A Prospective Analysis of Vitamin D Levels in Pregnant Women Diagnosed with Gestational Hypertension after SARS-CoV-2 Infection by George Dahma, Marius Craina, Catalin Dumitru, Radu Neamtu, Zoran Laurentiu Popa, Adrian Gluhovschi, Cosmin Citu, Felix Bratosin, Vlad Bloanca, Satish Alambaram, Anthony Willie, Shiva Charana Kodimala, Rodica Anamaria Negrean, Elena Bernad

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NEED FOR IMMEDIATE SWALLOWING SCREENING IN POST STROKE PATIENTS by Faiza Badar

“…This situation is not unique to Islamabad; same situation is prevalent in all cities of Pakistan and other developing countries. …”
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日常環境風險因應的經驗學習歷程：以北部都會區東南亞籍新移民女性為例 The Experiential Learning Process of Coping with Daily Environmental Risk: A Case Study of Southeast Asian Female Immigrants in Northern Taiwan... by 高佩瑤 Pai-Yeow Kaw, 王順美 Shun-Mei Wang

“…Using qualitative methods, we conducted in-depth interviews with six female Southeast Asian immigrants who live in two cities in northern Taiwan. We found that their learning patterns developed along three learning paths, which were influenced by the nature of environmental issues and differences in the objects of concern: non-learning, non-reflective action learning and reflective hybrid learning. …”
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TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN SOYBEAN PRODUCTION AND ITS IMPACT ON LABOR IN THE SOUTH OF GOIÁS STATE, BRAZIL DESENVOLVIMENTO TECNOLÓGICO NA PRODUÇÃO DE SOJA E SEU IMPACTO SOBRE O TR... by Caroline Sales Arruda, Sônia Milagres Teixeira

“…The study reveals that the municipalities with higher indexes of technology use are Rio Verde, Jataí, Catalão, Morrinhos, and Piracanjuba, due to an increasing process of migration from rural properties to cities, decreasing of workplaces on farming and loss of life quality to farmers and their families.…”
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Quantitative Analysis of Slope Instability in Under-Construction Highway of Tehran-North (Tehran-Soleghan) by the Use of Logistic Regression by shahram roostaei, Davod Mokhtari, Christineh Jananeh

“…Each year, slope instabilities cause enormous economic damages to highway, railways, power transmission and communication lines, irrigation and watering canals, ore extraction, as well as oil and gas refining installations, infrastructures in cities, factories and industrial centers, dams, artificial and natural lakes, forests, pastures and natural resources, farms, residential areas and villages or threaten them. …”
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Effects of Agro Tourism on Rural Entrepreneurship Development with a Focus on Sustainable Development : A Case Study: (Significant Villages of Yazd Province) by Majid Fotoohi, Gholamhossein Hosseini nia, Seyed Mojtaba Sajjadi

“…Agri tourism as a subset of rural tourism is a strategy for rural development and reduces the problems of rural communities such as unemployment, low agricultural productivity, migration. Increasingly, cities and suburbs, especially in arid and semi-desert areas such as villages in Yazd province The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting the development of rural entrepreneurship affected by agricultural tourism in the index villages and the purpose of tourism in Yazd province Which can be a factor for sustainable development of agriculture and rural areas. …”
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Leveraging Multimedia Patient Engagement to Address Minority Cerebrovascular Health Needs: Prospective Observational Study by Elizabeth Anne Noser, Jing Zhang, Mohammad Hossein Rahbar, Anjail Zarinah Sharrief, Andrew David Barreto, Sandi Shaw, James Charles Grotta, Sean Isaac Savitz, Nneka Lotea Ifejika

“…This protocol can be replicated in Southern US Stroke Belt cities with similar flood risks.…”
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Satellite Remote Sensing of Water Quality Variation in a Semi-Enclosed Bay (Yueqing Bay) under Strong Anthropogenic Impact by Bozhong Zhu, Yan Bai, Zhao Zhang, Xianqiang He, Zhihong Wang, Shugang Zhang, Qian Dai

“…After 2015, the various ecological remediation policies adopted by cities around Yueqing Bay have mitigated, to some extent, the increasing nutrient concentration trends (the variation rates: <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mi>a</mi><mrow><mi>D</mi><mi>I</mi><mi>N</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mo> </mo><msub><mi>a</mi><mrow><mi>P</mi><msub><mi>O</mi><mn>4</mn></msub><mo>−</mo><mi>P</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mn>0</mn></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>), but not significantly (<i>P</i> > 0.1). …”
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A National Health and Wellness SMS Text Message Program for Breast Cancer Survivors During COVID-19 (EMPOWER-SMS COVID-19): Mixed Methods Evaluation Using the RE-AIM Framework by Anna C Singleton, Rebecca Raeside, Karice K Hyun, Molly Hayes, Kerry A Sherman, Elisabeth Elder, Julie Redfern, Stephanie R Partridge

