Optimizing Thermal Comfort in Urban Squares of Hot-Humid Regions: A Case Study Considering Tree Growth, Species, and Planting Intervals by Yixuan Xiao, Yong Huang, Xinchen Pan

“…The worsening urban thermal environment has become a critical challenge in many cities. Trees, as vital components of urban green spaces, provide multiple ecosystem services, especially in improving the microclimate. …”
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A study of the impact of urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. by Jing Wu, Qing Guo

“…The study takes the entropy method for calculating the environmental pollution index of 276 prefecture-level cities across China from 2010 to 2021, the CE1 index to describe the urban business credit environment, and a spatial Durbin model to empirically analyze the mechanism and transmission path of the urban business credit environment on environmental pollution. …”
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Policy options for low-carbon sustainable transport systems in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: A survey-based study by Jyoti Prajapati, Maheswar Rupakheti, Mark G. Lawrence

“…The approach demonstrated here can be useful as a model for other developing cities in South Asia and elsewhere.…”
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Long-range Transport of Air Pollutants to Taiwan during the COVID-19 Lockdown in Hubei Province by I-Chien Lai, Peter Brimblecombe

“…Larger reductions on the coastal islands is not surprising given their proximity to major cities, but on Magong and at Cape Fugui, PM2.5 concentrations are reduced by a few micrograms per cubic metre. …”
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Las rivalidades futbolísticas y la construcción de la nación. Una comparación entre México y Ecuador by Roger Magazine, Jacques Ramírez, Samuel Martínez

“…We propose that attention to soccer rivalries reveals how a segment of the population sees, criticizes or restates the position of a city or region in relation to others and in relation to the nation. …”
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Intelligent Prediction of Flood Disaster Risk Levels Based on Knowledge Graph and Graph Neural Networks by Peisheng Yang, Xiaohua Xu, Meilan Shao, Yewei Liu

“…Additionally, statistical analysis of flood disaster warning levels and flash flood risk zoning across cities in Jiangxi Province provides a visual representation of flood risk distribution and risk level proportions in different cities, offering strong reference for flood prevention, disaster mitigation, and urban planning. …”
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Identification of shrinkage patterns in Japan’s four major metropolitan areas based on nighttime light and population data by Hao Zheng, Runsen Zhang

“…Urban shrinkage has become a critical global issue, influencing the sustainable development of cities across social, economic, and environmental dimensions. …”
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Analysis of Children’s Traffic Behaviour at Signalized Crosswalks as a Precondition for Safe Children Routes Design: A Case Study from Croatia by Aleksandra Deluka-Tibljaš, Sanja Šurdonja, Irena Ištoka Otković

“…The results of a study conducted in two Croatian cities of a similar size but of different urban and traffic conditions are presented in this paper. …”
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Development trends and territorial organisation of the medical tourism market in Russia by Chistobaev Anatolii I., Grudtsyn Nikolai A., Semeno-Va Zoia A., Kulakovskiy Evgeniy S.

“…Petersburg, and several other regional centre cities of the Russian Federation has been identified. …”
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Architectures and Spaces for Care: Recent Contributions to Spanish Postmodern Architectural Culture Led by Women Architects by Maria Isabel Alba Dorado

“…Nowadays we observe how many of our cities and other inhabited spaces have been conceived by and for a subject that represents an androcentric model that focusses on the productive, with the result that aspects of architecture such as assistance and care have been underestimated. …”
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Optimization of airflow organization in the passenger cabin of special vehicles based on human thermal sensation by Miaocheng Weng, Yu Zhang, Fang Liu, Aiyang Liu, Hongyu Zhang

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Accessibility and Quality of Palliative Care—Experience in Primary Health Care by Viljaras Reigas, Ingrida Šukienė

“…<i>Results:</i> Palliative care services are widely available in large cities, but their accessibility is very limited in small towns and rural areas. …”
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Investigating the Ability of R Software to Determine Drought - Case Study: South Khorasan Province by Nafise Izadi, Hossein Khozeymeh Nezhad, Mostafa yaghoob Zadeh, Mohamad Fouladi Nasrabad

“…Based on all indicators, Tabas city was recognized as the driest city due to 53 months of drought. …”
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Effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on background noise levels in Italian strong motion network by Deniz Ertuncay, Deniz Ertuncay, Simone Francesco Fornasari , Giovanni Costa 

“…Stations located in public spaces such as schools and city halls observed noise reduction of up to 7.99 dB, and this noise level reduction is visible in major cities. …”
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Spatiotemporal dynamic and regional differences of public attention to vaccination: An empirical study in China. by Yaming Zhang, Xiaoyu Guo, Yanyuan Su

“…Second, the public attention in Chinese cities shows the spatial characteristics of "leading in the east, followed by the central, western and northeastern regions". …”
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Urban Land Subsidence Characteristics and Their Relationship with Locations Liable to Waterlogging Based on SBAS-InSAR by LIU Huanyu, WU Zhen, YU Huanghao, CHEN Guangcheng, XIAO Yang, LI Kuang, LI Binquan

“…Under the background of global climate change, extreme rainstorm events occur frequently, and many cities have suffered from serious waterlogging, resulting in huge losses of people's lives and property. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Countermeasures of Urban Innovation Space Distribution: An Empirical Study Based on Data of Nanjing High-Tech Enterprises by Shuang Tang, Jingxiang Zhang, Fangqu Niu

“…With the transformation of the urban development mode from factor-driven and capital-driven to innovation-driven, many innovation spaces have begun to emerge in cities, which attract academic attention. A large number of studies on the relation between innovation activities and geographic space mainly focus on the phenomena at the regional level, and the city is only regarded as a target of innovation activities agglomeration. …”
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Temporal Analysis of Changes in Anthropogenic Emissions and Urban Heat Islands during COVID-19 Restrictions in Gauteng Province, South Africa by Lerato Shikwambana, Mahlatse Kganyago, Paidamwoyo Mhangara

“…Thus, it was hypothesised that these reductions in traffic congestion and industrial activities in cities would reduce both air pollutants and thermal radiation. …”
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Evaluation System and Empirical Research of Strong Maritime Province by WANG Yuxuan, ZHOU Lu, MAO Hanxuan, FENG Chengyu, QIN Shili

“…Promoting the high-quality development of the marine economy has become an important starting point for coastal provinces (cities) to plan their layout, and the construction status of a strong maritime province also needs to be reflected by a more scientific and reasonable indicator system. …”
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Development of self-assessment scale of Public health nursing Art to enhance “Strength of Community” (PASC) by Miho Tanaka, Reiko Okamoto, Keiko Koide, Misaki Kiya

“…Methods A draft of the scale was developed using the framework of Public Health Nursing Art to Enhance “Strength of Community,” and a self-administered questionnaire was mailed to full-time public health nurses working at 1245 sites, including the government offices of the prefectures and ordinance-designated cities/designated mid-level cities across Japan. Subsequently, item, confirmatory factor, and correlation analyses were conducted to verify the scale’s reliability and validity. …”
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