Acoustic topology optimization using a mixed formulation and a three-material scheme by B. Ferrándiz, F.D. Denia, J. Martínez-Casas, E. Nadal, J.J. Ródenas

“…Topology optimization (TO) has demonstrated significant efficacy in generating innovative designs to minimize acoustic or elastic responses, providing sophisticated structures that mitigate challenges such as the harmful effects of urban noise pollution. However, vibroacoustic problems require distinct governing equations for air and structural subdomains, making standard density-based TO methods unsuitable. …”
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Accéder aux ressources sociales en milieu rural : vie quotidienne et sociabilités à l’heure d’Internet dans une petite commune by Margot Beauchamps, Hélène Trellu

“…Social practices reveal that this rural community is strongly connected to surrounding urban poles and to the rest of the world, but they also highlight a strong appropriation of the few social resources (social ties, events, facilities, etc.) locally available.…”
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Landscapes of care in Mexico City: Experiences, mobility, and infrastructures by Paula Soto-Villagrán

“…The objective of the article is to understand the spatial-temporal dimensions that make up such landscapes and their impact on women’s urban lives. The methodological strategy is mixed, as it puts in dialogue qualitative and quantitative research techniques, a mobility survey, and mobile ethnographies with women in their daily movements. …”
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Assessment of Lower Sakarya River Water Quality in Terms of Irrigation Water by Çiğdem Özer, Rabia Köklü

“…The Lower Sakarya Sub-Basin is under the influence of the industrial activities and the wastewater from settlements, agricultural and urban run-off and the geological formations it has undergone since the birth of the Sakarya River. …”
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Traffic Flow Prediction with Rainfall Impact Using a Deep Learning Method by Yuhan Jia, Jianping Wu, Ming Xu

“…Inspired by deep learning methods with more complex model architectures and effective data mining capabilities, this paper introduces the deep belief network (DBN) and long short-term memory (LSTM) to predict urban traffic flow considering the impact of rainfall. …”
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIO-POLITICAL ANALYSIS OF DIGITAL PROTEST ACTIVITY by M. A. Tanina, I. A. Yurasov, V. A. Yudina, O. A. Zyablikova

“…The authors reveal the theoretical and methodological foundations of the development of digital protest activity in the world: features of social temporality, public values, specifics of trust, types of social connections in urban space; digitalization, virtualization and mediativization, information inequality, digital elitism; institutional matrices and institutional traps of electronic communication, trends in digital management. …”
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Multiagent Routing Simulation with Partial Smart Vehicles Penetration by Bogumił Kamiński, Łukasz Kraiński, Atefeh Mashatan, Paweł Prałat, Przemysław Szufel

“…In this paper, using a multiagent simulation framework, we model a complex urban transportation system that involves heterogeneous participants. …”
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Norme pro-environnementale et participation : entre adhésion et clairvoyance normative (une étude comparée entre habitants d'écoquartier et habitants de quartier ordinaire) by Didier Laugaa, Grégoire Le Campion

“…This demand for participation is particularly apparant in urban Eco-neighbourhood projects. The comparison of two groups of 100 inhabitants (of an Eco-neighbourhood and a traditional one) shows that Eco-neighbourhood inhabitants have a greater normative clear-sightedness than the others. …”
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Determination of the caries risk in children under 5 years of age in schools of the northern of Quito, Ecuador by Alex Esteban Carrera, Francisco Carcelén Arce, Ana María Cabezas, María Fernanda Chavez Campuzano, María Jose Jarrin, Alessandro Dourado Loguercio, Ana del Carmen Armas Vega

“…Objective: Estimated the caries risk of children under 5 years of age in the urban area of the northern sector in Quito, Ecuador. …”
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Tree Risk Assessment Methods: A Comparison of Three Common Evaluation Forms by Andrew K. Koeser, Gitta Hasing, Drew McLean, Robert Northrop

“…In North America, three risk assessment methods have gained the greatest acceptance among tree care professionals, municipal urban forestry programs, and government agencies. …”
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Francija: od centralizma k regionalizaciji in decentralizaciji by Aleksander Korasa

