The Impact of the Urban Heat Island Effect on Ground-Level Ozone Pollution in the Sichuan Basin, China by Xingtao Song, Haoyuan Shi, Langchang Jin, Sijing Pang, Shenglan Zeng

“…Spatially, UHII is mainly distributed in a circular pattern. (3) Typical cities in the Sichuan Basin (Chengdu, Chongqing, Nanchong) show a positive correlation between UHII and O₃ concentration (0.071–0.499), though with an observed temporal lag. …”
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Empowerment key factors in shaping women's awareness of household waste management by D. Asteria, J. Haryanto

“…This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, as long as the original authors and source are cited. No permission is required from the authors or the publishers…”
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A Systematic Review of Urban Vegetation Research during 2000–2023: A Bibliometric Analysis by Hassan Boukita, Fathalah Elwahab, Mohamed El Ammari, Abdelazziz Chemchaoui, Boutaina Benchahid, Youssef Haouazine, Najiba Brhadda, Rabea Ziri

“…After being exported in CSV format, these data were analyzed using VOSviewer for data visualization, Scopus Analytics for performance evaluation, MS Excel for organizing data in graphical form, and CiteSpace for examining the emergence of keywords. …”
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Assessing the Air Quality Impact of Train Operation at Tokyo Metro Shibuya Station from Portable Sensor Data by Deepanshu Agarwal, Xuan Truong Trinh, Wataru Takeuchi

“…Subways, as major public transportation modes in densely populated cities, can exhibit fine particulate matter (PM) levels that surpass safety limits, even in developed countries. …”
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Smallholder farmers’ knowledge, attitudes and practices towards biological control of papaya mealybug in Kenya by Kate Constantine, Fernadis Makale, Idah Mugambi, Harrison Rware, Duncan Chacha, Alyssa Lowry, Ivan Rwomushana, Frances Williams

“…Biological control is extremely sustainable in the smallholder production context, but in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) few attempts using this pest control method for arthropod pests have been successful, with one of the key reasons cited as poor involvement of farming communities and extension in the dissemination of information. …”
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Strengthening mycology research through coordinated access to microbial culture collection strains by D. Smith, A. Kermode, G. Cafà, A. G. Buddie, T. S. Caine, M. J. Ryan

“…The WDCM Analyzer of Bio-resource Citations reports that 79,224 strains from 131 collections from 50 countries have been cited in 145,133 papers published in 50,307 journals from January, 1953 until April, 2020. …”
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CHRISTIAN THINKERS ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (REINHOLD NIEBUHR AND GIORGIO LA PIRA) by T. V. Zonova

“…It is worth noting that President Obama cites Niebuhr as one of his favorite philosophers. …”
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“It’s a delicate balance”: clinicians’ experiences of providing heroin-assisted treatment by Rune Ellefsen, Silvana De Pirro, Vegard Haukland, Linda Elise Couëssurel Wüsthoff, Espen Ajo Arnevik

“…Methods 23 qualitative interviews were conducted with 31 clinicians shortly after HAT clinics opened in Norway’s two largest cities: Oslo and Bergen. By inductive thematic analysis of interview transcripts, we identified what research participants experienced and viewed as the chief rewards and challenges of providing HAT. …”
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Film watching habits of journalism students from the perspective of the theory of utilities and satisfaction by Vujović Marija, Obradović Neven

“…The results o f the research show that watching movies is a frequent activity for journalism students, that they most often watch movies online, on a computer and/or mobile phone, that most journalism students go to the cinema with friends, and that journalism students cite entertainment and socializing with friends, partners or family as the most common reason for going to the cinema. …”
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Changing of the characteristics of the labor potential in the transition to the technogenic society by O. A. Tettsoeva

“…The issues of changing the characteristics of labor potential in the transition to the technogenic society in the postindustrial community, which the processes of further urbanization and development of mega-cities are typical for, – have been examined. The technogenic society has been considered as the community, the basis of which is characterized by reducing dependence of a person on social groups, amplification of personality in creative work, changing of motivation pattern, high pace of social changes, alteration of interpersonal communication models. …”
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Research on Territorial Spatial Use Regulation, Land Element Allocation, and Regional Fiscal Transfer Payments: An Empirical Study of the Yangtze River Economic Belt by Wanmin Zhao, Yijia Gao, Aihui Ma

“…The results indicate the following: (1) The contribution of land factors to economic output is more significant in the non-agricultural sector than in the agricultural sector. (2) There are substantial differences in the quantities of restricted land development rights and their unit values across provinces and cities. Anhui Province has the largest restricted area, at approximately 71,945.52 hectares, while Guizhou Province has the smallest, at about 6452.62 hectares. …”
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In vivo reduction of biofilm seeded on orthopaedic implants: safety and efficacy of portable electromagnetic induction heating by Enrique Cordero García-Galán, Marina Medel-Plaza, José J. Pozo-Kreilinger, Héctor Sarnago, Óscar Lucía, Alicia Rico-Nieto, Jaime Esteban, Enrique Gomez-Barrena

