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Impact of Local Soil Conditions on Earthquake Sensitivity in Erzincan City
Published 2019-01-01“…The study explores the distribution of earthquake sensitivity based on the local soil conditions in the urban area as well as its possible effects on the population. …”
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Characterization of sexual and reproductive behaviour in female high school students
Published 2010-11-01“…<strong><br />Methods:</strong> A descriptive study of a sample comprising 180 female students from the 9th grade in the urban area of Cumanayagua, from September 2007 to June 2008. …”
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Deformation Characteristics of Existing Twin Tunnels Induced by Double Shield Undercrossing with Prereinforcement: A Case Study in Hangzhou
Published 2021-01-01“…This paper is based on the case of the earth pressure balance (EPB) shield tunnelling project of the new Metro Line 2 undercrossing the existing Metro Line 1 in the soft soil urban area of Hangzhou. Because the EPB shield must break through a plain concrete wall before undercrossing the existing tunnels, the pipe roof prereinforcement was adopted to stabilize the soil between the existing tunnels and the new shield tunnel. …”
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Cardiovascular Hyperreactivity and its Association with Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Published 2015-12-01“…<br /><strong>Methods:</strong> a cross-sectional, correlational study was conducted in a universe composed of the population aged 15 to 74 years in the urban area of Cienfuegos municipality. The sample included 644 people studied in 2010. …”
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Epidemiological Survey of Toxoplasmosis among Aborted Women in Garmian district, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Published 2018-07-01“…Furthermore, a higher percentage of Toxoplasma seropositivity was recorded in rural area than urban area. The aborted women who were in contact with soil showed the higher rate of Toxoplasma seropositivity (38.7%) than those were not in contact with soil (25%). …”
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Does environmental public policy act as a slowdown for urban expansion? A 2012-2023 analysis with Landsat images
Published 2024-07-01“…Urban expansion constitutes one of the main activities that modify natural environments worldwide; the most vulnerable areas to these effects are peri-urban areas. An example is 59% of the surface of Mexico City, considered a Conservation Zone (CZ). …”
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Usage and Perceived Side Effects of Personal Protective Measures against Mosquitoes among Current Users in Delhi
Published 2014-01-01“…Out of 350 families selected, 210 belonged to rural area and 140 to urban area. Personal protective measures were used by 219 (62.5%) subjects. …”
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Epidemiological Characteristics and Family Relatives among Thalassemic Patients in Sulaimani City, Kurdistan Region, Iraq
Published 2018-07-01“…Majority of patients who have major type of thalassemia were from rural area followed by urban area 113 (95.8%) vs. 7 (5.0%), these differences are statistically significant at (p?…”
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Learning from “Knocks in Life”: Food Insecurity among Low-Income Lone Senior Women
Published 2012-01-01“…Building on earlier quantitative work where we showed that lone senior households reliant on public pensions in Nova Scotia (NS), Canada lacked the necessary funds for a basic nutritious diet, here we present findings from a qualitative study involving in-depth interviews with eight low-income lone senior women living in an urban area of NS. Using a phenomenological inquiry approach, in-depth interviews were used to explore lone senior women’s experiences accessing food with limited financial resources. …”
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Sacral buildings suitable for defense purposes and their ensembles in Vilnius in the 14th-18th centuries
Published 2008-08-01“…In Vilnius, monasteries and nunneries were established according to the Christian traditions of constructing such ensembles of sacral buildings — they were built close to the border of the city of the time (14th-15th centuries) or in the peri-urban area. It is possible to trace the development of the early city and the strategy of its planning according to the locations of the monasteries suitable for defense purposes. …”
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Overestimating Impacts of Urbanization on Regional Temperatures in Developing Megacity: Beijing as an Example
Published 2019-01-01“…Cropland also had a negative effect on climate warming yearly and seasonally, especially in winter (−1.133°C/10a) and spring (−0.299°C/10a). Conversely, the urban area showed strong warming effects (0.438°C/10a). …”
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Development of Corneal Astigmatism (CA) according to Axial Length/Corneal Radius (AL/CR) Ratio in a One-Year Follow-Up of Children in Beijing, China
Published 2018-01-01“…The correlations between the axial length-to-corneal radius (AL/CR) ratio and corneal astigmatism (CA) were studied by prospectively analyzing and comparing survey data from school children in the Beijing urban area from 2014 to 2015. Methods. In this longitudinal study, a total of 2,970 students were enrolled in 2014, and 2,179 students were enrolled in 2015. …”
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Knowledge of Ghana’s liberal abortion law and use of modern contraceptives among women of reproductive age
Published 2025-02-01“…Results More than half (55.4%) lived in urban area, 80.1% were 20 years or older, 52.2% were multiparous women, 61.9% had secondary or higher education, and 34.5% were in the lower two wealth quintiles. …”
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Du nomadisme à la sédentarisation
Published 2012-12-01“…Except for those settled in the peri-urban area, they so far do not take advantage of opportunities generated by the high increase in meat and milk demand. …”
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Rural-Urban Differences in Health Care Expenditures: Empirical Data from US Households
Published 2014-01-01“…Five two-part utilization models were then fit to determine the likelihood of having nonzero expenses and to identify how residence in a rural versus urban area affected expenditures in our five expense categories. …”
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Association between Serum Uric Acid Level and Metabolic Syndrome and Its Sex Difference in a Chinese Community Elderly Population
Published 2014-01-01“…A cross-sectional study was conducted in a representative urban area of Beijing between 2009 and 2010. A two-stage stratified clustering sampling method was used and 2102 elderly participants were included. …”
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Determining Planetary Boundary Layer Height by Micro-pulse Lidar with Validation by UAV Measurements
Published 2021-01-01“…In this study, four PBLH determination methods (Gradient, δ–threshold, Haar wavelet transform, and hybrid image processing) are applied to estimate the PBLH from lidar observations over an urban area in East Asia, and one—the Gradient method—relied on potential temperature measurements from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flights to validate our results. …”
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Rationalising blood tests in a resource-limited emergency unit: A quality improvement project
Published 2025-02-01“…This project was conducted during the family medicine rotation of interns at a tertiary hospital in a semi-urban area. Methods: The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) method was employed. …”
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Genotoxic effects in island populations of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia due to environmental exposure to mercury and cadmium [version 3; peer review: 2 approved]
Published 2025-01-01“…Methods Ninety-four individuals from the four island communities (study group) and 30 individuals from the urban area of Cartagena (control group) participated in this study. …”
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Visible and invisible cultural patterns influencing women’s use of maternal health services among Igala women in Nigeria: a focused ethnographic study
Published 2025-01-01“…The study was conducted with 21 women for one-on-one interviews and two focus group discussions with six women in the rural area and seven women in the urban area. In addition, participant observation of nine women from the third trimester to birth was conducted, yielding 189 h of observation in two primary healthcare facilities in rural and urban areas. …”
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