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Journal of Family and Community Medicine, 2023 BACKGROUND: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus has almost reached global epidemic proportions. Fortunately, the progress of the disease can be stemmed at the prediabetic level.
Filza Haqiq +7 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This systematic literature review examines gendered vulnerabilities, adaptive capacities, and policy translation in climate‐change induced disaster research using an intersectional lens in the Web of Science Database. Peer‐reviewed journal articles published in English between 2014 and 2024 focusing on gender, climate change, and disaster were
Tomo Kawane +7 more
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SLUM AREA AS A TOURIST DESTINATION
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2015 The paper considers the issues of emergence and the basic stages of propagation of slums in the world. Slums have become quite common in the 19th – early 20th centuries in the major cities of the industrialized countries of Europe and North America ...
S. S. Maletin
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The current study examines the impact of economic growth, urbanization, trade openness, and energy consumption on climate change among four G7 countries: the United States of America (USA), the United Kingdom (UK), Japan, and Germany. For this, the Auto Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model was used, and to assess the model's fitness ...
Arvind Goswami +3 more
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Value in the ‘valley of the shadow of death’—When the user is no longer the value arbiter
Australian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.Abstract The Public Service Logic (PSL) user‐centric perspective on value creation has been one of its main critiques. Scholars argue that for some real‐world applications, such as emergency services, where users cannot engage with service offerings, the PSL must consider the roles of other service actors beyond just facilitators.
Higor Leite, Stephen Osborne
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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Cuttings, Combings, Fettlings and Flock: Gender and Australian Wool ‘Waste’, 1900–1950
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As Australia's wool industry produced vast amounts of fine fleece from the nineteenth century, the wool processing and clothes manufacturing industries generated waste – products like cuttings, combings, fettlings and flock. Salvaged and then sold to waste merchants, these and other materials had a second life.
Lorinda Cramer
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Environmental rehabilitation of the formal city: The case of Rio das Pedras in Rio de Janeiro
Materia Arquitectura, 2015 This article explores the notion of “value” that lies beneath architectural preservation in order to establish a relationship between cultural and environmental values of the built heritage.
Alejandro de Castro Mazarro
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract This article engages signage as a medium through which urban stakeholders negotiate the politics of housing redevelopment and gentrification in cities. Focusing on Toronto, we examine housing‐related signage in three neighbourhoods where social mix approaches to redevelopment have ushered in gentrification: Parkdale, Regent Park, and Moss Park.
Lindi Jahiu +2 more
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Slums in Baghdad city "Analytical planning study"
Journal of Engineering and Sustainable Development, 2015 Baghdad city after 2003 emergence of slums in many different areas of Baghdad, due to a variety of reasons, mainly lawlessness after 2003 and the weakness of control municipalities on the land of the state and the land uses, in addition to economic ...
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