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The Rebirth of the Neighborhood [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This essay argues that new urban residents primarily seek a type of community properly called a neighborhood. “Neighborhood” refers to a legible, pedestrian-scale area that has an identity apart from the corporate and bureaucratic structures that ...
Byrne, J. Peter
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‘Of course we must be equal, but …’: imagining gendered futures in two rural Southern African secondary schools [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Based on focus group discussions held with students at rural secondary schools in Lesotho and Zimbabwe, this paper argues that secondary schools provide important spaces for the (re)construction of gendered identities among rural girls in southern Africa.
Ansell, N
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An Increasing Misalignment Between Crop Distribution and Environmental Resources Under Climate Change in China

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Climate change reshapes the spatial alignment between crop production and environmental resources. Using multi‐source data and a crop model, integrated climatic, water, and soil endowments for maize and wheat are quantified and compared with harvest distributions.
Zheng'e Su   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of the Changing of Urban Identity on Historic Towns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Urban identity is one of the important factors, which affects the formation of the city. It also plays important role in shaping and changing the form of city. Each city has its own identity that is shaped by its characteristics.
Burcin Kutsal
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Alternating High‐Fat and Polysaccharide Diets Modulates Gut Phage‐Bacterial Interplay

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reveals how alternating high‐fat and polysaccharide diets reshape the human gut virome and enhance phage‐bacteria interactions. Using large‐scale metagenomic meta‐analysis and a time‐resolved mouse model, the authors show that diets strongly modulate phage abundance, lifestyle, and gene exchange, offering new insights into nutrition‐guided ...
Fengxiang Zhao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Küresel Kentlerde Stratejik Planlamanın Kimlik Üzerine Etkisi

open access: yesDüzce Üniversitesi Bilim ve Teknoloji Dergisi, 2016
Kentler sahip oldukları ekonomik ve sosyal akışkanlar sayesinde küreselleşme sürecinden en çok etkilenen alanlardır. Yaşanan küresel değişimler kentlerin sahip olduğu imaj ve kimlik üzerinde de etkili olmuş kentlerin gerek makro ölçekte gerekse mikro ...
Ezgi Akçam
doaj  

Public art in the historical city: Visualizing the local cultural code

open access: yesUrbis et Orbis: Mikroistoriâ i Semiotika Goroda
The article analyses public art within the framework of the cultural approach – as a form of visualization of the city’s cultural code. The author examines the variants of public art comprehension existing in the Russian academic discourse and identifies
Elizaveta Speshilova
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Social Networks and Labor Market Entry Barriers: Understanding Inter-industrial Wage Differentials in Urban China [PDF]

open access: yes
An entry barrier in the labor market can be an important source of wage inequality. This paper finds that social networks, father's education and political status, and urban household registration status (hukou identity), as well as their own education ...
Hiroshi Sato, Ming Lu, Zhao Chen
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Diversity of Pharmaceuticals Enhances Antibiotic Resistance in the Invertebrate Gut via Biofilm‐Mediated Mechanisms

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Pharmaceutical diversity acts as an independent driver of antibiotic resistance in soil invertebrates. While bulk soil remains unaffected, the collembolan gut microbiome exhibits significant resistance gene enrichment under complex chemical exposure and diurnal warming.
Yi‐Fei Wang   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study of Free‐Space Optical Quantum Network: Review and Prospectives

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Free from the constraints of fiber connections, free‐space quantum network enables longer and more flexible quantum network connections. This review summarizes and comparatively analyzes free‐space quantum network experiments based on ground stations, satellites, and mobile platforms.
Hua‐Ying Liu, Zhenda Xie, Shining Zhu
wiley   +1 more source

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