The relation between the household electrical consumption Y and population N for Chinese cities in 2006 has been investigated with the power law scaling form Y = A0N β . It is found that the Chinese cities should be divided into three categories characterized by different scaling exponent β. The first category, which includes the biggest and coastal cities of China, has the scaling exponent β >...

Resource productivity and evidence of economic decoupling were investigated on the basis of the time series in 1996-2011 of material flow analysis for Sweden, Stockholm, and Gothenburg. In the three cases, absolute reductions in CO2 emissions by about 20% were observed, energy consumption per capita decreased, while gross domestic product (GDP) per capita grew. The energy consumption of the res...

Purpose: To investigate doctors’ perception and expectations of the role of pharmacists in Pakistan’s healthcare system. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study and the study population consisted of 462 medical doctors from three Pakistani cities in Punjab State, namely, Islamabad, Faisalabad and Lahore. The doctors were selected from government hospitals in these three cities. Results: Three...

We study strategies for targeted layered containment of an influenza pandemic in three US cities: Miami, Seattle, and Chicago. Differences in demographic, geographic, and other structures lead to differences in the social interaction networks in the three cities. This has consequences for how the containment strategies should be applied to mitigate the spread. We use large-scale simulations to ...

Abstract In urban systems, there is an interdependency between neighborhood roles and transportation patterns neighborhoods. this paper, we classify docking stations in bicycle-sharing networks to gain insight into the human mobility of three major cities United States. We propose novel time-dependent stochastic block models, with degree-heterogeneous blocks either mixed or discrete membership,...

one priority of planning at the regional level is to recognize the system of residence and particularly its urban system. one of the features of urban system in each area or country is the way of population distribution between the cities of these areas which is called city distribution size. in functional analysis of mazandaran province 41 development indexes of educational, cultural, social, ...

Association of LoopDiuretic UseWithHigher Parathyroid Hormone Levels in Patients With Normal Renal Function Elevations in parathyroid hormone (PTH) level have been associatedwith adverse clinical outcomes, including cardiovascular disease andmortality.1,2 Loopdiuretics havebeen linked to increased PTH levels in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD),3,4 but this association has not been inv...