OBJECTIVE To establish the relationship between the use of acetaminophen and the frequency of asthma in Mexican children in 3 Mexican cities. METHODS Ours was a multicenter, observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study. Patients from 6 to 7 years of age participating in Phase Three B of the ISAAC (International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Children) living in the north of Mexico City...

Crowd flow prediction is a fundamental urban computing problem. Recently, deep learning has been successfully applied to solve this problem, but it relies on rich historical data. In reality, many cities may suffer from data scarcity issue when their targeted service or infrastructure is new. To overcome this issue, this paper proposes a novel deep spatiotemporal transfer learning framework, ca...

With the rise of interest in urban sustainability, the question of nature is front and center. This review suggests bridging between three distinct research paths concerned with urban areas and nature: urban ecosystem services, urban metabolism and urban political ecology to forge new thinking to transition from the sanitary city of the twentieth century to the sustainable city of the twenty-fi...

LoRa technology is an increasingly popular option for applications that can exploit its low power and long range capabilities. While most efforts to date have studied its characteristics for smart city environments, we take LoRa outside the city limits, exploring how the environment affects its core communication properties. Specifically, we offer two novel parameter explorations to understand ...