Cities are the foundation of urban life, and these 4 key definitions--global city, metropolis, megacity and megalopolis--help us differentiate their importance.
What are its characteristics? A: Our experience in epidemic control is accumulated through time. So far, what we have learned from this disease is that it is not as dangerous as SARS, assuming the patients are given the best treatment. SARS had a mortality rate of about 10%, that is to...
characteristics evaluate the pocket parks from users' perspective and to identify the relative importance of different park features. Specifically, this study tried to answer the following questions: (1) How do citizens' demographic characteristics influence their satisfaction and usage of pocket parks?
While there are still legions of foreign merchants and traders in town, the city is part of the enormous Pearl River Delta manufacturing region, which means it’s a bit dirtier and more rough-and-tumble than other cities. In other words, it has yet to receive the sort of international scr...
These sources of supply, due to the specific characteristics of the water and/or the degree of pollution, must be subjected to cycles of purification treatments necessary to modify its characteristics and improve its quality. In this respect an overall, precise insight can be deduced from Huerta-...
been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help of his girlfriend, he succeeds in having himself declared insane and sent to the asylum. There he slowly tracks down and interviews the witnesses - but things are stranger than they seem .....
The particular characteristics of the MCMA in terms of its high level of workers in the informal sector and the high population density make it an interesting test case. In contrast to other regions, air pollution levels in the MCMA did not significantly decrease during the lockdowns, see ...
In these risk analyses, it is common practice to use the estimated damage due to flooding as a proxy [5]. The estimated flood damage includes the direct and ephemeral impact of flooding, and does not include the associated human health influences which are perennial and implicit. The quality ...
A word from NDIA's president discipline, masint involves the application of complicated analytical Intelligence issues for Congress MASINT Measurements and signature intelligence is "technically derived intelligence that detects, locates, tracks, identifies, and describes the unique characteristics of fixed an...
Paul Salopek spent three years crossing the communist country on foot while witnessing the forces reshaping it. Read the latest adventure in his bold quest to walk the entire world.