Farmers’ Willingness to Pay a High Premium for Different Types of Agricultural Insurance: Evidence from Inner Mongolia, China by Xinya Guo, Yuanfeng Zhao, Muhammad Umer Arshad, Yufei Gong

“…The contingent valuation method was used to collect the data about farmers’ willingness to pay and preferences from 252 households across three cities of Inner Mongolia, China. The result of empirical estimation indicates that farmers with less experience and high income tend to choose “60% of full-cost insurance product.” …”
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COMMUNITY RESPONSE (CRM)-BASED PRIORITY SCALE SYSTEM FOR TRANSJAKARTA ROUTE REPAIR in DKI JAKARTA PROVINCE by Hairrudin, Agus Suroso

“…Furthermore, this Community Response (QCR) based priority scale system (PSS-TJ) can be an innovative model for Transjakarta road improvement systems in other cities in Indonesia, enabling resources optimization and increasing public participation in urban transportation infrastructure management. …”
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TRANSPORT LOGISTICS AND WORKFORCE QUALITY: EVALUATING ACCESSIBILITY AND HUMAN RESOURCE QUALITY IN SELECTED NIGERIAN ORGANIZATIONS by Olusegun Timothy ODESOLA, Chukwudalu Daniel NWIZU

“…As one of the most populous cities in Nigeria, Lagos deals with unique transport issues that impact the productivity and wellbeing of its workforce, with the region’s dynamic urban landscape that creates challenges and opportunities in the transportation system. …”
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Reziliența rețelei școlare în România – dinamica structurilor spațiale ale școlilor primare rurale by Victoria Buza

“…On the one hand, the areas affected early by the effects of depopulation have seen the most extensive restructuring of the schools, either by merging the small units or by adopting multi-grade teaching, one the other hand, the suburban areas of large cities have experienced substantial increases in a short period of time in the number of pupils, leading to overcrowding of classes. …”
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Miserable victims or Troublesome delinquents? A Critical perspective on the news media coverage of Chinese rural left-behind children by Ruixia Sun, Wei Han

“…The fast urban development in China has attracted many migrant workers in rural areas heading for cities due to more job opportunities and higher salaries. …”
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Maoïsme et éducation partisane. L’utopie éducative et la Révolution Culturelle by Roland Depierre

“…It meant to Change Man and to re-educate men, to abolish the Three Great differences separating workers from peasants, cities from rural areas, and intellectuals from manual workers; it also aimed at reducing the Three separations isolating the intelligentsia from proletarian politics, and from peasant and working class life. …”
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Forecasting of Population Narcotization under the Implementation of a Drug Use Reduction Policy by Sergey Mityagin, Carlos Gershenson, Alexander Boukhanovsky

“…In this paper, we present an approach to drug addiction simulation and forecasting in the medium and long terms in cities having a high population density and a high rate of social communication. …”
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Rainfall Infiltration under Various Building Layouts Using Concrete Microseepage Wells by Xiaolan Liu, Shunqun Li, Yunfeng Bai

“…This study provides a scientific reference for the development of sponge cities with low-impact development measures to reduce the problem of flooding/water logging disasters and water shortages.…”
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The perspective of key stakeholders on the sustainable design of reverse logistics in e-commerce: an interpretive sensemaking review by Iria González Romero, Ángel Ortiz Bas, J. Carlos Prado Prado

“…Institutions, as regulators seeking more sustainable cities, apply measures that influence almost all relevant elements. …”
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Households willingness to pay for improved solid waste management by S. Akhtar, A.S. Ahmad, M.I. Qureshi, S. Shahraz

“…Economic development, urbanization and improved living standards in cities have contributed to increase in the amount and complexity of solid waste produced. …”
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The Effects of COVID-19 Measures on Air Pollutant Concentrations at Urban and Traffic Sites in Istanbul by Ülkü Alver Şahin

