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Great cities connect people; failed cities isolate people. Despite the fundamental importance of physical, face-to-face social-ties in the functioning of cities, these connectivity networks are not explicitly observed in their entirety.
Barahona, Mauricio +3 more
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The Need for Governmental Inefficiency in Plato’s Republic [PDF]
In book II of Plato’s Republic, Socrates discusses the cities of necessity and luxury (372d-373a). Discussions of these cities have often focused on citizens desiring more than they need, which creates a demand for luxury.
Hersch, Gil
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Cities and population health. [PDF]
A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007 and cities are exerting growing influence on the health of both urban and non-urban residents. Although there long has been substantial interest in the associations between city living
Freudenberg, Nicholas +2 more
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248 Self-Reported Race, Street Race, and Sleep Quality & Hours During the COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak
OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Our objective is to assess whether street race is a stronger predictor of sleep quality and sleep hours than self-reported race. We also seek to understand whether the association between race and sleep quality/hours can be explained by
Nathan Keller +4 more
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Preserving city color plan, surveying Iranian submontane cities [PDF]
No Considering color pallet of the buildings of every city, arouse a debate related to identity and aesthetics of urban environment. This debate is succeeded by researches about the color of cities, from limited hues of traditional city to numerous ...
Preserving city color plan, surveying Iranian submontane cities
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SEMANTICALLY ENRICHED HIGH RESOLUTION LOD 3 BUILDING MODEL GENERATION [PDF]
This paper reports about an effort to generate LoD3 models of buildings semi-automatically, with the highest possible level of automation. It is work in progress. We use multi-sensor data like aerial images from a 5-head camera with a GSD of 10 cm,
A. Gruen +9 more
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Loss of tau expression attenuates neurodegeneration associated with α-synucleinopathy
Background Neuronal dysfunction and degeneration linked to α-synuclein (αS) pathology is thought to be responsible for the progressive nature of Parkinson’s disease and related dementia with Lewy bodies.
Scott C. Vermilyea +6 more
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Jakarta, Indonesia's primate city and the world's second largest urban agglomeration, is undergoing a deep transformation. A fresh city profile of Jakarta is long overdue, given that there have been major events and developments since the turn of the millennium (the Asian Financial crisis and decentralisation in Indonesia, among the most important), as
Martinez, Rafael, Masron, Irna Nurlina
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Universities Scale Like Cities [PDF]
Recent studies of urban scaling show that important socioeconomic city characteristics such as wealth and innovation capacity exhibit a nonlinear, particularly a power law scaling with population size.
van Raan, Anthony F. J.
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The Smart Cities journal retracts the article “Improvement in Collision Avoidance in Cut-In Maneuvers Using Time-to-Collision Metrics” [...]
Smart Cities Editorial Office
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