Vulnérabilité et résilience des populations riveraines liées à la pollution des eaux lagunaires de la métropole d’Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire by Koné Brama, Cissé Guéladio, Houenou Pascal Valentin, Obrist Brigit, Wyss Kaspar, Odermatt Peter, Tanner Marcel

“…People consider themselves as victims of "the city". Some aspects of vulnerability reported by them among others are that bad smells emanate from the lagoon, flies and mosquitoes coming from lagoon water are responsible for malaria and diarrhea. …”
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Innovative technologies in teaching a foreign language by Natalia V. Ageyenko, Alla A. Rybkina

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Multiresolution Analysis Applied to the Monge-Kantorovich Problem by Armando Sánchez-Nungaray, Carlos González-Flores, Raquiel R. López-Martínez

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Les politiques de mobilité durable à Amman : vecteurs de promotion urbaine et outils de gouvernement contestés by Eliott Ducharme

“…It aims at bringing new elements in the discussion on how globalization and neoliberalization processes affect cities of the global South. It insists on Amman municipality’s active role and strategy in mobilizing international “best practices” and actor networks. …”
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Existence and Uniqueness of the Exponentially Stable Limit Cycle for a Class of Nonlinear Systems via Time-Domain Approach with Differential Inequality by Yeong-Jeu Sun, Yu-Biaw Wu, Ching-Cheng Wang

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Autism Spectrum Disorder and Amplified Pain by Ciaran Clarke

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Encontros afetivos em quintais urbanos: um estudo sobre famílias e sociabilidade no Subúrbio Ferroviário de Salvador (BA) by Wanderlene Cardozo Ferreira Reis, José Eduardo Ferreira Santos, Ana Cecília de Sousa B. Bastos, Giuseppina Marsico, Elaine Pedreira Rabinovich

“…This text is part of a study whose final objective was to investigate the meanings attributed to backyards in narratives of different generations of families living in urban areas in the 21st century in the city of Salvador, Bahia. In this article, it is proposed the study of backyards as places of resistance and belongings, starting from the necessity that the subject has to build a context of affective life, associated to the place. …”
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A dinâmica de centralização e descentralização politica e administrativa e a revisão da malha territorial municipal da região norte do Brasil (1988 – 2010) by Gilberto de Miranda Rocha

“…The review of the political loop - administrative city in Brazil, would be related directly to multiple factors, among which include: changes in Brazilian political and institutional order, especially with regard to alternating periods of centralization and decentralization of political administration, the redistribution of population in the territory and the urbanization process. …”
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Les espaces ruraux touristiques dans le delta du Yangzi, entre intégration ville-campagne et développement rural by Emmanuel Véron

“…The recent interest of city dwellers to discover and travel to the countryside as an "elsewhere whishes" gives new perspectives in geography, in particular, new relationships between urban and rural world. …”
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A “geograficidade” das formas simbólicas: o santuário de Fátima da Serra Grande em análise by Christian Dennys Monteiro de Oliveira, José Arilson Xavier de Souza

“…The Sanctuary of Fátima da Serra Grande, located in St. Benedict city, Northern of the Ceará State, is analyzed in a geographical and phenomenological perspective, considering it as a symbolic form of tourist attraction. …”
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Hidrelétricas no Rio Madeira-RO: tensões sobre o uso do território e dos recursos naturais na Amazônia by Maria Madalena de Aguiar Cavalcante, Leonardo José Cordeiro Santos

“…The building of the hydroelectric plants (Jirau and Santo Antônio), which started in 2008 at Madeira river in the city of Porto Velho-RO, offers to the part of the south western Amazon from Rondônia, a (re)valuation around the national and international context due to the energetic potential and also for being part of the complexes for the south-american circulation and energy. …”
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Application of Cloud Model in Evaluation of Urban Vulnerability to Floods Based on Improved Game Theory and Combined Weight by WANG Dayang

“…The urban vulnerability to floods reflects the state of destruction and damage of human,society and economic properties in the city by floods.Taking 14 cities of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as examples,this paper introduces the cloud model theory method into the evaluation of urban vulnerability to floods,establishes an evaluation factor system for flood vulnerability with five vulnerability levels,improves the game theory to ensure the positive value of combination coefficient based on the subjective and objective weights,and then determines the cooperative weights.The research shows that the cloud model can cope with the uncertainty in the evaluation studies well by taking into account the ambiguity and randomness of factors.In overall,cities in the middle and east Guangxi have higher vulnerability level,followed by those in the west and north Guangxi,and then those in the south Guangxi.…”
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Pratique des activités d’orientation-conseil et projet professionnel de l’élève au Cameroun by Rodrigue Mbwassak

“…To this end, a questionnaire was administered to a sample of 628 students in the final year of secondary school in the city of Bertoua. The testing of four hypotheses by the multiple logistic regression test made it possible to verify that the use by guidance counsellors of their main activities (training sessions, counselling, applied research and psycho-technical testing) favours the accompaniment of students in the construction of their professional projects.…”
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Restituer les bidonvilles de Nanterre : l’apport d’un outil de visualisation 3D à un projet de sciences sociales by Paul Lecat, Émile Blettery, Lætitia Delavoipière, Frédéric Saly-Giocanti, Sylvaine Conord, Valérie Gouet-Brunet, Alexandre Devaux, Mathieu Brédif, Frédéric Moret

“…Soon, these informal shacks grew together and ended up forming urban complexes, presented and administered as shantytowns, and the city of Nanterre was then durably associated with them. …”
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Des arrangements autour de l’agriculture en périurbain : du lotissement agricole au projet de territoire by Monique Poulot

“…This article reads again in a critical way the « pas de deux agriculture-city » (Monteventi et al., 2008) in the last decades around the parisian metropolis. …”
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De l’Antiquité à la science-fiction : la réinvention de Babylone dans les représentations artistiques occidentales des xxe et xxie siècles by Ariane Aujoulat

“…From an ancient Eastern city, Babylon became a contemporary Western megalopolis and the myth of Babel was the object of a total inversion of values: from nostalgia for the cohesion through language to the fear of having a unique language imposed on oneself and losing all individuality. …”
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Types of tourists and tourism practices during the Olympic Games. by Marie Delaplace, Alexandra Schaffar

“…The Olympic and Paralympic Games raise many expectations for tourism dynamism in host cities. However, the scientific literature shows that there is not always an expansion of tourism due to a possible crowding out effect of tourists: the anticipated congestion and the increase in accommodation rates discourage tourists from coming to the host city during this period. …”
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Robert Adams in Transatlantic Review: Archiving the Barbary Captive and Traveller by Stephen F. Wolfe

“…The creation of the Adams narration in the city of London is played off again in the reception of the Adams narrative in Boston. …”
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La conquête chrétienne d’Ejea à travers l’intervention de guerriers gascons et d’un saint girondin by Alexandre Giunta

“…After the conquest, a group of monks settled down in the city where they had privileges and administered the sacraments to the people of the region. …”
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Parkinson’s Disease in a Dish: What Patient Specific-Reprogrammed Somatic Cells Can Tell Us about Parkinson’s Disease, If Anything? by J. Drouin-Ouellet, R. A. Barker

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