HFIFNet: Hierarchical Feature Interaction Network With Multiscale Fusion for Change Detection by Mingzhi Han, Tao Xu, Qingjie Liu, Xiaohui Yang, Jing Wang, Jiaqi Kong

“…Change detection (CD) from remote sensing images has been widely used in land management and urban planning. Benefiting from deep learning, numerous methods have achieved significant results in the CD of clearly changed targets. …”
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Seasonal Variability of PM10 Chemical Composition Including 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene, Marker of Plastic Combustion and Toxicity in Wadowice, South Poland by Przemysław Furman, Katarzyna Styszko, Alicja Skiba, Damian Zięba, Mirosław Zimnoch, Magdalena Kistler, Anne Kasper-Giebl, Stefania Gilardoni

“…The modeling tool Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory model (HYSPLIT), developed by NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, was used to define the possible areas outside Wadowice contributing to urban air pollution.…”
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Implications of Implementing Promulgated and Prospective Emission Regulations on Air Quality and Health in India during 2030 by Sreyashi Debnath, Rama Krishna Karumuri, Gaurav Govardhan, Rajmal Jat, Himadri Saini, Akash Vispute, Santosh H. Kulkarni, Chinmay Jena, Rajesh Kumar, D. M. Chate, Sachin D. Ghude

“…Abstract To improve ambient air quality, India has laid out strict action plans to reduce the increment in emissions over regional to urban scale by the year 2030. This study evaluates policy-induced improvement in air quality and associated health benefits achievable due to reduction in PM2.5 exposure under the adoption of promulgated (S2) and ambitious prospective regulations (S3) with respect to the scenario for Business As Usual (BAU) in 2030. …”
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Characterization of Mortality due to Malignant Tumors by María del Carmen Rodríguez Velázquez, Zoraida Vivar Rivas, Yoenny Peña García, Dolys Suárez Padilla, Alberto Caballero Laguna

“…Deaths were more frequent in urban zones. The highest rate was found in the Rafael Izquierdo health area (11,43), it exceeds the municipal rate (11,36). …”
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Single-View Depth Estimation: Advancing 3D Scene Interpretation With One Lens by Kavitha Dhanushkodi, Akila Bala, Neelam Chaplot

“…The approach is evaluated on benchmark datasets like KITTI and NYU Depth V2, which cover a wide range of environments, including urban streets and indoor settings. The results demonstrate that this single-lens depth estimation method achieves accuracy comparable to traditional stereo systems, without the need for additional hardware. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Smart Campus Flexible Internet of Things Architecture on a Brazilian University by Bruno Oliveira Zarpellon, Luis de Oro Arenas, Eduardo Paciencia Godoy, Fernando Pinhabel Marafao, Helmo K. Morales Paredes

“…The concept of a smart campus is derived from the concept of a smart city, which was developed to demonstrate how urban areas were addressing their new and dynamic challenges by integrating technology and data-driven decision-making. …”
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Particle Size-Dependent Monthly Variation of Pollution Load, Ecological Risk, and Sources of Heavy Metals in Road Dust in Beijing, China by Cong Men, Donghui Li, Yunqi Jing, Ke Xiong, Jiayao Liu, Shikun Cheng, Zifu Li

“…Road dust carries various contaminants and causes urban non-point source pollution in waterbodies through runoff. …”
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Youth Understanding of Healthy Eating and Obesity: A Focus Group Study by Allison C. Sylvetsky, Monique Hennink, Dawn Comeau, Jean A. Welsh, Trisha Hardy, Linda Matzigkeit, Deanne W. Swan, Stephanie M. Walsh, Miriam B. Vos

“…Our analysis suggests that urban youth in Georgia commonly recognize obesity as a problem, but there is less understanding of the link to lifestyle choices or the connection to future morbidities, suggesting a need for education to connect lifestyle behaviors to development of obesity.…”
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Robust Forest Sound Classification Using Pareto-Mordukhovich Optimized MFCC in Environmental Monitoring by Ahmad Qurthobi, Robertas Damasevicius, Vytautas Barzdaitis, Rytis Maskeliunas

“…Previous researchers utilized environmental audio collections, such as the ESC-50 and UrbanSound8k datasets, as proximate representatives of sounds potentially present in forests. …”
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Identifying and ranking the effective financial factors on rural entrepreneurial small businesses by Khosro Farahi, Parvaneh Gelard, Hamid Tohidi

