Cities, particularly in economically developing countries face multiple major challenges, including a rapid increase in urban populations with limited access to social services, burgeoning municipal waste generation, inefficient infrastructures and air pollution....
Socio-spatial differentiation has become a major problem of China’s post-reform urban development. Is there a new model of the Chinese city in the making? This study examines residential segregation in the three largest Chinese cities – Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou – using 2000 population ...
(Byun and Schere, 2006). The CMAQ model has been used to forecast daily air quality several days ahead in major cities of China (http://www.wuranyubao.cn/). Due to the uncertainties regarding emission estimates, and the complexity of the atmospheric processes concerning particulate pollution...
Three university students in Santiago, Chile, have developed a plant-powered device to charge their mobile phones. 出自-2016年12月听力原文 They say it is healthier than green tea and could be sold for a price that is three to four times higher than the price of green tea. 出自-2016年12...
MPM - Mantención, Proyectos y Montajes, a leading provider of crane and lifting solutions in Chile, has acquired the Tadano EVOLT eGR-1000XLL-1, during the bauma trade show in Munich. This milestone marks MPM as the first customer Read more ... P&C Projects Emerges L1 Bid...
Here, we extend this to 63 countries and find strong clustering in the data, consistent with geographic norms spreading across local regions. Another factor suspected of driving sleep duration across countries has been latitude, as suggested by sleep durations recorded from South to North Chile42. ...
The highest EC concentrations at the Rural site were observed in February with a median of 0.27 μg m−3. Considering the location of the Rural site, the higher EC concentrations are not surprising as the place is located closer to the cities and the highway than the other two sites. ...
In El Salvador, for the private retail pharmacy, the ratio to IRP was 3.72 and the ratio to ADF prices was 23.44. When generic beclometasone was compared with the IRP, a price ratio of <3 was found in the private sector of all countries except for Chile, where the ratio was found to...
There are two major limitations in this study that could be addressed in future research. First, the analysis focused on a relatively small sample of patients; second, it was based on a retrospective observational analysis, which likely resulted in the loss of some indeterminate cases. Further ...
This is in agreement with analysis for the city of Santiago, in Chile (Romero et al., 1999). 4.3. Urban forms, urban growth and inter-urban connection Beyond the geographical context, urban design and urban growth are key players in the mutual intensification of UHIs and UPIs. Indeed, ...