Genetic analysis of normal human phenotypes within the people of the British Isles by Meena, D

“…</p> <p>In summary, I have taken advantage of a sampling criterion of having four grandparents from the same rural area, minimizing the risk of spurious genotype- phenotype correlations that are due to population stratification. …”

Machine Learning Method for Forecasting Weather Needed For Crop Water Demand Estimations in Low-Resource Settings Using A Case Study in Morocco by Sheline, Carolyn, Winter, Amos

“…Local, low-cost weather prediction services are needed to enable optimal irrigation scheduling and increase crop productivity for rural farmers in low-resource settings. This work proposes a machine learning approach to predict the weather inputs needed to calculate crop water demand, namely evapotranspiration and precipitation. …”
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Transient Stability Guarantees for Ad Hoc DC Microgrids by Cavanagh, Kathleen, Belk, Julia A., Turitsyn, Konstantin

“…They are designed to be installed and operated by individual communities - without central oversight - and as a result are well-suited to addressing the lack of electricity access in rural and developing areas. However, ad hoc networks are not widely used, and a major technical challenge impeding their development (and deployment) is the difficulty of certifying network stability without a priori knowledge of the topology. …”
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Small bamboo shelter by Vimalatulasi Vetrivel

“…Bamboo is one of the oldest and most resourceful construction materials with numerous purposes in the field of construction, particularly in rural areas. It characterized by high strength and low weight, and is effortlessly worked using simple tools. …”
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Remote monitoring and control of wind turbine simulator (a1026-131) by Yin, Min Htet

“…Most of the wind turbine systems are installed far from the rural area to avoid any obstacle in the wind direction. …”
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Communing with others: performing voices by Hällsten, Johanna

“…This article concerns how we can use sound and listening practices to foster a different relationship with the animals in rural environments. This is done through two artworks Rapture (2014) and Flow (2019) created by the author, and how they explored ideas of voicing, translation and noise to push the human body to become more sensitised, and other to itself. …”
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Me or the machine, who decides? Acceptance spillover of digital automation for a sustainable transition by Vrain, E

“…</p> <p>As part of a living lab of UK households with wide ranging characteristics (household composition, socio-economic, digital engagement, home type and ownership, rural/urban location), this research will conduct two distinct trials which automate daily life activities. …”

Infrastructure decision preferences and the influence of social justice education by Van-Hein Sackey, C, Cao, C, Nock, D, Armanios, D, Davis, A

“…Since infrastructure investments are often allocated to urban areas, it is important for stakeholders to equally prioritize rural electrification in their efforts to achieve universal electrification. …”

Can participation promote psychological ownership of a shared resource? An intervention study of community-based safe water infrastructure by Ambuehl, B, Kunwar, BM, Schertenleib, A, Marks, SJ, Inauen, J

“…We conducted a nonrandomized cluster-based controlled trial with pre–post intervention assessment (N = 369) in 33 villages in rural Nepal, where safe water infrastructure is shared. …”

Perspectives of New York State residents on deer management, hunting, and predator reintroduction by Blossey, B, Brice, L, Dalaba, J, Hare, D

“…Contrary to commonly held beliefs, preferences for deer management or predator restoration did not differ among urban and rural respondents. This common ground needs to be reflected in deer management in the state due to legal obligations to represent interests of all residents. …”

CRISPR-Cas9-mediated gene editing of MYB28 genes impair glucoraphanin accumulation of Brassica oleracea in the field by Neequaye, M, Stavnstrup, S, Harwood, W, Lawrenson, T, Hundleby, P, Irwin, J, Troncoso-Rey, P, Saha, S, Traka, MH, Mithen, R, Ostergaard, L

“…We describe the first myb28 knockout mutant in B. oleracea, and the first CRISPR field trial in the United Kingdom approved and regulated by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs after the reclassification of gene-edited crops as genetically modified organisms by the European Court of Justice on July 25, 2018. …”

Blogs vs vlogs: evaluation of chinese audience resonance in slow tourism by Wang, Meng, Abd Rahman, Azmawani, Abdul Aziz, Yuhanis, Adzharuddin, Nor Azura

“…Slow tourism has been implemented in rural areas and small towns in China for over a decade. …”
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Well-being driven: The key entrepreneurial trait leads to the entrepreneurial success by Hassan, Mohamad Ghozali, Amjad, Tayyab, Mohd Sharif, Kamal Imran, Ismail, Mohd Azril, Kamantasha, Zakaria

“…The key decisions include, entering into the niche of organic rice aiming to serve people with healthy food; spreading awareness about the benefits of consuming organic; working towards and achieving organic certification; uplifting the rural economy aiming at societal well-being; and not wasting natural resources aiming at environmental well-being. …”
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Dynamics of classified forests in the urban district of Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina Faso by Francoise, Valea, Karambiri, Bienvenue Lawankilea Chantal Noumpoa, Sanou, Korotimi

“…If the phenomenon is recurrent in rural areas, urban forests are considered to be land reserves that are exposed to exploitation rather than to the preservation of the environment and its biodiversity. …”
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Knowledge of autism spectrum disorder among parents in Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia by Diah, Nazihah Mohmad

“…Future studies should consider reducing the number of items and include questions about sociodemographic status, such as rural areas or urban areas, to explore variables that influence ASD knowledge. …”
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Flexible batch electrodialysis for low-cost solar-powered brackish water desalination by He, Wei, Le Henaff, Anne-Claire, Amrose, Susan, Buonassisi, Tonio, Peters, Ian Marius, Winter, Amos G

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Globally, 1.6 billion people in rural regions face water scarcity. Expanding freshwater access via brackish groundwater desalination can provide additional resources to address this challenge. …”
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Nuptiality in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia by Dommaraju, Premchand, Agadjanian, Victor

“…Within these countries marriage rates showed significant variation by educational achievement, and a much smaller variation by rural-urban residence. In Kazakhstan, ethnic differences in marriage age—Russians marrying earlier than the native Kazakhs—began to narrow. …”
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From theoretical models to practical deployment: A perspective and case study of opportunities and challenges in AI-driven cardiac auscultation research for low-income settings by Krones, F, Walker, B

“…Moreover, the literature review discusses how emerging human-centred deployment research is a promising avenue for overcoming deployment barriers. (2) A predictive AI screening model is developed and tested in a case study on heart murmur detection in rural Brazil. Our binary Bayesian ResNet model leverages overlapping log mel spectrograms of patient heart sound recordings and integrates demographic data and signal features via XGBoost to optimise performance. …”

Which context matters for capturing energy needs? A multi-level analysis by Puranasamriddhi, A, Trotter, PA, Parikh, P, Batidzirai, B, Brophy, A

“…Here, ordinal logistic regression models are applied to novel survey data (N=1,016) on household and small business energy needs in rural Uganda and Zambia to analyse the extent to which current and aspirational energy consumption differ at the national, regional, district, and village levels. …”

Machine learning approaches reveal highly heterogeneous air quality co-benefits of the energy transition by Zhang, Da, Wang, Qingyi, Song, Shaojie, Chen, Simiao, Li, Mingwei, Shen, Lu, Zheng, Siqi, Cai, Bofeng, Wang, Shenhao, Zheng, Haotian

“…Applications of the framework with Chinese data reveal highly heterogeneous health benefits of avoiding premature mortality by reducing fossil fuel use in different sectors and regions in China with a mean of $19/tCO2 and a standard deviation of $38/tCO2. Reducing rural and residential coal use offers the highest co-benefits with a mean of $151/tCO2. …”
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