In Search of the Promised Land: County-Level Disadvantage and Low Birth Weight among Black Mothers of the Great Migration by Vu, Cecilia, Arcaya, Mariana C., Kawachi, Ichiro, Williams, David R.

“…This study measured the association between destination county disadvantage and odds of low birth weight during the last decade of the Great Migration. We used the US Census from 1970 as well as the birth records of first-time Black mothers who migrated from the South collected through the National Center of Health Statistics from 1973 to 1980 (n = 154,145). …”
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new urban giants : the ultimate skyscrapers / by Spirito, Gianpaola, author 496164, Terranova, Antonino, 1942-, author editor 656235

“…They are rising in drovers all over the world, symbols of power whose superhuman expression lies in their gargantuan scale alone. The record of the world's tallest building, which had shifted from west to east by the end of teh last millenium, is now competed for between Dubai and Taipei. …”

Understanding sudden larch death – from epidemiology to host resistance by Dun, H

“…Older stands with >95% mortality had occasional very healthy trees at least seven years after first reported infection. …”

Slip deficit in central Nepal: omen for a repeat of the 1344 AD earthquake? by Bollinger, L., Tapponnier, Paul, Sapkota, S. N., Klinger, Y.

“…If so, the whole megathrust system in Nepal broke in a sequence of earthquakes that lasted less than three centuries, with ruptures that propagated up to the surface from east to west. …”
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Community noise measure via crowd sourcing by Lim, Yun Jie

“…Machine, traffic, human and lastly the simulation of trees and their possible noise mitigating effects. …”
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