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Beyond the Tipping Point: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Urbanization and Development [PDF]
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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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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The last century was marked by the proliferation of modernism and many of its varieties have left lasting marks on architecture as well as contemporary cities, however, this legacy and its present forms produce ambiguous affects on architectural practices as well as on city-building.
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URBANIZATION, PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS, AND MINOR MENTAL ILLNESS IN TAIWAN
Genetic and other biological factors play a relatively minor role compared with psychosocial influences in the causation of minor mental disorders. Urbanization is one of the psychosocial factors attracted much studies but its relationship with minor ...
鄭泰安;宋維村;張明永;林宗義 +1 more
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Evaluating Bergmann's and Allen's rules in the long bones of the eastern gray squirrel
Abstract Ecogeographical rules predict variation in body size and appendage proportions across climatic gradients, yet intraspecific tests using long bones from wild populations remain limited among small mammals. This study tests the hypothesis that eastern gray squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis) conform to Bergmann's rule, that is, body size increases ...
Tyler Blake, Habiba Chirchir
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The relationship between urbanization and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis ...
GOVONI, Vittorio +3 more
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Trends and Current Situation of China's Meat Sector
ABSTRACT As the world's largest meat producer, consumer, and importer, China's meat sector has undergone profound transformation over the past decade, driven by biological crises (e.g., African Swine Fever), environmental policies, and global market integration. This study analyzes the sector's production restructuring, consumption diversification, and
Zengyong Zhu
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Heat Stress in Quail: Impacts on Health and Productivity, and Mitigation Strategies
Heat stress disrupts physiological homeostasis in quail, inducing oxidative stress, immune dysregulation, and metabolic imbalance, which impair growth, reproduction, product quality, and welfare. Integrating nutritional, environmental, and genetic–epigenetic strategies enhances thermotolerance, sustains productivity, and supports climate‐smart quail ...
T. A. Eletu +6 more
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SDDT-SR: A Scale-Decoupling Super-Resolution Network With Domain Transfer for Heterogeneous Images
Super-resolution image reconstruction (SRR) is an important task in remote sensing image (RSI) processing, which can serve the application fields, such as natural resources exploration and agricultural monitoring.
Simin Lin +5 more
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Integrated phenotypic, histological, transcriptomic, and validation analyses reveal that emaciation syndrome in Plectropomus leopardus is associated with intestinal structural damage, hepatic metabolic remodeling, and muscle protein degradation, highlighting coordinated multi‐tissue alterations underlying disease progression.
Zhihao Zhang +11 more
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