“…These pollutant levels demonstrate the anthropogenic contribution to air pollution and can inform clean air actions in Istanbul and in others cities throughout the world.…”
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Elemental Analysis and Mapping of Some Natural Waters in Eastern Black Sea Region and Investigation of Their Effects on Environment and Human Health by Yaşar Kobya, Cafer Mert Yeşilkanat

“…In this study, it was aimed to make an elemental analysis of the natural spring waters in 7 cities (Artvin, Rize, Trabzon, Giresun, Ordu, Gümüşhane and Bayburt) in the Eastern Black Sea region and to determine the elemental distribution of the entire region using geostatistical analysis with the help of this analysis. …”
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Distribution and Bioaccumulation of Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Xiamen Coastal Waters by Zhineng Dai, Fansheng Zeng

“…However, the study of PFAs in Xiamen could be a beneficial complement, for its unique geologies of no rivers that originate from other cities to influence the concentration of PFAs in this area. …”
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Last digit tendency: Lucky numbers and psychological rounding in mobile transactions by Hai Wang, Tian Lu, Yingjie Zhang, Yue Wu, Yiheng Sun, Jingran Dong, Wen Huang

“…In this paper, we investigate the digit distribution of numbers in a large mobile transaction data set with 835 million mobile transactions and payments made by approximately 460,000 users in more than 300 cities. Although the first digits of the numbers in these mobile transactions follow Benford’s law, the last digit has a strong tendency to be a lucky number or be influenced by psychological rounding. …”
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PROFILES AND PREFERENCES OF ON-LINE MILLENIAL SHOPPERS IN BULGARIA by Patricia R. Loubeau, Robert Jantzen, Elitsa Alexander

“…One limitation of this study arises because of its reliance on a convenience sample of students from medium sized cities in Southern Bulgaria. Further research employing stratified random sampling across Bulgaria is needed to assess whether the findings are broadly generalizable for the Gen Y population. …”
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Aging and urban innovation: a human capital perspective by Jinghang Cui, Jinghang Cui, Rong Zhou, K. Jason Crandall, K. Jason Crandall, Mingxuan Cui, Ruirui Bai, Ruirui Bai, Yi Jia

“…Understanding the relationship between population aging and innovation is crucial for addressing economic challenges associated with an aging population.MethodsThis study utilized panel data on population aging and innovation from 252 cities between 2005 and 2014. Various estimation methods, including the fixed effects model, the generalized method of moments (GMM), and the mediation model, were used to analyze the data. …”
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CARSP: A Smart Parking System Based on Doubly Periodic Rolling Horizon Allocation Approach by Shangbin Ning, Zhenyu Han, Yang Yang, Zhenzhou Yuan, Xianyu Wu

“…Blind search for available parking space is accountable for most traffic congestion, accident, and pollution in cities, which severely impact people’s life. Parking management based on an online smart parking system is practical to alleviate parking problems in which parking allocation is the core. …”
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Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“…The second probe shows the possibilities and benefits of analysing data from contemporary tax records and lists of serfdom duties and corvées for understanding the function and status of cities and towns in the South Bohemian domain of the lords of Hradec. …”
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Assessing urban vegetation inequalities: Methodological insights and evidence by Alicia González-Marín, Marco Garrido-Cumbrera

“…This study aims to conduct a scoping literature review of research that evaluates methodologies used to estimate the inequal distribution of vegetation in cities, providing evidence to establish standardized guidelines for the selection of data sources, methodologies and indicators. …”
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Shaping the human gut microbiota: The role of canine companionship, lifestyle choices, and Blastocystis sp. by Zuzana Pavlíčková, Barbora Pafčo, Vladislav Ilík, Lee O'Brien Andersen, Milan Jirků, Kristýna Brožová, David Modrý, Oldřiška Kadlecová, Christen Rune Stensvold, Kateřina Jirků

“…The Czech Republic, known for one of the highest rates of dog ownership in Europe, provides an ideal setting for studying such relationships.Here, we investigated the impact of dog ownership and lifestyle factors (residing in cities versus villages) on the gut microbiota (specifically bacteriome). …”
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