The Relationship between Spiritual Well-Being and Resilience in Patients with Psoriasis by Mohammadhossein RahimZahedi, Camellia Torabizadeh, Majid Najafi Kalyani, Seyed Alireza Moayedi

“…The present study is a descriptive-analytical work conducted in the largest city in the south of Iran in 2019. 150 patients diagnosed with psoriasis completed Ellison and Paloutzian’s Spiritual Well-Being Scale and Connor and Davidson’s Resiliency Scale. …”
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Influence of Urban Commercial Street Interface Morphology on Surrounding Wind Environment and Thermal Comfort by Yijie Zhang, Bin Huang

“…However, not enough attention has been paid to the influence of street interface morphology in order to better understand the wind–thermal conditions of various commercial streets within the city and create a sustainable built environment. …”
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Simulation and Strategy for Salinity Control Scheduling in Dongjiang Delta of Pearl River Basin in Severe Drought Year by LIN Zhongyuan, TANG Qi, WANG Fengen, XU Wei, HUANG Pengfei, ZOU Huazhi

“…Due to the weak capacity of regulation and storage in Dongguan City, the strategy for salinity control dispatching in the Dongjiang Delta is to release fresh water throughout the duration of spring tides. …”
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Tracking metal pollution from illegal gold mining: a health risk assessment in Edfu, Egypt by Kholoud M. AbdelMaksoud, Wael M. Al-Metwaly, Heba M. R. Hathout

“…The study aimed to assess the concentrations of carcinogenic agents and determine the potential human health risks associated with these agents in soil and fish samples collected within the city boundaries. The study examined correlations between various heavy metals (HMs), such as Ni, Pb, Cd, Cr, Cu, and Hg, in Soilsamples collected in 2020 and 2022. …”
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A Comparative Study of Physical Activity Levels Between Rural and Urban Settings in Zimbabwe by Norman Manyeruke, Kerry Vermaak, Nicholas Mudonhi, Wilfred Njabulo Nunu

“…Setting: The study took place in Bulawayo city (urban) and Mashonaland East province (rural). …”
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Does heatwaves/above-average temperature increase interpersonal violent behavior? A scoping review by Daniela ACQUADRO MARAN, Gaia DIBIASE, Sofia FILIPPETTI, Riccardo SANDRETTO, Antonella VARETTO, Claudio Giovanni CORTESE, Elisabetta CARRARO

“…., promoting green spaces and reducing pollution) and at the level of individual city institutions, which can monitor the phenomenon and take action, such as increasing the presence of security personnel in anticipation of periods of highest temperatures.…”
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Study on Influencing Factors and Countermeasures of Elderly Nursing Services in the Elderly by Shuo Liu, Li Chen, Dandan Li, Qianqian Yang, Fangfang Liu, Yanli Cheng

“…Methods. 500 inpatients with chronic diseases in a famous tertiary hospital in a city were studied, and the corresponding countermeasures were put forward through the analysis of their needs and influencing factors. …”
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Węgrzy jako pars aliqua gentis Massagetum. Ślady późnoantycznej i wczesnośredniowiecznej uczoności w dziele Tomasza archidiakona Splitu. Część 2. Postrzeganie Massagetów. 2) Kontek... by Lesław Spychała

“…The accounts known from other sources that link the motifs of the city, sword, and treasure of Attila with Hungary, once considered arguments proving the early development of a Hun-Hungarian identity there, arose outside the area of that monarchy and there is no indication that, except for the first account, they were known there. …”
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The Perceptions and Attitudes of Residents Towards Urban Green Spaces in Emilia-Romagna (Italy)—A Case Study by Zhengyang Xu, Teodoro Georgiadis, Letizia Cremonini, Sofia Marini, Stefania Toselli

“…This study investigated residents’ perceptions and attitudes towards UGS in a neighbourhood of an Italian city (Quartiere Marconi, Imola), focusing on understanding both the strengths and limitations of existing public green spaces from users’ perspectives. …”
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The Relationship Between Postpartum Physical Symptom Severity and Sleep Quality in Women with Cesarean Section by Melike Yılmaz, Nuriye Erbaş

“…Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with a total of 193 women with cesarean section in a city hospital between October 14, 2019 and May 30, 2020. …”
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Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 infection over two epidemic waves in Manaus, Brazil: A serological study of seven thousand blood donors. by Neal Alexander, Christopher Dye, Michael P Busch, Lewis Buss, Carlos A Prete, Oliver J Brady, Paul Mee, Claudia M M Abrahim, Myuki A E Crispim, Allyson G da Costa, Tassila Salomon, Philippe Mayaud, Márcio K Oikawa, Nuno R Faria, Ester C Sabino

“…<h4>Background</h4>Most longitudinal studies of COVID-19 incidence have used unlinked samples. The city of Manaus, Brazil, has a blood donation program which allows sample linkage, and was struck by two large COVID-19 epidemic waves between mid-2020 and early 2021.…”
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Experimental Study on Warm Permafrost Dynamic Characteristics under Cyclic Loading in the Cold Region by Liwei Song, Junfang Liu, Yan Jin, Chi Li, Songbao Cai

