Changes in Body Mass Index across Age Groups in Iranian Women: Results from the National Health Survey by Enayatollah Bakhshi, Behjat Seifi, Akbar Biglarian, Kazem Mohammad

“…Among women, being inactive, with high economic index, married, being nonsmoker, in an urban residence, with lower educational attainment, all increased the probabilities of overweight and obesity. …”
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Sociodemographic Determinants for Oral Health Risk Profiles by J. Vanobbergen, L. De Visschere, M. Daems, A. Ceuppens, J. Van Emelen

“…The study sample (𝑛=104) was randomly selected within an urban population in Flanders, Belgium. Caries risk was assessed by anamnesis, clinical examination, salivary tests, and a questionnaire. …”
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An extensive examination of the influence of financial technology (Fintech) on advancing financial inclusion: a bibliometric investigation by Varun Kesavan, Aruna Polisetty

“…This study indicates that successful fintech innovation enhances financial inclusion by bridging the divide between urban and rural communities, eventually contributing to sustainability. …”
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Vehicle Speed Optimized Fuzzy Energy Management for Hybrid Energy Storage System in Electric Vehicles by Xizheng Zhang, Zhangyu Lu, Ming Lu

“…To validate the proposed VSO-FEMS strategy for HESS, simulations were done and compared with other EMSs under the typical urban cycle in China (CYC-CHINA). Results show that the final SOC of battery and super-capacitor are optimized in varying degrees, and the total energy consumption under the VSO-FEMS strategy is 2.43% less than rule-based strategy and 1.28% less than fuzzy control strategy, which verifies the effectiveness of the VSO-FEMS strategy.…”
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Understanding metro station areas’ functional characteristics via embedding representation: A case study of shanghai by Heping Jiang, Ruihua Liu, Shijia Luo, Disheng Yi, Jing Zhang

“…Abstract As crucial transportation hubs for urban travel, metro stations catalyze the transformation of their surrounding areas into highly prominent locations where many activities converge. …”
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Cartographies on COVID-19 and functional divisions of the territory: an analysis on the evolution of the pandemic based on Basic Health Areas (BHA) in Castile and Leon (Spain) by Gonzalo Andrés López, Daniel Herrero Luque, Marta Martínez Arnaiz

“…The analysis unravels the differential impact of the disease between rural and urban areas and reveals the problems of the mismatch between the functional divisions of the territory (BHA, as units of health analysis) and the scale of administrative management (municipalities, as the effective scale of action). …”
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Defining and Diagnosing Obesity in India: A Call for Advocacy and Action by Sanjay Kalra, Nitin Kapoor, Madhur Verma, Shehla Shaikh, Sambit Das, Jubbin Jacob, Rakesh Sahay

“…It has been reported that being overweight and obese is a significant problem among different socioeconomic spectrums of men and women in India, especially among the elderly, people residing in urban regions, and diverse socioeconomic strata. …”
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Willingness to pay for landscape benefits: Examining variation by landscape type in Lower Silesia, Poland by Katarzyna Zagórska, Piotr Krajewski, Marta Sylla, Monika Lebiedzińska, Iga Kołodyńska, Marek Furmankiewicz, Mikołaj Czajkowski

“…There is a significant difference between urban, suburban, and rural respondents, especially in valuing travel time to basic facilities and the importance of place of social integration. …”
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Development and Application of a ZigBee-Based Building Energy Monitoring and Control System by Changhai Peng, Kun Qian

“…Increasing in energy consumption, particularly with the ever-increasing growth and development of urban systems, has become a major concern in most countries. …”
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Quantum GIS (QGIS): An introduction to a free alternative to more costly GIS platforms by Jeffry M. Flenniken, Steven Stuglik, Basil V. Iannone

“…Iannone III and published by the UF/IFAS School of Forest Resources and Conservation introduces the reader to a free GIS software package called Quantum GIS (QGIS), walking the reader through simple GIS processes that can be used to visualize spatial patterns of importance to a variety of fields, including natural resources, agriculture, and urban planning. Learn how to create a land-cover map for a county of interest and create heatmaps that illustrate the density of a given attribute (Florida Springs for this example). …”
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Research on key "acupoint" mining technology for special information system by ZOU Zilong, WANG Junlin, AN Shujie, LYU Changyuan, YU Minggang, NIU Yanjie

“…Finally, taking the special information system under the background of urban unmanned attack operation as an example, the scientific and reasonable of the proposed method is verified.…”
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Ageing Healthy: Perceptions of Older Persons, Community Members, and Other Stakeholders in Uganda by Eunice L. Kyomugisha MA, Rachel King PhD, Rosalind Parkes-Ratanshi PhD, Susan Nakkazi MA, Carol Brayne PhD, Louise Lafortune PhD

“…We explored healthy ageing perceptions in rural and peri-urban Ugandan communities. Community dialogues, focus group discussions with older persons, community members, community-based organization leaders, key informant interviews with Ministries of Gender (2), Health (1), non-governmental organizations (3) and elderly representatives (5) were held. …”
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A Quantitative Method to Delineate the Influence Area of Work Zone Considering Route Choice Inertia and Elastic Demand by Guanfeng Wang, Hongfei Jia, Jingjing Tian, Yu Lin, Ruiyi Wu, Zhendong Liu, Heyao Gao

“…The work zone on the urban road network will affect the surrounding road traffic. …”
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Green finance policy and regional air pollution control: a two-wheel drive by government departments and financial institutions by Xinkuo Xu, Zenglu Song, Jinjing Lu

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Pathways to mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: a study from rural tertiary government mental health facilities in India by Jithin Jaise, Kannappa V. Shetty, Sanjeev Kumar Manikappa, Urmila Bamney

“…It is worth noting that the majority of urban participants primarily utilized psychiatric services. …”
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A Practical Model for Inbound Container Distribution Organization in Rail-Water Transhipping Terminal by Jiahao Zhao, Xiaoning Zhu, Yong Liu, Li Wang, Baicheng Yan

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Modeling Crossing Conflicts at Unsignalized T-Intersections under Heterogeneous Traffic Conditions by Jaydip Goyani, Ninad Gore, Shriniwas Arkatkar

“…Therefore, the present study develops crossing conflict-based safety performance functions (C-SPFs) for eight urban unsignalized T-intersections with varying intersection geometry. …”
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Risk factors in street food practices in developing countries: A review by Buliyaminu Adegbemiro Alimi

“…Street food trading solves major social and economic problems in developing countries through the provision of ready-made meals at relatively inexpensive prices and employment for teeming rural and urban populace along its value chain. However, due to informal nature of the enterprise, the activities of the practitioners are not regulated. …”
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Partager l’action paysagère avec des enfants comme piste d’apprentissage expérientiel by Roxane Wormser

“…The latter includes a transitional urban planning project co-designed with users to experiment with different forms of development. …”
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La ruine angkorienne et le fromager : une mise en cloche d’un paysage fantasmé synonyme d’inaction ? by Sébastien Preuil

“…From the rice paddies to the major urban centres, images of landscapes in the tropics circulating today take on a variety of forms. …”
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