“…V Franciji obstajajo posebne oblike lokalnih skupnosti kot so skupnosti občin, urbane skupnosti in skupnosti aglomeracij.…”
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Tree Risk Assessment Methods: A Comparison of Three Common Evaluation Forms by Andrew K. Koeser, Gitta Hasing, Drew McLean, Robert Northrop

“…In North America, three risk assessment methods have gained the greatest acceptance among tree care professionals, municipal urban forestry programs, and government agencies. …”
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Rupture Directivity of Moderate Earthquakes Along the Main Marmara Fault Suggests Larger Ground Motion Towards Istanbul by Xiang Chen, Patricia Martínez‐Garzón, Grzegorz Kwiatek, Yehuda Ben‐Zion, Marco Bohnhoff, Fabrice Cotton

“…Abstract Analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides key information for seismic hazard and risk assessment, particularly for faults near urban areas. We analyze directivity patterns for 31 well‐constrained ML≥ 3.5 earthquakes along the Main Marmara Fault, in direct proximity to Istanbul. …”
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HEALTH PROMISING EFFECTS OF POTATO PEELS AND THEIR POTENTIAL EMPLOYMENTS IN FOOD AND NUTRACEUTICAL INDUSTRIES AND NONFOOD USES FROM SUSTAINABILITY POINT OF VIEW by Mushtaq Qudsia, Timar Adrian, Joly Nicolas, Spalletta Alexis, Martin Patrick, Ishtiaq Uzair

“…Indecent dumping of such waste in many urban areashave resulted into contaminated environment raising health concerns. …”
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"The City’s Charms and Challenges" by P K Leung (translation) by Chris Song

“…In charting the locality of places, the difference between the urban and the rural living in Hong Kong, Leung highlights the importance to acknowledge the complex layers and dimensions of Hong Kong literature, where both Chinese and English languages and different cultures intersect.…”
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Shifting Landscape of Rural Transformation in Bangladesh: Exploring the Interplay of Non‐Farm GDP, Infrastructure and Education by Subrata Saha, Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Al Amin Al Abbasi, Ismat Ara Begum, Maria Fay Rola‐Rubzen

“…It also suggests encouraging land rentals, improving healthcare services, and supporting small‐scale farming while addressing the drawbacks of large‐scale farming to strengthen economic convergence between rural and urban areas.…”
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Parcs publics et paysagisme au Japon entre le milieu du xixe siècle et le début du xxe siècle by Yoko Mizuma

“…This evolution was heightened and accelerated by a new urban component, introduced from outside, that of the “public park”. …”
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Ensuring Mobility-Supporting Environments for an Aging Population: Critical Actors and Collaborations by Chris S. Kochtitzky, Amy L. Freeland, Irene H. Yen

“…It then examines the impacts of community design on individual mobility, delving into which traditional and nontraditional actors—including architects, urban planners, transportation engineers, occupational therapists, and housing authorities—play critical roles in ensuring that community environments serve as facilitators (rather than barriers) to mobility. …”
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Agricultural Land Suitability Analysis for Land Use Planning: The Case of the Madrid Region by Nerea Morán-Alonso, Andrés Viedma-Guiard, Marian Simón-Rojo, Rafael Córdoba-Hernández

“…In the European context, fertile soils are under pressure not only from urbanisation processes, abandonment and the establishment of non-agricultural uses but also from agriculture that is not well adapted to territorial resources. In order to inform urban planning, a methodology is proposed and applied to the Madrid region to analyse the suitability of agricultural land uses with respect to agrological quality. …”
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Method for Determining Longitudinal Stiffness of Combined Double Thin-Walled Pier Based on Train-Track-Bridge Interaction by Hui Fang, Zhaowei Chen

“…Combined double thin-walled pier is a new kind of pier adopted in the urban transit system in China, whose longitudinal stiffness cannot be determined by adopting traditional methods. …”
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