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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Cultural Volunteering of University Students: Assessment of Participation Experience and Potential for Development by M. V. Pevnaya, A. A. Drozdova

“…The social participation of students in the eventful cultural agenda of cities and regions can increase the competencies of young professionals that are in demand, while it works to form the social responsibility of universities. …”
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An Efficient Traffic Incident Detection and Classification Framework by Leveraging the Efficacy of Model Stacking by Zafar Iqbal, Majid I. Khan, Shahid Hussain, Asad Habib

“…Therefore, this study aims to propose an efficient incident detection and classification (E-IDC) framework for smart cities, by incorporating the efficacy of model stacking, to classify the incidents with respect to their types and severity levels. …”
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When aging meets digitisation: can urban digital technology innovations enhance the well-being of older adults? by Yajing Wu, Xianglei Zhu

“…This study investigates the profound influence of urban digital technology innovation on the well-being of elderly people in Chinese cities, elucidating key mechanisms and moderating factors. …”
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Habiter un quartier RDP by Marine Suteau

“…It asks how successful or not RDP programs have been in South African cities. It argues that social differentiation is in process. …”
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Déchets, mauvaises herbes et plantes sauvages by Flaminia Paddeu

“…It provides an overview of a multidisciplinary literature regarding patterns of foraging and scavenging to develop a theoretical comprehension of urban collecting in contemporary northern cities. Drawing on three bodies of critical geography literature, namely urban informality studies, radical food studies, and urban political economy and ecology, it advocates that investigating urban food collecting provides a tool to analyze structural forms of power, exclusion, injustice and inequality as well as alternative pathways in spaces of advanced capitalism.…”
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Se nourrir en temps de confinement : la vie de quartier à l’épreuve de l’épidémie de coronavirus à Wuhan entre janvier et mars 2020 by Georgina André, Yu Qie, Étienne Monin

“…Through the issue of food supply, this survey highlights the role of the residents' committees and underlines the contribution of digital social networks to neighborhood-level management, both being core characteristics of the contemporary Chinese cities.…”
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Southern Escambia County, Florida's Urban Forests by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, Benjamin Thompson

“…FOR231, a 12-page illustrated fact sheet by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, and Benjamin Thompson, reports on analysis of tree data using USDA Forest Service's Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) model, to help urban foresters, residents, and planners assess several aspects of their urban forests and compare southern Escambia County’s urban forest with forests in other cities in the state of Florida. Includes references. …”
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The method of preliminary localization of source of excessive air pollution to increase effectiveness of environmental monitoring and supervision in Russia by L. O. Shtripling, V. V. Bazhenov, Yu. V. Kalinin, N. S. Bazhenova, V. V. Merkulov

“…The problem of air pollution is raised in many cities, despite developing environmental legislation and the introduction of more environmentally friendly and efficient equipment at industrial enterprises. …”
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Ekoinnowacje a rozwój zrównoważony by Ireneusz Chrząścik, Anna Marciniuk-Kluska, Mariusz Kluska

“…Still, it is a great challenge for EU cities and regions. Also examined were little cooperation between entrepreneurs and people of science in the processes introducing modern technologies and expenditure on innovations.…”
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Hide Tanning and Its Use in Taiga: The Case of the Orochen-Evenki Reindeer Herders and Hunters of Zabaikalye (East Siberia) by Donatas Brandišauskas

“…I suggest that hunters and herders aim to maintain their autonomy from goods and resources imported from cities, and, in spending little effort connecting with state powers in this way, securing their lives from socio-economic constraints.…”
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Approvisionnement en énergie des projets urbains : échelles et acteurs. Analyse des cas Paris Rive Gauche, Clichy-Batignolles et Paris Nord Est by Charlotte Tardieu

“…Many cities are searching to diversify their energy mix with the production of renewables energies. …”
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Cyberabad, modèle de ville post-moderne ? by Eric Leclerc

“…The emergence on the outskirts of major Indian cities of real boomtown whose landscapes break with the rest of the former urban fabric, questions observers. …”
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Prise en compte de la biodiversité dans les projets d’aménagement : comment améliorer la commande des études environnementales ? by Sylvie Vanpeene-Bruhier, Pierre-André Pissard, Martin Kopf

“…This requires numerous and relevant environmental datas in order to evaluate project possible impacts. Based on cities biodiversity studies and transportation facilities impact, we point out gaps or problems in inventory needs or natural datas recollection formulation. …”
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Waste, weeds, and wild food by Flaminia Paddeu

“…It provides an overview of a multidisciplinary literature regarding patterns of foraging and scavenging to develop a theoretical comprehension of urban collecting in contemporary northern cities. Drawing on three bodies of critical geography literature, namely urban informality studies, radical food studies, and urban political economy and ecology, it advocates that investigating urban food collecting provides a tool to analyze structural forms of power, exclusion, injustice and inequality as well as alternative pathways in spaces of advanced capitalism.…”
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La ira anticlerical de mayo de 1931. Religión, política y propaganda by Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart

“…No members of the clergy were killed in the burning of religious buildings in Madrid and other Spanish cities on May 10 and 11, 1931, but it did trigger a catharsis within the Republican government. …”
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Immigrants italiens et frontière américaine : Pioneers ! Ο pioneers ! by Marie-Christine Michaud

“…Between the Civil War and the First World War most of the Italian immigrants settled in Eastern cities. Nonetheless some of them chose to go West. …”
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Southern Escambia County, Florida's Urban Forests by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, Benjamin Thompson

“…FOR231, a 12-page illustrated fact sheet by Francisco Escobedo, Sebastian Varela, Christina Staudhammer, and Benjamin Thompson, reports on analysis of tree data using USDA Forest Service's Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) model, to help urban foresters, residents, and planners assess several aspects of their urban forests and compare southern Escambia County’s urban forest with forests in other cities in the state of Florida. Includes references. …”
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Métropolisation, inégalités sociales et modes d’habiter : trajectoire d’une ville millionnaire russe vue par ses dačniki by Camille Robert-Boeuf

“…Russia has experienced a recent urbanization process affected by the economic crisis of the 1990s and, more recently, by the metropolization of large cities. Kazan, capital of Tatarstan, offers a good example of these new growing metropolises. …”
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Living in the mountains: Mobilities, forms of residentiality and local identities of new inhabitants of a Swiss ski resort by Andrea Friedli

“…The new dwellers keep their social networks in the cities and import their urban lifestyles to their new homes. …”
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