Bumpy Roads Ahead: America's Roughest Rides and Strategies to Make our Roads Smoother [PDF]
, 2013 These days, potholes and pavement deterioration make it a challenge to keep the wheel steady on America's roads and highways. More than a quarter of the nation's major urban roadways -- highways and major streets that are the main routes for commuters ...
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Case Studies in Thermal EngineeringClean heating is essential for achieving carbon neutrality and accelerating the low-carbon transition of buildings. Electric radiant heating panels offer advantages such as flexible control, rapid thermal response, and simple installation.
Jiayi Li +4 more
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Ultrasonographic Measurements of the Liver, Gallbladder Wall Thickness, Inferior Vena Cava, Portal Vein and Pancreas in an Urban Region, Malaysia. [PDF]
J Med Ultrasound, 2021 Khammas ASA, Mahmud R.
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Return International Migration and Geographical Inequality: The Case of Egypt [PDF]
This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality.
McCormick, Barry, Wahba, Jackline
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'We got needs too': Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in urban areas (Speaker's notes) [PDF]
, 2008 Despite over 70 % of all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia now living in urban or regional urban areas (ABS 2008), there is limited research which highlights their issues or the issues that impact on their education outcomes.
Fredericks, Bronwyn L.
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Did children’s education matter? : family migration as a mechanism of human capital investment : evidence from nineteenth century Bohemia [PDF]
, 2009 This paper analyzes the rural-urban migration of families in the Bohemian region of Pilsen in 1900. Using a new 1300-family dataset from the 1900 population census I examine the role of children‘s education in rural-urban migration.
Klein, Alexander
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Urban governance and sustainable development in Sicily [PDF]
The growing interest for the urban level of the sustainable development derives from not only a lot of studies of researchers about the processes of the local development but also the growing attention on the environmental effects of urban activities. In
Luca Ruggiero
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Residential Concentration Pattern Analysis and of Urban Cluster Dynamics Assessment. [PDF]
The main aim of this paper is the definition of a methodological framework for the determination, analysis and cross-evaluation of urban clusters which are formulated within wider study areas, such as administrative regions.
Stelios Tsobanoglou, Yorgos Photis
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LAND MARKETS AND LEGAL CONTRADICTIONS IN THE PERI-URBAN AREA OF ACCRA GHANA: INFORMANT INTERVIEWS AND SECONDARY DATA INVESTIGATIONS [PDF]
The peri-urban area of Accra is experiencing a rapid transformation. A robust urban and agricultural land market has emerged, characterized by purchases, rapidly rising real land prices, and outsiders from Accra acquiring agricultural holdings for ...
Cochrane, Jeffrey A. +3 more
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The modern architecture culture of Harbin based on memes
Heritage ScienceCultural memes, which have the same heritability and variability as particulate biological genes, provide culture units that can be shared and transmitted across different periods, allowing cultural computing to be performed in a fine-grained manner ...
Jun Cai, Jianfei Dong, Yuan Zhou
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