Environmental technology’s diminishing marginal returns: a study of green patents and emission reductions in China by Xiaoyu Yin, Baofeng Xu, Jia Li, Jingyi Wu

“…Policy recommendations include fostering tailored innovation strategies and supporting cities with unique characteristics to maximize technological impact on emission reduction.…”
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What was Killing Babies in Ipswich Between 1872 and 1909? by Eilidh Garrett, Alice Reid

“…Ipswich infant mortality rates very closely mirrored those of England as a whole, rather than the most unhealthy large cities, such as Liverpool or Manchester. It becomes clear that birth itself was a major cause of neonatal, even some post-neonatal, deaths. …”
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Energy analysis and feasibility of using solar energy in the novel hybrid system of a solar hot plate dryer in Iran by Kimia Taki, Bahram Hosseinzadeh Samani, Mahsa Forouzandeh, Zahra Shafiee

“…This system was simulated in three cities of Iran, including Bushehr, Kerman, and Shahrekord, from May 22 to October 23. …”
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Assessment and Risk Identification of Water Resources Carrying Capacity in the Pearl River Basin by ZHOU Xuexin, LUO Hao

“…:Taking the Pearl River Basin as the research object,this paper builds an evaluation index system for water resources carrying capacity with 13 indexes selected from four aspects of water resources,society,economy,and the ecological environment by using the data in the water resources bulletin and statistical yearbook of the year 2018.The technique for order of preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) model integrated with combined weighting is used to evaluate and analyze the water resources carrying capacity of 46 cities in the basin.The hot spot analysis method is employed to identify the high-risk areas of water resources carrying capacity there.The results show that the overall water resources carrying index of the basin is 0.504,and the water resources carrying capacity is at Level 2,reflecting the moderate overall water resources carrying status of the basin.There are significant differences in water resources carrying capacity among different regions in the basin.On the whole,the middle-upper reaches of the basin have better carrying capacity than the upper and middle-lower reaches.The Pearl River Delta region is facing great water resources carrying capacity pressure.The distribution of water resources carrying capacity is highly concentrated in the basin.The risk of water resources carrying capacity is not significant in most regions of the basin.Five cities,including Shenzhen,Dongguan,Guangzhou,Foshan,and Zhongshan,are in the hot spot range (99% confidence level).They are high-risk areas of water resources carrying capacity,all concentrated in the Pearl River Delta region.…”
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Spatial Network Structures of Urban Agglomeration Based on the Improved Gravity Model: A Case Study in China’s Two Urban Agglomerations by Yubo Zhao, Gui Zhang, Hongwei Zhao

“…Based on online and traditional data, this paper first improves three aspects of the traditional spatial gravity model—city quality, the gravitation coefficient, and city distance—considering urban center functional intensity and population mobility tendencies. …”
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A Proposed IoT-Enabled Smart Waste Bin Management System and Efficient Route Selection by Asim Zeb, Qurban Ali, Muhammad Qaiser Saleem, Khalid Mahmood Awan, Ali Saeed Alowayr, Jamal Uddin, Saleem Iqbal, Faisal Bashir

“…It accords promising result in crystallizing smart cities, smart homes, smart industries, and smart environment. …”
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Problems of single-industry towns: world experience and Russian practice by A. G. Glebova, V. N. Zelensky, A. S. Lazareva

“…Such an enterprise is called a city-forming one, since it employs 30 % of all working people in the city, and their families make up half of the urban population. …”
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Awarding the Sign “Resident of Beleaguered Sevastopol” as a New Basis for Assigning Persons to the Category of Veterans of the Great Patriotic War by A. A. Elaev

“…The author proposes to abandon the criterion for awarding a sign in favor of establishing in the federal law specific criteria for the residence of persons in a certain territory during the Great Patriotic War, to adopt a Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation on the procedure for determining persons falling under the criteria of residence in these cities, so that this determination can be carried out on the entire territory of the Russian Federation, and also establish a single criterion for referring to veterans of the Great Patriotic War for residents of beleaguered Sevastopol and blockaded Leningrad, associated with the fact of living in these cities during the beleaguer (blockade).…”
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KNOWLEDGE AND USAGE OF THE SEVEN BASIC QUALITY CONTROL TOOLS BY PRODUCERS OF PRECAST CONCRETE PRODUCTS IN GHANA by Emmanuel ADINYIRA, Joshua AYARKWA, Isaac AIDOO

