Between sprawling urban spheres and a return to the rural, between technological advancements historical preservation, built environments become productive sphere explore imaginations of shared future on changing planet. At same time, contemporary architectural writing appears increasingly extend further than considering environmental care – particularly in relation spaces places frequently cri...

BACKGROUND Admissions for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions (ACSCs) are considered preventable admissions, because they are unlikely to occur when good preventive health care is received. Thus, high rates of admissions for ACSCs among the elderly (persons aged 65 or above who qualify for Medicare health insurance) are signals of poor preventive care utilization. The relevant geographic marke...

Understanding urban expansion at the watershed scale is important because watersheds are carriers of ecological and environmental impacts. However, current analyses mainly restricted to administrative units only. Here, we used a long-term multitemporal data set land quantify spatiotemporal trends in extent form from 1992 2016 endorheic exoreic watersheds, globally. Overall, 70% (154/220) showed...

Introduction The accurate definition of urban sprawl may be debated but a general consensus is that urban sprawl is characterized by an unplanned and uneven pattern of growth, driven by multitude of processes and leading to inefficient resource utilization. Urban sprawl has become a pejorative term without any serious examination of its qualities or benefits and without any critical analysis of...

There is a clear need to perform epidemiological studies to find the true prevalence of Entamoeba histolytica around the world. The evaluation of this prevalence has been hindered by the existence of two different species which are morphologically identical, but genetically different, namely E. histolytica, which causes amebiasis, and E. dispar, which is non-pathogenic. In Brazil, the E. dispar...

INTRODUCTION & MOTIVATION Typical online map services, such as Google Maps, Tom Tom and others, were designed to deliver the most time, distance and fuel efficient route from point A to point B to car drivers. They have been extended to provide route description to pedestrians and cyclists using a similar algorithmic approach. These circumstances constitute a problem when it comes to the walkin...

Efforts to cope with the legacy of our industrial cities--blight, poverty, environmental degradation, ailing communities--have galvanized action across the public and private sectors to move vacant industrial land, also referred to as brownfields, to productive use; to curb sprawling development outside urban areas; and to reinvigorate urban communities. Such efforts, however, may be proceeding...

As a proxy for human activity, per capita urban land has great significance planning. We still lack comprehensive understanding of from the perspective urban–rural gradients. Thus, based on concentric buffering method and dynamic-time-warp clustering method, this research analyzes gradient 345 cities in China 2000, 2010, 2016. find that grew 110.2 m2/person 2000 to 118.9 m2/person, increasing b...