Coupling analysis of multi-systems urbanization: Evidence from China by Junqiang Luo, Weijing Ma, Shuang An, Zining Zhang, Yanchuan Fu, Hejun Huang, Genying Chang

“…Highly coordinated cities are primarily distributed in the core city’s radiation circles, coastal economic belts, provincial capitals in the central and western regions, and northern industrial city zones. Low-coordination cities are mainly found in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the border areas of Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Chongqing, and Hubei, the Hetao area of the Yellow River Basin, the agricultural regions of the Huanghuaihai Plain, and the southeastern hilly and mountainous areas. (2) The degree of uneven urbanization development initially expands and then contracts, with intra-regional imbalances following the pattern: “Eastern Coastal Area > Northeast Area > Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River Area > Northern Coastal Area > Middle Reaches of the Yellow River Area > Southwest Area > Southern Coastal Area > Northwest Area.” (3) The coupling and coordinated development of urbanization is closely related to the economic foundation and production energy usage. …”
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Alteration, mineralization, geochemistry and fluid inclusion investigations in Joftrud prospect area, southwest of Birjand by Omid Shareipour, Azadeh Malekzadeh Shafaroudi, Maryam Javidi Moghaddam

“…The ore-veins are mostly formed in andesite rocks, in fault zones with trending NE–SW and subordinate NW-SE. …”
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La stips des Alpes à la Méditerranée : interpréter la présence des monnaies dans les sanctuaires d’époque romaine by Raphaël Golosetti

“…In our opinion, part of these (the majority) appear to come from the simple dispersal of coins on gallery floors in the “fana” or passageway zones of sanctuaries, in particular during collection box levies, from containers, or from the tables and altars on which they were placed. …”
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Bengal: From a Periphery to the Heartland of South Asia by Csaba M. KOVÁCS

“…However, when India finally became independent, the unfortunate partition of the former British colony resulted in the second partition of Bengal too, the consequences of which are visible until today, especially taking into consideration the mass of refugees which flowed from Eastern Bengal to India. Though West Bengal and especially the great urban agglomeration of Kolkata remains one of India’s most important industrial and commercial zones and is quickly developing today, the region was for decades lagging behind other states, while Kolkata lost its primacy (behind Delhi and Mumbai) among the great cities of India. …”
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Gender differences in banana productivity in Tanzania by Hildo Ladislaus Mrema, Razack Bakari Lokina, Onesmo Selejio

“…The area of banana cultivation by zones, namely Lake, Northern, Southern Highlands, and Eastern zones, was found to increase banana productivity. …”
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Computing ecosystem risk hotspots: A mediterranean case study by Gianpaolo Coro, Laura Pavirani, Anton Ellenbroek

“…High-risk hotspots concentrated in the Western Mediterranean, the Tyrrhenian Sea, the Adriatic Sea, the Strait of Sicily, the Aegean Sea, and eastern Turkey. Our results agreed with an alternative Fuzzy C-means-based method (with a 90% to 96% overlap over the years) and a Bayesian regression model (∼80% overlap).Our Mediterranean risk maps can facilitate the development of management and monitoring strategies, supporting the sustainable development and resilience of coastal zones, and can act as prior knowledge for ecosystem models and spatial plans.…”
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