“…A survey of 42 producers of precast concrete products in the cities of Accra and Tema was conducted to elicit the desired data. …”
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Marc Ferrez, un photographe témoin des mutations du Brésil by Confins

“…Marc Ferrez (1843-1923) witnessed the extraordinary transformations experienced by Brazil from the mid-nineteenth century to the first quarter of the twentieth century, from slavery to the birth of cinema, via the construction of railways and the modernization of its cities, and left us a precious testimony in the form of high quality photography…”
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Architecture et communication. Beyrouth une ville en surimpression by Marie-Claude Plourde

“…Through the example of the city of Beirut, in Architecture et communication Moukarzel shows how the phenomenon of globalization is bringing profound architectural changes to our cities.…”
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Urban Forests in Florida: Do They Reduce Air Pollution? by Francisco Escobedo

“…FOR-128, a 3-page fact sheet by Francisco Escobedo, presents the factors behind pollution removal by trees, estimates the amount of air pollution removal for three Florida cities, and presents strategies for managing urban trees for air quality improvement. …”
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China: Crônica de um país em rápida transformação by Marcelo Pires Negrão

“…It describes the rapid transformations of the country, the emerging condition of these globalized cities, and Chinese behavior seen through the eyes of an occidental.…”
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Street vendors (PKL) household economic sustainability in east Jakarta based on migration status and location trade on time pandemic covid-19 by Beti Nurbaiti, Kemas Ridwan K, Mia Siscawati, Chotib Chotib, I Gusti Agung Ayu Karishma Maharani Raijaya

“…The phenomenon of street vendors (PKL) is not only found in metropolitan cities such as Jakarta in Indonesia as a developing country, but also in big cities in other countries such as Mumbai, Bangkok, Singapore and New York.  …”
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The 2024 local elections in the Republic of Serbia: Political dynamics and consequences by Matić Petar M., Mijatović Marko R.

“…Forming a particular whole with the local elections held in the city of Belgrade and another 65 municipalities, cities, and urban municipalities in central Serbia, on December 17, 2023, they showed a picture of the political scene of Serbia, its dynamics, actors at the national and local level, their strategies political struggles and, finally, electoral preferences citizens related to the political game in local political arenas. …”
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Landscape as guiding element in the design and planning of dutch colonial settlements (1600-1800) by Ron Van Oers

“…During the period of Dutch overseas expansion (1600-1800) two trading companies, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and the Dutch West India Company (WIC), founded a large number of cities. These overseas settlements show many resemblances in set-up and lay out. …”
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Classifying Economic Areas for Urban Planning using Deep Learning and Satellite Imagery in East Africa by Davy Uwizera, Dr. Charles Ruranga, Prof. Patrick McSharry

“…Recently East African cities have been developing at a fast pace by building new infrastructure and constructing innovative economic zones. …”
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Autonomous Real-Time Speed-Limit Violation Detection and Reporting Systems Based on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) by Samir A. Elsagheer Mohamed, Mohammad T. Parvez, Khaled A. AlShalfan, Mahmoud Y. Alaidy, Mohammed A. Al-Hagery, Mohamed T. Ben Othman

“…Traditional systems of detecting and reporting speed-limit violations are not suitable for smart cities. Even the sophisticated conventional systems that use cameras or RFIDs for automating speed-limit violations have several drawbacks, including cost, complexity, reliability, and maintenance. …”
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Vegetation Activity Trend and Its Relationship with Climate Change in the Three Gorges Area, China by Guifeng Han, Yongchuan Yang, Shuiyu Yan

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Design of Network and Pole for Meeting Lighting, Communication, and Energy Needs from a Single Source in Disasters by Levent Aksoy, İlknur Yardımcı Coşkun

“…However, in densely populated cities, post-disaster response times are prolonged. …”
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