut Aydar, Emin Özgür Avşar, Özgün Akçay, A. Cumhur Kınacı

“…Boundary extraction in remote sensing has an important task in studies such as environmental observa-tion, risk management and monitoring urban growth. Although significant progress has been made in the different calculation methods proposed, there are issues that need improvement, especially in terms of accuracy, efficiency and speed. …”
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Molecular identification of Newcastle disease virus isolated on the poultry farm of the Moscow Oblast in summer of 2022 by А. А. Treshchalina, А. А. Rtishchev, Е. Yu. Shustova, А. V. Belyakova, A. S. Gambaryan, Е. Yu. Boravleva

“…In August 2022, a sudden death in backyard chickens was reported in the Moscow Oblast (urban district Chernogolovka, settlement Starki). …”
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Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Service Utilization among Pregnant Women in Northeast Ethiopia: A Cross-Sectional Survey by Betregiorgis Zegeye, Gorems Lemma, Abebe Balcha, Mitku Mammo Taderegew

“…The mean ages of the respondents were 24 (±5.6) years, and the majority of the respondents (287 (80.8%)) were urban residents. In this study, prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission service utilization rate was 86.8%. …”
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Radiation-Associated Toxicities in Obese Women with Endometrial Cancer: More Than Just BMI? by Savita V. Dandapani, Ying Zhang, Richard Jennelle, Yvonne G. Lin

“…A retrospective study identified 96 women with EC referred to a large urban institution’s radiation oncology practice for postoperative whole pelvic radiotherapy (WPRT) and/or intracavitary vaginal brachytherapy (ICBT). …”
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Explicit Form of Exact Analytical Solution for Calculating Ground Displacement and Stress Induced by Shallow Tunneling and Its Application by Caixia Guo, Kaihang Han, Heng Kong, Leilei Shi

“…In urban environment, it is often unavoidable for shallow tunnels to be constructed adjacent to existing pile foundations. …”
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Assessment of Energy Potential and Benefit under the Ground Source Heat Pump Air Conditioning System in Anqing Area of Eastern China by Qing Zhang, Yunfeng Li, Jian Hua, Xiaonan Niu, Lili Hou, Zongfang Chen, Weiya Ge

“…In order to optimize the planning layout and geographical space development in the eastern new town of Anqing city, which can realize the transformation and upgrading of real space and urban sustainable development, the exploration for shallow geothermal energy will be carried out in this area, so as to find out the comprehensive thermophysical parameters of the shallow rock-soil body and the heat transfer capacity of the vertical heat exchanger, etc. …”
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Robust Traffic Signal Retiming Based on Queue Service Time Estimation Using Low-Penetration Connected Vehicle Data by Chengchuan An, Weihua Zhang, Yinpu Wang, Siping Ke, Jingxin Xia

“…Signal retiming is the most cost-efficient measure to reduce vehicle delay and alleviate congestion on urban roads. Previous studies have explored the potential of using connected vehicle data for signal retiming specifically under the current low-penetration environment, which will significantly reduce the cost and increase the productivity of signal retiming. …”
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