Wisdom of Landscape Construction of China’s West Lakes in Historical Period and Its Implications by Lyuyuan Jia, Qing Lin, Xiyue Wang, Wenzhen Jia, Ying Zhao, Zhiqing Zhang, Ziqi Cui, Song Chen, Aibo Jin

“…This article studies the spatial distribution, historical development, functions, and the lake–city spatial relationship of 81 West Lakes (WLs), as well as their landscape characteristics. …”
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Online queries as a criterion for evaluating epidemiological status and effectiveness of COVID-19 control measures in Russia: results from Yandex.Wordstat analysis by Kuvat Momynaliev, Dimash Khoroshun, Vasiliy Akimkin

“…Objectives Assessment of the significance of online queries regarding smell impairment to evaluate the epidemiological status and effectiveness of COVID-19 epidemic control measures using levofloxacin as an example.Setting There are 81 regions of Russia and several large cities, such as Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhny Novgorod.Methods Weekly online queries from Yandex Russian users regarding smell impairment and levofloxacin were analysed in regions and large cities of Russia from 16 March 2020 to 21 February 2021.Results A strong positive direct correlation (r>0.7) was found between the number of smell-related queries in Yandex new cases of COVID-19 in 59 out of 85 Russian regions and large cities (70%). …”
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Understanding Confusion: A Case Study of Training a Machine Model to Predict and Interpret Consensus From Volunteer Labels by Ramanakumar Sankar, Kameswara Mantha, Cooper Nesmith, Lucy Fortson, Shawn Brueshaber, Candice Hansen-Koharcheck, Glenn Orton

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Urban Economic Structures as Multidimensional Networks: A Complex Systems Framework for Analyzing Economic Development Trajectories by Shade T. Shutters

“…Proximities between individual cities within the network are also measured revealing that many cities that are close to each other in the network are also close to each other in physical space. …”
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Computer-Aided Efficient Routing and Reliable Protocol Optimization for Autonomous Vehicle Communication Networks by Alaa Kamal Yousif Dafhalla, Mohamed Elshaikh Elobaid, Amira Elsir Tayfour Ahmed, Ameni Filali, Nada Mohamed Osman SidAhmed, Tahani A. Attia, Badria Abaker Ibrahim Mohajir, Jawaher Suliman Altamimi, Tijjani Adam

“…The simulation results reveal that increasing MaxJitter enhances AODV throughput by 12% in cities but decreases it by 8% on highways, while GPSR throughput declines by 15% in cities and 10% on highways. …”
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Investigating the Relationship between Traffic Violations and Crashes at Signalized Intersections: An Empirical Study in China by Ze-Hao Jiang, Xiao-Guang Yang, Tuo Sun, Tao Wang, Zheng Yang

“…The results show the following: (1) although the research sites are located in two different cities, the data is homoscedastic, which suggests that the above result may be statistically stable between different cities. (2) There is a significant multiple linear regression relationship (R2 = 0.782, adjusted R2 = 0.716) between the total number of traffic crashes and traffic violations. …”
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Spatiotemporal Evolution of the Water System’s Structure and Its Relationship with Urban System Based on Fractal Dimension: A Case Study of the Huaihe River Basin, China by Hailong Yu, Bin Yu, Xiangmin Zhang, Yong Fan, Sai Wen, Shanshan Jiao

“…The formation and development of cities are inseparable from a certain scale of water resources. …”
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Characteristics and formation mechanism of carbon emission efficiency spatial correlation network: Perspective from Shandong Province by Li Zhang, Hongrui Wang, Beinan Guo, Xuan Liu, Caiyun Deng, Ziyang Zhao, Xin Jiang, Yiyang Li

“…This study analyzes 16 prefecture-level cities in Shandong Province, China, from 2006 to 2021, using the Super-SBM model to measure urban CEE. …”
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Optimization problems in liquefied natural gas transport and storage for multimodal transport companies by Hongyu Zhang, Yiwei Wu, Lu Zhen, Yong Jin, Shuaian Wang

“…To assess the efficiency of the linear model, we conduct computational experiments on small-scale instances with five inland cities, medium-scale instances with 15 inland cities, and large-scale instances with 60 inland cities. …”
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Statistical Distribution of Urban Area Reveals a Converging Trend of Global Urban Land Expansion by Shengjie Hu, Zhenlei Yang, Sergio Andres Galindo Torres, Zipeng Wang, Haoying Han, Yoshihide Wada, Thomas Cherico Wanger, Ling Li

“…This trend is well captured by a unified mathematical model based on the shifted power law distribution function and is reflected in the gradual predominance of medium‐size cities over small‐size cities in the configuration of urban systems across the world. …”
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Analysis of Water Surface Ratio Evolution in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Based on Landsat by JIANG Xintong, LIAO Xiaolong, QUAN Xujian, XUE Jiao, ZHONG Yixuan, YU Baishun

