Do poverty and wealth look the same the world over? A comparative study of 12 cities from five high-income countries using street images by Esra Suel, Emily Muller, James E. Bennett, Tony Blakely, Yvonne Doyle, John Lynch, Joreintje D. Mackenbach, Ariane Middel, Anja Mizdrak, Ricky Nathvani, Michael Brauer, Majid Ezzati

“…For example, from what is visible from street images, high density poor neighborhoods located near the city center (e.g., in London) are visually distinct from poor suburban neighborhoods characterized by lower density and lower accessibility (e.g., in Atlanta). …”
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Recent increase in the detection of human parainfluenza virus during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic in the Republic of Korea by Heui Man Kim, Jee Eun Rhee, Nam-Joo Lee, Sang Hee Woo, Ae Kyung Park, Jaehee Lee, Cheon Kwon Yoo, Eun-Jin Kim

“…Detection of hPIV was delayed in metropolitan areas compared to that in suburban regions. The hemagglutinin-neuraminidase sequences of hPIV3 generated in 2021 were not distinct from those detected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Hospice Care Pilot Program Independently Pioneered by Community Health Centers in Shanghai: a Cross-sectional Survey by Xueying LI, Limei JING, Yifan XU, Tianshu CHU, Yunjia ZHAO, Ruiyang CHEN, Xiaohan TENG, Shuijing LI

“…There were also no significant differences in the number of inpatient and home hospice care services delivered by CHCs in central urban, suburban, and exurban districts (P>0.05) . Among the hospice care services delivered for inpatients, the average proportions of five types of services, namely assessment services, comfort care, appropriate technology of hospice care, psychological support and humanistic care were 85.7%, 78.6%, 48.6%, 88.4% and 67.5%, respectively. …”
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Human biting mosquitoes and implications for West Nile virus transmission by Johnny A. Uelmen, Bennett Lamcyzk, Patrick Irwin, Dan Bartlett, Chris Stone, Andrew Mackay, Arielle Arsenault-Benoit, Sadie J. Ryan, John-Paul Mutebi, Gabriel L. Hamer, Megan Fritz, Rebecca L. Smith

“…Human collectors exposed one limb for 15 min at crepuscular periods (5:00–8:30 am and 6:00–9:30 pm daily, the time when Culex species are most actively host-seeking) at each of 55 study sites in suburban Chicago, Illinois, for two summers (2018 and 2019). …”
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Towards Cleaner Cities: An Analysis of the Impact of Bus Fleet Decomposition on PM and NO_X Emissions Reduction in Sustainable Public Transport by Artur Jaworski, Vasyl Mateichyk, Hubert Kuszewski, Maksymilian Mądziel, Paweł Woś, Bożena Babiarz, Mirosław Śmieszek, Sławomir Porada

“…The purpose of this article is to present the results in terms of PM₁₀, PM_2.5, and NOx emission reductions, implemented over a period of two years (2021–2022) in the area of the Rzeszow agglomeration, related to the modernization of the suburban bus fleet and the implementation of a P&R system for passenger cars. …”
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Pilot trial using mass field-releases of sterile males produced with the incompatible and sterile insect techniques as part of integrated Aedes aegypti control in Mexico. by Abdiel Martín-Park, Azael Che-Mendoza, Yamili Contreras-Perera, Silvia Pérez-Carrillo, Henry Puerta-Guardo, Josué Villegas-Chim, Guillermo Guillermo-May, Anuar Medina-Barreiro, Hugo Delfín-González, Rosa Méndez-Vales, Santos Vázquez-Narvaez, Jorge Palacio-Vargas, Fabián Correa-Morales, Guadalupe Ayora-Talavera, Norma Pavía-Ruz, Xiao Liang, Ping Fu, Dongjing Zhang, Xiaohua Wang, María Eugenia Toledo-Romaní, Zhiyong Xi, Gonzalo Vázquez-Prokopec, Pablo Manrique-Saide

“…<h4>Methodology/principal findings</h4>We implemented a controlled before-and-after quasi-experimental study in two suburban localities of Yucatan (Mexico): San Pedro Chimay (SPC), which received IIT-SIT, and San Antonio Tahdzibichén used as control. …”
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Spatial Distribution, Source Analysis, and Health Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Farmland of Tangwang Village, Huainan City, China by Ying Liu, Wenjing Shen, Kaixuan Fan, Weihao Pei, Shaomin Liu

“…To accurately grasp the characteristics of heavy metal pollution in suburban cultivated soil, Tangwang Village (a suburb of Huainan City) was subjected to scrutiny. …”
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Obesity and Dyslipidemia in Chinese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study in Shanghai, China by Junjie Zhu, Yue Zhang, Yiling Wu, Yu Xiang, Xin Tong, Yuting Yu, Yun Qiu, Shuheng Cui, Qi Zhao, Na Wang, Yonggen Jiang, Genming Zhao

“…Using the baseline data of the Shanghai Suburban Adult Cohort and Biobank study (SSACB), the subjects completed questionnaires and physical examinations, and fasting blood was collected for biochemical assays. …”
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Habitat connectivity and resource selection in an expanding bobcat (Lynx rufus) population by Viorel D. Popescu, Madeline Kenyon, Ryan K. Brown, Marissa A. Dyck, Suzanne Prange, William E. Peterman, Catherine Dennison

