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Narrowing urban–suburban rural disparities in physical growth among children in China: findings from the 5th national survey in 2015

Annals of Human Biology, 2017
Background: Previous studies have reported a narrowing tendency in urban–suburban rural differences for height, but almost no tendency of narrowing for weight in Chinese children between 1975–2005.
Xinnan Zong, Hui Li, Ya-Qin Zhang, Huahong Wu   +3 more
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Vale of Amusements: Modernity, Technology, and Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Park, 1870–1920

Southern Spaces, 2008
This essay explores Ponce de Leon Park, a popular turn-of-the-last-century amusement park two miles east of Atlanta, through postcards, photographs, video, and historical analysis.
Sarah Toton
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Rural–Urban Differences in Dental Service Use Among Children Enrolled in a Private Dental Insurance Plan in Wisconsin: Analysis of Administrative Data [PDF]

, 2012
Background Studies on rural–urban differences in dental care have primarily focused on differences in utilization rates and preventive dental services. Little is known about rural–urban differences in the use of wider range of dental procedures.
Bhagavatula, Pradeep, Eichmiller, Fredrick, Kuthy, Raymond A., Okunseri, Christopher, Szabo, Aniko, Xiang, Qun   +5 more
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A City Divided

Southern Spaces, 2009
Through the case of Jackson Hill, LeAnn Lands describes the turn toward residential segregation in early twentieth-century Atlanta.
LeeAnn Lands
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African Americans in Atlanta: Community Building in a New South City

Southern Spaces, 2004
The emergence of the African American community in Atlanta during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries reveals the constraints and opportunities that characterized the development of the leading city of the New South.
Carole Merritt
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Travel mode choice and travel satisfaction : bridging the gap between decision utility and experienced utility [PDF]

, 2015
Over the past decades research on travel mode choice has evolved from work that is informed by utility theory, examining the effects of objective determinants, to studies incorporating more subjective variables such as habits and attitudes. Recently, the
De Vos, Jonas, Mokhtarian, Patricia L, Schwanen, Tim, Van Acker, Veronique, Witlox, Frank   +4 more
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African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman

Southern Spaces, 2004
Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne Herndon achieved acclaim in education, drama, and architecture in turn-of-the-century Atlanta.
Carole Merritt
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Multi-residues analysis of pre-emergence herbicides in fluvial sediments : application to the mid-Garonne River [PDF]

, 2007
Contamination of man and ecosystems by pesticides has become a major environmental concern. Whereas many studies exist on contamination from agriculture, the effects of urban sources are usually omitted. Fluvial sediment is a complex matrix of pollutants
Devault, Damien A., Lim, Puy, Merlina, Georges, Pinelli, Eric, Probst, Jean-Luc   +4 more
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History, Geography, and the New Orleans Tourism Industry: A Review of Bourbon Street

Southern Spaces, 2015
Lynnell L. Thomas reviews Richard Campanella's Bourbon Street: A History (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2014).
Lynnell L. Thomas
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Specific Issues of Urban Sprawl in Bulgaria [PDF]

, 2015
The first conclusion is, no doubt, that processes of urban sprawl have emerged in Bulgaria during the last couple of decades and already have changed the suburban patterns in the outskirts of Sofia.
Kovachev, Atanas, Slaev, Aleksandar D.
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