The Question of Metropolitan Form: Introduction by Anne Vernez Moudon, François Claessens, David Prosperi

“…Soja’s six metaphors (post-Fordist industrial, cosmopolis, expolis, fractal city, carceral archipelago, simcities) are being indicative of the wide range of possible images.[2] The eight papers in this issue of Footprint take an opposite approach. …”
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BLEISURE AND INFORMAL BUSINESS TOURISM IN HARARE, ZIMBABWE by Logistic MAKONI, Christian M. ROGERSON

“…Using a survey of 700 informal business tourists in Harare, Zimbabwe, the results show that the accommodation choices and the bleisure activities undertaken by these informal business tourists in Zimbabwe’s capital city are markedly different to those reported in studies of business travellers from the Global North. …”
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La valeur des territoires au Brésil : le cas des favelas de Rio de Janeiro by Michael Chetry

“…The financialization of urban space is today in at the heart of studies on the city and leads to a growing interest about the value of space. …”
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"...dans le milieu de la Ville qui fait face à la place, se trouvent tous les besoins publiques..." : remarques sur la notion de centralité urbanistique en Louisiane coloniale et à... by Gilles-Antoine Langlois

“….), are the "Vieux Carré" and Jackson Square itself, nothing but the image of a city, a frozen area in a touristy and gentrified historical landmark?…”
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Recent advancements to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of antiepileptic drugs by Li Fuquan, Singh Akhilesh Vikram

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On Fractional Diffusion Equation with Caputo-Fabrizio Derivative and Memory Term by Binh Duy Ho, Van Kim Ho Thi, Long Le Dinh, Nguyen Hoang Luc, Phuong Nguyen

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Editorial: Women in neuroengineering and neurotechnologies by Michela Chiappalone, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Alessandra Pedrocchi, Suha Abuarqub, Chiara Bartolozzi, Valentina Benfenati, Silvia Giordani, Elvira Pirondini, Marianna Semprini

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The effect of self-assessment systems, tax knowledge, and tax sanctions on the culture of taxpayer compliance of personal persons by Yana Hendayana, Radhi Abdul Halim Rachmat

“…The research population is an individual taxpayer domiciled in the city of Bandung with a sample of 96. The research method involved distributing questionnaires and analytical techniques using multiple linear regression analysis assisted by the SPSS application program. …”
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Measuring Community Resilience using Online Toolkits by Paul Monaghan, Emily Ott, Timothy Fogarty

“…The resilience assessment and planning tools reviewed here range from simple, ready-to-print worksheets intended for use by average citizens to comprehensive planning exercises more appropriate for city planners, emergency service providers, and elected officials. …”
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Missionary work of Mariae Vitae Congregation by Elena Keidošiūtė

“… The research of Jewish conversions and their concepts in Vilnius city and Vilnius bishopric is aimed at the activity of congregation Mariae Vitae (1737-1864) - unique both in Lithuania and in Europe at large. …”
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Idiopathic Harlequin Syndrome Manifesting during Exercise: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Hussein Algahtani, Bader Shirah, Raghad Algahtani, Abdulah Alkahtani

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Politicisation and the Rhetoric of Shanghai Urbanism by Non Arkaraprasertkul

“…This can be done from the four following perspectives: urban form; individual buildings and urban imagery; visualization of the skylines; and streetscape. Using the city as a primary source, this paper succinctly presents specific information derived from the observations needed to authenticate the research, i.e. to understand the existence of contemporary architecture as a means of urban iconography, which will contribute to the theory of how we conceive and experience the hybridized urban complexity in Asian cities in a practical manner from the perspectives of both the pedestrian and architect-planner critical to the awareness the far-reaching consequence of Shanghai’s urban environment.…”
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Le jardinage urbain : le défi de la qualité des sols urbains pour les collectivités by Philippe Bodénan, Hugo Doux, Béatrice Béchet, Patrice Cannavo, Liliane Jean-Soro, Thierry Lebeau, Cécile Le Guern, Laure Vidal-Beaudet

“…Local authorities are actively taking part in this movement in response to the demand of inhabitants but also because they see it as a way of addressing many of the challenges of the sustainable city. As a result, they are confronted with the issue of soil quality. …”
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La marche de type machi aruki まち歩きpour prévenir les risques de catastrophes by Takeuchi Yukiko

“…The article presents an experiment carried out in the primary school of the district of Uchinomaki in the city of Aso in Kumamoto County which was subjected to violent floods following heavy rainfall in Kyūshū in 2012.…”
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Validation of the GSFQ, a Self-Administered Symptom Frequency Questionnaire for Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease by Pierre Paré, François Meyer, David Armstrong, Myron Pyzyk, Dan Pericak, Goeree Ron

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Antropologia dell’apprendimento come esperienza applicata by Roberta Bonetti

“…As part of the course “Illegal Design - Urban Walls” at the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bozen, a group of students produced five short experimental videos exploring the urban landscape and the Bozen city walls. The aim was to understand the anthropological concept of the border or ‘limine’. …”
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Portuguese Architecture in Transit(ion) by Bruno Gil, Susana Lobo, José Ribau Esteves

“…In the final years of the Estado Novo regime (1933–1974), the Amsterdam Town Hall International Competition of 1967 presents the opportunity for seven teams of Portuguese architects to confront their own reality and rehearse distinct visions of building and city. From a national context, politically and geographically distant from the heart of the disciplinary debate of the 1960s, the proposals submitted set the terms on which Portugal competes in Amsterdam, revealing in the diversity of approaches and experiences forwarded by this new generation of architects the vitality of Portuguese architecture on its path to internationalisation. …”
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The Effect of Trust in the Intention to Use m-banking by Fernanda Leão Ramos, Jorge Brantes Ferreira, Angilberto Sabino de Freitas, Juliana Werneck Rodrigues

“…The objective of the study is to investigate the effect of trust in the intention to use m-banking in the Brazilian context, specifically among users of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Therefore, we developed and tested a model that relates trust and its antecedents (familiarity, ease of use, perceived usefulness, safety, privacy and innovativeness) with the intention to use m-banking. …”
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OOPERATION OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED TOURISM ENTERPRISES (SMTES) WITH TOURISM STAKEHOLDERS IN THE MAŁOPOLSKA REGION – TOP MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE APPROACH by KRZYSZTOF BORODAKO

“…This research used an email survey sent to tourism CEOs, directors or owners of SMTEs in the Małopolska Region, focusing on its capital city - Cracow (Poland). All three groups of respondents in SMTEs were understood in the research as the top management of these companies. …”
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Editorial: Immunology of food-borne parasites: recent progress and future advances by Saeed El-Ashram, Saeed El-Ashram, Xi-Meng Sun, Gungor Cagdas Dincel, Gungor Cagdas Dincel, Xochitl Hernandez-Velasco, Yong-Sheng Ji

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