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Soundscape diversity: Evaluation indices of the sound environment in urban green spaces – Effectiveness, role, and interpretation

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2023
Urban green space sound sources play an important role in providing people with high quality recreation experiences. However, the evaluation index for urban green space sound sources is still limited.
Yi Xiang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparing Machine Learning Classifiers for Object-Based Land Cover Classification Using Very High Resolution Imagery

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2014
This study evaluates and compares the performance of four machine learning classifiers—support vector machine (SVM), normal Bayes (NB), classification and regression tree (CART) and K nearest neighbor (KNN)—to classify very high resolution images, using ...
Yuguo Qian   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sky type classification in Harbin during winter

open access: yesJournal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2020
Sky type classification is a significant element in daylight simulation. As a “winter city”, the daylight climate of Harbin is distinctive, and there is therefore a particular need to determine the most appropriate sky models to establish sky luminance ...
Ying Zi, Cheng Sun, Yunsong Han
doaj   +1 more source

Functional Potential of the Novosibirsk Urban Region in Russian Federation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The research presented in this article focuses on the urban region of Novosibirsk, which is one of the most industrialized part of Siberia and the Asian part of Russian Federation.
Tobiasz-Lis, Paulina, Wójcik, Marcin
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Integrating historic preservation into a wider framework of urban development through comprehensive planning: an evaluation of local comprehensive plans in U.S. state capitals

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2022
Historic preservation should be integrated into the broader framework of urban development. This makes preservation through local comprehensive planning a good option. However, few local comprehensive plans have demonstrated the content or quality needed
Luchen Zhang, Yuexing Tang, Yang Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Macroscopic modelling and robust control of bi-modal multi-region urban road networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The paper concerns the integration of a bi-modal Macroscopic Fundamental Diagram (MFD) modelling for mixed traffic in a robust control framework for congested single- and multi-region urban networks.
Ampountolas, Konstantinos   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Migration costs and observational returns to migration in the developing world [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Recent studies find that observational returns to rural-urban migration are near zero in three developing countries. We revisit this result using panel tracking surveys from six countries, finding higher returns on average.
Lagakos, David   +4 more
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No. 07: Rapid Urbanization and the Nutrition Transition in Southern Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The nutrition transition, including the presence of malnutrition and obesity in poor urban populations (the so-called ‘double burden’ of disease), is occurring in Southern Africa in the context of massive rural-urban migration and rapid urbanization ...
Crush, Jonathan   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Regional differences in willingness to pay for organic vegetables [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The concern about vegetable safety, together with a booming population and the rise of the middle class has made Vietnam become a potential market for organic vegetables.
Ha, TM, Pham Do, K, Shakur, S
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Towards a common standard: comparing European and American cities [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper assesses to what extent it is possible to construct standardised geographical definitions of cities that will allow American and European cities to be compared in a consistent manner. It reproduces, in citable form and, for scholarly purposes,
Freeman, Alan
core   +1 more source

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