Digital rural construction under the background of rural revitalization

Rural Research Report: LeClaire, Iowa: What Revitalization Can Accomplish

The past few decades have seen many downtowns across the U.S., especially in small rural cities, experience declines. Adding to the problem, globalization has changed the Midwest forever with offshore competition for routine jobs. Traditional small family farms are vanishing, steel mills have closed, and many factories have shrunk or moved overseas. The Midwest, which was once a symbol of stabi...

Bridging the Rural Digital Divide

Design and construction of fruit solar drier for rural settlements

This research focuses on the need for preserving fruits in rural areas to prevent waste. The solar drier is made of vital chambers i.e. the concentrator chamber (that harvests the solar irradiance), the transport pipe (that transports the heat generated by convection) and hanger chamber (where the fruits are placed). The temperature within the concentrator chamber and hanger chamber was monitor...

Determinants of rural practice: positive interaction between rural background and rural undergraduate training.

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of rural background and years of rural clinical school training on subsequent rural clinical practice. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Retrospective cohort study of University of Queensland (UQ) medical graduates who graduated during the period 2002-2011 (contacted via internet, telephone and mail, using information obtained from UQ, the Australian Health Prac...

Study on Rural Landscape Design Method under the Background of the Population Diversification

Population diversification phenomena becomes quite common in villages located in China’s developed coastal area. Based on the analysis of the traditional rural society and its landscape characteristics, and in consideration of diversified landscape requirements due to the population diversification, with dual ideas of heritage and innovation, methods for rural landscape design were explored by ...