Metallic elements in foliar material and fruits of three tree species as bioindicators by Jorge Alonso Alcalá Jáuregui, Juan C. Rodríguez Ortiz, Maria Flavia Filippini, Eduardo Martínez Carretero, Alejandra Hernández Montoya, Ángel Natanael Rojas Velázquez, Heriberto Méndez Cortés, Felix Alfredo Beltrán Morales

“…Ninety fruit and 90 leaf samples (30 per tree species) were collected at five sites (agricultural, suburban, commercial and services, urban, and mining), using the site and the presence of P. laevigata, S. molle, and A. farnesiana as references. …”
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Serological screening of SARS-CoV-2 infection in companion animals of Buenos Aires suburbs by Nancy Patricia Cardoso, Nancy Patricia Cardoso, Carla Rivero, Mariangeles Castillo, Mariangeles Castillo, Florencia Celeste Mansilla, Florencia Pastorino, Guadalupe Piccirilli, Laura Alonso, Gustavo Martínez, David Di Lullo, Leticia Veronica Bentancor, Leticia Veronica Bentancor, Alejandra Victoria Capozzo, Alejandra Victoria Capozzo

“…The susceptibility of mammals to SARS-CoV-2, the possibility of transmission between animals themselves and humans, together with the free-roaming lifestyle typical of Buenos Aires suburban companion animals, urge pursuing responsible animal care and avoiding human interaction with animals during the disease course. …”
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Tourisme et santé : la forêt, source de dangers quand l’arbre cache la tique ! by Christelle Méha

“…A survey conducted in 2010 in the suburban forest of Senart (25 km south-east of Paris, Île-de-France) has allowed us to know the level of knowledge of forest visitors on Lyme borreliosis and tick populations. …”
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Simulation-based design of integrated public transit and shared autonomous mobility-on-demand systems by Chen, Yu Xin (Yu Xin Leo)

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Analysis of VSTOL aircraft configurations for short haul air transportation systems by Gallant, Robert A., Scully, M., Lange, William Richard.

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Association between adiposity outcomes and residential density: a full-data, cross-sectional analysis of 419 562 UK Biobank adult participants by Sarkar, C, Webster, C, Gallacher, JEJ

“…The findings might mean that governments, such as the UK Government, who are attempting to prevent suburban densification by, for example, prohibiting the subdivision of single lot housing and the conversion of domestic gardens to housing lots, will potentially have the effect of inhibiting the conversion of suburbs into more healthy places to live.…”

Detection of the Genetic Material of the Viruses Tacheng uukuvirus and Sara tick phlebovirus in Taiga Ticks Collected in the Sverdlovsk, Tomsk Regions and Primorsky Territory of Ru... by N. L. Tupota, V. A. Ternovoi, E. P. Ponomareva, R. B. Bayandin, A. N. Shvalov, B. S. Malyshev, T. V. Tregubchak, T. V. Bauer, E. V. Protopopova, N. K. Petrova, E. V. Zhebrovskaya, E. G. Burukhina, T. F. Khomichuk, A. P. Agafonov, R. A. Maksyutov, V. B. Loktev

“…The study involved 1460 taiga ticks collected in suburban areas of the Tomsk, Yekaterinburg and Primorsky Territory. …”
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Survey of spatial forms - physical city using quantitative models case study : sardroud city by Rasoul Ghorbani, mahdieh tahooni

“…. -         Since the city is inevitable to grow and expand and population growth is always present in cities, it is necessary to use specific strategies and tools to manage the growth of cities and effectively control the sprawl expansion of cities, to avoid further waste and destruction of suitable suburban agricultural land around the cities and reduce the negative consequences of this type of urban development.…”
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Long-term ozone variability in the vertical structure and integrated column over the North China Plain: results based on ozonesonde and Dobson measurements during 2001–2019 by Jinqiang Zhang, Dan Li, Jianchun Bian, Yuejian Xuan, Hongbin Chen, Zhixuan Bai, Xiaowei Wan, Xiangdong Zheng, Xiangao Xia, Daren Lü

“…Moreover, the long-term variability in the integrated ozone column over the North China Plain (NCP) is also explored by comparing the retrievals from ozonesonde at the Beijing urban site and a Dobson ozone spectrometer at the Xianghe suburban site. Our results indicate that vertical ozone exhibited clear monthly variability characterized by high values of tropospheric ozone during warm seasons and high values of stratospheric ozone during cold seasons. …”
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Modeling road traffic fatalities in Iran’s six most populous provinces, 2015–2016 by Fatemeh Jahanjoo, Homayoun Sadeghi-Bazargani, Mohammad Asghari-Jafarabadi

