BACKGROUND High prevalence of risky sexual behaviors and lack of information, skills and preventive support mean that, adolescents face high risks of HIV/AIDS. This study applied the information-motivation-behavioral skills (IMB) model to examine the predictors of consistent condom use among senior high school students from three coastal cities in China and clarify the relationships between the...

People with independent (vs. interdependent) social orientation place greater priority on personal success, autonomy, and novel experiences over maintaining ties to their communities of origin. Accordingly, an independent orientation should be linked to a motivational proclivity to move to places that offer economic opportunities, freedom, and diversity. Such places are cities that can be calle...

Flooding damage is increasing due to abnormal climates. In particular, in the case of coastal cities, it necessary simultaneously consider inundation caused by marine disasters such as storm surge and tsunami well urbanization. order respond flood prediction must be preceded. Korea, intensity has been classified frequency, hazard maps have produced accordingly. The map generally derived through...

From ancient times, the sea has played a key role in shaping and generating settlements cities. The history of civilizations been marked by cultural development human societies along coastlines. Accordingly, these territories are harbor an important coastal heritage; that plays pivotal maintaining link between past future. In fact, while cities grow their populations increase, planning becomes ...

one of the fundamental notions of realization of sustainable city within the framework of the theory of sustainable development is what affects the urban green spaces as well as the influence they may have. as the upshot of years’ worth of experiences in the ideology of iranian urban design, iranian garden is of magnificently high position which possesses the potentials to act as the green spac...

Coastal land can be lost at rapid rates due to relative sea-level rise (RSLR) resulting from local subsidence. However, the comparative severity of subsidence is unknown high spatial variabilities and difficulties reconciling observations across localities. Here we provide self-consistent, resolution (RLLS) velocities derived Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for 48 largest coastal citie...