Fluorescence properties of long-range-transported smoke: insights from five-channel lidar observations over Moscow during the 2023 wildfire season by I. Veselovskii, M. Korenskiy, N. Kasianik, B. Barchunov, Q. Hu, P. Goloub, T. Podvin

“…Additionally, the measurements consistently show differences in the fluorescence spectra of smoke and urban aerosol. Urban aerosol fluorescence tends to decrease gradually with wavelength, whereas the peak of smoke fluorescence is observed in the 513 and 560 nm channels. …”
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Regional Boundary Control of Traffic Network Based on MFD and FR-PID by Xin Yang, Juncheng Chen, Mantun Yan, Zhao He, Ziyan Qin, Jiandong Zhao

“…In recent years, urban traffic congestion has become more serious and the capacity of roads has declined, resulting in frequent traffic accidents. …”
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The geographical distribution, trophic modes, and host preferences of Fomitopsis pinicola in Central Europe: a comprehensive review by Gáper Ján, Gáperová Svetlana, Pristaš Peter, Šebesta Martin, Kollárová Patrícia, Gallay Igor, Slobodník Branko

“…Contrariwise, sites with its presence in public urban spaces are scattered throughout the whole territory of Slovakia. …”
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Citric Acid and Sodium Bicarbonate as an Alternative Carbon Dioxide Source for Mosquito Surveillance by Christine Hong, Victoria J. Brookes, Ruth N. Zadoks, Cameron E. Webb

“…Using a 2 × 2 Latin square style design, trapping locations were established at two sites in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (one urban and another peri-urban), to assess trap performance in diverse environments. …”
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Communicative-visual value of environmental art festival by Antonella Violano, Julio Cesar Perez-Hernandez

“…The socio-cultural value of this kind of event is part of the cathartic and pedagogical role of art, which allows urban spaces to find ideas for enhancement and people to experience the emotion of belonging. …”
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Tourist attractions as a moderating element in explanatory models for loyalty development by Manuel Rey-Moreno, Cayetano Medina-Molina, Ramón Rufín-Moreno

“…This study concludes that there is a common pattern for purely urban cultural destinations while a different pattern exists for urban cultural destinations that include beaches among their attractions.…”
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Fast Pedestrian Recognition Based on Multisensor Fusion by Hongyu Hu, Zhaowei Qu, Zhihui Li, Jinhui Hu, Fulu Wei

“…A support vector machine (SVM) classifier is trained by a novel pedestrian sample dataset which adapt to the urban road environment for online recognition. Finally, we test the validity of the proposed approach with several video sequences from realistic urban road scenarios. …”
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Modeling the Perceptions and Preferences of Pedestrians on Crossing Facilities by Hongwei Guo, Facheng Zhao, Wuhong Wang, Yanlong Zhou, Yujie Zhang, Geert Wets

“…The results are helpful to design human-centered crossing facilities in urban traffic.…”
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La configuration culturelle territoriale d’une ville moyenne : trajectoires et tensions. Le cas d’Albi by Mariette Sibertin-Blanc, Stéphanie Lima

“…The aim of this article is to understand the logics of a territorial cultural configuration defined as the crossing of several fields of strength: an urban context, territorial arrangements and cultural policies, personal and professional logics. …”
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Gli strumenti di pianificazione territoriale in relazione alla funzionalità dell’agricoltura periurbana by Giulia Giacchè, Chiara Mazzocchi

“…The paper analyses the urban-planning instruments of two Italian regions (Lombardy and Lazio), characterized by wide agricultural areas and important metropolitan areas, as Milan in Lombardy and Rome in Lazio, highlighting the “image” of periurban agriculture, which emerges from these plans. …”
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Emission Reduction Effect and Mechanism of Auto-Purchase Tax Preference by Kai Lisa Lo, Yaqi Fan, Congzhi Zhang, Jackson Jinhong Mi

“…We find that the tax incentives can effectively suppress the emission of urban pollutants. The quantile regression shows that the emission reduction effect of the tax incentives shows a dynamic change characteristic of weakening as the pollution level in cities increases. …”
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Les premiers monastères d’Auvergne à la lumière de la documentation textuelle et archéologique (ve-xe siècle) : état de la question by Damien Martinez

“…The first observation we can make is that we had here a primitive type of monasticism, flourishing within an urban context, and encouraged by the local bishops, while other monastic institutions struggled to survive outside this urban setting. …”
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An Effective Method of Analysing Student Performance Using Fuzzy Numbers by A. N. Revathi, A. Karpagam, M. Suguna, null Salahuddin

“…However, students from rural areas often encounter significant challenges in their engineering studies and extracurricular activities, leading to higher dropout rates compared to their urban counterparts. To address this issue, we have developed a mathematical model that utilises fuzzy numbers and Newton’s method to strategically prioritize core engineering activities. …”
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Prośrodowiskowe kształtowanie terenów zieleni - propozycje dla dzielnicy Ursynów m.st. Warszawy by Justyna Staroszczyk, Antoni Skowroński

“…It is well known that green areas are a significant component of urban environment. Plants influence urban conditions in many ways; they have a positive effect on both people’s health and environmental issues, there are many reasons why the proportion of green areas in cities should be increased. …”
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Contributos (antropo)metodológicos para um projecto social de cidade by Marluci Menezes

“…The importance of the socio-cultural dimensions of the urban space is taken for granted in many of the current views of urban intervention and management. …”
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Topographie, urbanisme et gestion des réseaux d’eau à Autun/Augustodunum (Saône-et-Loire) : une nouvelle image de la capitale de cité by Laetitia Borau

“…This thorough study of Augustodunum, where natural water resources were plentiful, proves the importance of urban equipment devices linked to water in a Roman town of northern Gaul.…”
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Les Township tours au KwaZulu-Natal (Afrique du Sud) : d’une réappropriation historique et identitaire à l’avènement d’un socio-tourisme by Fabrice Folio

“…It assumes an episode of the country history, i.e. urban segregation, which was given a lot of media coverage. …”
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Le quartier périurbain de la Bouillie (Blois) by Grégory Morisseau

“…Throughout the demolishing process, this outer-urban district is fading little by little, isolating itself from the town. …”
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Les mobilisations sociales dans les territoires périphériques de Casablanca pendant les années 1990 by Wafae Belarbi

“…This scenario shows that social spaces subject to deregulation and violence, usually perceived as microcosms unable to bring back new socio-political orders, develop urban integration strategies and acquire powers to change, therefore reconfigure the metropolitan area.…”
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Visual Chronicles from the Balkans and Central Europe: Samplers Remembered by Maria-Alina Asavei

“…This paper examines the relationship between craft and popular culture by focusing on a peculiar type of textile sampler (needlework) that used to be omnipresent in the last century both in rural and urban houses across Central and South-Eastern Europe. …”
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