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American Journal of Industrial Medicine, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Informal waste pickers play a crucial role in urban recycling systems but often face precarious employment and systematic marginalization. This study examines the evolving demographic, occupational, and health trends of informal waste pickers in Hong Kong between 2018 and 2023.
Siu‐Ming Chan +6 more
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International Journal of Disaster Risk ScienceWind disasters often cause widespread power outages, posing a serious threat to the safe operation of cities. This article systematically reviews key advances in early warning research on wind-induced power outages based on the framework of risk source ...
Jingwei Fu +3 more
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Innovative Road Maintenance: Leveraging Smart Technologies for Local Infrastructure
DesignsRoads are essential for economic development, facilitating the circulation of services and resources. This research seeks to provide local governments with a comprehensive framework to enhance road maintenance, focusing on the surface and functional ...
Laura Fabiana Jáuregui Gallegos +2 more
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Urbanization and health in Africa : exploring the interconnections between poverty, inequality and the burden of disease [PDF]
, 2005 There are few changes in the history of human existence comparable to urbanization in scope and potential to bring about biologic change. The transition in the developed world from an agricultural to an industrial-urban society has already produced ...
Songsore, Jacob
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this study, the performance of the Van Muradiye Domestic Wastewater Treatment Plant was evaluated with Response Surface Methodology (RSM). The effects of pH, conductivity, dissolved oxygen (DO), and suspended solids (SS) on the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency were evaluated using samples collected from the plant's inlet and ...
Emine Cangül +2 more
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Urbanization and water management [PDF]
, 1978 On May 4th 1977, a symposium was held at Lunteren, Netherlands, that had been jointly organized by TNO's Committee for Hydrological Research, the Netherlands Association of Water Boards and the Netherlands Institute for Directors and Engineers of ...
Schultz, E. +6 more
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Beyond the Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and Development [PDF]
, 2009 WP 2009-18 April 2009By many estimates, the world has just crossed the point where more than half the world’s population is urban, a trend driven by rapid urbanization in developing countries. Urban centers offer economies of scale in terms of productive
Jo Beall +5 more
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Composition‐Tunable Lignocellulosic Aerogels From Eucalyptus spp. Bark for Oil and Cu2+ Adsorption
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.Composition‐tunable lignocellulosic aerogels are produced from Eucalyptus spp. bark by combining cellulose, lignin, and microfibrillated cellulose without post‐synthetic functionalization. The resulting porous architectures show contaminant‐dependent performance: CEL favors cooking‐oil uptake, CEL‐M favors pump‐oil uptake, and CEL‐L‐M provides the ...
Patricia Oliveira Schmitt +15 more
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Forgotten chapter in early 20th-century European planning history, offering a fresh perspective on urbanism, grounded in a theory of urbanization The Art of Urbanization reexamines a forgotten tradition in Belgian and European planning history ...
Broes, Tom
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality have declined dramatically during the last century. Historical data are therefore important sources to study the evolutionary selection pressures related to childbirth and how they have fluctuated over time.
Mirella Woodert +7 more
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