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Design Implications of Model-Generated Urban Data [PDF]

, 2019
Published by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.The staggering complexity of urban environment and long timescales in the causal mechanisms prevent designers
Jankovic, Ljubomir
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Urban Heat Transition in Berlin: Corporate Strategies, Political Conflicts, and Just Solutions

Urban Planning, 2023
In the field of urban climate policy, heat production and demand are key sectors for achieving a sustainable city. Heat production has to shift from fossil to renewable energies, and the heat demand of most buildings has to be reduced significantly via ...
Hendrik Sander, Sören Weißermel
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Decision support system for the long-term city metabolism planning problem [PDF]

, 2016
A Decision Support System (DSS) tool for the assessment of intervention strategies (Alternatives) in an Urban Water System (UWS) with an integral simulation model called “WaterMet²” is presented.
Behzadian Moghadam, Kourosh, Coelho, Sergio Teixeira, Do Céu Almeida, Maria, Kapelan, Zoran, Morley, Mark, Ugarelli, Rita, Vitorino, Diogo   +6 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Altered Ecological Flows Blur Boundaries in Urbanizing Watersheds

Ecology and Society, 2009
The relevance of the boundary concept to ecological processes has been recently questioned. Humans in the post-industrial era have created novel lateral transport fluxes that have not been sufficiently considered in watershed studies.
Todd R. Lookingbill, Sujay S. Kaushal, Andrew J. Elmore, Robert Gardner, Keith N. Eshleman, Robert H. Hilderbrand, Raymond P. Morgan, Walter R. Boynton, Margaret A. Palmer, William C. Dennison   +9 more
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Sustainability Assessment of the Anthropogenic System in Panama City: Application of Biomimetic Strategies towards Regenerative Cities

Biomimetics, 2021
To understand the sustainability problem for Panama’s metropolitan area, its urban metabolism was investigated. A way to evaluate its current state was obtained by estimating a sustainable indicator based on the Green City Index.
Andrea Quintero, Marichell Zarzavilla, Nathalia Tejedor-Flores, Dafni Mora, Miguel Chen Austin   +4 more
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Contrasting responses to catchment modification among a range of functional and structural indicators of river ecosystem health [PDF]

, 2009
1. The value of measuring ecosystem functions in regular monitoring programs is increasingly being recognised as a potent tool for assessing river health.
Barbour, Bergfur, Bernhardt, Biggs, Boothroyd, Bott, Boulton, Boulton, Bunn, Bunn, Carlisle, Collier, Collier, Covich, Davies-Colley, Dolédec, Duarte, Fellows, Fisher, Gessner, Grattan, Hagen, Hall, Hicks, Hill, Izagirre, Kilpatrick, Kosinski, Linklater, Marzolf, Matthews, Maxted, McTammany, Meyer, Minshall, Minshall, Mulholland, Naiman, Naiman, Niyogi, Niyogi, Niyogi, Norris, Owens, Palmer, Parkyn, Pascoal, Paul, Petersen, Phinney, Quinn, Quinn, Quinn, Quinn, Rama Rao, Rapport, Sabater, Speaker, Sponseller, Stark, Stark, Stark, Suberkropp, Udy, Uehlinger, Vannote, Wallace, Wallace, Wallace, Wiley, Woodcock, Young, Young, Young, Young, Young, Zuur   +76 more
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Noninvasive tests for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in a multi‐ethnic population: The HELIUS study

Hepatology Communications, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is increasing in prevalence and severity globally, prompting noninvasive testing, yet limited data exist on noninvasive liver tests (NITs) including transient elastography (TE) in ethnically diverse populations.
Anne‐Marieke van Dijk, Yasaman Vali, Anne Linde Mak, Henrike Galenkamp, Max Nieuwdorp, Bert‐Jan van den Born, Adriaan Georgius Holleboom   +6 more
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Soundscape for urban ecological security evaluation

Basic and Applied Ecology
The security of the Earth system has been extensively discussed through the concept of planetary boundaries, which hypothesizes the Anthropocene as the crisis for pushing environmental variables beyond safe limits.
Jingyi Wang, Chunming Li, Ziyan Yao, Shenghui Cui   +3 more
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Megapolitan Political Ecology and Urban Metabolism in Southern Appalachia [PDF]

, 2014
Drawing on megapolitan geographies, urban political ecology, and urban metabolism as theoretical frameworks, this article theoretically and empirically explores megapolitan political ecology.
Gragson, T, Gustafson, JS, Heynen, N, Rice, JL, Shepherd, JM, Strother, C   +5 more
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