This paper is Friends of the Earth's synthesis of literature regarding cities and the future of cities, carried out for the purpose of identifying key opportunities or interventions as part of our Big Ideas Change the World project. The literature search was conducted through a key world search of Web of Knowledge and Google Scholar, identifying publications by think-tanks, government, and othe...

The WHO European Healthy Cities project developed city health profiles (CHPs) to provide the evidence base for health planning. A CHP is a public health report that brings together key pieces of information on health and its determinants in the city and interprets and analyses the information. This CHP would then form the basis of a city health development plan that would set out strategies and...

Health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. In their paper "Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000," Gusmano et al suggest that Shanghai's health policy-makers have been successful in...

ing opened her discussion of the movement in other countries with the remark that she would begin with the United States, as so little was done there. Since then the number of cities having begun the practical experiment of furnishing lunches in elementary schools has grown from three to thirty. Moreover, the work is under consideration in about thirty other cities. Judging by the rate of expan...

The authors have measured relative humidity-dependent viscosity of toluene SOA after a series of publications on viscosity measurements of a-pinene and isoprene SOA. This group is currently one of the only groups that can achieve such challenging measurements by combining two different unique experimental methods of a bead-mobility technique and a poke-flow technique. Based on viscosity measure...

A specific and currently relevant issue motivating the notion of ruggedized software is the confluence of the threat of cyber attacks and our increased dependence on software systems in enterprise as well as tactical situations. Software services that are essential for mission success must not only withstand normal wear and tear, stresses and accidental failures, they also must endure the stres...

The progress of location-based services has led to serious concerns on location privacy leakage. For effective and efficient location privacy preservation (LPP), existing methods are still not fully competent. They are often vulnerable under the identification attack with side information, or hard to be implemented due to the high computational complexity. In this paper, we pursue the high prot...

The authors have measured relative humidity-dependent viscosity of toluene SOA after a series of publications on viscosity measurements of a-pinene and isoprene SOA. This group is currently one of the only groups that can achieve such challenging measurements by combining two different unique experimental methods of a bead-mobility technique and a poke-flow technique. Based on viscosity measure...