3372 Developing a REDCap Database to Understand Partnership Cultivation Efforts by Grisel M. Robles-Schrader, Gina Curry, Josefina Serrato, Jen Brown, Keith A Herzog

“…The tool captures information such as individual contact information, organizational affiliation (academic, community, faith, government etc.), research interests (35 categories - asthma, diabetes, heart disease, etc.), communities of foci (children, elderly, LGBTQ, ethnicity, etc.), and target geographic community served (Chicago north, south, suburban, Illinois, etc.). RESULTS/ANTICIPATED RESULTS: Data was compiled on 451 community groups and organizations and 77 partners in academia thus far. …”
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Urban sprawl and health: a review of the scientific literature by Dario Genovese, Stefania Candiloro, Antonio D’Anna, Marco Dettori, Vincenzo Restivo, Emanuele Amodio, Alessandra Casuccio

“…Urban sprawl is the development of sparse suburban areas with low population density, limited land use diversity, and poor street connectivity. …”
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The Inter-Relationships of Territorial Quality of Life with Residential Expansion and Densification: A Case Study of Regions in EU Member Countries by Eda Ustaoglu, Brendan Williams

“…Alternatively, low-density suburban development is preferable due to its benefits of high per capita land use consumption (larger houses) for individual households given lower land prices. …”
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Status of atmospheric air pollution in Ukraine prior to the full-scale russian invasion. Part 2: Pollutants total content according to the satellite data by M. V. Savenets, L. M. Nadtochii, T. V. Kozlenko, K. M. Komisar, N. S. Zhemera

“…The high level of pollutants content over these locations negatively affects air quality in suburban and rural areas by the prevailing wind. They form relatively stable polluted spots over larger areas. …”
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Effects of regional air pollutants on respiratory diseases in the basin metropolitan area of central Taiwan by Chen-Jui Liang, Ping-Yi Lin, Ying-Chieh Chen, Jeng-Jong Liang

“…Abstract This study divided a basin metropolitan area with high air pollution into three subareas, namely urban, suburban, and rural, on the basis of population density for a systematic analysis of the effects of local air pollutants on respiratory diseases. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Pixel-Level Fusion Algorithms and a New High-Resolution Dataset for SAR and Optical Image Fusion by Jinjin Li, Jiacheng Zhang, Chao Yang, Huiyu Liu, Yangang Zhao, Yuanxin Ye

“…In the experiment, we produce a high-resolution SAR and optical image fusion dataset (named YYX-OPT-SAR) covering three different types of scenes, including urban, suburban, and mountain. This dataset and a publicly available medium-resolution dataset are used to evaluate these fusion methods based on three different kinds of evaluation criteria: visual evaluation, objective image quality metrics, and classification accuracy. …”
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Adolescents Who Vape Nicotine and Their Experiences Vaping: A Qualitative Study by Catherine E Dubé, Lori Pbert, Catherine S Nagawa, Dante P Simone, Jessica G Wijesundara, Rajani S Sadasivam

“…Methods: A convenience sample of students who vaped in the last 90 days was recruited from one suburban high school in Massachusetts. Qualitative interviews were transcribed and coded. …”
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The role of urban and rural greenspaces in shaping immigrant wellbeing and settlement in place by Sara Edge, Claire Davis, Jennifer Dean, Yemisi Onilude, Andrea Rishworth, Kathi Wilson

“…Given increasing immigrant settlement into rural and suburban places globally we also address the lack of knowledge on urban and rural greenspace differences, despite known distinctions in place-based attributes (e.g., density, accessibility, level of diversity/xenophobia). …”
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Clinician-initiated written communication for families of patients at a long-term acute care hospital by Nathaniel H. Schwartz, Don N. Teed, Crystal M. Glover, Santosh Basapur, Carly Blodgett, Connor Giesing, Gerald Lawm, Glenn Podzimek, Roger Reeter, Laura Schorfheide, Sara Swiderski, Jared A. Greenberg

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Vaccination pattern of the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV23) in Hangzhou, China: a coverage and adverse events following immunization of different age groups by Yan Liu, Yuyang Xu, Jun Wang, Xinren Che, Wenwen Gu, Jian Du, Xiaoping Zhang, Xuechao Zhang, Wei Jiang, Junfang Chen, Zhijie An

“…The coverage of PPSV23 among elders ranged from 0.17% to 0.69%, and the overall coverage was higher in urban areas (3.70%) than in rural (3.34%) and suburban areas (2.16%). 93.45% of 268957 recipients were vaccinated with PPSV23 at 2–4 years of age. 394 AEFI of PPSV23 cases were reported to the Chinese national adverse event following immunization information system (CNAEFIS) during 2008–2017, with the reporting rate of 140.39 per 100,000 doses. …”
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Spatio-temporal patterns of flooded areas in the lower part of the Sana river basin (Bosnia and Herzegovina) by Ivanišević Marko, Savić Stevan, Pavić Dragoslav, Gnjato Slobodan, Popov Tatjana

