What makes an epidemic a disaster: the future of epidemics within the EM-DAT International Disaster Database by Margo Tonnelier, Damien Delforge, Regina Below, Juan Armando Torres Munguía, Claude Saegerman, Valentin Wathelet, Joris A. F. van Loenhout, Niko Speybroeck

“…Experts agreed that epidemics should be considered as disasters. Experts cited challenges in defining epidemic thresholds. …”
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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review by G Venkatesh

“… Ragpickers have long led a marginalised, subliminal and deprived existence, and have silently gone about contributing to ‘informal waste recycling’, diverting in many cities and towns, over half of the recyclable wastes from dumpsites to the technosphere. …”
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An Analysis of Students’ Experience in Using English Learning Application “myON” in Helping Students’ English Learning Process by Fasya Putri Radhiyya, Nazwa Aulia, Syifa Shabrina, Hairunnisa Aulia Putri, Bambang Nur Alamsyah Lubis

“…While the majority experienced significant improvements in their writing, reading, listening, and grammatical skills, a few individuals indicated dissatisfaction, citing intricate explanations, high costs, and a perception of monotonous. …”
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Dynamic Assessment of Agricultural Drought Risk in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau from 2000 to 2018 by LIU Guonie, LIANG Yuanyuan, QIU Yue, XIA Jingxia, DING Mengyao, SUN Peng

“…In the context of global warming and climate change,drought poses a serious threat to agricultural production.The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a “sensor” and “sensitive area” of climate change.Researching the agricultural drought risk of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is conducive to drought prevention planning of the area and improving the ability to resist drought.A risk assessment model is developed for agricultural droughts on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in light of regional disaster system theory,which is employed to investigate the hazard,exposure,vulnerability and spatiotemporal features of agricultural droughts therein.Moreover,the paper regionalizes the risk grade at a county level.The results show the followings:① The hazard of agricultural drought risk on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau presents a “high-low-high” distribution from southeast to northwest,and the southeastern region shows an increasing trend.Wheat and highland barley in the eastern and southeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are at a high agricultural drought risk from July to September.Forages in the northern region are at a high agricultural drought risk from April to August.② The regional difference of agricultural drought exposure in Tibet Plateau is small.The exposure shows an increasing trend in the east and northwest while a decreasing trend in the central and west.③ The agricultural drought vulnerability of 98.79% of the counties and cities is decreasing,which passes the significance test at the confidence level of 99%.④ The southeastern and northern regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau witness a high agricultural drought risk and an increasing trend of it.…”
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PNI Political Strategy to Win the 1955 Election in Indonesia by Agustina Wilujeng Pramestuti, Yety Rochwulaningsih, Singgih Tri Sulistiyono

“…The 1955 election was the first direct election in Indonesia to be the most democratic in history since the campaign did not only take place in big cities, but had reached villages and even remote villages. …”
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Heterogeneity in the Preferences of Potential Users of Automated Transit Network (ATN) by Ardeshir Kohandel Shirazi, Ingmar Andreasson, Farshid Afshar, Ashkan Kohandel Shirazi, Hamidreza Mokhtarian

“…Many cities in Iran, including the metropolis of Shiraz, are increasingly car-oriented, resulting in traffic congestion and related issues. …”
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Research on the construction of an urban underground parking space color system from the perspective of psychological perception. by Yuan Lv, Yanjun Shen, Boyuan Li, Jincheng Huang, Hou'an Luo

“…Based on color psychology and using typical cities in China as case studies, this paper develops a color analytical framework for urban underground parking spaces through the process of "color field investigation-analysis of color influencing factors-color system construction-color application and control" and proposes a detailed chromatographic scheme. …”
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Students’ Civic Consciousness in the Framework of Socially Oriented Project-Based Learning by M. V. Pevnaya, L. N. Boronina, E. I. Pochatkova

“…The article presents the findings of a semiformalised survey of experts representing 52 higher education institutions across Russia, located in 32 cities across all federal districts of the Russian Federation (purposive sampling, N-65; 2024). …”
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Tick species, tick-borne pathogen distribution and risk factor analysis in border areas of China, Russia and North Korea by Pengfei Min, Jianchen Song, Shaowei Zhao, Zhen Ma, Yinbiao Meng, Zeyu Tang, Zhenyu Wang, Sicheng Lin, Fanglin Zhao, Meng Liu, Longsheng Wang, Lijun Jia, Lijun Jia

“…The purpose of this study was to identify the tick species and tick-borne pathogens endemic in these regions.MethodsMorphological and molecular identification of ticks was performed by microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and the distribution of tick species, pathogen, and risk factors of infection were analyzed.ResultsIn total, 1,187 ticks were collected from the border areas of 13 localities in eight cities. Five tick species were identified: Haemaphysalis longicornis (39.68%), Ixodes persulcatus (25.36%), Haemaphysalis japonica (15.50%), Dermacentor silvarum (15.42%), and Haemaphysalis concinna (4.04%). …”
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Rainfall and PM Removal on Tree Leaves: A Study of Santiago, Chile’s Native Species by Margarita Préndez, Karina Corada, Ignacio Navarrete, Javier Vera, Zilera Wyss

