Yoichi Ezura, Hironori Iwasaki, Ryota Ishida, Masataka Shiraki, Satoshi Inoue, Takayuki Hosoi, Hideyo Yoshida, Takao Suzuki, Hajime Orimo and Mitsuru Emi Department of Molecular Biology, Institute of Gerontology, Nippon Medical School Research Institute and Practice for Involutional Diseases Department of Geriatric Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo Department of Internal Medici...

Citation: López-Bravo C, Caetano E and Magaña V (2018) Forecasting Summertime Surface Temperature and Precipitation in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area: Sensitivity of the WRF Model to Land Cover Changes. Front. Earth Sci. 6:6. doi: 10.3389/feart.2018.00006 Forecasting Summertime Surface Temperature and Precipitation in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area: Sensitivity of the WRF Model to Land Co...

Materials and methods This was an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study. A total of 222 subjects (129 women, 93 men) were recruited from the University Hospital located in a Brazilian metropolitan area (approximately 1.067,214 inhabitants). Random stratification was performed considering gender and geographic regions (downtown, north, south, east, west and other metropolitan area...

The Internet offers cities new opportunities to communicate with their constituents at a time when metropolitan areas struggle with their community identity and cohesion. This study examined how official websites of the core cities in the 50 largest (by population) United States metropolitan areas represented their cities to the public as a whole, as well as how the cities communicated with the...

Social cognition or behaviors are, by definition, highly influenced by society and culture. Therefore, I dare to add “in Japan” in the title of my presentation. However, I believe that western societies and Japan share some values and principles hoping that the key points of my talk will be appreciated. In the first part, I will talk about moral emotions. Moral emotions (guilt, shame and embarr...

Few phenomena are more ubiquitous than traffic in urban scenes, and few are more significant economically, socially, or environmentally. Many virtual-reality applications and systems, including virtual globes and immersive multi-player worlds that are often set in a large-scale modern or futuristic setting, feature traffic systems. Virtual-reality models can also aid in addressing the challenge...

Urban soils in many cities have been found to be contaminated with lead from past usage of leaded petrol, deteriorating lead-based exterior paints and industrial sources. Currently, the spatial distribution of soil lead concentrations in the Melbourne metropolitan area is unknown. The objective of this study was to perform a preliminary assessment of the spatial distributions of the surface soi...

INTRODUCTION Most US studies on asthma prevalence have been conducted in urban areas, and few have assessed the prevalence of asthma among residents of rural areas versus urban areas. The objective of this study was to compare the prevalence of asthma among adults living in metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan counties in Montana. METHODS We analyzed data from 6,846 adult Montanans who complet...

Reported are the results of an unmatched case-control study to determine the risk factors associated with acquisition of cholera in Manila. Cases were patients admitted to the San Lazaro Hospital between July and September 1989 and whose stools yielded Vibrio cholerae 01 on culture. Controls were patients admitted to the same hospital and who had no history of diarrhoea or of having taken antib...

This paper uses MSA level data and a panel VAR model to analyze the dynamic determination and impact of the volatility of single-family home value appreciation. We find that the volatility can be magnified by an exogenous increase in the home appreciation rate, responds to changes in the population growth rate, and is serially correlated. Moreover, an exogenous increase in the volatility increa...