“…Most resided in major cities (574/838, 68.5%) and 30% (251/838) in IRSAD quintile 1 or 2. …”
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CELF2 Sustains a Proliferating/OLIG2+ Glioblastoma Cell Phenotype via the Epigenetic Repression of SOX3 by Laurent Turchi, Nathalie Sakakini, Gaelle Saviane, Béatrice Polo, Mirca Saras Saurty-Seerunghen, Mathieu Gabut, Corine Auge Gouillou, Vincent Guerlais, Claude Pasquier, Marie Luce Vignais, Fabien Almairac, Hervé Chneiweiss, Marie-Pierre Junier, Fanny Burel-Vandenbos, Thierry Virolle

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The role of prison in limiting the spatial development of Even neighborhood in Tehran by Mousa Kamanroudi Kojouri, Taher parizadi, Soraya Bagheri Palmi

“…The creation or development of this land use is prohibited within the inner limits of cities (Ziari, 2002: 177).        The Evin Prison, located in the Evin neighborhood in Tehran's District 1, has many positive and negative effects on its adjacent spaces. …”
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Modern Challenges to Effective Functioning of Local Self-Government (On the Example of Saint Petersburg) by V. A. Semenov, V. V. Ereshkin

“…Petersburg is a characteristic feature of federal cities, with their elites constantly fighting for the maximum concentration of power in their hands. …”
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Evaluating and measuring the extracted data of buildings with using lidar by Firouz Jafari, Fatemeh Movahed

“…The error of each building was first examined in general and then in detail, and it was found that aerial Lidar technology has an extraordinary ability to collect very right and dense samples of altitude measurements of cities and a new level of detail information can be Accurately extracted building density automatically and efficiently from aerial Lidar data. …”
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Valuation and scenario multi criteria analysis of transportation alternative strategies to mitigate the local sprawl by Mariangela Musolino, Domenico Enrico Massimo, Pierfrancesco De Paola, Antonio Pietro Paolo Massimo, Alessandro Malerba, Roberta Errigo, Karen R. Polenske

“…In fact it hides enormous private costs and implicit (and not immediately monetary) social suffering, due to: car commuting (un-pooled) of people; their monetizable travel times, enormous due to congestion; air pollution; accident risks; congestion in cities; high private personal costs of using the individual vehicle (car wear; fuel); parking cost and fine risk; etc.…”
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Luxury goods and services: a comparative analysis between the markets of England and Poland by A.M. Kasztalska

“…Small businesses, often located on the outskirts of the cities involved in such products like sweaters made from wool, have no need to create sublime goals, and the more the mission of the company. …”
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Desposesión, gentrificación y capitalismo de plataforma: el caso de Divino Pastor nº9 by Álvaro Ardura Urquiaga, Eva García Pérez, Andrés Rodríguez Muñoz

“…Starting from the same point, this case gives us the opportunity to link (1) disputes over urban space in the heart of cities with dispossession, in the framework of urban neoliberal policies, and (2) advanced processes of gentrification that worsen the problem of access to housing, with phenomena of touristification and gourmetization, more characteristic of the fifth wave, and which in turn (3) are being strongly transformed by the pressure of certain forms of what is known as platform capitalism; new forms of economy and precarious urban work, whose spatial effects collide with the lack of urban regulation tools. …”
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Morfometri Dan Pertumbuhan Scylla serrata (Filum: Arthropoda, Famili: Portunidae) Di Desa Panikel, Segara Anakan, Cilacap by Widianingsih Widianingsih, Ria Azizah Tri Nuraini, Retno Hartati, Sri Redjeki, Ita Riniatsih, Cantika Elistyowati Andanar, Hadi Endrawati, Robertus Triaji Mahendrajaya

“…Penikel Village, Cilacap is one of the fishing villages which catch mud crabs because of the high demand in the big cities such as Jakarta, Bandung and Bali.  The purpose of this study is  to determine the population and growth patterns of mud crabs in the Panikel Village, Kampung Laut District, Cilacap. …”
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Prevalence and Influencing Factors of Comprehensive Disability in Empty and Non-empty Nesters by Jiaojiao CHENG, Beibei LIU, Yun SU, Yangyang ZHANG, Shuhan WANG, Han ZHANG, Zongshang OUYANG, Qingfeng TIAN

“…Methods By use of multistage stratified sampling, 5 570 older people aged ≥60 years were selected from Henan&apos;s 18 provincial cities from January to September 2019 for a questionnaire survey. …”
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Spatial Downscaling and Gap-Filling of SMAP Soil Moisture to High Resolution Using MODIS Surface Variables and Machine Learning Approaches over ShanDian River Basin, China by Adeel Ahmad Nadeem, Yuanyuan Zha, Liangsheng Shi, Shoaib Ali, Xi Wang, Zeeshan Zafar, Zeeshan Afzal, Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq

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Breast Cancer Prevention and Treatment Behaviors in Community-living Women: Latent Class Analysis and Influencing Factors by Jiahui MA, Guolian LIU, Lianhua ZHENG, Yaru BAI, Juanjuan MAI, Wenlian YAO

“…Methods A total of 1 355 community-living women were selected from in 15 towns/subdistricts of 5 counties/districts in Yinchuan and Zhongwei cities of Ningxia, China by use of convenience sampling method from November 2019 to August 2020. …”
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