“…Green infrastructure, such as street trees, can help improve air quality, but the role of rainfall in cleaning total particulate matter (TPM) from tree leaves is not well understood, especially in cities like Santiago, Chile. This study measured TPM deposited on leaves and its elemental composition of two native tree species, <i>Quillaja saponaria</i> and <i>Schinus molle</i>, by five independent rainfall episodes. …”
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Sustainable regional development from the perspective of economic resilience: Based on the impact of COVID-19. by Aotian Peng

“…Against this backdrop, this study undertakes an analysis and comparison of the economic resilience indicators of the 18 cities in Henan Province to suggest several refinements. …”
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A Study on Hadith Authenticity Concerning the Abrogation of Bequests for Iddah Maintenance by Heirs and Its Relevance to Islamic Family Law in Indonesia by Reni Nur Aniroh, Maurisa Zinira

“…Although Islamic jurists (fiqh scholars) have reached a consensus on the elimination of the provision for iddah maintenance (post-divorce or mourning period support) through inheritance shares upon a husband’s death, the hadith cited as the basis for this elimination remains a subject of debate. …”
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Russian-Turkmen Struggle Over Ashuradeh Island in the Caspian Sea in 19th Century by Furkan Külünk

“…While it carried out commercial activities in the coastal cities and peninsulas in the west and east of the Caspian Sea, it also went on to capture these regions, building military bases at strategic points. …”
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Spectral characterization and quality assessment of organic compost for agricultural purposes by Anchal Sharma, Rajiv Ganguly, Ashok Kumar Gupta

“…Abstract Purpose The study presents the physico-chemical, heavy metal and spectral characterization of aerobic compost to assess the suitability of its use for different purposes generated from two different municipal solid waste dumpsites located in the cities of Solan and Mandi in Himachal Pradesh. Methods The spectral characteristics of the compost material were determined using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD) technique. …”
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O litoral do Rio Grande do Norte: Dinâmica e modelo espacial by Andrea de Castro Panizza, Jérôme Fournier

“…The northeastern brazillian coast is experiencing rapid land cover changes. The growth of cities, tourism and some prawn fisheries are responsible of these changes, which alter the natural systems and can affect the quality of human life. …”
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Using Internet of Things for Child Care: A Systematic Review by Saeed Saeedbakhsh, Maryam Mohammadi, Sarina Younesi, Mohammad Sattari

“…Background: In smart cities, prioritizing child safety through affordable technology like the Internet of Things (IoT) is crucial for parents. …”
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New Information of the Anatomy and Phytochemical Screening of Pentaclethra macroloba (Willd.) Kuntze (Caesalpinioideae-Leguminosae) Seeds by Zelina Ataíde Correia, Ely Simone Cajueiro Gurgel, Olivia Ribeiro, Ana Cristina de Andrade Aguiar Dias, Ravendra Kumar, Luis Adriano Santos do Nascimento, Eloisa Helena de Aguiar Andrade, Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira

“…Seeds were collected in the cities of Belém, Marituba, and São Domingos do Capim-PA. …”
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Les comités de santé et de sécurité dans les petites entreprises multiethniques de Montréal by Gabrielle Legendre, Sylvie Gravel, Jacques Rhéaume

“…However, none have looked at OHSCs in small multiethnic businesses (SB), and this despite the important role they play in large cities like Montréal. The present article looks at the factors that encourage the presence and proper functioning of OHSCs in multiethnic firms in Montréal. …”
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The Efficiency of China’s Hub Economy and Its Influencing Factors: A Two-Stage Analysis Based on the Super SBM-Malmquist-Tobit Model by Xueru Fan, Guanxin Yao, Yang Yang

“…The empirical results of 30 provinces and cities in China from 2012 to 2021 show that (1) the technical efficiency (TE), pure technical efficiency (PTE), and scale efficiency (SE) of China’s hub economy are 0.585, 0.740, and 0.820, respectively, which do not reach the effective state; (2) the technical efficiency change index (Effch), technical progress change index (Techch), and total factor productivity change index (Tfpch) of China’s hub economy are 0.994, 0.945, and 0.939, respectively, indicating that the corresponding efficiencies show a downward trend; and (3) industrial structure, innovation, and technology are significantly and positively correlated with the efficiency of the hub economy; policy and enterprises are significantly negatively correlated with the efficiency of the hub economy; and education does not correlate with the efficiency of the hub economy.…”
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History of the development of telecommunications infrastructure in Japan by Yoshio Arai

“…The domestic telegraph networks had been steadily expanded from the large metropolises to local cities from the end of the 19th century to the early 20th century. …”
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