First-Aid System for Marathon Athletes Based on Telemedicine Technology by Caixia Chen, Shuai Liu

“…With the emphasis on sports in the region and the improvement of people’s living standards, more and more people participate in various sports and activities including marathon, so that more and more cities are hosting or even vying for it. With the marathon, not only the joy of successfully holding the event, but also the pain of the contestants and even the sadness of sudden death. …”
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Le bruit des avions comme facteur de dépréciations immobilières, de polarisation sociale et d’inégalités environnementales. Le cas d’Orly by Guillaume Faburel, Isabelle Maleyre

“…We report here an Hedonic Price Method (HPM) application to housing values and household mobility, for eight cities located near to Orly Airport and exposed to aircraft noise. …”
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Didactic analysis of the results of solving tasks of school-scale mathematical competitions for fourth formers by Danutė Kiseliova, Arkadijus Kiseliovas

“… The research has randomly selected 2581 from more than 5000 competition works by fourth formers from Lithuania's all cities and districts. The central and, probably, the most important aim and task of such competitions includes development of primary formers' interest in mathematics, development and improving of their mathematical achievements, knowledge, development of creativity, logical and critical thinking. …”
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Human and Canine Blastomycosis: A Common Source Infection by Matthew W Morgan, Irving E Salit

“…It was hypothesized that the common source of exposure was the island since the permanent residences of the two cases were in different cities. One further case of human infection, based on positive serology, and four additional cases of probable canine blastomycosis were identified. …”
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Restriction Analysis of Transport Policy for Bridges Using the Trajectory Data by Zhenghua Hu, Jibiao Zhou, Shuichao Zhang, Songhan He, Bo’an Yu

“…Restriction policies are selected to alleviate congestion in many cities. However, conclusions regarding the substantial effects of restriction policies have not been fully demonstrated. …”
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Effective smart rotary parking management in urban areas by Kaci Meziane, Salem Merabti, Zakaria Layate, Hakim Ait Said, Sofiane Amrane, Lydia Terki

“… With urbanization on the rise, coupled with the burgeoning intensity of traffic in cities, parking management is becoming an increasingly insurmountable problem. …”
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Participação, desigualdades e novas institucionalidades: uma análise a partir de instituições participativas em Santa Catarina by Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann, Julian Borba

“…This work aims to analyze the capacity of inclusion of the poorer sectors of the population in the processes of participative experiences, taking as empirical reference some data on the profile of the representatives and political participants in different spheres of Brazilian political performance (in special, the managing councils of public policies and Participative Budgets - PBs) anchored, more specifically, on the data of cities in Santa Catarina State (south of Brazil). …”
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Construction of Regional Logistics Weighted Network Model and Its Robust optimization: Evidence from China by Lizhao Yan, Yi Wen, Kok Lay Teo, Jian Liu, Fei Xu

“…First, based on the gravity model, the index of logistics attraction between cities is established as the weight of the model, and hence the regional logistics weighted model is constructed. …”
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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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Sustainable Development Goals and the Geosciences: A Review by Kim Senger

“…The geoscientific community is well positioned to positively directly influence many of the SDGs, notably SDGs 7 (Affordable Energy), 11 (Sustainable Cities) and 13 (Climate Action), and may also directly or indirectly contribute to all other SDGs. …”
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« Le Creusot n’a pas d’eau ». Tensions entre développement économique et capital environnemental sur le temps long by Sandrine Petit

“…The concept of environmental capital is applied to the water resources over long time on the territory of the cities of Creusot, Montceau-les-Mines and the rural municipalities at the periphery. …”
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La sculpture de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge en péninsule Ibérique, une révision nécessaire by Gisela Ripoll

“…We have corpora for regions, cities or museum collections, such as Badajoz, Córdoba, Tarragona or Toledo, as well as thematic directories, such as figurative sculpture, liturgical altars or funerary sculpture. …”
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Rôle joué par l’économie informelle dans l’appropriation des TIC en milieu urbain en Afrique de l’Ouest by Annie Cheneau-Loquay

“…Having explained briefly what we understand by “informal” according to various disciplinary approaches, we shall show how the insertion and the appropriation of the ICTs in the African cities gives place to a proliferation of new activities of service which are embedded in the urban fabric, adapt themselves to the low level of income of the populations and generate more or less qualified jobs which recover totally or partially from informal practices. …”
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New restaurants and their intra-industry effects: evidence from Portugal by Luís Miguel Serra Coelho

“…Regression analysis further shows that high industry concentration, low labor productivity, and low asset profitability magnify the rivals’ underperformance, which is particularly acute when the restaurants are located at Lisbon and Oporto, the two most heavily populated Portuguese cities. Overall, this paper contributes to the literature studying the economics of the eating-places industry, and has important implications for both practice, and public policy…”
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Designing intercultural space. A multi-scalar approach in the Albergheria neighbourhood in Palermo by Federico Wulff Barreiro, Renzo Lecardane, Paola La Scala

“…Migration has always been a major driver of urban transformation stimulating opportunities and challenges for cities and encouraging architectural and urban designers for taking a proactive and dynamic role in responding to the crisis. …”
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‘L’Amour aux Antipodes’: Tasma, Australia and the French Connection by Judith Johnston

“…This article investigates Tasma's only known French publication, ‘L'Amour aux Antipodes’ (‘Love in the Antipodes’) which first appeared in August 1880 in the Parisian periodical La Nouvelle Revue, possibly to capitalise on the popularity of a series of lectures on Australia which she had delivered in various French and Belgian cities. I argue that the novella is designed specifically for a French readership, not only in terms of setting, but also because Tasma's usual critique of gender ideology is replaced with a determined anti-clericalism, possibly in response to current debates in Paris at the time and a wish to avoid the fraught gender politics of the Third Republic.…”
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Children «on the side»: feeding industry on territory of Tavrida Province in late XIX–early XX centuries by V. A. Maslennikova

“…The disintegration of the patriarchal family entailed a massive exodus of women to cities, which in turn turned out to be on the quantitative indicators of illegitimate births. …”
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Energy study for the rehabilitation of the old Abbey of Salas de Bureba (Burgos) for residential use. Case study by Raul Briones-Llorente, Juan Maria Hidalgo-Betanzos, Paula Montoya-Saiz, Imanol Ruiz-de-Vergara-Ruiz-de-Azúa, Gabriel Rubio-Pérez, Natalia Muñoz-Rujas, Fernando Aguilar-Romero

“…The renovation of buildings is key to the fight against climate change and offers opportunities to fix the population in rural areas, revalue their heritage and help decongest cities. In addition, it has a lower environmental impact than new construction. …”
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Prensa regional y local: el caso riojano durante la Restauración (1875-1902) by José Miguel Delgado Idarreta

“…Our main purpose is to analyse, from a general perspective, the existence of regional and local press and prove how said press is developed to such a degree in districts’ main cities, like in the capital of the then province of Logroño, now known as the Autonomous Community of La Rioja. …”
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