Endemic melioidosis in central Taiwan—A longitudinal case cohort study by Ting Ting Ling, Su-Yin Lee, Shih-Ming Tsao, Shih-Ming Tsao, Keng-Wei Liang, Keng-Wei Liang, Wei-Yao Wang, Wei-Yao Wang

“…In this study, we performed the epidemiologic and clinical analyses from the melioidosis cases in central Taiwan.MethodsThe demographic, clinical, laboratory, radiologic, and outcome profiles were collected retrospectively and analyzed from patients whom Burkhoderia pseudomallei was isolated from clinical specimens during the 12-year study period (2011–2022).ResultsTotally 11 melioidosis cases (10 males and 1 female) were diagnosed, among them only 2 (18.2%) cases lived in suburban areas. Seven (63.6%) cases were diagnosed during 2019–2020, and diabetes mellitus was the most relevant comorbidity (5, 45.4%). …”
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The Effects of Indoor Air Filter on Reductions in PM_2.5 Associated Health Risks of Respiratory Function in Mouse by Zheng Yang, Qingyang Liu, Yanju Liu, Qingyun Guo, Yunfang Shan, Zhibin Cheng, Zhenyu Zhong

“…This study aimed to assess whether protective measures could reduce the health risks of air pollution in mice living in the chambers situated at a suburban site in Beijing. The living chambers of mice were divided into four groups: male mice with and without the high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter (male group A and group B), as well as female mice with and without the HEPA filter (female group A and group B). …”
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Urban forests sustain diverse carrion beetle assemblages in the New York City metropolitan area by Nicole A. Fusco, Anthony Zhao, Jason Munshi-South

“…We conducted an additional study comparing the current carrion beetle community at a single suburban site in Westchester County, NY that was intensively surveyed in the early 1970’s. …”
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Air quality characteristics during 2016–2020 in Wuhan, China by Yuanyuan Chen, Hongtao Liu, Juha M. Alatalo, Bo Jiang

“…The NO2_C was lower, and O3_8h_C was higher in suburban sites, while CO showed no spatial differences in their concentrations. …”
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Uranium and thorium in soil cover of the Irkutsk-Angarsk industrial zone (Baikal region) by Valentina Ivanovina Grebenshchikova, Polina Pavlovna Gritsko, Petr Viktorovich Kuznetsov, Artemy Andreevich Doroshkov

“…Objective: soil cover pollution level analysis in cities and suburban area according to the study of total contents of radionuclides (U, Th). …”
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HYDROPONIC GREEN FORAGE AS AN ALTERNATIVE FORAGE IN ANIMAL FEEDING by Pedro Cisneros-Saguilán, Patricia Cruz-Bautista, Manuel Hernández-Hernández

“…The HGF technology represents a viable and economical alternative to counteract the scarcity of fresh and nutritious food, especially in dry seasons of arid and semi-arid areas; as well as in urban or suburban areas where there is limited land area for conventional fodder production.…”
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Associations of financial toxicity with symptoms and unplanned healthcare utilization among cancer patients taking oral chemotherapy at home: a prospective observational study by Yongfeng Chen, Zhenxiang Chen, Haiyun Jin, Yanrong Chen, Jinbing Bai, Guifen Fu

“…Conclusion Middle-aged adults and those living in suburban or rural areas experienced worse financial toxicity than other groups. …”
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A VPN Performances Analysis of Constrained Hardware Open Source Infrastructure Deploy in IoT Environment by Antonio Francesco Gentile, Davide Macrì, Floriano De Rango, Mauro Tropea, Emilio Greco

“…The second goal is to research the algorithms capable of guaranteeing the widest spectrum of compatibility with the current infrastructures that support VPN technology, to obtain a connection system secure for geographically scattered IoT networks spread over difficult-to-manage areas such as suburban or rural environments. The third goal is to be able to use open firmware on constrained routers that provide compatibility with different VPN protocols.…”
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Analysis of injuries and deaths from road traffic accidents in Iran: bivariate regression approach by Soodeh Shahsavari, Ali Mohammadi, Shayan Mostafaei, Ehsan Zereshki, Seyyed Mohammad Tabatabaei, Mohsen Zhaleh, Meisam Shahsavari, Frouzan Zeini

“…In a one-year period, 3090 accidents happened on the suburban roads of Kermanshah province, which resulted in 398 deaths and 4805 injuries. …”
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Reasons, experiences and expectations of women with delayed medical care for ectopic pregnancies in Chinese urban edges: a qualitative study by Jing Liu, Yulian Liang, Yinzhi Su, Hamza Saidi Lilenga, Jinguo Zhai

