Des mages à Florence au Quattrocento. Autour de la fête de l’Épiphanie de 1443 by Pauline Duclos-Grenet

“…The purpose of this essay is to draw the frame of this phenomenon and to understand how it pervades the minds of the period, through the urban rituals and pictural representations which structure the Florentine society. …”
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La place du paysage dans l’action des parcs naturels régionaux depuis la loi Paysage (1993) by Pierre Dérioz

“…Still, even if the landscape holds a central place in park actions, here analysed through the cases of five RNP in southern France with which the author has privileged scientific links, the legal obligation for all documents of urbanism to conform to the orientations of the RNP charters has proven more difficult to implement. …”
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Insights from 25 years of research by Bert van Wee published in the European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research by Maaike Snelder, Oded Cats, Caspar Chorus, Maarten Kroesen, Niek Mouter

“…Over 25 years, van Wee published 18 papers and 1 book review in EJTIR covering a wide range of topics from road pricing to urban rail transport, vehicle automation and port throughput. …”
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Radio listening clubs in Malawi and Zambia by Fackson Banda

“…This is evident in the following areas: (i) a propensity for social mobilisation; (ii) acquisition of skills and knowledge; (iii) communally induced motivation to listen to the radio; (iv) the possibility of interpersonal influence within groups; (v) the benefit of being ‘organised’ structures; (vi) the ‘massive’ reach of the clubs; and (vii) the dialogic interchanges between the rural-based groups and the urban-based policymaking elites. …”
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Investigating Environmental Impacts of Talesh Industrial Estates in Peripheral Settlements (The Case: Kashli village, Gilan, Iran) by Habibollah Fasihi, Mohammah Soleimani Mehrenjani, Samira Ahmadnia Koohestani

“…Evaluating environmental impact can help urban and regional planner and manager to understand the impacts of development plans on human well-being and environmental health. …”
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Avian Influenza a (H5N1) Infection with Respiratory Failure and Meningoencephalitis in a Canadian Traveller by Naheed Rajabali, Thomas Lim, Colleen Sokolowski, Jason D Prevost, Edward Z Lee

“…In an urban centre in Alberta, an otherwise healthy 28-year-old woman presented to hospital with pleuritic chest and abdominal pain after returning from Beijing, China. …”
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Individualisation of cities as one of the factors of preserving human capital by E. A. Zakharchuk, V. E. Uporov

“…In this regard, the authors put forward a hypothesis about a close connection between the individualisation of urban strategies and the preservation of human capital. …”
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ABC for Father and Mother and Me. Representations of children as consumers in the picturebook of the interwar period by Elina Druker

“…Representations of children as consumers in the studied material suggest that consumption is strongly connected to ideas of modernity and to representations of the modern child, but also that consumption is described as an inseparable part of the modern, urban experience. …”
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Collaborative Exploration with a Micro Aerial Vehicle: A Novel Interaction Method for Controlling a MAV with a Hand-Held Device by David Pitman, Mary L. Cummings

“…This interface was connected remotely to an actual MAV to explore a GPS-simulated urban environment.…”
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The Road to Recovery: Building Physical and Emotional Trust when Engaging with Extension Clientele by Colby Jordan Silvert, Cody Gusto, John Diaz

“… Now is a crucial time for Extension professionals to engage with clientele. In both urban and rural communities, clients are facing a multitude of unprecedented challenges related to COVID-19. …”
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Design of Coupling Coil Parameters for Wireless Charging Tram Based on Electromagnetic Safety by Sanmu Xiu, Wenmei Hao, Ying Zhou, Fengyu Leng

“…As a new type of urban rail transit tram, wireless charging tram uses high frequency electromagnetic field to conduct inductive power transmission, which gets rid of the traditional overhead catenary network, but inevitably causes electromagnetic radiation to the surrounding environment. …”
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Ray Tracing RF Field Prediction: An Unforgiving Validation by E. M. Vitucci, V. Degli-Esposti, F. Fuschini, J. S. Lu, M. Barbiroli, J. N. Wu, M. Zoli, J. J. Zhu, H. L. Bertoni

