Using UAV-Based Systems to Monitor Air Pollution in Areas with Poor Accessibility by Oscar Alvear, Nicola Roberto Zema, Enrico Natalizio, Carlos T. Calafate

“…Despite the fact that crowdsensing approaches could be an adequate solution for urban areas, they cannot be implemented in rural environments. …”
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Ill, Itinerant, and Insured: The Top 20 Users of Emergency Departments in Baltimore City by Barbara Y. DiPietro, Dana Kindermann, Stephen M. Schenkel

“…The purpose of this study was to document the clinical and demographic characteristics of the 20 most frequent users of emergency departments (EDs) in one urban area. We reviewed administrative records from three EDs and two agencies providing services to homeless people in Baltimore City. …”
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Higher Mobility Scores in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis Are Associated with Better Lung Function by Aneesha Thobani, Jessica A. Alvarez, Shaina Blair, Kaila Jackson, Eric R. Gottlieb, Seth Walker, Vin Tangpricha

“…This was a prospective cohort observational study in an urban, academic, specialized care center. Participants were ambulatory, nonhospitalized adults with CF. …”
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Identification of natural and anthropogenic factors in the spatial pattern of Pb in the surface soil of the Nanliu River Basin by Xu Liu, Zhongfang Yang, Huading Shi, Tiansheng Wu, Tao Yu, Bo Li, Lei Wang, Yuxiang Shao, Zexin He, Minghui Xie, Chenning Deng

“…Soil samples were collected and analyzed for Pb concentrations, revealing that granite and urban development significantly control Pb occurrence. …”
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Carbody sway behaviour of railway vehicles due to track irregularity from rail alternate side wear by Lai Wei, Jing Zeng, Ren Luo, Feng Gan, Jijun Gong, Jun Jiang

“…First, the carbody sway of an urban rail transit train is introduced with full-scale field tests, through which the rail alternate side wear is characterized and the formatted track irregularity are presented. …”
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Flood Simulation Analysis of the Biliu River Basin Based on the MIKE Model by Qi Liu, Dianwu Wang, Yulong Zhang, Li Wang

“…The occurrence of floods and droughts in this basin has extremely important impacts on local industry, agriculture, and urban development. For a long time, the annual distribution of precipitation in the Biliu River Basin is extremely uneven, the river runoff varies greatly from year to year and season to year, floods and droughts occur frequently, and serious soil erosion results in fragile ecological environment and severe shortage of water resources. …”
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Effect of the Cash Support from the Vision Umurenge Programme on Household Financial Behaviour in Rwanda: The Case of Direct Support (DS) by Emmanuel Munyemana, Charles Ruranga, Joseph K. Mung’atu

“…The independent variables include the monetary benefits received by individuals over different periods, alongside demographic characteristics such as gender, age, education level, and area of residence (rural–urban), which were controlled in the analysis. The findings reveal a positive and statistically significant effect of the direct cash support provided by the VUP on increased consumption, and marginal effects on individual savings and investment behaviours. …”
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<i>Mycobacterium abscessus—</i>An Emerging True Pathogen: A Case Report by Shruti Appaswamy, Bhavesh D Rathod

“…This is a case report of an 18-month-old child diagnosed in an urban secondary care center with <i>M. abscessus</i> soft tissue infection, which was acquired postimmunization. …”
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Ambulance Crash Characteristics in the US Defined by the Popular Press: A Retrospective Analysis by Teri L. Sanddal, Nels D. Sanddal, Nicolas Ward, Laura Stanley

“…Persons in other vehicles involved in collisions with ambulances were the most likely to die as a result of crashes. In the urban environment, intersections are a particularly dangerous place for ambulances.…”
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Blasting of Unstable Rock Elements on Steep Slopes by Marco Casale, Giovanna Antonella Dino, Claudio Oggeri

“…The improvement of safety conditions on hazardous rock slopes in civil work, mining and quarrying, and urban environments can be achieved through the use of explosives for the removal of unstable rock elements and final profiling. …”
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Research on the Evolution Mechanism of Congestion in the Entrances and Exits of Parking Facilities Based on the Improved Spatial Autoregressive Model by Hongru Yu, Shejun Deng, Caoye Lu, Yucheng Tang, Shijun Yu, Lu Liu, Tao Ji

