STUDY ON THE INCIDENCE OF INJURIES IN FENCING by Ioana-Alexandra Radu

“…The target group consistsoffencers from National Centre of Olympic Trainer for juniors(65.85%) andseniors(34.15%), from three cities: Bucharest (65.86%), Iasi (17.07%) and Brasov(17.07%). …”
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Epidemiology of Hypertensive State among Chinese Migrants: Effects of Unaffordable Medical Care by Ming Guan

“…The descriptive statistics showed that 24.96% were at risk of prehypertension and mild-moderate-severe hypertension among 2468 Chinese migrants from 15 cities. Small part of the sample was not affordable to pay medical expenses and services. …”
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A Data-Driven Approach to Estimate Incident-Induced Delays Using Incomplete Probe Vehicle Data: Application to Safety Service Patrol Program Evaluation by Minsoo Oh, Jing Dong-O’Brien

“…The case study shows that the SSP program in the Quad Cities area of Iowa reduces IIDs associated with various incidents by 15%–91%. …”
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Variation sur l’autoreprésentation photographique féminine au tournant du siècle by Marie Cordié Levy

“…Turning away from domestic chores, many women became photographers at the end of the 19th century, setting up portrait studios in American cities, while men turned to landscape photography. …”
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Estruturas e dinâmicas espaciais da organização da internet no território brasileiro by Ludmila Girardi

“…The article pointed out that the internet replicates much to Brazilian urban hierarchy, but the topology of the network, despite following the same logic, brought very significant changes in the hierarchy of cities in regional terms. Of a purely graphical validity, the final model synthesizes the view we’ve got of the internet over the survey, which showed the deformity of internet’s organization in Brazil, scattered and rarefied particularly in rural and peri-urban areas.…”
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Blockchain empowered 6G by Yueyue DAI, Ke ZHANG, Yan ZHANG

“…6G network not only explore higher communication rates but also combine with the emerging technologies such as cloud computing,edge computing,artificial intelligence,and big data,and use a new network architecture to achieve wider interconnection and interoperability across network and domains,and provide an intelligent,safe and efficient technical support for industrial Internet of things,smart cities,and intelligent transportation.Blockchain technology as a decentralized,open and transparent distributed ledger technology can provide strong security for 6G.The integration of blockchain technology and 6G network was studied.Firstly,the difference between 5G and 6G network and the challenges of 6G faced were given,and the research of blockchain technology in spectrum management,mobile edge computing and D2D communication was reviewed.Then,the integration of blockchain technology and 6G emerging network was explored.Thus,the technical challenges in terms of blockchain and the cloud-edge-device network,blockchain and federal learning,blockchain-based resource transactions,and lightweight blockchain for edge network were presented.The corresponding solutions were also given.…”
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Migrant integration in the EU. The role of place-based policies by Carlotta Fioretti, Paola Proietti, Guido Tintori

“…It highlights the EU's recognition of cities in this process and investigates EU-funded policies for urban and local development that foster migrant inclusion. …”
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Negotiating a place in town. Street vending in Thika (Kenya) by Nathan Mwangi Kariuki, Sylvain Racaud

“…This article shows how street vendors negotiate their place in the city by appropriating streets in a precarious and conflictual environment. …”
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Role of electric transport in urban transportation system by T. N. Sakulyeva, V. V. Sotnikova

“…The purpose of the article is to identify the tasks and problems of city transport systems in modern conditions. Urban transport should solve the following tasks: equal access to the population to vehicles, the possibility of planning the time of traveling inside the city, ensuring environmental safety from the use of vehicles, creating the conditions for the availability of transport services at their cost, security and comfort, as well as ensure transport services for the business subjects at minimal economic costs. …”
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Reception Centres Above.The Mountain, Emblem of the Paradox of the Integration of Asylum Seekers in Switzerland by Viviane Cretton

“…They maintain a representation of the mountain as a non-place of social life, an isolated place, as opposed to cities on the plain. When the reception "above" lasts, it sustains a process of social effacement « below» which makes the injunction to integrate into Swiss society eminently paradoxical.  …”
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Call and Response by Jesse Foster Honsa

“… A "housing crisis" is often naively understood as a simple market imbalance between supply and demand, frequently occurring within cities in a capitalist mode of development. If that were the case, the solution would be to simply open the pipes and build more houses, a regulatory action delegated to technocrats. …”
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Racial Authoritarian Preemption and the Politics of Tennessee by Sekou Franklin

“…The article demonstrates that preemption has been weaponized in the twenty-first century to augment the power of far-right state officials and to disempower cities and municipalities that are racially diverse or dominated by Black-led and multi-racial governing institutions.…”
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Developing participatory tourism in Milan, Italy by Chiara Rabbiosi

“…This encounter is considered in reference to the changing relationship between cities, culture and tourism. Two initiatives based in Milan serve as comparative case studies. …”
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DRINKING WATER SUPPLY UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF MASS DEVELOPMENT OF BLUE-GREEN ALGAE IN RESERVOIRS by Ksenia V. Bespalova, Aleksandra V. Selezneva, Vladimir. A. Seleznev

“…Traditional methods used at drinking water treatment plants in Volga cities are ineffective in removing intracellular and extracellular cyanotoxins. …”

Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Financial Efficiency: An Empirical Analysis of Spatial Durbin Model by Jianmin Liu, Xiaomei Hu, Hongli Tang

“…Based on panel data covering the period from 2003 to 2012 in China’s 281 prefecture-level cities, we use superefficiency SBM model to measure regional financial efficiency and empirically test the spatial effects of fiscal decentralization on regional financial efficiency with SDM. …”
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Penser & construire avec les déblais de terre, ressource principale de nos villes.Le cas de Cycle Terre, première fabrique européenne de matériaux issue du recyclage des terres... by Paul-Emmanuel Loiret

“…In the world’s major cities, millions of tons of soil are excavated each year as part of development and construction work. …”
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Espacio urbano y la modernización del alumbrado público en la ciudad de Puebla entre 1888 y 1910 by Edna Hernández

“…The adoption of the electric lighting in the city of Puebla during the Porfiriato, was much more than the modernization of a service. …”
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Railroad Workers, Civilization and Communism: the Young Men’s Christian Association on the Interwar Polish Frontier by Sylwia Kuźma-Markowska

“…This article seeks to present and analyze one of the aspects of the work of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA or Y) in interwar Poland: the initiatives for railroad workers from eastern frontier towns and cities. Focusing on the efforts that the organization undertook on the territory commonly referred to as the Polish borderlands (Kresy), I show that for the leaders of the Y the work among the railway employees was of utmost political and civilizational importance. …”
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Yaoundé (capital de Camerún) by Carlos García-Monzón Martín

“…The urban inequality observed makes Yaoundé an exponent of many African cities. …”
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ECOLOGICAL READING ON SELECTED AYURZANA AND YONG SHU HOONG’s POEMS by Kristiawan Indriyanto

“…On the other hand, Hoong’s poetry elaborates life in cities and people that become detached from the natural environment. …”
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