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The effects of rapid urbanization on forest landscape connectivity in Zhuhai city, China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Urban forests can provide the necessary ecosystem services for their residents and play an important part in improving the urban environment. Forest landscape connectivity is a vital indicator reflecting the quality of the ecological environment and ...
Cui, Nan   +4 more
core   +3 more sources

PROBLEMS OF URBAN GREEN AREAS AND THEIR SOCIAL FUNCTION

open access: yesJOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, 2006
The town is a complicated system the main components of which are the community and its environment. Therefore, town planning and formation of green area should be performed taking into consideration the community’s activities and needs. Favorable conditions must be created for people to live, work, study and rest.
openaire   +3 more sources

Re‐Awakening Public Attention to the Silent Pandemic of Cancer Among Older Adults in Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

open access: yesAging and Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As global populations age, cancer is increasingly becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among older adults, particularly in low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs). Despite accounting for the majority of new cancer cases and deaths, older individuals remain underrepresented in cancer research, clinical guidelines, and health ...
Ibrahim Bidemi Abdullateef   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermal Environment Analysis of Kunming’s Micro-Scale Area Based on Mobile Observation Data

open access: yesBuildings
This study compares high-frequency mobile observation data collected in the same area of Kunming under two different meteorological conditions—15 January 2020, and 8 January 2023—to analyze changes in the micro-scale urban thermal environment.
Pengkun Zhu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cumulative Social Disadvantage and Disease Activity in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis: A Childhood Arthritis and Rheumatology Research Alliance Registry Study

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Social determinants of health (SDOH) contribute to juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) disparities, but most studies have assessed SDOH independently rather than cumulatively across individual, family, and neighborhood levels. Using a socioecological framework, we investigated the relationship among cumulative social disadvantage ...
William Daniel Soulsby   +448 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social conflict in response to urban sprawl in rural areas: urban reconfiguration of the Mezquital valley as influence area of the megalopolis of Mexico City [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The urban sprawl of metropolitan areas involves complex processes of coexistence between urban and rural dynamics, the functional redefining of central urban areas and rural areas or urban-rural surrounding transition generates land conflicts.
Cadena, Edel   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Biodegradable and Recyclable Luminescent Mixed‐Matrix‐Membranes, Hydrogels, and Cryogels based on Nanoscale Metal‐Organic Frameworks and Biopolymers

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The study presents biodegradable and recyclable mixed‐matrix membranes (MMMs), hydrogels, and cryogels using luminescent nanoscale metal‐organic frameworks (nMOFs) and biopolymers. These bio‐nMOF‐MMMs combine europium‐based nMOFs as probes for the status of the materials with the biopolymers agar and gelatine and present alternatives to conventional ...
Moritz Maxeiner   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Differentiation of Warming Effects in Urban Functional Areas Based on Warming Sensitivity Indices

open access: yesRedai dili
The POI data and Place2vec model within the third ring of Fuzhou City were used to identify the functional zones in the city, on the basis of which we were able to analyze the characteristics of the spatial differentiation of the thermal field levels in ...
Yang Hui   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Classification of Urban Functional Zones Based on Multiple Data Sources [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences
With the rapid development of cities, more and more people are flocking to them. Therefore, cities require good planning to meet the needs of all urban residents. The first step in planning a city is to classify the functional areas of the city.
Liu Nian
doaj   +1 more source

A GloVe Model for Urban Functional Area Identification Considering Nonlinear Spatial Relationships between Points of Interest

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
As cities continue to grow, the functions of urban areas change and problems arise from previously constructed urban planning schemes. Hence, the actual distribution of urban functional areas needs to be confirmed.
Yue Chen   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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