“…The entrance and exit area of parking facilities has the characteristics of high concentration of urban traffic and prominent traffic intertwining phenomenon, which easily induces rapid congestion of mixed heterogeneous traffic at specific times and local locations and quickly spreads to the entire road section or even a larger area. …”
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Intelligent recognition of subsurface utilities and voids: A ground penetrating radar dataset for deep learning applicationsMendeley Data by Abdelaziz Mojahid, Driss El Ouai, Khalid El Amraoui, Khalil El-Hami, Hamou Aitbenamer

“…The dataset consists of 2,239 Radargram images in JPEG format obtained from GPR surveys conducted in urban environments to identify utilities such as pipes, cables, and underground voids. …”
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Prevalence of Middle Ear Infections and Associated Risk Factors in Children under 5 Years in Gasabo District of Kigali City, Rwanda by Kaitesi Batamuliza Mukara, Richard J. Lilford, Debara Lyn Tucci, Peter Waiswa

“…A child was less likely to develop middle ear infections if they lived in an urban setting (OR = 0.52, 95% CI: 0.285–0.958) but more likely to develop middle ear infections if exposed to household smoke (OR = 2.54, 95% CI: 1.18–5.46). …”
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Determination of Interesting Toxicological Elements in PM2.5 by Neutron and Photon Activation Analysis by Pasquale Avino, Geraldo Capannesi, Francesco Lopez, Alberto Rosada

“…The samples were collected in urban location in order to determine only effects due to global aerosol circulation; semiannual samples have been used to characterize the summer/winter behavior of natural and artificial origin. …”
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Climatic Characteristics and Determination Method for Freezing Rain in China by Yue Zhou, Yanyu Yue, Zhengxu Gao, Yuehua Zhou

“…The freezing rain profiles of mountainous area and urban area in Southwest China are similar to each other, and the freezing rain in Central and East China shares the similar single-warm-layer profile. …”
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Effects of Different Construction Sequences on Ground Surface Settlement and Displacement of Single Long Pile due to Twin Paralleled Shield Tunneling by Kan Huang, Yiwei Sun, Xianqiang Huang, Yujian Li, Meng Jiang, Runing Liu

“…Shield tunneling activities inevitably pass through pile foundations at close distance in densely urban areas. Various studies have investigated the interaction between newly constructed tunnels and existing pile foundations. …”
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Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality Assessment at School near the Steel Plant in Taranto (Italy) by A. Di Gilio, G. Farella, A. Marzocca, R. Giua, G. Assennato, M. Tutino, G. de Gennaro

“…This study aims to investigate the air quality in primary school placed in district of Taranto (south of Italy), an area of high environmental risk because of closeness between large industrial complex and urban settlement. The chemical characterization of PM2.5 was performed to identify origin of pollutants detected inside school and the comparison between indoor and outdoor levels of PAHs and metals allowed evaluating intrusion of outdoor pollutants or the existence of specific indoor sources. …”
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Monitoring Volatile Organic Compounds in Air Using Passive Sampling: Regional Cross-Border Study between N. Macedonia and Kosovo by Vllaznim Mula, Jane Bogdanov, Jasmina Petreska Stanoeva, Lulzim Zeneli, Zoran Zdravkovski

“…Furthermore, the ratios of benzene to toluene (B/T) and xylenes to ethylbenzene (X/E) were used to assess the origins of VOCs emissions in the outdoor urban air at the monitored sites.…”
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Science and opinion in decision making: A case study of the food security collapse in Sri Lanka by Akila Wijerathna‐Yapa, Robert J. Henry, Matt Dunn, Christine A. Beveridge

“…However, this abrupt change led to the rapid collapse of Sri Lanka's food supply, a significant decline in GDP, and hardships for both rural and urban communities. While the government eventually reversed its policy, Sri Lanka faced challenges in recovery. …”
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Specific detection of pigeon parvovirus with TaqMan real-time PCR technology by Cuiteng Chen, Chunhua Zhu, Shuyu Chen, Zhen Chen, Huanru Fu, YuYi Chen, Mengyan Zhang, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Huang, Longfei Cheng, Chunhe Wan

“…Recently, pigeon parvovirus (PiPV) was detected in the feces of wild urban pigeons. Owing to no specific detection platform for PiPV, studies on the epidemiology of PiPV are still a research gap. …”
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