The Influence of Sichuan–Tibet Railway on the Accessibility and Economic Development of City Propers along the Line: Taking Chengdu and Ya’an as Examples by Yang Yu, Wang Wei, and Wang Jue

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Caries Prevalence in 12-year-old Children from Plovdiv - a Multifactorial Regression Analysis by Michael P. Onov, Ani B. Beltcheva

“… Results: Statistical analysis showed the DMFT scores as follows - 1.568 for city proper, 2.917 for surrounding villages. The caries-free children were 38.4% and 17.5% for group 1 and group 2, respectively. …”
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The characteristics of spatial expansion and driving forces of land urbanization in counties in central China: A case study of Feixi county in Hefei city. by Huafu Jiao, Xiangxiang Zhang, Chao Yang, Xianzhong Cao

“…Land urbanization rate is sensitive to both geographical distance and traffic accessibility to Hefei city proper. Driving forces of land urbanization in Feixi county are summarized as: (1) central city expansion, (2) government-led industrial park construction, and (3) large industrial projects along traffic corridors. …”
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EVACUATION ROUTING ASSESSMENT DURING EARTHQUAKE OCCURRENCE IN BUTUAN CITY USING GIS TECHNIQUES by A. G. Cauba Jr., S. N. Ignacio

“…Majority of the road networks especially in the city proper exhibit medium vulnerability in terms of earthquake occurrences. …”
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Genetic relatedness among Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates in southeastern Michigan by Anita Shallal, Robert Tibbets, Katherine Gurdziel, Dora Vager, Marcus Zervos, Geehan Suleyman

“…Most isolates were from males (63%), Blacks (44.7%), individuals living in Detroit City proper (47.3%), and those with unknown HIV status (55.2%). …”
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À l’échelle de Chypre : “Européens indigènes” et réformes ottomanes au xixe siècle by Marc Aymes

“…Here is a borough (rather than a city proper) whose evolution in the 19th century bears the marks of a consular extraterritoriality, a non-Muslim “elsewhere” that has let behind urban imprints. …”
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“Minutes Away, Worlds Apart”: The Changing Imagination of the Boston Harbor Islands by Pavla Šimková

“…The islands have served as sources of wood and building stone, common pastures, sites of harbor defenses and lighthouses, and as ‘dumping grounds’ for materials, businesses, and institutions undesirable in the city proper. In the middle third of the twentieth century, however, Bostonians imagined their city’s harbor islands in a new way: one that has obscured most of their long human history and has cast them in the role of a natural landscape fundamentally different from the city. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF EMISSIONS FROM MOVING VEHICLES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY OF TOWNSPEOPLE by Kovrigin Artur Arnol'dovich, Marshalkovich Aleksandr Sigizmundovich

“…It was found out that the improvement of the environmental situation requires optimization of the planning structure of a city, proper organization of freight traffic due to construction of relief roads for and appropriate road junctions at intersections of streets and highways, and other measures.…”
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Effects of Polycentricity on Economic Performance and Its Dependence on City Size: The Case of China by Bindong Sun, Tinglin Zhang, Wan Li, Yan Song

“…To this end, we use the city proper level Chinese Economic Census (2004, 2008, and 2013) and apply a fixed-effects panel model, the results of which show that the dependence of the urban economy on spatial structure is contingent on city size. …”
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Low Cost Moringa Seeds and Terminalia Kernels Water Purifier: A Water Management Technology by Annabelle F. Mortera

“…Ground water samples from three local communities in Zamboanga City, namely, Talisayan in the west cost, Bungiao in the east cost and San Roque in the city proper were gathered conforming to the standard procedures of the Department of Science and Technology (DOST). …”
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Utilization of health care services in Varanasi District, India – A geographical analysis by Praveen Kumar Rai, Mahendra Singh Nathawat

“…Primary data pertaining to the utilization of health care facilities were collected from 800 respondents of 16 selected villages of rural Varanasi and analyzed with the SPSS statistical software. Varanasi City proper was not considered for this purpose because the presence and functioning of many private and government hospitals here meant that people were able to avail themselves of a fairly good range of healthcare facilities in comparison to people residing in the rural areas. …”
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Changes in the epidemiological characteristics of prehospital emergency services before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, Chengdu, 2016–2021 by Bihua Zhang, Wenchao Kang, Shiqiang Xiong, Xia Huang, Pei Chen, Jinmin Huang, Yufei Hou, Lin Ma, Tao Xiang