“…Objective To explore the experiences of patients with ectopic pregnancies with delayed medical care, with the goals to promote timely access to care, reduce subsequent physical and psychological impacts, and provide recommendations for improved management of ectopic pregnancies.Design A qualitative study.Setting A 1000-bed urban edge hospital located in the suburban area of Guangzhou, China, between December 2022 and February 2023.Participants 21 patients with delays in seeking medical care for ectopic pregnancy.Primary and secondary outcome measures Semistructured, in-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted to understand the experience and expectations of these women.Results Three main themes emerged, including delaying medical care, physical and psychological experiences, and expectations of their healthcare providers. …”
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Groundwater Quality Monitoring Using In-Situ Measurements and Hybrid Machine Learning with Empirical Bayesian Kriging Interpolation Method by Delia B. Senoro, Kevin Lawrence M. de Jesus, Leonel C. Mendoza, Enya Marie D. Apostol, Katherine S. Escalona, Eduardo B. Chan

“…The 28 GW samples were collected at suburban sites identified by the coordinates produced by Global Positioning System Montana 680. …”
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Case Fatality of Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19 Infection Suffering from Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome in Germany by Ingo Sagoschen, Karsten Keller, Johannes Wild, Thomas Münzel, Lukas Hobohm

“…Most patients with ARDS were treated in hospitals in urban areas (<i>n</i> = 6485); proportion rate of mechanical ventilation was higher (45.9%) compared to those treated in hospitals of suburban (36.1%) or rural areas (32.0%). Proportion of ARDS grew exponentially with age until the sixth decade of life. …”
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Patient and pharmacist perspectives on opioid misuse screening and brief interventions in community pharmacies by Deepika Rao, James H. Ford, Olayinka O. Shiyanbola

“…Results Most patient participants were white, older, described living in suburban areas, and were long-term opioid users. We identified template themes related to individual, interpersonal, intervention, and implementation factors and inferred applications for SBI design or potential SBI implementation strategies. …”
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Urban centre green metrics in Great Britain: A geospatial and socioecological study. by Jake M Robinson, Suzanne Mavoa, Kate Robinson, Paul Brindley

“…Despite a large number of studies investigating greenspace disparities in suburban areas, no known studies have compared the green attributes (e.g., trees, greenness, and greenspaces) of urban centres. …”
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Ecological connectivity of bee communities in fragmented areas of Volcano Etna (Sicily, Italy) at different degrees of anthropogenic disturbance (Hymenoptera, Apoidea, Anthophila) by Salvatore Bella, Roberto Catania, Pierluigi La Greca, Vittorio Nobile, Giuseppe Fabrizio Turrisi, Vera D'Urso

“…The well-known bee community of a suburban park (Timpa di Leucatia, north of Catania) was considered as a control site. …”
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Cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran: A review of epidemiological aspects, with emphasis on molecular findings by Nasiri Zahra, Kalantari Mohsen, Mohammadi Jalal, Daliri Salman, Mehrabani Davood, Azizi Kourosh

“…The lack of facilities in suburban regions was an aggravating factor in the human community. …”
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Anthropogenic impacts on tidal creek sedimentation since 1900 by Molly C. Bost, Charles D. Deaton, Antonio B. Rodriguez, Brent A. McKee, F. Joel Fodrie, Carson B. Miller

“…Here we compare sediment accumulation rates before and after 1950 using 210Pb in 12 tidal creeks across two distinct regions in North Carolina, one region of low relief tidal-creek watersheds where land cover change since 1959 was dominated by fluctuations in forest, silviculture, and agriculture, and another region of relatively high relief tidal-creek watersheds where land-use change was dominated by increasing suburban development. At eight of the creeks, mass accumulation rates (g cm-2 y-1) measured at the outlet of the creeks increased contemporaneously with the largest shift in land cover, within the resolution of the land-cover data set (~5-years). …”
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Recent Shrinkage and Fragmentation of Bluegrass Landscape in Kentucky by Bo Tao, Yanjun Yang, Jia Yang, Ray Smith, James Fox, Alex C. Ruane, Jinze Liu, Wei Ren

“…Our results showed that recent land use change across the Bluegrass Region is characterized by grassland decline, cropland expansion, forest spread, and suburban sprawl. The grassland area decreased by 14.4%, with an interior (or intact) grassland shrinkage of 5%, during the study period. …”
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Medication Use and Associated Factors Among Indonesian Pregnant Women: A Cross-Sectional Study by Judistiani RTD, Pratiwi AE, Wahyudi K, Gunawan A, Rahmawati A, Ruslami R

“…This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors related to medication use among pregnant women attending antenatal care services at community health posts in Soreang, a suburban area in Indonesia.Patients and Methods: A cross-sectional community-based study was conducted. …”
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Role of Environmental Variables in the Transport of Microbes in Stormwater by Rupak Aryal, Jatinder P. S. Sidhu, Meng Nan Chong, Simon Toze, Wolfgang Gernjak, Bandita Mainali

“…These findings indicated the potentiality to make a good use and measurement of simple environmental variables to reflect the degree of microbe transport in stormwater from residential/suburban catchments.…”
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