Integrating forest cover change and carbon storage dynamics: Leveraging Google Earth Engine and InVEST model to inform conservation in hilly regions by Abdulla - Al Kafy, Milan Saha, Md. Abdul Fattah, Muhammad Tauhidur Rahman, Bushra Monowar Duti, Zullyadini A. Rahaman, Arpita Bakshi, S. Kalaivani, Sk Nafiz Rahaman, Golam Shabbir Sattar

“…The central city area (Chittagong) accounted for the most significant loss of CS (7.99 × 106 Mg), while the suburban areas of Khagrachari (0.92 × 106 Mg) and Rangamati (3.53 × 106 Mg) contributed the least. …”
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Wildfire Risk in the Complex Terrain of the Santa Barbara Wildland–Urban Interface during Extreme Winds by Katelyn Zigner, Leila M. V. Carvalho, Charles Jones, John Benoit, Gert-Jan Duine, Dar Roberts, Francis Fujioka, Max Moritz, Nic Elmquist, Rob Hazard

“…In contrast, wildfires ignited during strong, northerly winds quickly spread into the wildland–urban interface (WUI) toward suburban and urban areas.…”
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Dynamic Changes, Spatiotemporal Differences, and Ecological Effects of Impervious Surfaces in the Yellow River Basin, 1986–2020 by Jing Zhang, Jiaqiang Du, Shifeng Fang, Zhilu Sheng, Yangchengsi Zhang, Bingqing Sun, Jialin Mao, Lijuan Li

“…Our results indicated that the expansion and densification of IS was slow in core urban areas with high initial IS fraction (ISF), significant in the suburban or rural areas with low initial ISF, and obvious but not significant in the exurb rural or depopulated areas with an initial ISF close to 0. …”
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Enrolling people of color to evaluate a practice intervention: lessons from the shared decision-making for atrial fibrillation (SDM4AFib) trial by Angela Sivly, Haeshik S. Gorr, Derek Gravholt, Megan E. Branda, Mark Linzer, Peter Noseworthy, Ian Hargraves, Marleen Kunneman, Chyke A. Doubeni, Takeki Suzuki, Juan P. Brito, Elizabeth A. Jackson, Bruce Burnett, Mike Wambua, Victor M. Montori, for the Shared Decision-Making for Atrial Fibrillation (SDM4AFib) Trial Investigators

“…Methods We enrolled patients with AF and their clinicians in 5 healthcare systems (three academic medical centers, an urban/suburban community medical center, and a safety-net inner-city medical center) located in three states (Minnesota, Alabama, and Mississippi) in the United States. …”
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Effectiveness of different metrics of floristic quality assessment: The simpler, the better? by Tiberio Fiaschi, Emanuele Fanfarillo, Simona Maccherini, Giovanni Bacaro, Gianmaria Bonari, Bruno Foggi, Lorenzo Peruzzi, Lorenzo Pinzani, Leonardo Rosati, Anna Scoppola, Daniele Viciani, Claudia Angiolini

“…In this study, we used the flora of a suburban riverscape in central Italy to test the performance of the Floristic Quality Assessment (FQA) approach, an expert-based evaluation technique. …”
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<i>Neoehrlichia mikurensis</i>—A New Emerging Tick-Borne Pathogen in North-Eastern Poland? by Magdalena Szczotko, Katarzyna Kubiak, Mirosław Mariusz Michalski, Leonardo Moerbeck, Sandra Antunes, Ana Domingos, Małgorzata Dmitryjuk

“…In summary, our research showed that infections of ticks of both the most common tick species <i>I. ricinus</i> and <i>D. reticulatus</i> in north-eastern Poland are present and ticks collected from urban areas were more often infected than ticks from suburban and natural areas. The detection of <i>N. mikurensis</i> in <i>I. ricinus</i> and <i>D. reticulatus</i> ticks from north-eastern Poland indicates potential transmission risk for tick-bitten humans at this latitude.…”
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Polymorphysm and connection with risk factors of some genes of predisposition to cardiovascular diseases in ethnic groups in Siberia (molecular-epidemiological and evolution-geneti... by M. I. Voevoda

“…The closest to the ancestral state of western protopopulation is gene pool of suburban ethnic groups in Europe and West Siberia. …”
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Identification of rural settlement development types in the farming-pastoral zone based on social network analysis by ZOU Yafeng, LUO Feng, RAO Yufei, ZHU Yixuan, YI Chengfeng, LV Changhe, WU Pinqi

“…Settlements with high degree centrality are typically located along transportation routes or in close proximity to the central town. (3) Ke Town’s rural settlements are categorized into five types: suburban integration (20), characteristic protection (9), agglomeration promotion (44), general persistence (49), and relocation and merge (58). …”
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Measurement report: Observations of ground-level ozone concentration gradients perpendicular to the Lake Ontario shoreline by Y. Y. Huang, Y. Y. Huang, D. J. Donaldson, D. J. Donaldson

“…A field campaign was conducted in summer 2022 and winter 2023 in two locations on the north shore of Lake Ontario: the urban centre of Toronto and suburban Oshawa, some 50 km east, to assess how the local environment and season affect the lake-edge removal effect. …”
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Vacuum Ultraviolet Photoionization Mass Spectrometry and Its Wide Applications in Atmospheric Chemistry by WEN Zuo-ying, GU Xue-jun, LIN Xiao-xiao, ZHANG Wei-jun, TANG Xiao-feng

