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Towards Smart and Resilient City Networks: Assessing the Network Structure and Resilience in Chengdu–Chongqing Smart Urban Agglomeration

Systems
The mobility and openness of smart cities characterize them as particularly complex networks, necessitating the resilience enhancement of smart city regions from a network structure perspective.
Rui Li, Yuhang Wang, Zhiyue Zhang, Yi Lu
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Regional City and Network City: Portland and Seattle in the Twentieth Century

The Western Historical Quarterly, 1992
-E n conomic and social interactions in the United States have undergone a massive expansion of scale since the mid-nineteenth century. The change is apparent in the size and scope of business enterprise, government operations, and organized social movements. As Kenneth Boulding pointed out nearly forty years ago, the result has been an "organizational
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Posterior Cortical Atrophy in the Asia‐Pacific: A Report From the PCA Asian Workgroup

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Posterior Cortical Atrophy (PCA) is a distinct dementia syndrome primarily affecting spatial abilities and visual processing. It is associated with degeneration in the posterior part of the brain. PCA is subclassified into PCA‐pure and PCA‐plus syndromes based on consensus criteria.
Yuttachai Likitjaroen, Ya‐Ting Chang, Levinia Lim, Pai‐Yi Chiu, Jung‐Lung Hsu, SangYun Kim, Wataru Narita, Na Young Ryoo, Kyoko Suzuki, Nagaendran Kandiah, Sebastian Crutch, Ming‐Chyi Pai   +11 more
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Transboundary Cooperation and Urban Paradiplomacy in Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of the Baltic Region

Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta
This article examines the substantive and organizational dimensions of transboundary cooperation and urban paradiplomacy in addressing climate change adaptation.
A. E. Kuteynikov, E. A. Bliznetskaya, S. V. Ivlev, V. I. Shapovalov   +3 more
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Normal‐Appearing White Matter Injury Mediates Chronic Deep Venous Hypoxia and Disease Progression in Multiple Sclerosis

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To explore how cerebral hypoxia and Normal‐Appearing White Matter (NAWM) integrity affect MS lesion burden and clinical course. Methods Seventy‐nine MS patients, including 13 clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) patients and 66 relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) patients, and 44 healthy controls (HCs) were recruited from ...
Xinli Wang, Huiying Wang, Zhizheng Zhuo, Ai Guo, Ke Lv, Decai Tian, Chao Chai, Yunyun Duan, Shuang Xia   +8 more
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CARTOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATION OF MORPHOLOGICAL AND HIERARCHICAL RELATIONS IN CITY NETWORKS: A BASIS FOR UNDERSTANDING THE URBAN SYSTEMS OF THE QUADRILÁTERO FERRÍFERO

Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2018
The present work investigates the urban agglomerates that compose and structure the urban system of Quadrilátero Ferrífero region, which is part of the peri-metropolitan space of Belo Horizonte.
Alfio Conti, Gustavo Adolfo Tinoco Martínez   +1 more
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Cities, states and the pandemic: challenges and opportunities for transnational city networks

Frontiers in Political Science
The growing role of cities in today’s globalized world is well known. As a result of their central position in many positive and negative global dynamics, cities are receiving more and more attention in various fields of study, including international ...
M. Valeriani, R. Marchetti, C. C. Passalacqua   +2 more
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A Depolarizing Leak in Sodium Bicarbonate Cotransporter NBCe1 Causes Brain Edema

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives SLC4A4 encodes electrogenic sodium bicarbonate cotransporter NBCe1, prominently expressed in kidney and brain. Recessive loss‐of‐function variants in SLC4A4 cause proximal renal tubular acidosis, no brain edema. In the brain, NBCe1 is expressed by astrocytes, where it regulates pH and mediates astrocyte volume changes.
Quinty Bisseling, Mark D. Parker, Sven Kerst, Richard A. Pasternack, Jacob Tondreau, Marjolein Breur, Gemma M. van Rooijen‐van Leeuwen, Davide Tonduti, Ettore Salsano, Alejandra Darling, Joanna A. E. van Wijk, Susanna Törnroth‐Horsefield, Marianna Bugiani, Petra J. W. Pouwels, Quinten Waisfisz, Marjo S. van der Knaap, Rogier Min   +16 more
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A Framework for Automatic Web Service Discovery Based on Semantics and NLP Techniques

Advances in Multimedia, 2011
As a greater number of Web Services are made available today, automatic discovery is recognized as an important task. To promote the automation of service discovery, different semantic languages have been created that allow describing the functionality ...
Asma Adala, Nabil Tabbane, Sami Tabbane
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SmartCare: Energy-Efficient Long-Term Physical Activity Tracking Using Smartphones

Tsinghua Science and Technology, 2015
Lack of physical activity is becoming a killer of our healthy life. As a solution for this negative impact, we propose SmartCare to help users to set up a healthy physical activity habit.
Hui Liu, Rui Li, Sicong Liu, Shibian Tian, Junzhao Du   +4 more
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