“…Most affected settlements by floods are urban and suburban area of Prijedor, Gomjenica, Hambarine, Rakovčani, Rizvanovići, Brezičani, Donja Dragotinja, Vitasavci, Svodna, Blagaj Rijeka and urban area of Novi Grad. …”
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Analysis of innovative and modern technology of parking lots / Inovatyvių ir modernių technologinių automobilių stovėjimo statinių apžvalga by Jonas Damidavičius, Vytautas Palevičius, Gražvydas Jakubauskas

“…This report provides an overview of concepts of parking lots and their technology, and property usage in city center, middle zones, suburban territories and as well an analysis of the evolution of parking spaces. …”
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Visual perception can account for the close relation between numerosity processing and computational fluency by Xinlin eZhou, Wei eWei, Yiyun eZhang, Jiaxin eCui, Chuansheng eChen

“…Four hundred and twenty four third- to fifth-grade children (220 boys and 204 girls, 8.0 to 11.0 years old; 120 third graders, 146 fourth graders, and 158 fifth graders) were recruited from two schools (one urban and one suburban) in Beijing, China. Six classes were randomly selected from each school, and all students in each selected class were asked to participate in the study. …”
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Legacy effects of cemeteries on groundwater quality and nitrate loads to a headwater stream by Laura K Lautz, Sarah H Ledford, Julio Beltran

“…To assess the potential legacy impact of cemeteries on water quality, we explored the impact of a large cemetery that comprises 9% of the total area of a suburban watershed on groundwater nitrate concentrations and stream nitrate loads. …”
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Study of the functional diagram and algorithm of tracking system for electrodynamic braking of DC electric train by V. A. Baranov, I. P. Vikulov, A. A. Kiselev, A. S. Maznev

“…One of the key ways to save operating costs in suburban traffic on lines electrified with direct current is to increase the return of electric energy when the drivers use the regenerative braking mode.Electrodynamic braking control systems that track the magnitude of the voltage of the contact network  can increase the percentage of return of electric energy from the use of regenerative braking due to the rapid redistribution of energy generated by traction motors. …”
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SS-IPLE: Semantic Segmentation of Electric Power Corridor Scene and Individual Power Line Extraction From UAV-Based Lidar Point Cloud by Xiuning Liu, Feng Shuang, Yong Li, Liqiang Zhang, Xingwen Huang, Jianchuang Qin

“…The corridor point cloud semantic segmentation and individual power line extraction experiments are conducted in different corridors collected from suburban areas. Promising results are obtained for both semantic segmentation and individual power line extraction, with an mIou of point cloud semantic segmentation and a mean extraction rate of 96.70% and 96.56%, respectively.…”
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Control of Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, the vectors of dengue and chikungunya, by using pheromone C21 with an insect growth regulator: Results of multicentric trials from 2007... by B N Nagpal, S K Ghosh, Alex Eapen, Aruna Srivastava, M C Sharma, V P Singh, B D Parashar, Shri Prakash, M J Mendki, S N Tikar, Rekha Saxena, Sanjeev Gupta, S N Tiwari, V P Ojha, K John Ravindran, K Ganesan, A N Rao, R S Sharma, N R Tuli, N K Yadav, R Vijayaraghavan, V K Dua, A P Dash, M P Kaushik, P L Joshi, Neena Valecha

“…In the present study, C21 attracticide (containing a pheromone and an insect growth regulator-IGR, developed by Defence Research and Development Establishment (DRDE), Gwalior, India was tested for its feasibility for surveillance and control of Aedes mosquito in a multicentric mode from October 2007 to June 2012 in urban (Delhi, and Bengaluru district, Karnataka) and suburban (Alappuzha district, Kerala) settings of the country in three phases. …”
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Urban Heat Island Monitoring and Impacts on Citizen’s General Health Status in Isfahan Metropolis: A Remote Sensing and Field Survey Approach by Mohsen Mirzaei, Jochem Verrelst, Mohsen Arbabi, Zohreh Shaklabadi, Masoud Lotfizadeh

“…Citizens living in the suburban areas were more exposed to the UHIs phenomena, and statistical analysis of the GHQ-28 results indicated that they showed severe significant (<i>P</i> < 0.05) responses in terms of non-physical health sub-scales (i.e., anxiety and sleep, social functioning, and depression). …”
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Revisiting the crop yield loss in India attributable to ozone by Amit Sharma, Narendra Ojha, Andrea Pozzer, Gufran Beig, Sachin S. Gunthe

“…Relative Yield Losses (RYL) for wheat are found to be higher (∼21–26%) than those in a recent study based on observations (∼15%), as the model accounts for the rural chemistry which can be different from urban/suburban/high altitude environments where measurements are largely conducted. …”
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Hand-held cell phone use while driving legislation and observed driver behavior among population sub-groups in the United States by Toni M. Rudisill, Motao Zhu

“…This study examined whether universal hand-held calling while driving bans were associated with lower road-side observed hand-held cell phone conversations across drivers of different ages (16–24, 25–59, ≥60 years), sexes, races (White, African American, or other), ruralities (suburban, rural, or urban), and regions (Northeast, Midwest, South, and West). …”
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