“…The results showed that the crash scene significantly related factors were passenger presence(OR = 4.95, 95%CI = (4.54–5.40)), pedestrians presence(OR = 2.60, 95%CI = (1.75–3.86)), night-time crashes (OR = 1.64, 95%CI = (1.52–1.76)), rainy weather (OR = 1.32, 95%CI = (1.06–1.64)), no intersection control (OR = 1.40, 95%CI = (1.29–1.51)), double solid line(OR = 2.21, 95%CI = (1.31–3.74)), asphalt roads(OR = 1.95, 95%CI = (1.39–2.73)), nonresidential areas(OR = 2.15, 95%CI = (1.93–2.40)), vulnerable-user presence(OR = 1.70, 95%CI = (1.50–1.92)), human factor (OR = 1.13, 95%CI = (1.03–1.23)), multiple first causes (OR = 2.81, 95%CI = (2.04–3.87)), fatigue as prior cause(OR = 1.48, 95%CI = (1.27–1.72)), irregulation as direct cause(OR = 1.35, 95%CI = (1.20–1.51)), head-on collision(OR = 3.35, 95%CI = (2.85–3.93)), tourist destination(OR = 1.95, 95%CI = (1.69–2.24)), suburban areas(OR = 3.26, 95%CI = (2.65–4.01)), expressway(OR = 1.84, 95%CI = (1.59–2.13)), unpaved shoulders(OR = 1.84, 95%CI = (1.63–2.07)), unseparated roads (OR = 1.40, 95%CI = (1.26–1.56)), multiple road defects(OR = 2.00, 95%CI = (1.67–2.39)). …”
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The surface aerosol optical properties in the urban area of Nanjing, west Yangtze River Delta, China by B. Zhuang, T. Wang, J. Liu, S. Li, M. Xie, Y. Han, P. Chen, Q. Hu, X.-Q. Yang, C. Fu, J. Zhu

“…The correlation between AAC and SC at the site is close but a little smaller than that in suburban Nanjing in spring. Atmospheric visibility decreases exponentially with increasing EC or SC, more sharply in spring and summer, and it could be further deteriorated with increasing SSA and ASP.…”
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Advances in High-Precision NO₂ Measurement by Quantum Cascade Laser Absorption Spectroscopy by Nicolas Sobanski, Béla Tuzson, Philipp Scheidegger, Herbert Looser, André Kupferschmid, Maitane Iturrate, Céline Pascale, Christoph Hüglin, Lukas Emmenegger

“…The instrument performance in terms of long-term stability, linearity and field operation capability was assessed in the laboratory and during a two-week inter-comparison campaign at a suburban air pollution monitoring station. Four NO<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> instruments corresponding to three different detection techniques (chemiluminescence detection (CLD), cavity-attenuated phase shift (CAPS) spectroscopy and QCLAS) were deployed after calibrating them with three different referencing methods: gas-phase titration of NO, dynamic high-concentration cylinder dilution and permeation. …”
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Measurement Invariance and Differential Item Functioning of the Health Literacy Instrument for Adults (HELIA): A Large-Scale Cross-Sectional Study in Iran by Mehran Alijanzadeh, Chung-Ying Lin, Rafat Yahaghi, Jalal Rahmani, Nahid Yazdi, Elahe Jafari, Hashem Alijani, Narges Zamani, Razie Fotuhi, Elham Taherkhani, Zeinab Buchali, Robabe Jafari, Narges Mahmoudi, Leila Poorzolfaghar, Safie Ahmadizade, Azam Shahbazkhania, Zainab Alimoradi, Amir H. Pakpour

“…Additionally, multigroup CFA supported the measurement invariance of HELIA across the following subgroups: male vs. female; highly educated vs. poorly educated; city residents vs. suburban residents; and younger age vs. older age. …”
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Critical windows of greenness exposure during preconception and gestational periods in association with birthweight outcomes by Zhenchun Yang, Jiawen Liao, Yi Zhang, Yan Lin, Yihui Ge, Wu Chen, Chenyu Qiu, Kiros Berhane, Zhipeng Bai, Bin Han, Jia Xu, Yong Hui Jiang, Frank Gilliland, Weili Yan, Zhanghua Chen, Guoying Huang, Junfeng (Jim) Zhang

