Internet of things enabled parking management system using long range wide area network for smart city by Waheb A. Jabbar, Lu Yi Tiew, Nadiah Y. Ali Shah

“…Practical testing of IoT-SPMS-LoRaWAN under various scenarios validates its merits in terms of functionality, ease of use, reliable data transmission, and precision. Its urban implementation is expected to alleviate traffic congestion, optimize parking utilization, and elevate awareness about available parking spaces among users. …”
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Object-Level Contrastive-Learning-Based Multi-Branch Network for Building Change Detection from Bi-Temporal Remote Sensing Images by Shiming Li, Fengtao Yan, Cheng Liao, Qingfeng Hu, Kaifeng Ma, Wei Wang, Hui Zhang

“…Buildings are fundamental elements of human environments, and detecting changes in them is crucial for land cover studies, urban expansion monitoring, and the detection of illegal construction activities. …”
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Socioeconomic status and delayed surgery: impact on non-metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma outcomes by Kun Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Jianyong Lei, Anping Su, Tao Wei, Zhihui Li, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen, Ya-Wen Chen

“…Kaplan–Meier survival curve, Cox proportional hazard regression, competing risk hazard regression, and multinomial logistic regression were applied.ResultsReceiving neck dissection or radioactive iodine therapy, being married at diagnosis, living in an urban area, being richer, and being of other minority ethnicity were estimated to be independent predictors for better overall survival. …”
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First Graduated Women Architects and Urbanists in Eastern Mediterranean Europe 1900-2000. The Cases of Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey by Inés Novella Abril, Inés Sánchez de Madariaga

“…Similarly, all this has an impact on architecture and urban planning; from the type and focus of projects and plans that are developed as a priority, to the people who are recognised and validated by architectural culture and its historical narrative. …”
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Comparative study of DRASTIC-LU and radioactive isotope approaches for assessing groundwater vulnerability to pollution: the case study of Abuja, North Central Nigeria by Mary Nsikanabasi Etuk, Priscilla E. S. Lartsey, Raphael Maduka, Chinero Nneka Ayogu, Igwe ogbonnaya

“…Abstract Groundwater resources in Abuja, North Central Nigeria, are facing increasing vulnerability to pollution due to urbanization and anthropogenic activity. There are several methods of assessing groundwater vulnerability to contamination. …”
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The optimal route search in Bengaluru city transport using Hamilton circuit algorithm by Parkavi S, Parthiban A

“…The lack of additional road capacity also makes it worse. As a result, many urban road traffic situations, particularly in Bengaluru city in India, are approaching saturation, characterized as the situation where the number of cars using a road is equal to its capacity (V/C=1). …”
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Hypertension, an Emerging Problem in Rural Cameroon: Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Control by Walters Tabi Arrey, Christian Akem Dimala, Julius Atashili, Josephine Mbuagbaw, Gottlieb Lobe Monekosso

“…Despite the increasing trends suggesting that hypertension is a growing public health problem in developing countries, studies on its prevalence, associated risk factors, and extent of blood pressure control have been inequitably done in urban and rural communities in these countries. We therefore aimed to determine the prevalence of hypertension and extent of blood pressure control in rural Cameroon. …”
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Developing Targeted Health Service Interventions Using the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model: Two Australian Case Studies by Jane L. Phillips, John X. Rolley, Patricia M. Davidson

“…Using a reflective case study approach, this paper examines the applicability of the PRECEDE-PROCEED Model to the development of targeted chronic care improvement interventions for two distinct Australian populations: a rapidly expanding and aging rural population with unmet palliative care needs and a disadvantaged urban community at higher risk of cardiovascular disease. …”
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Structural Competency: A Faculty Development Workshop Series for Anti-racism in Medical Education by Shani R. Scott, Cristina M. Gonzalez, Chenshu Zhang, Iman Hassan

“…Methods We delivered four 90-minute workshops at an urban academic medical center from March through April of 2021. …”
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Variation in the quality of charcoal from Acacia decurrens (J.C. Wendl.) Willd. with age and longitudinal stem portions by Minichil Mengistu, Yashwant S. Rawat, Anteneh T. Tekleyohannes, Sisay F. Asfaw