“…Conclusion: Induction heating was not associated with any demonstrable thermal bone necrosis in our rabbit knee model, and might reduce bacterial load in S. aureus biofilms on Ti6Al4V implants. Cite this article: Bone Joint Res 2024;13(12):695–702.…”
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Investigation of the Prevalence of Infectious Myonecrosis Virus (IMNV) from 2022 to 2023 by Ruidong XU, Jitao XIA, Ping LI, Xingtong YU, Liang YAO, Wenqiang LI, Tianchang JIA, Qingli ZHANG

“…The positive samples were mainly distributed in Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, and other provinces or cities around the Bohai Sea. In addition to farmed shrimp, IMNV-positive shrimp live bait (mainly Artemia) and offshore seawater filtered close to the farm was also detected. …”
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Knowledge and perceptions about clinical research and its ethical conduct among college students from non-science background: a representative nation-wide survey from India by Jeffrey Pradeep Raj, Suraj Kallarakal Tomy, Amrutha Jose, Aadrika Kashyap, Joseph Varghese Kureethara, Tomy K Kallarakal

“…The significant predictors for willingness to participate in a CR were those living in villages as against those living in cities (p=0.002), belongs to Brahm Govind (BG) Prasad’s socioeconomic status class 1 (p=0.023) or class 4 (p=0.011) as against those in class 5, those who have heard about CR (p=0.023), participated in CR (p<0.001), have known someone participated in a CR (p<0.001) or higher total score of favourable perceptions (p<0.001).Conclusions While there was extensive media coverage on drug/vaccine development processes during the COVID-19 pandemic, significant knowledge gaps and concerns regarding various aspects of CR persisted. …”
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Unexpected Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on the Air Quality in the Metro Atlanta, USA Using Ground-based and Satellite Observations by Guanyu Huang, Reyla Ponder, Amber Bond, Hailey Brim, Akua Temeng, Aaron R. Naeger, Lei Zhu

“…Abstract We studied the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) lockdown on the air quality over the Atlanta area using satellite and ground-based observations, meteorological reanalysis data and traffic information. Unlike other cities, we found the air quality has improved slightly over the Atlanta area during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown period (March 14–April 30, 2020), compared to the analogous period of 2019 (March 14–April 30, 2019). …”
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Imagen de China en medios latinoamericanos: análisis periodístico de la Franja y la Ruta by Shiyang Liu, Guyu Zhu

“…Los hallazgos revelaron que: a nivel alto, los artículos periodísticos se enfocaron principalmente en temas económicos, diplomáticos y políticos; en el nivel medio, estos tres temas utilizaron un conjunto de recursos, tales como eventos anteriores y evaluaciones, para resaltar el tópico central; a nivel bajo, los artículos emplean fundamentalmente metáforas, cifras, comparaciones y citas con el objetivo de aumentar la credibilidad e intensificar el tema abordado. …”
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Организация управления проектами некоммерческих организаций: возможности гибких методов управления... by Динара Витальевна Некрасова, Анна Александровна Урасова

“…Ст. 5. https://doi.org/10.31279/2782-6414-2024-4-5 TO CITE: Nekrasova D. V., Urasova A. A. Organizing Project Management in Non-Profit Organizations: Opportunities of Agile Management Methods // Research in Economic and Financial Problems. 2024. № 4. …”
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Isolation and Evaluation of Clinically Important Acinetobacter Baumannii From Intensive Care Unit Samples by Mohamed Mowfik Sehree, Hanaa N. Abdullah, Amani M. Jasim

“…A total of 375 clinical specimens were collected from different infections in some hospitals in Mosul and Erbil cities/Iraq from Sep 2020 to Jan 2021. Overall, 41 isolates were identified as A. baumannii using conventional and biochemical methods, and then confirmed by VITEK-2 system. …”
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La géographie des élections en Algérie, de 2007 à 2017 by Gilles Van Hamme

“…It reflects the lack of support for the regime from urban popular classes and/or intellectual middle classes concentrated in large cities. Conversely, electoral participation and support for the government – even if it remains a minority in proportion to the voting-age population – are higher in rural and peripheral areas, although with considerable regional and local differences as illustrated by the example of Kabylie, a true stronghold of opposition to the government. …”
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Cross-sectional survey of changes in knowledge, attitudes and practice of mask use in Sydney and Melbourne during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic by Abrar Ahmad Chughtai, C Raina MacIntyre, Holly Seale, Ashley Lindsay Quigley, Mallory Trent

“…There was no significant difference in mask use during the pandemic between the two cities across both timepoints (1.24 (95% CI 0.99 to 1.22; p=0.072)). …”
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