“…We also identified potential dispersal corridors from the core areas to other regions of Ohio dominated by agriculture and suburban development via forested riparian corridors. …”
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Wastewater Based Epidemiology Perspective as a Faster Protocol for Detecting Coronavirus RNA in Human Populations: A Review with Specific Reference to SARS-CoV-2 Virus by Milad Mousazadeh, Razieh Ashoori, Biswaranjan Paital, Işık Kabdaşlı, Zacharias Frontistis, Marjan Hashemi, Miguel A. Sandoval, Samendra Sherchan, Kabita Das, Mohammad Mahdi Emamjomeh

“…The SARS-CoV-2 detection studies have been performed in different water matrixes such as influent and effluent of wastewater treatment plants, suburban pumping stations, hospital wastewater, and sewer networks around the globe except for Antarctica. …”
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Performance of severity of illness classification for Clostridium difficile infection to predict need-for-colectomy or inpatient death by Adnan Khan, Ahmad Elashery, Shyam Kapadia, Subhash Chandra

“…Methods: This observational study was performed at a 300-bed community hospital catering to a suburban population. All the adult patients discharged during October 2005 through September 2012 and diagnosed with CDI were included in the study. …”
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Impact of Urbanization on the Predictions of Urban Meteorology and Air Pollutants over Four Major North American Cities by Shuzhan Ren, Craig A. Stroud, Stephane Belair, Sylvie Leroyer, Rodrigo Munoz-Alpizar, Michael D. Moran, Junhua Zhang, Ayodeji Akingunola, Paul A. Makar

“…The results show that the TEB scheme leads to a great improvement in biases and root-mean-square deviations in temperature and humidity predictions in downtown, uptown and suburban areas in the early morning and nighttime. …”
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Ambient Volatile Organic Compound Characterization, Source Apportionment, and Risk Assessment in Three Megacities of China in 2019 by Zhanshan Wang, Puzhen Zhang, Libo Pan, Yan Qian, Zhigang Li, Xiaoqian Li, Chen Guo, Xiaojing Zhu, Yuanyuan Xie, Yongjie Wei

“…The empirical kinetic modeling approach showed that O₃ formation was limited by both VOCs and nitric oxides at Fangshan (the suburban site) and by VOCs at Xuhui (the urban site). …”
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Decadal evaluation of regional climate, air quality, and their interactions over the continental US and their interactions using WRF/Chem version 3.6.1 by K. Yahya, K. Wang, P. Campbell, T. Glotfelty, J. He, Y. Zhang

“…PM_2.5 concentrations are moderately overpredicted with an NMB of 23.3 % at rural sites but slightly underpredicted with an NMB of −10.8 % at urban/suburban sites. In general, the model performs relatively well for chemical and meteorological variables, and not as well for aerosol–cloud–radiation variables. …”
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Spatial Sustainable Development Assessment Using Fusing Multisource Data from the Perspective of Production-Living-Ecological Space Division: A Case of Greater Bay Area, China by Ku Gao, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Huifang Zhang, Chong Huang, Xiaowei Zeng

“…However, previous studies have focused on the urban core area, while the sustainable development status of the urban peripheral areas (suburban and rural areas) that contribute significantly to the ecological environment has been neglected. …”
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Patient Digital Health Technologies to Support Primary Care Across Clinical Contexts: Survey of Primary Care Providers, Behavioral Health Consultants, and Nurses by Oleg Zaslavsky, Frances Chu, Brenna N Renn

“…ResultsMost of the respondents were from urban and suburban settings (125/151, 82.8%), with 12.6% (n=19) practicing in rural or frontier settings and 4.6% (n=7) practicing in rural-serving clinics. …”
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Copernicus Sentinel-1 MT-InSAR, GNSS and Seismic Monitoring of Deformation Patterns and Trends at the Methana Volcano, Greece by Theodoros Gatsios, Francesca Cigna, Deodato Tapete, Vassilis Sakkas, Kyriaki Pavlou, Issaak Parcharidis

“…In Methana town, ground stability is found on volcanoclasts and limestone for the majority of the urban area footprint while some deformation is observed in the suburban zones. At the Mavri Petra andesitic dome, time series of the exceptionally dense PS/DS network across blocks of agglomerate and cinder reveal seasonal fluctuation (5 mm amplitude) overlapping the long-term stable trend. …”
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Caracterización físico-espacial de las promociones de nuevos barrios durante la República de Weimar (1919-1933): estudio de casos en las ciudades alemanas de Berlín, Frankfurt y Ha... by Yeimis Milton Palomino Pichihua

“…These marked the beginning of modern policies of social housing, at the same time as they inaugurated a model of suburban growth. The relevance of the German model of neighborhoods lay in the conjunction of disciplinary and political factors. …”
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Implementing urban agriculture as nature-based solutions in China: Challenges and global lessons by Zhe Zhu, Faith Ka Shun Chan, Gang Li, Mengxia Xu, Meili Feng, Yong-Guan Zhu

“…Urban agriculture, the cultivation, processing and distribution of plants and animals within urban or suburban boundaries, is becoming an increasingly relevant strategy to enhance food safety for urban residents. …”
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Clinical impact of physician staffing transition in intensive care units: a retrospective observational study by Yosuke Fujii, Kiichi Hirota, Kentaro Muranishi, Yumiko Mori, Kei Kambara, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Mitsuko Hashiguchi

“…Methods A retrospective observational study was conducted to examine the impact of high- versus low-intensity staffing models on all-cause mortality in a suburban secondary community hospital with 400 general beds and 8 ICU beds. …”
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