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Case Studies of Urban and Suburban Watersheds

2011
Water quality in urban and suburban watersheds is impacted by many sources, ranging from the mixtures contained in stormwater runoff, to human sewage from failed wastewater handling systems, to domestic animals and urban wild animals such as birds (e.g., gulls, geese), opossums, raccoons, and deer.
Cheryl W. Propst   +2 more
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Urban and suburban children's experiences with school travel – A case study

Journal of Transport & Health, 2017
Abstract Purpose Physical activity is strongly correlated with children's health, and increasing rates of active school travel (AST) among children may well enhance their overall physical activity levels. Neighbourhood type may influence children's school travel modes; however, few qualitative studies have examined children's experiences of school ...
Douglas L. Race   +6 more
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Urban and Suburban Nashville: A Case Study in Metropolitanism

The Journal of Politics, 1955
QNE OF THE greatest tragedies related to the unsolved problems of metropolitan areas is the fact that most of the work being done on these problems is curative rather than preventive. Metropolitan growth brings conditions similar in many respects to a disease which can be prevented with comparative ease if properly anticipated, or easily arrested if ...
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A further study of the biological effects of lead on urban and suburban Tokyo school children

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 1978
There are few reports on lead exposure in children living in the center and the suburbs of large cities. As subjects of epidemiological investigations on the effects of lead exposure in ambient air, school children are very significant in that they have a relatively limited sphere of movement in their daily life.
T, Okubo   +5 more
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Police legitimacy in urban, suburban and rural settings: a study in Slovenia

Policing: An International Journal
PurposePolice legitimacy presents a social value of the institution based on citizens' normative, moral and ethical feelings that they should voluntarily comply with and support the authority of the police. The present study focuses on residents' perceptions of police legitimacy in different settings in Slovenia.Design/methodology/approachDrawing on ...
Gorazd Meško, Rok Hacin
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Study on the characteristics for broadband channel in the suburban and urban scenarios at 2.35 GHz

2013 IEEE International Conference of IEEE Region 10 (TENCON 2013), 2013
This paper presents a research on the broadband radio propagation channel based on the measured data in a typical urban and suburban environment in Beijing, China at 2.35 GHz band. The specification on the log-normal shadowing path loss model is investigated.
Zhang Jiao, Wu Muqing, Zhao Min
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Suburbanization in Urban Spaces: A Study of 4 Neighborhoods Across Detroit and Chicago

2021
Recent trends of lower-income and minority populations leaving increasingly expensive cities for suburbs have led to several theorists arguing that the suburbs are undergoing a process of urbanization. Fewer, however, have argued that cities themselves are becoming suburbanized as a result or function of gentrification.
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