“…The prediction of RF coverage in urban environments is now commonly considered a solved problem with tens of models proposed in the literature showing good performance against measurements. …”
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Watersheds of Florida: Understanding a Watershed Approach to Water Management by Rao Mylavarapu, Kelley Hines, Thomas Obreza, Greg Means

“…Both quantity and quality of water are important for balanced beneficial and efficient agricultural, industrial, rural, and urban uses. This 7-page fact sheet provides information on watersheds and introduces the watershed approach and management concept as practiced in the U.S., with a focus on Florida watersheds in particular. …”
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Comparison of Two Mechanics-Based Methods for Simplified Structural Analysis in Vulnerability Assessment by H. Crowley, B. Borzi, R. Pinho, M. Colombi, M. Onida

“…A comparison of the predicted response of urban populations of buildings using the two methods is then carried out, and the influence of these differences on vulnerability curves is studied.…”
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Would Phrynops geoffroanus’ plastron formula and morphological diversity be preserved under anthropic conditions? by Mauro Sérgio Cruz Souza Lima, Ulisses Caramaschi, Jonas Pederassi, Joara de Sousa Andrade, Diogo Brunno e Silva Barbosa

“…Abstract Phrynops geoffroanus has a wide distribution in South America, living in aquatic environments such as rivers, streams, and lakes, in natural and urban environments. In this work, the plastron formula and the diversity index associated with the allometric condition are established for the species. …”
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Apport de l’information géospatiale dans les décisions d’aménagement du territoire by Hélène Rey-Valette, Pierre Maurel, Chady Jabbour, Camille Cousin, Sandra Luque, Olivier Billaud, Jean Michel Salles

“…The protocol of the workshop consists in comparing the choices of location of new areas to be urbanized based firstly on a fine land cover map and secondly, by using a sample of ecosystem services maps. …”
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Erythrocyte changes and ecotoxicological evaluation in freshwater of the Pintado stream in the municipality of Ji-Paraná, Brazil: Anurans of the genus Leptodactylus (Leptodactilida... by Jacqueline Lopes dos Santos, Patrícia Pastana de Sousa, Natália Faria Romão, Matheus Venancio de Paula, Ana Carolina Anchieta Adriano, Sandro de Vargas Schons, Jerônimo Vieira Dantas Filho, Francisco Carlos da Silva

“… The main aimed of this study was to conduct out an ecotoxicological assessment through the Micronucleus (Mn) test and other associated anomalies in peripheral erythrocyte cells, using the amphibian of the genus Leptodactylus as a bioindicator organism, in addition to analyzing the physicochemical parameters in freshwater of the Pintado stream located in urban perimeter of Ji-Paraná municipality, Rondônia State, Brazil. …”
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Jérusalem, entre attraction et répulsion migratoire by Irène Salenson

“…Within these metropolitan areas, suburbs are attracting more and more inhabitants, expressing an urban spread process that nowadays affect most of the metropolitan cities in the world.…”
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Nephelometer Sensitivities for the Determination of PM2.5 Mass Concentration in Ambient and Indoor Air by Dimitra Karali, Glykeria Loupa, Spyridon Rapsomanikis

“…Abstract Simple algorithms are presented for the relationships between the gravimetrically measured PM2.5 mass concentration and a nephelometer particle scattering coefficient, for three different environments: two outdoor locations (an urban and a suburban) and one indoors. With these algorithms, the aerosol light scattering coefficients of the nephelometer (provided on line with a time step of seconds) can be related to PM2.5 mass concentrations. …”
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Les marais salants brésiliens entre protection environnementale et pression foncière : un paysage en mutation by Vanessa Moura de Lacerda Teixeira

“…In seeking to develop real estate assets some decision makers consider salt marshes as a potential land source for urban development. Two methodologies are put forward to conduct a critical examination of environmental policies and their effects on the salt marsh landscape. …”
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