“…Charcoal is a primary source of fuel for urban and rural households in Ethiopia. Fast growing trees like Acacia decurrens (J.C. …”
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Falciparum Malaria in Febrile Patients at Sentinel Sites for Influenza Surveillance in the Central African Republic from 2015 to 2018 by Romaric Nzoumbou-Boko, Brice Martial Yambiyo, Carine Ngoagouni, Ulrich Vickos, Alexandre Manirakiza, Emmanuel Nakouné

“…Moreover, prevalence varied across different sentinel sites, with the Bossembele Health Center, located in a rural area, showing an incidence of 96%, the Saint Joseph Health Center in a semiurban area of Bangui showing an incidence of 75%, and the Bangui Pediatric Complex in an urban site with an incidence of only 44.6%. Malaria transmission was holoendemic over the four-year study period, and malaria incidence decreased from 2016 to 2018. …”
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Comparative Effectiveness of Darunavir 1,200 mg Daily and Approved Dosing Strategies for Protease Inhibitor-Experienced Patients by James M. Mikula, Chiu-Bin Hsiao, Joshua R. Sawyer, Qing Ma, Gene D. Morse

“…This retrospective observational study included all patients treated with DRV after documented use of another protease inhibitor at an urban immunodeficiency clinic. Data collection from inception of DRV use in August 2006 through March 2012 included patient demographics, viral loads, CD4+ cell counts, and resistance test results. …”
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A Pilot Study on Impact of Mood State on Emergency Response Capacity for Young Novice Drivers by Ping Wan, Xiaowei Jing, Youcai Ma, Shan Lu, Xiaofeng Ma, Liqun Peng

“…As young novice drivers are inclined to getting involved in traffic accidents due to their improper emergency response under sorts of gender affective state, namely, mood, widely generated in fast-paced urban life, it is of great necessary to study the impact of mood state on responsive capacity for young novice drivers. …”
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The trypanosomatid (Kinetoplastida: Trypanosomatidae) parasites in bees: A review on their environmental circulation, impacts and implications by Rossella Tiritelli, Giovanni Cilia, Tamara Gómez-Moracho

“…Biotic factors, including co-infections, gut microbiota, food contamination, and abiotic factors like environmental conditions, pesticides, and urbanization, play crucial roles in infection dynamics. …”
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Modeling Impact of Land Use Dynamics on Hydrology and Sedimentation of Megech Dam Watershed, Ethiopia by Abebe Tarko Assfaw

“…The analysis has shown that the cultivated land has increased from 60.69% to 67.17% and urban land from 2.3% to 3.36% between 1998 and 2016. …”
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Characterization of Pediatric Patients with Dermatological Problems after Exposure to Contaminated Water by Melba Esperanza Narváez Jaramillo, Julio Rodrigo Morillo Cano, Cinthya Lizeth Pantoja Narváez, Sara Ximena Guerrón Enríquez

“…<strong>Foundation:</strong> 72 % of the world's lakes and wetlands are contaminated by urban and industrial discharges that cause more than half of known infectious diseases, including dermatological diseases. …”
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Improved BCI calibration in multimodal emotion recognition using heterogeneous adversarial transfer learning by Mehmet Ali Sarikaya, Gökhan Ince

“…Additionally, the framework was applied to an immersive three-dimensional (3D) dataset named GraffitiVR, which we collected to capture the emotional and behavioral reactions of individuals experiencing urban graffiti in a VR environment. This expanded application provides insights into emotion recognition frameworks in VR settings, providing a wider range of contexts for assessing our methodology. …”
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Effect of Different Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Growth and Physiology of Maize at Ambient and Low Temperature Regimes by Xiaoying Chen, Fengbin Song, Fulai Liu, Chunjie Tian, Shengqun Liu, Hongwen Xu, Xiancan Zhu

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Peculiarities of archival information resources legal regulation in the field of research on the development of the rocket and space industry by L. M. Popova, А. V. Khromov

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Longitudinal Cross-Lagged Analysis Between Depressive Symptoms, Social Withdrawal, Self-Esteem, and School Adaptation in Multicultural Adolescents by Chung Choe, Seunghee Yu

“…A high household income was associated with lower social withdrawal. Adolescents in urban areas exhibited higher levels of depressive symptoms, lower self-esteem, and poorer school adaptation compared to those in rural areas. …”
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