Wild animals connect us with nature: about awe, eco-pedagogy, and nature-connectedness by Theresa S. S. Schilhab, Gertrud L. Esbensen

“…., a place that, unlike urban areas, has characteristics that stimulate positive experiences of nature. …”
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Knowledge of and Attitude Towards Epilepsy Among Women in Ile-Ife, Nigeria by Funmito O. Fehintola, Samuel A. Olowookere, Caleb A. Adegbenro, Temitope O. Afolabi, Victor Oladapo, Akinyele O. Oladimeji, Opeyemi E. Oladipo, Olayinka R. Olagunju, Ademola A. Olajide

“…This study assessed the knowledge and attitude of women residents in an urban community towards epilepsy. Materials and methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study recruited 400 randomly selected women in Ile-Ife. …”
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Influence of a Multiphase Inquiry-based Learning Project on Students' Science Literacy by Crystal Machado, Lizoon Nahar

“…With this end in mind, we designed a six-month-long grant-funded project that equipped five urban schools in Bangladesh with 20 science toolkits. …”
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Turistas en la Grand Place de Bruselas by María García

“…Tourists at the Grand Place in Brussels One of the features characteristic of urban tourism is its spatial selectivity: tourist gaze and activities are gathered on a series of spaces whose landscape is transformed by the influx of visitors. …”
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Analysis of the Influence of Groundwater Level Fluctuation on Karst Soil Cave Collapse by Xuejun Chen, Mingming Xue, Yu Song

“…It will provide essential theoretical support for further research on the action law of hydrodynamic factors on karst collapse and a scientific and reasonable basis for urban groundwater pumping control, karst and roadbed collapse prevention and prediction.…”
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Evaluation of Zahedan Resilience against Water and Drought Crisis by fatemeh yadegarifar, mohammadreza poodineh, morteza esmaelnejad

“…The recent droughts in Iran and the severity of the damage indicate the continued vulnerability of urban and rural areas. At present, drought management in our country is based on crisis management and thus less attention is paid to drought impacts and preparedness. …”
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Drinking Water Treatment Residuals to Control Phosphorus in Soils by Jonathan D. Judy, Maria L. Silveira, Sampson Agyin-Birikorang, George O'Connor, Thomas A. Obreza

“…Excess P in soil does not damage soil fertility but can be transported from agricultural and urban areas either dissolved in water that drains away or as particulate matter (attached to soil particles) that travels with eroding soil.  …”
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Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on freight volume, revenue and expenditure of deendayal port in India: An ARIMA forecasting model by Deepjyoti Das, Aditya Saxena

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BIM-Based Digital Fabrication Process for a Free-Form Building Project in South Korea by Joo-sung Lee, Nahyun Kwon, Nam-hyuk Ham, Jae-jun Kim, Yong-han Ahn

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Bioconversion of organic solid wastes into biofortified compost using a microbial consortium by Payel Sarkar, Rounak Chourasia

“…Abstract Purpose Urban municipal solid waste in India are 75–85% organic. …”
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Non-operative approaches to major blunt hepatic (Grade IV): a case report by Amirreza Salehi, Mansoor Kodori, Mohammad Sohrabi

“…Over the past 2 decades, non-operative management has become increasingly prevalent, particularly in urban healthcare settings, due to its ability to manage hepatic trauma without surgical risks. …”
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Investigation of Influencing Factors on the Deformation of Sheet Pile Wall with a Relieving Platform by Ming Zhang, Wei Wang, Ronghua Hu, Ziyi Wang

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INFLUENCE OF FIRM CHARACTERISTICS ON LOAN APPROVAL FOR SMEs IN NORTH CENTRAL NIGERIA: BANKERS’ PERCEPTION by Lukman Adebayo Oke, Yusuf Olamilekan Quadri, Daud Omotosho Saheed

“…Similarly, SMEs should also consider setting up urban offices to achieve close proximity to their banks for better financial access. …”
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Modeling Public Opinion Polarization in Group Behavior by Integrating SIRS-Based Information Diffusion Process by Tinggui Chen, Jiawen Shi, Jianjun Yang, Guodong Cong, Gongfa Li

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Vilnius bastion fortifications in 17th - 18th century by Linas Girlevičius

“…In the second half of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, these bastion fortifications were urbanized - they were divided into plots. Their relations are not clear with the former additional fortifications of the defensive wall. …”
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Murmansk Arctic State University – Institution with the Northern Character by Andrey M. Sergeev, Irina M. Shadrina, Vladislav V. Gromov

“…MASU is the main platform for combining a variety of strategies and searches aimed at changing urban and township sociocultural spaces, an integrator of various areas of design, creative technologies and cultural practices that affect the improvement of the quality of life and human capital development. …”
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A Research on the Biophilic Concept upon School’s Design from Hot Climate: A Case Study from Iraq by Amjad Almusaed, Asaad Alasadi, Asaad Almssad

“…Through the researchers’ awareness of the negative circumstance experienced by school buildings in Iraq and by investing in the recommendations of an applied field research, it was reached to crystallize the research problem represented in the obstacles that schools suffer from, which calls for the search for developmental solutions for an efficient educational environment, and in order to reach this goal, by informing researchers about new global experiences in this field, the research presented its hypothesis in choosing the model of biophilic schools that exist in many countries in the world, because of what it can provide from successful and fruitful educational and urban components. The researchers reached many conclusions and recommendations aimed at applying the research hypothesis and achieving its goals.…”
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Influence maximization under imbalanced heterogeneous networks via lightweight reinforcement learning with prior knowledge by Kehong You, Sanyang Liu, Yiguang Bai

“…However, one certain network referred to as Imbalanced Heterogeneous Networks (IHN), which widely used in social situation, urban and rural areas, and merchandising, presents challenges in achieving high-quality solutions. …”
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Evaluation of land use compatibility in rural areas in terms of the desirability of location Case study: Binalood County by Maryam Ghasemi, Amin Faal Jalali

“…the analysis of land use utility matrix based on human and natural criteria in residential areas is the necessity and issues that planners in urban and rural areas in terms of access to communication network, central location, weather, noise and etc are a turning point for how optimal use is of resources. the aim of this study is to identify the level of user desirability in rural areas of Binaluod county. in this study, 14 user groups with 52 % of land use terms of central location, access to communication network, smell, facilities and equipment, slope, air, sound and vision were investigated. the present study is descriptive - analytical and data collection were collected in the field method by 48 local experts in eight villages. the results show that based on the four alternatives (4: Completely desirable and 1: totally undesirable) the bakery users with an average of 3/99 and the gymnasium with an average of 4 have made the highest compatibility in terms of the desirability of the location and land of the historic tank with /38 and the dilapidated housing with 3/40. …”
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Climate in tourism’s research agenda: future directions based on literature review by Hélder Lopes, Paula Remoaldo, Maurício Silva, Vitor Ribeiro, Javier Martín Vide

“…Most of the 889 studies analyzed focused on climatological hotspots, such as impacts of climate change on tourism (28.4%) and urban and bioclimatic comfort of tourists in affected destinations (13.2%), with a lower coverage of tourism-related topics such as policies of climate change in tourism (6.1%) or strategies and concrete options to re-enable tourist destinations for climate change (0.2%). …”
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