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Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan. Ser. II, 2006 A numerical investigation of the temperature variation in urban and suburban areas due to the presence of buildings was carried out using a one-dimensional canopy model combined with a meso-scale meteorological model. Since temperature increases in an urban area are caused by sensible heat from building surfaces besides anthropogenic heat and reduction
Takayuki TOKAIRIN +7 more
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Negotiating Gender Lines: Women's Movement across Atlanta Mosques
Southern Spaces, 2010 Jamillah Karim explores gendered mosque spaces and interactions between Atlanta's African American and South Asian Muslims.
Jamillah Karim
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GEOCHEMICAL STUDY OF THE URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREA OF NAFPLION CITY, ARGOLIDHA PREFECTURE, HELLAS
Bulletin of the Geological Society of Greece, 2017 Soil, as the primary receptor of anthropogenic urban contamination acts as a sink for a variety of toxic and other hazardous substances. It constitutes, therefore, an indicator of contamination and may be utilised geochemically to assess environmental quality of urban and suburban areas.
S. Tassiou, E. Vassiliades
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Urbanization effects on carabid diversity in boreal forests
European Journal of Entomology, 2003 Carabid abundance, species richness and diversity were compared along an urban-rural gradient in Helsinki, Finland. Increased urbanization was found to result in significant reductions in species richness, though the reductions in abundance and diversity
Stephen J. VENN +2 more
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Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 2019 Background Children in Ulaanbaatar are exposed to air pollution, but few epidemiological studies have been conducted on the effects of environmental risk factors on children’s health.
Dambajamts Enkh-Undraa +7 more
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Atlanta’s Tumultuous Fifties Fifty Years Later
Southern Spaces, 2004 In conjunction with the Michael C. Carlos Museum's "The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from The New York Times Photo Archives" exhibition at Emory University, Dr. Dana White moderates a panel discussion looking back at Atlanta's evolution over the past fifty
Dana White +3 more
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What do we know about contemporary Russian suburbs?
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2015 The article analyzes the subject field of the so-called “suburban studies” in contemporary Russia. In the first part of the article, the author shows that, despite the obvious potential of the relevant empirical data, the analytical work of Russian ...
A S Breslavsky
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Scientific Reports, 2017 Animals often show reduced reproductive success in urban compared to adjacent natural areas. The lower availability and quality of natural food in cities is suggested as one key limiting factor.
Christopher J. Pollock +4 more
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Medical Entomology and Zoology, 1996 Uploaded by Plazi for TaxoDros. We do not have abstracts.
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Interchange nodes between suburban and urban public transport: A case study of the Czech Republic
Acta geographica Slovenica, 2016 This paper presents a methodology for localizing theoretical interchange nodes used for interchange between suburban and urban public transport in thirteen regional capitals in the Czech Republic. This methodology is based on the use of current timetables and simulation of more than 2,500 public transport connections between selected surrounding ...
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