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Research on Battery Electric Vehicles’ DC Fast Charging Noise Emissions: Proposals to Reduce Environmental Noise Caused by Fast Charging Stations
Published 2025-01-01“…Additionally, EVs help reduce noise pollution in urban areas, especially in noise-saturated environments, contributing to an overall decrease in urban sound levels. …”
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Comprehensive health risk assessment of urban ambient air pollution (PM2.5, NO2 and O3) in Ghana
Published 2025-01-01“…Urbanization and industrialization have drastically increased ambient air pollution in urban areas globally from vehicle emissions, solid fuel combustion and industrial activities leading to some of the worst air quality conditions. …”
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Nursing postgraduates’ innovative behaviour, influencing factors and educational requirements: a national cross-sectional study
Published 2025-01-01“…Participants who read scientific literature frequently, had a high level of professional identity, and grew up in urban areas had high levels of innovative behaviour (adjusted R 2 = 0.244, P < 0.001). …”
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Exploring urban-rural inequalities of maternal healthcare utilization in Bangladesh
Published 2025-01-01“…Conclusion: Maternal healthcare services utilization shows a significant disparity, with rural areas reporting much lower rates compared to urban areas. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), this study's findings can help policymakers ensure equitable access to quality care for all women, irrespective of their socioeconomic background or geographical location.…”
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Dataset of microscale atmospheric flow and pollutant concentration large-eddy simulations for varying mesoscale meteorological forcing in an idealized urban environmentZenodo
Published 2025-02-01“…By 2050, two-thirds of the world's population will live in urban areas under climate change, exacerbating the environmental and public health risks associated with poor air quality and urban heat island effects. …”
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Prevalence and factors associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes in South Africa: Evidence from the 2016 Demographic and Health Survey
Published 2024-06-01“…The majority (70.9%) were of age 20 - 34 years, 78% had secondary education, 61.6% were unemployed, 65% were from urban areas, and more than 40% of these women were currently living with a man, while 51.5% reported that they had never been in a union. …”
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Trace element concentrations, multivariate analysis and health risk potential of soils from urban and peri-urban agriculture
Published 2024-10-01“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES A rapidly increasing human population has resulted in the expansion of urban areas and an associated increase in the demand for food. …”
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Economics and cost effectiveness of a rain garden for flood-resistant urban design
Published 2024-01-01“…The main objective of the present study is to create a design approach and simultaneously specify the cost of the infiltration rate of the rain garden in urban areas.METHODS: This study focuses on the ability of rain garden design to determine accurately the cost of materials used for construction. …”
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Evaluation of Elemental and Chemical Compositions of Some Fuelwood Species for Energy Value
Published 2020-01-01“…Since fuelwood is the most common and cheapest source of energy in both rural and urban areas in northern Nigeria, the study area is facing serious challenges due to indiscriminate felling of trees for energy use, irrespective of species quality for combustion. …”
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Pooled prevalence and associated factors of traditional uvulectom among children in Africa: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Published 2025-01-01“…Mothers residing in rural areas were 2.45 times more likely to have a child experienced TCU compared to those in urban areas (AOR = 2.45; 95% CI: 1.59-3.32). Similarly, Mothers with a history of having a previous child who undergo TCU were 8.44 times more likely to seek the procedure for their other children compared to mothers without such a history (AOR = 8.44; 95% CI: 6.27-10.61). …”
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Assessing awareness and treatment knowledge of preventable blindness in rural and urban South African communities
Published 2024-06-01“…Setting. Rural and urban areas in the Eastern Cape, SA. Methods. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted among 309 participants. …”
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Assessing tick attachments to humans with citizen science data: spatio-temporal mapping in Switzerland from 2015 to 2021 using spatialMaxent
Published 2025-01-01“…Our study reveals that tick attachment to humans is particularly high at the edges of settlement areas, especially in sparsely built-up suburban regions with green spaces, while it is lower in densely urbanized areas. Additionally, forested areas near cities also show increased risk levels. …”
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The capacity of human interventions to regulate PM2.5 concentration has substantially improved in China
Published 2025-01-01“…The rapid urbanization in China has brought about serious air pollution problems, which are likely to persist for a considerable period as the urbanization process continues. In urban areas, the spatial distribution of air pollutants represented by PM2.5 has been proved mainly affected by emission, urban landscape pattern (short as ULP), as well as meteorological conditions. …”
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Food taboo practices and associated factors among pregnant women in Sub-Sahara Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published 2025-02-01“…In the subgroup analysis, the pooled proportion of food taboo practices for studies conducted in urban areas was 40% (95% CI: 32, 48%), while it was 43% (95% CI: 32, 56%) among rural residents. …”
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Coexistence of multiple leaf nutrient resorption strategies in urban forests
Published 2025-01-01“…Rapid urbanization has driven marked changes in local and regional nutrient cycles, thereby influencing the nutrient utilization efficiency of plants proximal to urban areas. Urban forests face substantially higher levels of environmental stress and anthropogenic disturbance than do peri-urban forests owing to the stark variations in environmental parameters observed along urban-periurban-rural gradients. …”
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Overweight and obesity among adolescents: health-conscious behaviours, acceptance, and the health behaviours of their parents
Published 2025-02-01“…Overweight and obesity, once considered a problem in high-income countries, now affect low- and middle-income countries, especially in urban areas. Overweight and obesity rates among children and adolescents are constantly rising. …”
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Assessment of mental health literacy using a multifaceted measure among a Chinese rural population
Published 2015-10-01“…MHL was independently associated with self-rated general health (r=2.31, p<0.01), depression (r=−0.09, p<0.01) and anxiety (r=−0.07, p<0.05).Conclusions MHL in the rural areas of Liuyang is lower than that reported in urban areas of China. There is much room for improvement with regard to MHL promotion in rural areas of China. …”
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Parasitic infection prevalence in tuberculosis patients and their household contacts in the Littoral Region of Cameroon
Published 2025-02-01“…TB patients and household contacts living in urban areas had lower odds of being associated with helminth infections (AOR 0.2, 95 % CI: 0.10–0.40; p ˂ 0.0001 and AOR 0.11, 95 % CI: 0.04–0.27; p ˂ 0.0001 respectively) as compared to those residing in rural areas. …”
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Carbon sequestration in different urban vegetation types in Southern Finland
Published 2025-02-01“…However, the validation of the absolute level of modelled fluxes proved difficult due to differences in the scale of the observations and models, particularly for mature trees, and due to the fact that net ecosystem exchange measurements in urban areas include some anthropogenic emissions. Irrigation emerged as a key factor often improving carbon sequestration, while tree-covered areas demonstrated greater carbon sequestration rates compared to lawns on an annual scale. …”
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Urban environment during pregnancy, cognitive abilities, motor function, and externalizing and internalizing symptoms at 2–5 years old in 3 Canadian birth cohorts
Published 2025-01-01“…Background: More than 80% of the Canadian population lives in urban settings. Urban areas usually bring exposure to poorer air quality, less access to green spaces, and higher building density. …”
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