Hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease nexus: investigating the role of urbanization and lifestyle in Cabo Verde by Aaron Kobina Christian, Akosua Afriyie Osei-Appaw, Ruth Tobi Sawyerr, Martin Wiredu Agyekum

“…(RSE), 0.46, (0.12), p < 0.001; 1.26, (0.14), p < 0.001, respectively]. We identify urbanicity as a potential mediator through which hypertension/diabetes leads to a cardiovascular disease and waist circumference as a moderator of hypertension/diabetes-cardiovascular nexus. …”
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Predicting Operating Speeds at Urban Multilane Roundabouts in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates by Mohammad Almoarawi, Essam Dabbour

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Research on the Design of Public Space in Urban Renewal Based on Multicriteria Cluster Decision-Making by Hongxu Bian, Huiren Su

“…Urban design is a critical technical tool for shaping and intervening in urban space, but it is also developing into a critical governance tool for guiding the orderly development of urban renewal, thereby contributing significantly to its effectiveness. …”
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Restoration Effects of the Riparian Forest on the Intertidal Fish Fauna in an Urban Area of the Amazon River by Júlio C. Sá-Oliveira, Stephen F. Ferrari, Huann C. G. Vasconcelos, Raimundo N. G. Mendes-Junior, Andrea S. Araújo, Carlos Eduardo Costa-Campos, Walace S. Nascimento, Victoria J. Isaac

“…Urbanization causes environmental impacts that threaten the health of aquatic communities and alter their recovery patterns. …”
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Risk assessment of hazardous impacts on urbanization and industrialization activities based upon toxic substances by T. Salem, Sh.S. Ahmed, M. Hamed, G.H. Abd ElAziz

“…A risk assessment study was conducted to predict the expected hazardous influence on the ecosystem resulted from urbanization and industrialization activities at Helwan area, Egypt. …”
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Implementation of stroke protocol: Insights from a tertiary care facility in urban India by Neha Sharma, Shweta Tyagi, Nitin Jain, Rajnish Kumar, Govind Prakas, Nitisha Goyal

“…Materials and Methods: The study was conducted in the emergency department of a tertiary care center in urban India from September 2021 to September 2022. …”
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Mammography Among Women Residing in Urban Versus Rural Utah: Breast Cancer Survival by Quinn Tanner, Chun‐Pin Chang, Karen Curtin, James VanDerslice, Lisa Gren, Vikrant Deshmukh, Michael Newman, Ankita Date, Mark Dodson, N. Lynn Henry, Mia Hashibe

“…Women residing in rural areas have worse breast cancer survival rates than urban women, but no study has focused on rural versus urban residence in Utah regarding breast cancer screening and mortality. …”
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Investigating the Impact of Destination Branding on the Development of Urban Tourism (Case Study of Tabriz Metropolis) by Salman Feizi, Rahim Heydari, Shahrivar rostaei

“…Tourism is an strategy for increasing the community revitalization of encouraging social revival and improving living conditions in urban areas. Accordingly, urban development planners focus on new tools in their planning strategies to achieve these benefits and move towards new concepts such as branding. …”
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Automatic extraction and geographization of urban traffic event based on natural Chinese text data by Chenyu Hu, Hangbin Wu, Chaoxu Wei, Qianqian Chen, Han Yue, Wei Huang, Chun Liu, Ting Fu, Junhua Wang

“…With the rapid advancement of Internet, text published from network platforms has become an important data source for urban road traffic events. However, due to the complexity of massive multi-source web text and the diversity of spatial scenes in traffic events, existing methods are not enough to support accurate extraction and geographization of events from text, resulting in the information not being efficiently utilized. …”
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Investigating the Development of Urban Space in the face of Environmental Hazards (Case Study of Noor County) by Hossein Sharifi, Mehrdad Ramezanipour, Leila Ebrahimi

Subjects: “…keywords: urban spatial development…”
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Balancing on carbon storage and ecological security in urban areas: The case of Dongguan city, China by Xinyi Wang, Fenzhen Su, Fengqin Yan, Vincent Lyne, Yikun Cui, Bin He, Rong Fan

“…Land-use changes from rapid coastal urban expansion fragments ecosystems and reduces carbon storage. …”
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Visions of a greener future for the Seil of Amman. Augmented Reality as an urban design tool by Janset Shawash, Narmeen Marji

“…In a context characterized by flooding and environmental degradation of the Seil of Amman (natural heritage of the capital of Jordan), caused by climate change, rapid urbanization and unsustainable stormwater management, the paper explores the potential of new Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) technologies as a tool of public engagement with new ecologically sustainable urban regeneration projects. …”
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Political Practices of the Popular Sectors in Río de Janeiro: Urbanization of the Favela Santa Marta by Maximiliano Duarte Acquistapace

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Improving Urban Water Environment in Eastern China by Blending Traditional with Modern Landscape Planning by Jiajie Cao, Junjun Yu, Yuan Tian, Cai Zhao, Hao Wang

“…As a fundamental part of greenspace, urban water landscape contributes greatly to the ecological system and at the same time supplies a leisure area for residents. …”
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From a grand hotel to an urban symbol: the Astor Hotel in old and new Tianjin by Taoyu Yang

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Modulating urban dynamics from a climate perspective – In-between spaces and climate neutrality by Fabrizio Tucci, Paola Altamura, Maria Michaela Pani

“… This contribution presents the results of a study that interprets in-between spaces as a modular system which structures space, relationships, and urban dynamics from a climate perspective. The aim is to demonstrate the positive contribution that technological-environmental design can offer in the context of redevelopment and new construction of the urban fabric, concerning the ecological performance of the entire urban system, particularly from the perspective of decarbonisation and climate mitigation. …”
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Issues at the Rural-Urban Fringe: Methods to Sustain Agricultural Land -- Use-Value Assessment by Rodney L. Clouser

“…This document is one of a series entitled "Issues at the Rural Urban Fringe". Published July 2005. …”
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MammaPrint Feasibility in a Large Tertiary Urban Medical Center: An Initial Experience by C. Francisco Espinel, Shaughn Keating, Hanina Hibshoosh, Bret Taback, Kathie-Ann Joseph, Mahmoud El-Tamer, Sheldon Feldman

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Estimation of Urban Link Travel Time Distribution Using Markov Chains and Bayesian Approaches by Wenwen Qin, Meiping Yun

“…Despite the wide application of Floating Car Data (FCD) in urban link travel time and congestion estimation, the sparsity of observations from a low penetration rate of GPS-equipped floating cars make it difficult to estimate travel time distribution (TTD), especially when the travel times may have multimodal distributions that are associated with the underlying traffic states. …”
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Use of climate smart agriculture technologies in West Africa peri-urban Sahel in Niger by Tinawaen Tambol, Emmanuel K. Derbile, Moussa Soulé

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