The interplay and synergistic relationship between urban land expansion and urban resilience across the three principal metropolitan regions of the Yangtze River Basin by Lei Ning, Shuangqing Sheng, Yue Meng

“…Leveraging remote sensing data on land use and socio-economic development indicators, we constructed a comprehensive evaluation index encompassing social, economic, ecological, and infrastructural dimensions. Examining three principal urban agglomerations in China’s Yangtze River Basin, we analyzed the spatial-temporal dynamics and rates of change in urban land area and resilience levels from 2000 to 2020. …”
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Field-Obtained Soil-Water Characteristic Curves of KPK Expansive Soil and Their Prediction Correlations by Bakht Zamin, Hassan Nasir, Khalid Mehmood, Qaiser Iqbal

“…Such soils are considered a natural hazard for civil engineering infrastructures especially when they are lightly loaded. …”
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Biodiversity conservation and threat reduction in Kibale and Queen Elizabeth conservation areas, Uganda by Joseph Katswera, Norah M. Mutekanga, Charles K.Twesigye

“…Finally, further research should focus on ecosystem health, and also the impact of tourism infrastructural development on biodiversity conservation.   …”
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Distribution and Occurrence Frequency of dB/dt Spikes During Magnetic Storms 1980–2020 by A. Schillings, L. Palin, H. J. Opgenoorth, M. Hamrin, L. Rosenqvist, J. W. Gjerloev, L. Juusola, R. Barnes

“…This result implies that a moderate storm with many spikes can be as (or more) dangerous for ground‐based infrastructures than a major storm with fewer dB/dt spikes. …”
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Undrained bearing capacity of obliquely-eccentrically loaded shallow foundations overlying a heterogeneous and inherently anisotropic clay deposit by Maedeh Nasiri Pishvari, Hessam Fathipour, Suraparb Keawsawasvong, Boonchai Ukritchon, Meghdad Payan, Reza Jamshidi Chenari

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Presentation of Religious Tourism Pattern Based on Foundation Data Theory in International Borders by Ali Rostami, Mohammad Aidi, Alireaza slambolchi, Mohammadreza Rabiee Mandejin

“…Having determining the sample size qualitatively via snowball method, 14 experts of religious tourism including academics and trustees of religious tourism were recognized and they were interviewed directly and the research findings showed that religious tourism pattern in Mehran International Border has six main components including casual conditions (religious and tribal communities, provincial infrastructures, common border of Iraq and vicinity to The Holy of Holies, advertisements) categories (tourism and its subcategories, religious places in Iran and Iraq, security) grounds (commercial free zone in Mehran welfare and health services, economic part of religious tourism), interferer factors (political factors, conveying affairs to non-governmental sector, weather changes), strategies (cooperating with educational centers and universities, increasing governmental investing, using capacities of religious days) consequences & results (income and creating jobs, people’s persistence in border and non-immigration, cultural development of province, destruction of environmental, road and jungles of province) which could be introduced as a proper pattern for religious tourism in Mehran International Border according to the opinion of experts. …”
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Competitive Advantage of Broiler Production in District Mansehra by Fida Muhammad Khan, Ghaffar Ali, Khuram Nawaz Sadozai, Noor P Khan

“…The region of the study has a high concentration of commercial activities, infrastructural facilities like veterinary care as well as climate that favor the production and marketing of poultry meat products. …”
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The Role of Chinese Small and Medium TNCs in the Modernization of the National Economy by D. B. Kalashnikov

“…In developing countries SMFAs are represented by trade and manufacturing outlets within the “Belt and Road Initiative” They come after the infrastructural projects of large business, grouped in clusters, have strong coordination with other Chinese TNCs, and create Chinese GVCs. …”
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Ranking Sustainable Projects through an Innovative Hybrid DEMATEL-VIKOR Decision-Making Approach Using Z-Number by Armin Akhavein, Ali RezaHoseini, AmirMohammad Ramezani, Morteza BagherPour

“…Accordingly, the main objective of this paper is to develop a mixed decision-making approach (DEMATEL-VIKOR) with the aim of ranking and evaluating suggested projects considering sustainability indices in a “mass production and infrastructural” company under uncertainty, while also taking reliability (Z-number information) into account. …”
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O conceito de Estado-Nação by Vítor Neto