“…We collected pre-hospital emergency data in Chengdu from January 2016 to December 2021, and studied the demand for emergency medical services (EMSs), emergency response times (ERTs), and the disease spectrum in the city proper of Chengdu as a whole. A total of 1,122,294 prehospital emergency medical service (EMS) instances met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Pottery Import from Central Ciscaucasia at Tanais in the Middle of the 3rd Century Ad (Based on Mineralogical and Petrographic Studies) by Yuriy K. Guguev, Vladimir Yu. Malashev, Viktor G. Rylov

“…Standard series I contains pottery fragments from the same structures of Tanais manufactured in Maeotian technique either in the city proper or in its vicinity while standard series II embraced pottery fragments recovered from the early Alanian settlements of Brut and Zilgi in Northern Ossetia. …”
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Urban Fire Dynamics and Its Association with Urban Growth: Evidence from Nanjing, China by Xiaoxiang Zhang, Jing Yao, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka, Yuhao Jin

“…The results suggest that the fire events have been largely concentrated in the city proper and meanwhile expanding towards the suburbs, which has a similar temporal trend to the growth of population and urban land at the city level particularly since 2008. …”
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Spatial Pattern and Spillover Effects of the Urban Land Green Use Efficiency for the Lanzhou-Xining Urban Agglomeration of the Yellow River Basin by Yufan Sun, Zhuo Jia, Qi Chen, Heya Na

“…The ULGUE of provincial capital cities was higher than non, along with the efficiency of city proper, compared to other counties. Many factors were found to positively influence the ULGUE of the whole study region. …”
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DETECTION AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF LAND-USE: A CASE OF BUTUAN CITY WITH HISTORY OF MAJOR INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS by L. C. S. Asube, L. C. S. Asube, J. M. Daquiado, B. J. P. Lavapiz

“…This study detects the significant informal settlements in Butuan City proper. It determines the growth rate in 15 years with the given five-year interval. …”
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A Decade Review on Smart Cities: Paradigms, Challenges and Opportunities by Tarana Singh, Arun Solanki, Sanjay Kumar Sharma, Anand Nayyar, Anand Paul

“…To work with the different subdomains in a smart city, proper guidance about the background of the smart city is required. …”
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Urban Expansion and Its Impact on the Land Use Pattern in Xishuangbanna since the Reform and Opening up of China by Hui Cao, Jian Liu, Chao Fu, Wanfeng Zhang, Guizhou Wang, Guang Yang, Lei Luo

“…The results showed that urban and rubber expanded rapidly, while forest decreased during the last 40 years. The city proper, the county town of Menghai and the county town of Mengla showed the most significant and fastest urban expansion rates. …”
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Quantitative Analysis of Spatial–Temporal Differentiation of Rural Settlements Extinction in Mountainous Areas Based on Reclamation Projects: A Case Study of Chongqing, China by Guanglian Luo, Bin Wang, Bin Li, Ruiwei Li, Dongqi Luo

“…The high-high agglomeration area was mainly concentrated in the city cluster of the Three Gorges reservoir area in northeast Chongqing, and the low-low agglomeration area was mainly distributed in the city proper of Chongqing. The extinction of rural settlements reclamation is affected by regional nature, economy and society, but the land policy is the main driving force. …”
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A MULTI-SCALAR PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECORDING APPROACH IN TERMEZ (UZBEKISTAN) by J. Angás, P. Uribe, E. Ariño, J. M. Gurt, V. Martínez-Ferreras, S. Pidaev

“…The archaeological work performed at the site since the beginning of the 20^th century allowed a large fortified urban complex to be identified that includes other walled enclosures inside it, i.e., a Hellenistic- Seleucid fortress founded after the campaigns of Alexander the Great in the late 4^th century BC, several Buddhist monastic complexes dated to the Kushan period (1^st to mid-3^rd centuries), and a large urban settlement dated to the Islamic period which includes the city proper or <i>shahristan</i> and the suburbs or <i>rabad</i>. …”
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