“…In order to analyze the influence of confining pressure and vehicle load to the warm permafrost, the dynamic triaxial tests were conducted on the frozen soil extracted from highway in Yakeshi City. While the load frequency is 6 Hz and the test temperature is −1.5°C, we changed the confining pressure and axial stress amplitude, respectively, and then gained the deviator stress-strain curves. …”
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Protocol for a cluster randomized study to compare the effectiveness of a self-report distress tool and a mental health referral service to usual case management on program complet... by Shawna Bailey, Carrie Stoner, Kelly Cruise, Giulio DiDiodato

“…<h4>Participants</h4>Students enrolled in Community Builder's Trades & Diversity Training Program in either the city of Barrie or Sudbury (in Ontario, Canada) will be eligible for enrollment if they have an active Ontario Health Insurance Plan number and Canadian Social Insurance Number and provide written informed consent prior to Training program commencement.…”
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Similarities and differences in waste composition over time and space determined by multivariate distance analyses. by David J Tonjes, Yiyi Wang, Firman Firmansyah, Sameena Manzur, Matthew Johnston, Griffin Walker, Krista L Thyberg, Elizabeth Hewitt

“…Multivariate distance techniques can create wholisitic determinations of similarities and differences and were applied here to enhance a series of waste composition comparisons. A set of New York City residential waste composition studies conducted in 1990, 2004, 2013, and 2017 were compared to EPA data and to 88 studies conducted in other US jurisdictions from 1987-2021. …”
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Refined Urban Functional Zones Identification via Empirical Bayesian Kriging: A POI-Weighted Scoring Innovation by Xuan Du, Yisha Pan, Xiaoyan Yang, Longgao Chen, Liangchen Liu, Ying Lin

“…Additionally, the incorporation of multi-source data enables the extraction of traffic and ecological zones, facilitating the identification of non-building-reliant zones within the city, thereby enhancing the completeness and comprehensiveness of urban spatial recognition. 3) The overall accuracy achieved is 84.4%, with a Kappa coefficient of 0.804 for the classification results, which represents a significant improvement in UFZs identification accuracy compared to traditional methods and offers a robust scientific basis for urban planning and resource optimization.…”
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Intelligent Modeling; Single (Multi-layer perceptron) and Hybrid (Neuro-Fuzzy Network) Method in Forest Degradation (Case Study: Sari County) by somayeh mehrabadi

“…Seven factors identified as the most effective factors in forest degradation, including the distance from the features like city, river, village, sea, and road, elevation and slope were measured for the 200 locations. …”
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Cultural competence, professional values, and spiritual well-being in nursing interns: a descriptive cross-sectional study by Amir Mohamad Nazari, Seyedeh Narjes Mousavizadeh, Zahra Khorrami Khoramabadi, Vahid Yousofvand, Seyed Mohammad-Javad Ghazavi Dozein

“…Methods In this study, a total of 200 nursing interns affiliated with universities of medical sciences in Tehran city (Tehran, Shahid Beheshti, and Iran) were included as participants. …”
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Peri Cholecystectomy Bile Analysis for Fasciola hepatica Eggs in Sulaimani Teaching Hospital by Seerwan Hama Shareef, Taher Abdullah Hawramy, Osman jamal nasrulla, Karwn Hama amin, Dara Ahmed Mohammed, Raz Seerwan Hama

“…In 129 samples, there were 7 (5.4%) positive cases of Fasciola hepatica 2 were adult worms, all were swimming in the gall bladder. 5 (3.9%) out of 7 (5.4%) samples were females and only 2 (1.5%) of cases were males.  4 (3.1%) out of 7 were from Sharazur terrain, and 3 (2.3%) of them from the center of Sulaimani city.  Fascioliasis is a zoonotic problem. It must be put in differential diagnosis of any vague upper abdominal pain. …”
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The Immunological Plasmodium falciparum Malaria Characteristics of Children in Tajikistan Republic by Nighina M. Khodzhaeva, Alla M. Baranova, Anatoly K. Tokmalaev

“…We examined 124 patients with P. falciparum malaria at the age of 6 months up to 14 years that were hospitalized in Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital in Dushanbe city and in Regional hospital of Khatlon region in the period 2000-2007. …”
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Research on Flood Control and Drainage Simulation of Artificial Water Networks Based on SWMM Coupled with HEC-RAS by XIA Minghui, YIN Shiyang

“…A distributed hydrological model of SWMM was coupled with a two-dimensional hydrodynamic model (SWE-ELW) of HEC-RAS to simulate and analyze flood control and drainage in the southern water network of Fuyang City in Anhui Province. The results show that the number of calculation parameters in the SWMM model is more, and the drainage modulus decreases with increasing catchment area, which is close to the drainage modulus in planned pump stations, making the calculation results more reasonable. …”
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