Creating accountable hospital service areas in China: a case analysis of health expenditure in the metropolis of Chengdu by Jay Pan, Peiya Cao, Xiaoshuang Zhao, Yili Yang

“…Objectives To delineate hospital service areas (HSAs) using the Dartmouth approach in China and identify the hypothesised demand-side, supply-side and region-specific factors of health expenditure within HSAs.Design Population-based descriptive study.Setting We selected the metropolis of Chengdu, one of the three most populous cities in China as a case for the analysis, where approximately 16.33 million residents living.Participants Individual-level in-patient discharge records (n=904 298) during the fourth quarter of 2018 (from 1 September to 31 December) were extracted from Sichuan Health Commission. …”
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Factors associated with dental care utilization among Iranian adult populations based on Anderson model by Ashkan Negintaji Zardak, Mostafa Amini-Rarani, Ibrahim Abdollahpour, Faezeh Eslamipour, Bahareh Tahani

“…Methods and materials This cross-sectional house-by-house study was conducted during Aug-Nov 2022 among 704 adult people in two cities under the coverage of the HTP and two cities out-side the plan using a multi-stage sampling method. …”
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Sustainable Architectural Design Under the Effect of Global Warming by Nihal Zengin, Ruşen Yamaçlı

“…For this reason, by proposing Biophilic Design, it has been determined that the need for air conditioning and energy consumption will decrease, and thus more sustainable cities will emerge by reducing greenhouse gas and gaseous reactive nitrogen compounds emissions. …”
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Advanced statistical analysis of air quality and its health impacts in India: Quantifying significance by detangling weather-driven effects by Akshansha Chauhan, Guggilla Pavan Sai, Chin-Yu Hsu

“…Ozone concentrations showed a significant increase across cities, attributed to VOC-limited effects. The analysis revealed that meteorological variability and long-range transport of airmass played critical roles in shaping pollutant concentrations. …”
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Determination of the kidney stone composition using infrared spectroscopy in Iran at a national referral center during 2019–2023 by Abbas Basiri, Azin Tahvildari, Mohammad Naji, Pardis Ziaeefar, Amir H. Kashi

“…Methods: This is a cross-sectional study assessing urinary stone composition from various cities in Iran at a referral center using infrared spectroscopy from February 2019 to March 2023. …”
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Enhanced Forecasting and Assessment of Urban Air Quality by an Automated Machine Learning System: The AI‐Air by Jiayu Yang, Huabing Ke, Sunling Gong, Yaqiang Wang, Lei Zhang, Chunhong Zhou, Jingyue Mo, Yan You

“…Abstract An automated air quality forecasting system (AI‐Air) was developed to optimize and improve air quality forecasting for different typical cities, combined with the China Meteorological Administration Unified Atmospheric Chemistry Environmental Model (CUACE), and used in a typical inland city of Zhengzhou and a coastal city of Haikou in China. …”
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INTRA-REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP OF MUNICIPALITIES OF THE ŚWIĘTOKRZYSKIE VOIVODESHIP IN TERMS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN 2010 AND 2020 by Paweł Dziekański, Łukasz Popławski, Fabio Fragomeni

“…Conversely, industrialisation flourished in cities in close proximity to these central locations, where extensive collaboration and convenient transportation networks were feasible. …”
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Des plantes et des jardiniers dans la ville. Socio-écologie des jardins familiaux by Francesca Di Pietro, Stéphanie Gosset, Roger Coly

“…On the basis of data from 150 allotment garden plots in two cities in the Loire region, we first analyse the complex interweaving of spaces and actors in allotment gardens and describe the socio-demographic diversity of gardeners. …”
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Implementar uma política de combate às mudanças climáticas em uma região metropolitana: o caso da região do Grande ABC no Brasil by Julie Bideux

“…Through the case of the Greater ABC Region in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo in Brazil, we can analyse the construction of a climate policy, in a metropolitan area, by small and medium-sized cities, and through the coordination of an inter-municipal Consortium. …”
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« Zéro artificialisation nette » en aménagement : compter et conter la nature en ville pour changer les pratiques ? by Taoufik Souami

“…To explain the place of nature in cities, many researches focus at the macro-social level (laws, national programs, etc.) and underline the predominance of its commodification. …”
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Pollution et risque alimentaire dans les jardins partagés franciliens by Laurence Baudelet

“…The return of horticultural production in French cities is accompanied by a growing concern about the health quality of food plants. …”
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Le jardinage dans l’espace public : paradoxes, ruses et perspectives by Aurélien Ramos

“…This article uses data from a database of eighteen French cities where such initiatives have been in existence since 2004. …”
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Análise Longitudinal dos Fatores Associados a Epidemia/Endemia de Homicídios nas Capitais Brasileiras by Silas Nogueira de Melo, Janderson Rocha, Yata Anderson Gonzaga Masullo

“…Thus, it became possible to analyze social, demographic and economic factors that influence the epidemic / endemic homicide rates in the main Brazilian cities in the period between 2012 to 2016. As a result, the availability factors of psychoactive drugs and percentage of young males were statistically significant and positively associated with homicide rates, while school performance factors and health professionals (only fixed effects model) were negatively associated with homicide rates. …”
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La répartition des établissements industriels à Sfax : un schéma radio-concentrique by Monia Gasmi

“…While the spatial organization of metropolitan industry in developed countries has been widely studied, cities in developing countries engaged in a process of industrialization, have not, to the best of our knowledge, benefited from similar, quantitative geographical studies. …”
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A escrita da cidade partida: identidade e alteridade em Capão Pecado by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…This article discusses the representation of the city in the novel Capão Pecado, by Ferréz. It deviates from the strong tendency of considering all cities alike in the Brazilian fiction scenery by means of a narrative that takes place in a geographical area within the outskirts of São Paulo. …”
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Contribuições dos Planos de Mobilidade Urbana Sustentável na França e no Brasil para a inclusão social by Laura Machado, Livia Salomão Piccinini, Elisabete Arsenio, Odile Heddebaut

“…This qualitative analy sis illustrates how social equity is considered or not on the planning of urban mobility of cities.…”
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A teoria regional na atualização da Geografia Crítica contemporânea: a urbanização da fronteira na Amazônia, a região do Sul e Sudeste do Pará by Eudes Leopoldo

“…Understanding the critical regional theory, which allows us to leave the plane of the region as pure delimitation or clipping of space, thinking of it as a social relation as a concrete abstraction of a differential spatiality, is what drives the interpretation of the urbanization phenomenon in the reproduction of the border region within Amazon, focusing on the network of cities in the emblematic south and southeast of Pará.…”
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Ambiguity, Uncertainty and Implementation by Kristin Taylor, Stephanie Zarb, Nathan Jeschke

“…We analyze ambiguity and uncertainty through the lens of post-disaster policy in local government using primary qualitative data from 22 local government officials across 8 counties and 6 cities that were affected by Hurricane Harvey. We find that the credibility of a policy is evaluated separately from the credibility of the formulator; experience moderates the effects of ambiguity; and uncertainty in implementation has a similar effect as ambiguity and is not lessened with more information. …”
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Tourism in the Mountains of Central Kerala (South India): at the Crossroads of Attitudes Towards Forest Populations by Lucie Dejouhanet

“…These two visions coexist in how the mountain-dwelling Adivasi are perceived today by tourists as well as by the inhabitants of the plains and cities. This article underscores just how burdensome this past legacy is when observing these mountain areas and in the attitudes towards their inhabitants. …”
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