“…An appropriate urban water surface ratio plays a vital role in improving the ecological quality of urban areas and the quality of urban living space.By RS and GIS technology,the research takes the free and open source optical remote sensing data,Landsat images,as the data source and uses the normalized difference water index (NDWI) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) to construct an automatic water body discrimination model.In this way,we can analyze the evolution of the water surface ratio in the core cities of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area) in the past two decades.The result analysis reveals that in the past 20 years,the water area of the Greater Bay Area has been decreased by 136 km²,and the water surface ratio is reduced from 4.48% to 4.22%.Among the cities in the Greater Bay Area,the city with the largest reduction in the water area is Jiangmen,with a decline of 44.20 km²,and its water surface ratio falls from 6.10% to 5.62%.Foshan follows Jiangmen,with a water area decrease of 32.34 km²,and its water surface ratio drops from 13.17% to 12.32%.The water area in Macao,Hong Kong,Huizhou,and Zhaoqing demonstrates a fall of not more than 10 km²,and that in Guangzhou and Shenzhen is reduced by not more than 20 km².By the transition matrix analysis of land use types in the Greater Bay Area,we can uncover the main reason for the decline in water area—that is,the increase in construction land invading the original water area.The result of this paper can provide theoretical and methodological support for the rational use of water resources and the construction of water ecology in the cities of the Greater Bay Area.Meanwhile,it can offer an important reference for promoting the construction of ecological civilization and strengthening environmental protection in the Greater Bay Area.…”
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The Complex Neural Network Model for Mass Appraisal and Scenario Forecasting of the Urban Real Estate Market Value That Adapts Itself to Space and Time by Leonid N. Yasnitsky, Vitaly L. Yasnitsky, Aleksander O. Alekseev

“…In addition, if they are designed for a specific city, they are not suitable for other cities. On the other hand, there are several dynamic models taking into account the overall state of the economy and designed to predict and study the overall price situation in real estate markets. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: An intelligent dynamic cyber physical system threat detection system for ensuring secured communication in 6G autonomous vehicle networks by Shanthalakshmi M, Ponmagal R S

“…Abstract Smart cities have developed advanced technology that improves people’s lives. …”
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COVID-19 Fatality: Statistical Evidence to Engender the Need for Focal Shift from Air Pollutants to Multi-dimensional Intervention by Satya S. Patra, Subhasmita Panda, Trupti Das, Boopathy Ramasamy

“…An aggregated open-source air quality data source was used to download the PM2.5, NO2, and O3 concentration for > 900 days in the selected cities. The median of this long-term exposure was tested against the COVID-19 fatality rates. …”
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Seasonal Variability of Air Pollutants and Their Relationships to Meteorological Parameters in an Urban Environment by Sherly Shelton, Gayathri Liyanage, Sanduni Jayasekara, Buddhi Pushpawela, Upaka Rathnayake, Akila Jayasundara, Lesty Dias Jayasooriya

“…These peaks coincided with the traffic jams observed in both cities. The results further revealed that the concentration of all pollutants has significant seasonal variations. …”
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Ameaça e caráter transnacional do narcotráfico na Amazônia brasileira by Aiala Colares Couto

“…Finally, field work was carried out in cities such as Belém, Cametá, Redenção, Marabá, Palmas and Santarém, where interviews and systematic observations were carried out. …”
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Voir les fantômes. Sentir la multiplicité temporelle de la ville grâce aux œuvres d’art by Estelle Grandbois-Bernard

“…Our cities are populated of multiple time frames, inhabited by memories, dreams and expectations of the individuals who make them live and buildings that shape them. …”
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La mort protestante : entre invisibilité et persistance. La difficulté d’ancrage des espaces funéraires protestants à Paris et à La Rochelle (XVIe-XVIIIe siècles) by Isabelle Souquet, Cécile Buquet-Marcon

“…In these two cities of opposing status, the management of cemeteries came under the majority religious authority. …”
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Can big data reduce urban environmental pollution? Evidence from China's digital technology experimental zone. by Jiahao Zhang, Fusheng Liang, Peng Gao

“…This paper investigates the impact of the digital economy on urban environmental pollution by analyzing panel data from 283 prefecture-level cities in China from 2011 to 2019 and using the digital technology comprehensive pilot zone of China as a natural experiment. …”
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Les villes romaines victimes des guerres perses dans l’œuvre de Procope de Césarée by Sylvain Janniard

“…During the centuries of confrontation between the Roman and the Sassanian Empires (3rd-7th centuries AD), the cities of the Roman East were important military stakes. …”
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