“…Rural entrepreneurship is one of the most important goals of policy-makers to develop villages and prevent migration from rural to urban areas. Significant challenges at the rural entrepreneurship level have reduced the entrepreneurship development process. …”
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Adapting the World Health Organization’s Surgical Safety Checklist to High-Income Settings: A Hybrid Effectiveness-Implementation Trial Protocol by Nathan Turley, MA, MBA, Karolina Kogut, BA, Barbara Burian, PhD, Rachel Moyal-Smith, DrPH, PA-C, James Etheridge, MD, MPH, Yves Sonnay, MScPH, William Berry, MD, MPH, Alan Merry, MD, MBChB, Alexander Hannenberg, MD, Alex B. Haynes, MD, MPH, Roger D. Dias, MD, PhD, MBA, Kathryn Hagen, MD, George Molina, MD, MPH, Lisa Spruce, DNP, RN, Carla Williams, RN, MHSM, Mary E. Brindle, MD, MPH, FRCSC

“…The toolkit will be introduced at 3 diverse surgical sites in Alberta, Canada: an urban hospital, university hospital, and small regional hospital. …”
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Building Responsive Intersectoral Initiatives for Newcomers in Toronto: Learning from Service Providers’ Experiences in the Context of COVID-19 by Carly Jackson, Shinjini Mondal, Erica Di Ruggiero, Lara Gautier

“…Background: Newcomer populations in urban centers experienced an exacerbated effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) due to their precarious living and working conditions. …”
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Determinants of Familiarity and Experience with HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis in Primary Care Providers in Ontario, Canada by Jorge Martinez-Cajas, Beatriz Alvarado, Carmela Rapino, Emma Nagy, T. Hugh Guan, Nicholas Cofie, Nancy Dalgarno, Pilar Camargo, Bradley Stoner

“…To understand the barriers and facilitators of PrEP familiarity and experience, we conducted a situational analysis in PCPs in sub-urban and rural Ontario. Methods: We surveyed a non-probabilistic sample of PCPs using an online questionnaire, designed with the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR). …”
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Optimal Control Strategy of Platform Load Oriented to Network and Load Cooperation by Xuesong Shao, Gaoying Cui, Xiao Chen, Xinrong Ji, Yongxian Yi

“…Finally, the IEEE 14-node system is selected for simulation verification, which provides a theoretical basis for alleviating the power grid operation pressure in the peak load period of the power grid in the urban core area, improving the safety and economic operation level of regional power grid dispatching and the utilization rate of power grid equipment assets.…”
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Construction Control Technology and Monitoring Analysis of Walking Incremental Launching Construction of Small-Curvature Steel Box Girder Bridges Across Expressways by Hai Huang, Xiaomin Xue, Haitao Ma, Zhijun Zhou, Jianbo Dou, Heng Yang, Erwei Guo, Jianjun Ma

“…As urban areas keep growing, there are higher requirements for the carrying capacity of traffic operations, and there are more and more curve incremental launching projects with complex construction conditions. …”
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How to Identify Patterns of Citywide Dynamic Traffic at a Low Cost? An In-Depth Neural Network Approach with Digital Maps by Li Zhang, Ke Gong, Maozeng Xu, Aixing Li, Yuanxiang Dong, Yong Wang

“…The digital maps keep spatiotemporal urban traffic information in nature and are open to access. …”
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Risk factors related to COVID-19. Turcios Lima Polyclinic. Pinar del Rio, 2020-2021 by Jorge Félix Rodríguez Ramos, Gema Chávez Ivizate, Raquel Piloto González

“…<br /><strong>Results</strong>: the most frequent risk factors were: male sex (X2=8.5900; p&lt;0.001), urban residence (X2=509.03; p&lt;0.001) and occupation as a student or worker (X2=199 .93, p&lt;0.001); as well as personal medical history of diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease, bronchial asthma, heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.…”
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Concept, Framework, and Data Model for Geographical Soundscapes by Xiu Lu, Guannan Li, Xiaoqing Song, Liangchen Zhou, Guonian Lv

“…This study provides a new research direction for soundscapes from a geographical perspective and provides guidance for urban planning and landscape design.…”
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The theoretical cognition and research paradigm of land system science by LONG Hualou, CHEN Kunqiu, ZHENG Yuhan, ZHANG Yingnan

“…The needs of national strategies, the dilemmas of urban-rural development and the shortcomings in disciplinary development put urgent requirement for the establishment of land system science. …”
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The effect of rotor aspect ratio, stages, and twist angle on Savonius wind turbine performance in low wind speeds environment by Ivan Farozan, Tubagus Ahmad Fauzi Soelaiman, Priyono Soetikno, Yuli Setyo Indartono

“…A continuous observation of wind speed and the direction of an urban site was performed and analyzed using the Weibull distribution function. …”
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