Can a tiered water price policy improve the technical efficiency of crop irrigation for maize in the Heihe River Basin in Northwest China? by Guifang Li, Dongdong Ma

“…Finally, it also found that compared with nonpilot villages, the TWPP helps seed maize and field maize via saving irrigation water in pilot villages by 27.56 % and 27.74 %, respectively.…”
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Evaluating the mental and emotional effects of Sahand Bonab thermal power plant greenhouse on rural communities, Case study: Rurlas in Bonab by Mohamad Zaheri, Ali Majnouni-Toutakhane

“…Also, mental and psychological stress in nearby villages was higher than in remote villages, more women than young men than older men and elderly people. …”
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Farewell to Fiestas and Saints? Changing Catholic Practices in Contemporary Rural Oaxaca by Toomas Gross

“…Collective religious practices in Mexican villages contribute to social cohesion. Fiestas commemorating patron saints of the villages play a particularly important role in (re)constructing communal identity and the feeling of collective belongingness. …”
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Surveyed Factors Affecting Lake Tourism Of The Development In Iran (Case Study: Lakes Fars province) by ALiakbar Anabestani, Mahdi Masoumi

“…Finally, with the objective of ranking factors affecting the lake tourism of development in the villages surrounding the lake, using techniques GRA, found that conditions Dowbaneh and dasht Arjan villages are better than other villages and Qashm qavi and Arab Famour villages at the lowest level of lake tourism of  the development have been.…”
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Situational analysis of pesticide poisoning and perceptions of autoinjector devices in rural communities in Sri Lanka – a study protocol by Janet Perkins, Alice Street, Upul Wickramasinghe, Manjula Weerasinghe, Michael Eddleston, Jane Brandt Sørensen

“…Atropine autoinjector devices offer a potential solution, allowing storage of effective treatment near agricultural workers’ fields and homes that could be reached within minutes by the worker or fellow villagers to provide first-line emergency care. Here we present the design of a qualitative, formative study that will constitute the first phase of an implementation science study exploring the introduction of atropine autoinjectors in rural villages. …”
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Greece’s Ethnic Cleansing Operation to the Turks as a War Crime in East Thrace 1920 -1922 by Mehmet Şükrü Güzel

“…More then 30.000 Turkish villagers took refuge in Bulgaria to save their lives. …”
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As galinhas incontáveis. Tupis, europeus e aves domésticas na conquista no Brasil by Felipe Ferreira Vander Velden

“…Several notes produced by colonial observers during the 16th and 17th centuries mentioned chicken living in Tupi villages. These reports, allied to the historical, ethnographic and ethnological knowledge accumulated on the colonial Tupians and other contemporary Tupi-speaking groups, would help us elucidate some questions about the cosmological meanings of domestic chickens among Tupians, as well as discuss a complex network which connected native and colonial villages in the first 200 years of the conquest. …”
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Les sociétés locales rurales et le développement des gîtes dans la mégalopole de Shanghai by Emmanuel Véron

“…These activities have led rural communities to reorganize their work, enrich their homes and morphologically transform villages. The study of two villages within the Yangtze delta illustrates local development through tourism and the evolution of rural people who have become tourist service providers.…”
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The Accessibility and Acceptability of Health Services in Remote Rural Areas by Mutiara Ramadhani, Sukri Palutturi, Amran Razak, Muhammad Yusran Amir, M. Tahir Abdullah

“…This challenge still exists in underdeveloped villages. The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of accessibility and acceptability factors on the level of patient satisfaction in underdeveloped villages. …”
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Dynamic Competition and Cooperation of Road Infrastructure Investment of Multiple Tourism Destinations: A Case Study of Xidi and Hongcun World Cultural Heritage by Jun Li, Wenna Zhang, Honggang Xu, Jie Jiang

“…Finally, the tourism development strategies for two villages are discussed based on the scenario analysis.…”
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Zoonotic Parasites and Their Association With Human Activities in Northern Tanzania: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach for One Health by Barakaeli Abdieli Ndossi, Eblate Ernest Mjingo, Hansol Park, Dongmin Lee, Mohammed Mebarek Bia, Heejae Yang, Sungbo Seo, Keeseon S. Eom

“…Cross-sectional surveys were conducted in 12 villages, including nine in Loliondo Division and three in Babati District. …”
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Bilan de quarante ans de recherches ethnobotaniques en Nouvelle-Guinée, dans la vallée du fleuve Sepik by Christian Coiffier

“…My research on the « traditional » architecture of the Sepik River villages in Papua New Guinea have led me to take an interest in the plant materials used for constructions. …”
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A Study of the Technical Aspects of Local Buffalo Rearing in West Aceh Regency by Zikri Maulina Gaznur, Wan Taufiq Aulia Syafiq, Hendra Koesmara, Eka Mutia Sari, Mohd Agus Nashri Abdullah, Asril Asril

“…The research locations covered 25 villages (5 villages each district), namely in 5 villages Johan Pahlawan, Mereubo, Kaway XVI and Samatiga District. …”
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Investigating the consequences of urban creep in Shahrekord by ghorbanali karimi dehkordi, rahmatollah monshizadeh, bijan rahmani

“…The rapid expansion of cities and their uneven physical growth, so-called "urban creep", have corrupted the villages and their surrounding lands, causing irregular conversion of agricultural lands and degradation of environmental resources. …”
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Teintures naturelles et teinturiers au Cambodge by Bernard Dupaigne

“…Based on the notes he has taken during his trips to many Cambodian villages in the late sixties, the author explains how villagers would use a traditional technique to dye skeins of silk threads, cotton and other fabrics in yellow, red, indigo, green and black. …”
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The Impact of Policy Quantification on Rural Spatial Development in Suburbs: A Case Study of Dalian’s Main Urban Area by Jiaxiang Wang, Zehao Cao, Tian Chen, Chunguang Hu

“…Under China’s rural revitalization strategy, peri-urban villages function as pivotal nodes in urban–rural integration. …”
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Barriers and requirements for adaptation of farmers in mountainous areas to climate change by Hossein jahantigh, Amir Bakhshi, Rezvan Ghorbani salkhord

“…Due to the importance of this issue, in the present study, the barriers and requirements for adaptation to climate change in mountainous villages were investigated. The present research is descriptive-analytical in terms of purpose and method. …”
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Guarding the Borders of Japan: Occupation, Korean War and Frontier Controls by Tessa Morris-Suzuki

“…In the little fishing villages which dotted its rocky inlets the working day began and ended early, and most of the villagers were already asleep. …”
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Armenian Population in Malatia in the 16th Century According To Cadastral Registers by İlhan, Türkmen

“…Cadastral records indicate that there were Armenians in the region both in the city centre and in the villages. Upon studying archive records, it was determined that Armenians lived in the villages of the sub-districts of Malatia in widespread rural areas. …”
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Epidemiological and Clinical Parameters Features of Patients with Clonorchiasis in the Geum River Basin, Republic of Korea by Hee-Eun Shin, Myoung-Ro Lee, Jung-Won Ju, Byong-Suk Jeong, Mi-Yeoun Park, Keoung-Sook Lee, Shin-Hyeong Cho

“…The 3,167 fecal samples, from nine villages in Okcheon-gun, were examined.…”
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