“…The cases of atmospheric pollution often occur in urban or suburban areas during the evolution of industry, and have adverse influences on the human health and daily life. …”
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Mapping socio‐ecological systems in Idaho: Spatial patterns and analytical considerations by Ken Aho, Susan Parsons, Antonio J. Castro, Kathleen A. Lohse

“…Our SEZs identify several critical regions of social–ecological overlap. These include suburban interface types and a high desert transition zone. …”
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Patient-reported outcomes in head and neck cancer: prospective multi-institutional patient-reported toxicity by Peach MS, Trifiletti DM, Vachani C, Arnold-Korzeniowski K, Bach C, Hampshire M, Metz JM, Hill-Kayser CE

“…A majority of patients were Caucasian (96.2%) with median age at diagnosis of 55 years, living in suburban locations (39.9%), with ~50% receiving care within 20 miles of their residence. …”
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Factors affecting decreased physical activity during the COVID-19 pandemic: an age-, gender-, and body mass index-matched study by Jhin-Yi Shin, Jaemoo Lee, Jung-Min Lee, Jung-Min Lee, Nam Yoon Ho

“…Conversely, living in a suburban area (OR = 0.653; CI = 0.585 ~ 0.728), having public housing (OR = 0.836; CI = 0.754 ~ 0.928), having less than a high school education (OR = 0.813; CI = 0.729 ~ 0.907), staying the same with alcohol (OR = 0.567; CI = 0.507 ~ 0.633) and smoking (OR = 0.836; CI = 0.728 ~ 0.959), and having low fear of infection (OR = 0.817; CI = 0.737 ~ 0.905) had a slightly lower impact on decreased PA.ConclusionPA should be maintained or increased, particularly in the context of social distancing measures during the pandemic. …”
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Spatial distribution and quantitative identification of contributions for nutrient and beneficial elements in top- and sub-soil of Huairou District of Beijing, China by Rui Xia, Sheng-Qiang Zhang, Jun Li, Huan Li, Liang-Sheng Ge, Guo-Li Yuan

“…This study quantitatively estimated NBEs sources in soils and their quality, which provided a basis for agricultural activities and ecological environment protection in typical suburban area.…”
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Burden of upper gastrointestinal cancers in the east of Golestan province (Golestan cohort study) by Mohammad‐Ali Jahani, Raziyeh Esmaeili, Mahdi Abbasi, Hossein‐Ali Nikbakht, Habibollah Azarbakhsh, Gholamreza Roshandel, Sahar Delavari, Layla Shojaie, Ghahraman Mahmoudi

“…A substantial proportion resided in suburban areas (85.8%), and over half of the patients (52%) reported a history of drug addiction. …”
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Acceptability of a real-time notification of stress and access to self-help therapies among law enforcement officers by Katelyn K. Jetelina, Rebecca Molsberry, Lauren Malthaner, Alaina Beauchamp, M. Brad Cannell, Trina Hall, Ed Fowler, Lonzo Anderson

“…Methods We assigned smart watches to 22 patrol LEOs across two police departments: one suburban department and one large, urban department. …”
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Comment les coronapistes ont influencé les pratiques cyclistes. Enquête en selle dans 5 métropoles françaises by Nathalie Ortar, Benoît Feildel, Sandrine Depeau, David Sayagh, Laurent Chapelon, Adrien Lammoglia, Adrien Poisson, Léa Barbé, Andoni Hentgen–izaguirre

“…These promising results encourage the development of these infrastructures in sparsely populated, suburban or rural areas. In addition, we have shown that ridership is highly dependent on cyclists’ assessment of the comfort, safety, and security of the path. …”
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Adverse Health Effects (Bronchitis Cases) Due to Particulate Matter Exposure: A Twenty-Year Scenario Analysis for the Greater Athens Area (Greece) Using the AirQ+ Model by Kleopatra Ntourou, Konstantinos Moustris, Georgios Spyropoulos, Kyriaki-Maria Fameli, Nikolaos Manousakis

“…In addition, it was observed that the unhealthiest areas in the GAA are the center of Athens city (mean annual PM₁₀ concentration in 2019: 36 μgr/m³), as well as suburban areas (Lykovrissi and Marousi: mean annual PM₁₀ concentrations in 2019 were 27 μgr/m³ and 28 μgr/m³, respectively). …”
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Association between maternal pre-delivery body mass index and offspring overweight/obesity at 1 and 2 years of age among residents of a suburb in Taiwan by Hsien-Kuan Liu, Chien-Yi Wu, Yung-Ning Yang, Pei-Ling Wu, Zong-Rong He, San-Nan Yang, Shu-Leei Tey

“…Maternal pre-delivery BMI might be predictive of the risk of overweight and obesity among offspring of pregnant mothers living in suburban areas. Methods We retrospectively collected data on term neonates with appropriate weights for their gestational age born between April 2013 and October 2015. …”
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Estimating the Impact of COVID-19 on the PM_2.5 Levels in China with a Satellite-Driven Machine Learning Model by Qiulun Li, Qingyang Zhu, Muwu Xu, Yu Zhao, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Yang Liu

“…However, ground measurements of fine particulate matters (PM_2.5) concentrations do not offer comprehensive spatial coverage, especially in suburban and rural regions. In this study, we developed a machine learning method with satellite aerosol remote sensing data, meteorological fields and land use parameters as major predictor variables to estimate spatiotemporally resolved daily PM_2.5 concentrations in China. …”
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