“…Moreover, the associations were larger in effect size among urban residents than suburban residents and among residents without park accessibility within 500 m compared to those with park accessibility within 500 m. …”
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Long-Term Observation of Atmospheric Speciated Mercury during 2007–2018 at Cape Hedo, Okinawa, Japan by Kohji Marumoto, Noriyuki Suzuki, Yasuyuki Shibata, Akinori Takeuchi, Akinori Takami, Norio Fukuzaki, Kazuaki Kawamoto, Akira Mizohata, Shungo Kato, Takashi Yamamoto, Jingyang Chen, Tatsuya Hattori, Hiromitsu Nagasaka, Mitsugu Saito

“…Their concentrations were lower than those at urban and suburban cities, as well as remote sites in East Asia, but were slightly higher than the background concentrations in the Northern Hemisphere. …”
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Efficient N₂O₅ uptake and NO₃ oxidation in the outflow of urban Beijing by H. Wang, K. Lu, S. Guo, Z. Wu, D. Shang, Z. Tan, Y. Wang, M. Le Breton, S. Lou, M. Tang, Y. Wu, W. Zhu, J. Zheng, L. Zeng, M. Hallquist, M. Hu, Y. Zhang, Y. Zhang

“…Here we present the measurements of dinitrogen pentoxide (N₂O₅) associated with nitryl chloride (ClNO₂) and particulate nitrate (<i>p</i>NO₃⁻) at a suburban site of Beijing in the summer of 2016. High levels of N₂O₅ and ClNO₂ were observed in the outflow of the urban Beijing air masses, with 1 min average maxima of 937 and 2900 pptv, respectively. …”
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Characterization of submicron aerosols influenced by biomass burning at a site in the Sichuan Basin, southwestern China by W. Hu, W. Hu, M. Hu, W.-W. Hu, W.-W. Hu, H. Niu, H. Niu, J. Zheng, Y. Wu, W. Chen, C. Chen, L. Li, M. Shao, S. Xie, Y. Zhang

“…In this study, an Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometry (HR-ToF-AMS) and other state-of-the-art instruments were utilized at a suburban site, Ziyang, in the Sichuan Basin during December 2012 to January 2013. …”
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Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity and Its Impact on the Secondary Inorganic Components of PM_2.5 in Recent Years in Beijing: Enlightenment for PM_2.5 Pollution Con... by Wanghui Chu, Ling Li, Hong Li, Yuzhe Zhang, Yizhen Chen, Guorui Zhi, Xin Yang, Yuanyuan Ji, Fahe Chai

“…The O_X concentrations followed a descending seasonal trend of summer, spring, autumn, and winter, along with a spatial descending trend from urban observation stations to suburban stations and background stations. The degree of photochemical activity and the magnitude of the AOC have a large influence on the production of atmospheric secondary particles. …”
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A self-adaptive wildfire detection algorithm by fusing physical and deep learning schemes by Shuting Jin, Tianxing Wang, Huabing Huang, Xiaopo Zheng, Tongwen Li, Zhou Guo

“…The thermal infrared band can be used to assist in detecting the general location of the fire and serve as alternative choice in extreme cases. (2) The optimized physical algorithm can reduce false alarms and predict more accurate fire positions. (3) It is very effective to introduce the YOLO v5 framework to remove false alarms with high exposure in urban and suburban regions. (4) The proposed self-adaptive fusion algorithm integrates the advantages of various schemes, proving its better performance in terms of robustness, stability and generality compared to any single method. …”
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A single Haemoproteus plataleae haplotype is widespread in white ibis (Eudocimus albus) from urban and rural sites in southern Florida by Michael J. Yabsley, Sarah M. Coker, Catharine N. Welch, Kayla B. Garrett, Maureen Murray, Ryan Grunert, Julia S. Seixas, Whitney M. Kistler, Shannon E. Curry, Henry C. Adams, Charlie S. Nakatsu, Liandrie Swanepoel, Seth T. Wyckoff, Troy M. Koser, Elizabeth Kurimo-Beechuk, Ellen Haynes, Sonia M. Hernandez

“…The American white ibis (Eudocimus albus), a common bird species in Florida, has become increasingly urban, with many populations relying heavily on urban and suburban habitats, which may alter parasite transmission. …”
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