“…La notion d'État-nation est liée à de nombreux autres concepts : l'idée de territoire, d'une mémoire historique, d'une mythologie consensuelle, d'une culture de la démocratie, d'infrastructures techniques et économiques communes, et de la position des citoyens devant la loi. …”
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Digitalization of the Workflow for Drone-Assisted Inspection and Automated Assessment of Industrial Buildings for Effective Maintenance Management by Jorge Torres-Barriuso, Natalia Lasarte, Ignacio Piñero, Eduardo Roji, Peru Elguezabal

“…Continuous maintenance based on an accurate diagnosis makes it possible to meet the challenges of aging infrastructures, which demands a reliable data-based assessment for maintenance management implementing corrective and preventive actions, according to the damage criticality. …”
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Biodiversity conservation and threat reduction in Kibale and Queen Elizabeth conservation areas, Uganda by Joseph Katswera, Norah M. Mutekanga, Charles K.Twesigye

“…Finally, further research should focus on ecosystem health, and also the impact of tourism infrastructural development on biodiversity conservation.   …”
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Experiences of Mothers and Health Workers With Momcare and Safecare Bundles In Kenya And Tanzania: A Qualitative Evaluation. by Izudi, Jonathan, Owoko, Henry Odero, Bagayoko, Moussa, Kadengye, Damazo

“…Health systems improvements included prompt emergency response and continual care, infrastructural developments, medical sup- plies and logistics, staffing, and increased documentation. …”
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Impact of Pentecostal Churches in Social- Economic Transformation of Rural Areas in Kabale District. by Bakwengye, Deus

“…Many churches have not only grown in size but have also developed infrastructures for research, training, and demonstration of alternative methods for increasing rural income. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variability of Channel Roughness and its Substantial Impacts on Flood Modeling Errors by Md Abdullah Al Mehedi, Shah Saki, Krutikkumar Patel, Chaopeng Shen, Sagy Cohen, Virginia Smith, Adnan Rajib, Emmanouil Anagnostou, Tadd Bindas, Kathryn Lawson

“…Due to its control of flow velocity and shear stress, n is critical for modeling timing of floods and pollutants, aquatic ecosystem health, infrastructural safety, and so on. While alternative formulations exist, open‐channel n is typically regarded as temporally constant, determined from lookup tables or calibration, and its spatiotemporal variability was never examined holistically at large scales. …”
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To cool or not to cool: understanding and improving cooling centre use in metro vancouver through community-based participatory action research by Liv Yoon, Giulia Belotti, Rachel Stern, Katherine White, Aida Mohajeri, Abby Zhou, Eduardo Rosales Miranda, Erika Siao, Thanh Le, Jeff Masuda, Eun-young Lee, Chris Buse

“…Key barriers to cooling centre usage reported by participants included concerns over safety, hygiene, stigma, lack of information, and infrastructural challenges such as transportation. SPs faced constraints with staffing, limited hours, and underutilization of additional services. …”
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Predictive Capabilities of Corotating Interaction Regions Using STEREO and Wind In‐Situ Observations by Yutian Chi, Chenglong Shen, Christopher Scott, Mengjiao Xu, Mathew Owens, Yuming Wang, Mike Lockwood

“…Therefore advanced warning of SIRs/CIRs is vital for mitigating the effect of space weather on critical infrastructures in modern society. Recently, several solar missions, for example, Vigil mission (Luntama et al., 2020) and Solar Ring mission (Wang et al., 2020), that can be served as a space weather monitor, have been proposed. …”
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Multi‐Instrument Investigation of the Impact of the Space Weather Events of 6–10 September 2017 by Paul O. Amaechi, Andrew O. Akala, Johnson O. Oyedokun, K. G. Simi, O. Aghogho, Elijah O. Oyeyemi

“…The total radio fade‐out lasted from 30 to 90 min at the Hermanus and Sao Luis ionosondes during the flares, while the risk level to critical ground infrastructures based on the geomagnetically induced currents hazard was very low risk. …”
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Experimental Study on Electric Resistivity Characteristics of Compacted Loess under Different Loads and Drying-Wetting Cycles by Yu Zhou, Guoyu Li, Wei Ma, Dun Chen, Fei Wang, Yuncheng Mao, Qingsong Du, Jun Zhang, Liyun Tang

“…Densely compacted loess foundations of many man-made infrastructures are often exposed to various loads and extreme weathering processes (e.g., drying-wetting cycles), which significantly deteriorate their mechanical properties. …”
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Socioeconomic and behavioural factors that contribute to the co-occurrence of risk factors for noncommunicable diseases by Naftal Sakaria, Nelago Indongo

“…The study recommends for infrastructural developments in urban areas that promotes health lifestyles including provision for cycling, walking paths and participation in urban agriculture.…”
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