A group-based exercise and behavioural maintenance intervention for adults over 65 years with mobility limitations: the REACT RCT by Afroditi Stathi, Janet Withall, Colin J Greaves, Janice L Thompson, Gordon Taylor, Antonieta Medina-Lara, Colin Green, Tristan Snowsill, Heidi Johansen-Berg, James Bilzon, Selena Gray, Rosina Cross, Max J Western, Jolanthe L de Koning, Peter Ladlow, Jessica C Bollen, Sarah J Moorlock, Jack M Guralnik, W Jack Rejeski, Melvyn Hillsdon, Kenneth R Fox

“…Setting: Urban and semi-rural locations across three sites in England. Participants: Physically frail or pre-frail older adults (aged ≥ 65 years; Short Physical Performance Battery score of 4–9). …”
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Heavy Metal Pollution and Risk Assessment in Different Species of Fish from the Bohai Sea by Qilong LI, Bin XIA, Qi SUI, Keming QU, Lin ZHU, Yu LI

“…Furthermore, the Bohai Sea serves as one of China's traditional fishing grounds, acting as both a spawning area and foraging ground for various economically significant fishery species, thereby providing abundant seafood for urban and rural communities in the Bohai Sea region. Heavy metals are considered one of the principal pollutants in the marine environment of the Bohai Sea due to their high accumulation and resistance to degradation. …”
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Dietary Vitamin D3 Requirement of Juvenile Rockfish (Sebastes schlegelii) by Haiyue SUN, Jiying WANG, Baoshan LI, Chengqiang WANG, Caili LIU, Yubo SHEN, Yongzhi SUN, Bingshan HUANG, Shixin WANG

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Editorial by Josie Agatha Parrilha da Silva, Marcos Gervânio de Azevedo Melo, Anderson Pedro Laurindo, Elemar Kleber Favreto

“…Foi o primeiro livro de fotografia publicado na América Latina, possuindo registros fotográficos da escravidão, da vida rural e das paisagens do Rio de Janeiro. A comemoração do bicentenário de Jean-Victor Frond com o tema “Imagens no Brasil” serviu de inspiração para a reflexão sobre as imagens do Brasil de 2021. …”
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Investigating the factors influencing the implementation of participatory urban governance (NBN program) in District 2 of Tabriz metropolitan by forough andesta, shahrivar rostaei

“…This approach, called "neighbors building neighborhoods", can be one of the most serious steps in decentralizing centralized management and urban "top-down planning" and rural areas and movement towards decentralized participatory governance and "bottom-up planning."   …”
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Aktywność fizyczna u młodzieży ponadgimnazjalnej Zespołu Szkół Chemicznych w Bydgoszczy = Physical activity at school youth team Chemical Schools in Bydgoszcz by Agnieszka Pluta, Jolanta Jaczek–Kierzenkowska, Kamila Faleńczyk, Maria Budnik-Szymoniuk, Halina Basińska-Drozd, Wiesława Kujawa

“…Slightly higher levels of physical activity showed girls deficient weight and rural residents. The lowest level of physical activity presented overweight people.     …”
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Studies of the effectiveness of transport sector interventions in low‐ and middle‐income countries: An evidence and gap map by Suchi Kapoor Malhotra, Howard White, Nina Ashley O. Dela Cruz, Ashrita Saran, John Eyers, Denny John, Ella Beveridge, Nina Blöndal

“…As these figures show, there is a significant backlog of transport infrastructure investment in both rural and urban areas, especially in sub‐Saharan Africa. …”
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Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Association Between Classical Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Common Carotid Intima‐Media Thickness: An Individual Participant Data Meta‐Analys... by Engelbert A. Nonterah, Nigel J. Crowther, Kerstin Klipstein‐Grobusch, Abraham R. Oduro, Maryam Kavousi, Godfred Agongo, Todd J. Anderson, Gershim Asiki, Palwendé R. Boua, Solomon S. R. Choma, David J. Couper, Gunnar Engström, Jacqueline de Graaf, Jussi Kauhanen, Eva M. Lonn, Ellisiv B. Mathiesen, Lisa K. Micklesfield, Shuhei Okazaki, Joseph F. Polak, Tatjana Rundek, Jukka T. Salonen, Stephen M. Tollman, Tomi‐Pekka Tuomainen, Diederick E. Grobbee, Michéle Ramsay, Michiel L. Bots

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A homologous and molecular dual-targeted biomimetic nanocarrier for EGFR-related non-small cell lung cancer therapy by Bin Xu, Fanjun Zeng, Jialong Deng, Lintong Yao, Shengbo Liu, Hengliang Hou, Yucheng Huang, Hongyuan Zhu, Shaowei Wu, Qiaxuan Li, Weijie Zhan, Hongrui Qiu, Huili Wang, Yundong Li, Xianzhu Yang, Ziyang Cao, Yu Zhang, Haiyu Zhou

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Depression and anxiety in people with cognitive impairment and dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic: Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing by Brian Beach, Andrew Steptoe, Paola Zaninotto

