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From:Southwestern Naturalist (Vol. 59, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWe conducted a mark-recapture study on snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina) at the headwaters of the San Marcos River, Hays County, Texas. The site is within a highly modified urban environment partially surrounded by...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedSummary. This paper examines the role of urban scale, density and land-use mix on the incidence of road pedestrian casualties. It develops a spatial model at a disaggregate level that attempts to understand how the...
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From:Canadian Journal of Urban Research (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBryson, Lois and Ian Winter. Social Change, Suburban Lives: an Australian Newtown 1960s to 1990s. St Leonards NSW, Australia: Allen and Unwin Pty Ltd. in association with Australian Institute of Family Studies, 1999....
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From:The Ecologist (Vol. 24, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedResidents of Vesterbro, an inner-city district of Copenhagen, recently proposed several schemes to revitalize their neighbourhood by dividing it into urban villages and introducing projects to treat their own sewage,...
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From:Economic Development Quarterly (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCities vary significantly in their ability to benefit from trade, emphasizing the need for trade policies individually suited for specific needs. Through variance assessment, officials can discover their city's unique...
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From:COACTIVITY: Philosophy, Communication (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBy analyzing the mechanism of urban rituals, the paper refers to a concept of the city as a dynamic field of everyday practices as well as to a concept of "urban choreography", which actualizes the interconnection...
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From:Town Planning Review (Vol. 85, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 12th International Congress of APSA (the Asian Planning Schools Association), celebrating the Association's 20th anniversary, was held at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, from 1st to 3rd November 2013. The...
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From:Advances in Meteorology (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedIn July 2008, five people were killed by a tragic flash flood caused by a local torrential heavy rainfall in a short time in Toga River. From this tragic accident, we realized that a system which can detect hazardous...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 35, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIn this paper we analyse the allocation of criminal activity over the metropolitan area over time. At each period of time, the criminal must choose in which area to commit his/her next offence. The criminal's...
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From:Advances in Environmental BiologyPeer-ReviewedBackground: Musalla. Objective: Musalla and the Spatial Principles and Religious Laws Governing Its Designing. Results: The whole world is a temple for worshiping the God. Conclusion: Generally we can conclude that the...
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From:Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (Vol. 60, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT In many metropolitan areas, traffic is the main source of air pollution. The high concentrations of pollutants in streets have the potential to affect human health. Therefore, estimation of air pollution at...
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From:Canadian Public Administration (Vol. 54, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article is about building metropolitan governance capacity. Based on the case study of the Communaute metropolitaine de Montreal (the Montreal Metropolitan Community), the authors seek to understand how this new...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 6) Peer-ReviewedThe present research investigated the response of silver maple (Acer saccharinum L.) to salt treatment. The short- and long-term effects of NaCl and CaCl.sub.2 treatments on plant fitness characteristics (growth...
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From:Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT Receptor models are used to identify and quantify source contributions to particulate matter and volatile organic compounds based on measurements of many chemical components at receptor sites. These...
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From:Monthly Labor Review (Vol. 130, Issue 12) Peer-ReviewedAmong the vital inputs to the BLS labor market projections published in our last issue are data derived from the BLS Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program. Data for the Nation, States and metropolitan areas...
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From:Social Science Quarterly (Vol. 80, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedObjective. The purpose of this study is to determine which factors affect family income inequality in metropolitan counties in the United States. Unlike most previous studies, this study considers the possibility that...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 13, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedEvaluating the impact of urban development on natural ecosystem processes has become an increasingly complex task for planners, environmental scientists, and engineers. As the built environment continues to grow,...
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From:International Advances in Economic Research (Vol. 16, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Many empirical studies try to test whether there is income convergence across metropolitan areas in the continental United States. Drennan et al. (Journal of Economic Geography 4(5), 2004) claim that income...
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From:Nature (Vol. 467, Issue 7318) Peer-ReviewedAfter spending tens of thousands of years living mostly in small settlements, humans have entered an urban stage of evolution. As of 2008, more than half the worlds people live in cities, and the urban population is...
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From:Social Forces (Vol. 79, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAbstract To understand the impacts of large-scale immigration on neighborhood contexts, we employ locational-attainment models, in which two characteristics of a neighborhood, its average household income and the...