Deep renovation and decarbonisation of school buildings – The CIS Roma Scuole Verdi by Carola Clemente, Francesco Mancini, Anna Mangiatordi, Mariangela Zagaria

“…The positive contribution of the implemented technological-plant solutions presents a replicability potential, contributing to the intensification of climate actions, with impacts on urban regeneration and the city’s public budgets.   …”
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Field and Laboratory Evaluation of Bioefficacy of an Insect Growth Regulator (Dimilin) as a Larvicide against Mosquito and Housefly Larvae by Shandala Msangi, Ester Lyatuu, Eliningaya J. Kweka

“…Dimilin could be opted as one of the choice of the larval control chemicals to be incorporated in the integrated vector control programmes in urban and rural areas.…”
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Features of childhood in rear Siberian city during the great Patriotic War (on the example of Omsk) by M. S. Nosova

“…A feature of the Omsk region was the fundamental importance of helping children in agricultural work. Urban children participated in the processing and harvesting of collective crops, replacing those who went to the front. …”
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Revisiting the Role of Neighbourhood Change in Social Exclusion and Inclusion of Older People by Victoria F. Burns, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Damaris Rose

“…To explore how older people who are “aging in place” are affected when the urban neighbourhoods in which they are aging are themselves undergoing socioeconomic and demographic change. …”
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How long can tardigrades survive in the anhydrobiotic state? A search for tardigrade anhydrobiosis patterns. by Milena Roszkowska, Bartłomiej Gołdyn, Daria Wojciechowska, Zofia Księżkiewicz, Edyta Fiałkowska, Mateusz Pluskota, Hanna Kmita, Łukasz Kaczmarek

“…Additionally, in the case of Ech. testudo, we analyzed two populations: one urban and one from a natural habitat. The observed tardigrade species displayed clear differences in their anhydrobiotic capacity, which appear to be determined by the habitat rather than nutritional behavior of species sharing the same habitat type. …”
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Spatial Dynamic Wideband Modeling of the MIMO Satellite-to-Earth Channel by Andreas Lehner, Alexander Steingaß

“…Parameters for car and pedestrian applications in urban and suburban environments are provided. The channel characteristics are determined independently of the transmitted signal. …”
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Correlates of Falls among Community-Dwelling Elderly in Thailand by Titaporn Worapanwisit, Somkid Prabpai, Ed Rosenberg

“…Significant (p<0.05) fall correlates were urban residence, older age, greater BMI, impaired and uncorrected vision, chronic health conditions, medication use and medication side effects, poor muscle tone, and hazardous indoor and outdoor home environments. …”
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Granulate Ambrosia Beetle, Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Motschulsky) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Thomas H. Atkinson, John L. Foltz, Robert C. Wilkinson, Russell F. Mizell

“…It can become abundant in urban, agricultural, and forested areas and has been reported as a pest of nursery stock and young trees in the Old World tropics and of peach trees in South Carolina. …”
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Le jardin : une clé de lecture du végétal en milieu urbain by Philippe Bodénan

“…Hence, this study infers that there is a continuity in this way of designing gardens and puts forward the idea that the notion of garden is one possible approach for studying the place of plants in urban development.…”
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Terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in the Upper Mežica valley by Petra Štern, Primož Zidar

“…However, the highest diversity of species was recorded in urban and semiurban areas. Oniscus asellus was found in the town Črna na Koroškem, which is probably the second documented location of O. asellus in Slovenia. …”
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Afrotourism in Brazilian World Heritage sites: challenges and opportunities emphasising a decolonial narrative by Ana Maria Vieira Fernandes, Gabrielle Cifelli

“…The Brazilian World Heritage recognised by UNESCO and located in urban centres, like the Historic Centers of Salvador (Bahia) and São Luís (Maranhão), and the archaeological remains of Cais do Valongo ( Rio de Janeiro), reveal themselves as fields of symbolic struggles for the recognition of cultural references of Afro-descendants. …”
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L’architecture et le paysage du village berbère de Zraoua dans les montagnes du sud-est de la Tunisie : le patrimoine dans un lieu en voie d’abandon by Miguel Reimão Costa, Nouri Boukhchim, Desidério Batista, Meriem Marzouki

“…Biophysical dimensions and social structures reveal themselves as essential factors for interpreting the diversity and specificity of courtyard houses in this region (intra-wall house, semi-troglodyte house, ridge house and hillside house); for reconstituting the different phases of the urban evolution; and for understanding a landscape construction system which is very adapted to the territory’s resource scarcity (terraces on the thalweg lines, draining surfaces on the slopes and abundant presence of cisterns).…”
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Incomplete Currarino syndrome. Case presentation by Masleidy Valladares Valle, Odalis Yanes Isray, Liam Lain Pérez Valladares, Claudia Vasallo López

“…A 75-years-old male, black-skinned, urban origin patient with a history of arterial hypertension is described, who attended the hospital presenting hematuria, pain in the left lumbar fossa, and constipation. …”
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“Haciendo un freestyle con los qompas”: juegos verbales y recontextualización de géneros discursivos en el rap qom by Victoria Beiras del Carril, Paola Cúneo

“…The purpose of this paper is to analyze the bilingual Qom-Spanish verbal production of a “rap originario” band formed by Qom (Toba) indigenous youth, born in an urban neighborhood of Buenos Aires (Argentina). In a context of striking language shift, it shows how this musical genre condenses the indigenous language repertoire of this generation whose first language is Spanish. …”
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Folk dances as a happening of coming together in the streets of Athens by Blagojević Gordana

“…The focus of this work, based on my long-term field research in Athens, is the use of open urban spaces (parks, parking lots, and streets) as a gathering place for citizens to practice traditional folk dances.1 The research focuses on dance events organized by informal groups of citizens, not by institutions. …”
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Periferia e centro comunitário: experiências do habitar e a vida de uma organização comunitária by Paulo Sérgio Lima da Silva, Carmem Izabel Rodrigues

“…The theoretical and methodological framework is based on the analysis of phenomena such as socio-spatial segregation, urban exploitation, family networks, moral region and “crime speeches” in a space in (and from) the periphery. …”
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Single-industry town as a separate political space: results of a socio-political study by D. Yu. Znamenskiy, E. V. Khorobrova

“…As an object of research, special attention is paid to single-industry towns due to their vulnerability to various kinds of shocks that directly affect the social and political state of the urban community. In order to reveal the specifics of the socio-political development of a single-industry town as an isolated political space, the city of Sarov was chosen. …”
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Megatrends and Structural Change — Which Regions Will Benefit? by Mirko Kruse, Dörte Nitt-Drießelmann, Jan Wedemeier

“…In Germany, the process of structural change encounters heterogeneous regions that differ in terms of e.g. spatial structure, demography or economic strength. Moreover, urban areas can adapt particularly well to current trends, while rural and peripheral areas threaten to fall behind. …”
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Se déplacer à la marge ? Première approche des mobilités des usagers de nouveaux espaces de travail collaboratif hors des métropoles by Benoit Feildel

“…Mobility in these obviously low-density areas, located in discontinuity with urban areas and largely dependent on cars, is a major challenge for the ecological and social transition. …”
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Effects of Construction Sequences and Volume Loss on Perpendicularly Crossing Tunnels by Yanwei Zang, Penglu Gan, Jia-jia Yan, Shiming Liu, Zihai Yan

“…The number of constructed tunnels has been gradually increasing for the past decades due to rapid development in urban areas. However, the soil-structure interaction problems arising from perpendicularly crossing tunnels attract relatively little research attention in the past. …”
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