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Mapping the vulnerable: A framework for analyzing urban social vulnerability and its societal impact

Societal Impacts
Widespread high exposure and vulnerability, coupled with inadequate adaptive capacity, underscore the urgent need for targeted interventions and policies to enhance urban resilience.
Subham Roy, Suranjan Majumder, Arghadeep Bose, Indrajit Roy Chowdhury   +3 more
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GIS-Based Framework for Integrating Urban Heritage and Lighting Planning

Buildings
This study develops a GIS-based, heritage-sensitive urban lighting framework for Niğde, Türkiye, integrating Sentinel-2 MSI Level-2A imagery (10 m), ASTER DEM, and municipal cadastral data.
Orhun Soydan, Mertkan Fahrettin Tekinalp
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A Multidimensional Perspective on Resilience in Later Life: A Systematic Literature Review of Protective Factors and Adaptive Processes in Ageing

Geriatrics
Background: With the global population rapidly aging, resilience has emerged as a critical determinant of healthy aging. While many factors are associated with resilience, a comprehensive synthesis is needed to inform targeted interventions and policy ...
Benjamin A. Jacob, Cameron Walker, Michael O’Sullivan, Paul Rouse, Matthew Parsons   +4 more
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EPI-DOM framework for assessing fish welfare: external and internal indicators for tilapia

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
IntroductionThe EPI-DOM framework proposes an applied epidemiological approach to evaluate and manage tilapia welfare in laboratory and production systems, integrating animal-based indicators with risk factors organized into operational domains ...
Rosario Martínez-Yáñez
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Organic Writing Assessment: Dynamic Criteria Mapping in Action

, 2009
Educators strive to create "assessment cultures" in which they integrate evaluation into teaching and learning and match assessment methods with best instructional practice. But how do teachers and administrators discover and negotiate the values that underlie their evaluations? Bob Broad's 2003 volume, What We Really Value, introduced dynamic criteria
Broad, Bob, Adler-Kassner, Linda, Alford, Barry, Detweiler, Jane, Estrem, Heidi   +4 more
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Digital Twin–Based Simulation and Decision-Making Framework for the Renewal Design of Urban Industrial Heritage Buildings and Environments: A Case Study of the Xi’an Old Steel Plant Industrial Park

Buildings
In response to the coexistence of multi-objective conflicts and environmental complexity in the renewal of contemporary urban industrial heritage, this study develops a simulation and decision-making methodology for architectural and environmental ...
Yian Zhao, Kangxing Li, Weiping Zhang
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Postural instability in the digital age: A scoping review of screen exposure and balance outcomes in community-dwelling older adults

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics Plus
Background: Digital screen use is increasingly common among older adults, yet its implications for balance and postural control are not well defined. Age-related sensory, vestibular and cognitive changes may increase vulnerability to balance disturbances
Tamanna Sharma, BPT, (MPT), Nidhi Sharma, BPT, MPT, PhD, Simranjeet Kaur, BPT, MPT, Parveen Kumar, BPT, MPT, Preeti Kapri, BPT, MPT   +4 more
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Life cycle assessment in support of sustainable transportation

Environmental Research Letters, 2013
In our rapidly urbanizing world, sustainable transportation presents a major challenge. Transportation decisions have considerable direct impacts on urban society, both positive and negative, for example through changes in transit times and economic ...
Matthew J Eckelman
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Epigenetic regulation of inflammation in post-operative organ dysfunction: A scoping review protocol.

PLoS ONE
IntroductionThe inflammatory response to surgery is complex, dynamic and exhibits variability in magnitude and duration among patients undergoing similar operations.
Ruairí Wilson, Charlotte Fern, Carl Goodyear, Ben Shelley   +3 more
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Postural control imbalance in individuals with a minor lower extremity amputation: a scoping review protocol. [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

F1000Research
Introduction Lower extremity amputations (LEA) impact the quality of life and physical abilities and increase the risk of developing secondary complications.
Gabriel Moisan, Virginie Blanchette, Ahmed Dami, Maxime Acien   +3 more
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