integrated urban management means adopting a holistic approach to urban management and designing appropriate mechanisms for this approach’s requirements in practice. the integration of the urban activities brings together organizational , structural and institutional activities and action in which the urban development is supported. in order to achieve integration, it is essential to identify f...

non-communicable diseases (ncds) exist in slums as the inhabitants adopt an urbanized lifestyle which places them at a higher risk for. lack of knowledge about the morbidity, complications and the method of control contributes to a large percentage of undetected and untreated cases.this cross-sectional survey polled 2,434 respondents from ijora oloye, ajegunle and makoko, three urban slums in l...

the purpose of this research was to study the role of non-governmental organization inpreserving of urban green areas in the city of tehran. this is a descriptive-correlationresearch method. population of this study was 120 active members of two non-governmentalorganizations in tehran. after distributing the questionnaires, 62 questionnaires werereturned. content and face validity of the instru...

Land use planning is always officially implemented as an effective tool to control urban development and protect farmland. However, its impact on land use change remains untested in China. Using a case study of Hang-Jia-Hu region, the main objective of this paper was to investigate the influence of different land use spatial control schemes on farmland conversion and urban development. Comparis...

Due to the inherent discrete nature of sensing, interpolation is a key activity in sensing. Interpolation in urban computing faces an unprecedented inference issue that was not present in large scale traditional sensing environments. Obstacles such as buildings and walls are prevalent in urban sensing, and it is important to consider them in urban sensing interpolation. This paper introduces an...

In order to properly evaluate physical health status of adults in Weifang city, shape, physique, physical function and physical quality indicators of adults and the differences between urban people and rural people were probed by means of random sampling, measurement and comparative analysis. The results show that: urban non-manual adults were higher and heavier than urban manual ones and rural...

conventional sand filtration which has become a common wastewater treatment technology to satisfy regulations appointed for effluent reuse, suffers from the disadvantage of high energy for backwashing. the subject of this study is application of downflow floating media prior to coarse sand filtration, which requires less water for backwash. two pilots have been employed in two stages. for the f...

BACKGROUND Urban migration is associated with an increased risk of hypertension, obesity and diabetes in Indian migrants. This study assessed the relationship between internal migration and renal function in the Hyderabad arm of the Indian Migration Study. METHODS We assessed 841 subjects; urban non-migrants (n = 158), urban migrants (n = 424) and rural non-migrants (n = 259). Muscle mass was...