“…All models adjusted for demographics (age, gender, ethnicity, and cohabiting partnership), socioeconomics (education, wealth, and employment status), geography (urban/rural and English region), and health (self-rated and the presence of multimorbidity). …”
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The COMBAT project: controlling and progressively minimizing the burden of vector-borne animal trypanosomosis in Africa [version 1; peer review: 3 approved] by Veerle Lejon, Alain Boulangé, Sophie Thévenon, David Berthier, Marc Desquesnes, Geoffrey Gimonneau, Prudenciène Agboho, Samuel Abah, Tsegaye Gebre, Kalinga Chilongo, Dramane Kaba, Assane Gueye Fall, Daniel Masiga, Stefan Magez, Aldjibert Moukhtar, Enock Matovu, Pamela A. Olet, Luis Neves, William Shereni, Soumaïla Pagabeleguem, Moeti O. Taioe, Brice Sorli, Rehab Yagi, María Teresa Tejedor Junco, Giuliano Cecchi, Philippe Solano

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Accuracy of serum IgE concentrations and papule diameter in the diagnosis of cow's milk allergy by Jackeline M. Franco, Ana Paula S.G. Pinheiro, Sarah C.F. Vieira, Íkaro Daniel C. Barreto, Ricardo Q. Gurgel, Renata R. Cocco, Dirceu Solé

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Satisfaction and political-social participation (A survey) by ghorbanali saboktakinrizi, Majid Rohandeh, Sayed Mohammad Sobatiyan, Ahmad Jafari

“…Materials and method Participation: Inspired by the theoretical and empirical literature can be said that the participation has certain components, for example, voluntary work, cooperate in community affairs, urban and rural, direct or indirect, simple membership in the local communities, charitable and business activities in these organizations, participate in the decision making process, the person engaging in the activity levels of the political system, being a social or political official, organized effort of citizens and  influencing political guidance of society. …”
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Stable water isotopes and tritium tracers tell the same tale: no evidence for underestimation of catchment transit times inferred by stable isotopes in StorAge Selection (SAS)-func... by S. Wang, M. Hrachowitz, G. Schoups, C. Stumpp

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The Balkan Sprachbund in the Republic of Macedonia Today: 'Eurology' as Discontinuity and Dialectology as Continuity by Victor Friedman

“…I thus point out the need for dialectological research in urban and multilingual rural sites so as to overcome the limitations of classic dialectology, with its historic-nationalist, monolingual focus. …”
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Non-Native Forest Tree Species in Europe: The Question of Seed Origin in Afforestation by Paraskevi Alizoti, Jean-Charles Bastien, Debojyoti Chakraborty, Marcin Miroslav Klisz, Johan Kroon, Charalambos Neophytou, Silvio Schueler, Marcela van Loo, Marjana Westergren, Monika Konnert, Vlatko Andonovski, Kjell Andreassen, Peter Brang, Robert Brus, Branislav Cvjetković, Martina Đodan, Manuel Fernández, Josef Frýdl, Bo Karlsson, Zsolt Keserű, Andrej Kormutak, Vasyl Lavnyy, Tiit Maaten, Bill Mason, Georgeta Mihai, Cristina Monteverdi, Sanja Perić, Krasimira Petkova, Emil Borissov Popov, Matti Rousi, Srđan Milenko Stojnić, Ivaylo Tsvetkov

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Zachowania zdrowotne chorych z marskością wątroby = Health behaviours of patients with cirrhosis of the liver by Lidia Sierpińska, Katarzyna Zielińska

“…Health education should be especially addressed to males with a lower education level, living in rural areas, and aged over 50.   Key words: cirrhosis of the liver, health behaviours. …”
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Spatial distribution analysis of the dimensions of creative tourism operators (Case study of Golestan townships) by Masoomeh Mahdian Bahnamiry, M. Taghvaei

“…However Maraveh Tappeh township with the highest percentage of rural population (85.8%) has been identified as a natural habitat for car trees and rare medicinal plants.It is obvious that the study and planning of the development and consolidation of this one case (medicinal plants), itself will have a dramatic effect on economic development in the first step and the development of creative tourism in the region.The results of this study show that Gomishan township with two golf courses and an international wetland as well as the only township with marine handicraft production are among these townships.Certainly, in the production of these industries, what is important is the creativity of the individual to prepare and produce the most beautiful products with these objects and her imagination.In the creative process dimension, Azadshahr, Ramyan and Aliabad have been more successful than other townships by holding workshops, art and cultural training classes, and various festivals, and have been in a completely favorable position in terms of this dimension. n the creative class dimension, the situation is far more favorable than other dimensions of creative tourism practitioners, so that Turkmen, Kordkoy, Kalaleh and Minoodasht have a better situation in terms of creative class than other dimensions of creativity. …”
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Socioeconomic inequality in childhood obesity and its determinants: a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition by Roya Kelishadi, Mostafa Qorbani, Ramin Heshmat, Shirin Djalalinia, Ali Sheidaei, Saeid Safiri, Nastaran Hajizadeh, Mohammad Esmaeil Motlagh, Gelayol Ardalan, Hamid Asayesh, Morteza Mansourian

“…Methods: This multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted in 2011–2012, as part of a national school-based surveillance program performed in 40,000 students, aged 6–18-years, from urban and rural areas of 30 provinces of Iran. Using principle component analysis, the socioeconomic status of participants was categorized to quintiles. …”
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Introduction by Xin Li

“…Shenyang is considered as a pioneer of SRPs in China, and the Ministry of Housing and Urban- Rural Development of PRC (MOHURD) has promoted the ‘Shenyang Mode’ of urban redevelopment nationally due to its success on SRPs (Shenyang Daily, 2016). …”
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