Environmental Monitoring Through IoT-Enabled Sensor Networks: A Comprehensive Approach by Zhang Hao

“…Subsequently, there is a need to guarantee supply of filtered drinking water for individuals both in urban areas and towns. Water Quality Monitoring (WQM) is a practical and proficient framework intended to screen drinking water quality which utilizes IoT innovation. …”
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A novel MAC protocol for power line communication with integrated NFC for smart home applications by G. Haridoss, J. Arun Pandian, K. Sivaranjani, L. Thanga Mariappan

“…However, with a PLC chipset, data transmission is managed locally within towns and inside homes. To avoid inconveniences such as noise, significant signal reduction, and time period fluctuations, a novel Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is proposed to improve the stability of the PLC network and data transmission efficiency. …”
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Repenser la ville : la construction des identités urbaines à travers la publicité touristique by Julie Manfredini

“…This well thought promotion is suggested by several actors, close collaborators of touristic offices like towns, tourism regional comity or local tourism associations, tend to give value to cities’ identity in order to face competition and distinguish themselves from nearby destinations. …”
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Fra armesterke bondesønner til akademikerbarn by Paul Larsson

“…Today, however, police students generally come from towns and smaller cities, and as much as 70 percent of them have parents with university or college degrees. …”
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The development of Niška Banja as a health and tourist destination in the kingdom of Yugoslavia by Velojić Dalibor Z.

“…Over time, the Niška Banja attracted the urban elite of Niš and the surrounding towns, who, in competition with each other, gave the spa their stamp by building new facilities.…”
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Epidemiology of subclinical mastitis in family size dairy farms in hatay region by Yaşar Ergün, Özkan Aslantaş, Zafer Cantekin

“…For this purpose, California Mastitis Test (CMT) was performed to 160 cows (640 quarters) in different localities belong to 11 towns in Hatay. A total of 262 milk samples from 115 (71.9 %) mastitic cows were investigated for aerobic pathogenic microorganism. …”
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Identity of the Courtyard in Traditional and Contemporary Erbil City Houses by Rawaz Abdullah, Aisha Saied, Dlman Azeez

“…This study highlights the significant differences between courtyard designs in Kurdish towns and urban houses. In traditional homes, courtyards play a crucial role in ensuring privacy, comfort, and functionality, shaped by human behavior and influenced by religious and cultural norms. …”
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Disruptively regional: How women in Regional, Rural and Remote communities ‘imagine’ with and through digital and social media by Tara BRABAZON, Jacqueline EWART

“… Too often, regional, rural and remote cities and towns are configured in deficit to the metropolis.  …”
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Urbanization, loneliness and mental health model - A cross-sectional network analysis with a representative sample by Dominika Ochnik, Bartłomiej Buława, Paulina Nagel, Marek Gachowski, Marcin Budziński

“…ANOVA results showed that city residents had better mental health indices than residents of villages and small towns. The network approach revealed that urbanization was one of the most influential nodes and played the role of a bridge between all other nodes. …”
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Impact of inter-city interactions on disease scaling by Nathalia A. Loureiro, Camilo R. Neto, Jack Sutton, Matjaž Perc, Haroldo V. Ribeiro

“…These findings suggest that such towns may experience improved health outcomes and socioeconomic conditions as they grow and become more connected. …”
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Understanding Technology Use During the COVID-19 Pandemic Through the Lens of Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: An International, Multi-Centre Study by Hannah R. Marston, Vishnunarayan Girishan Prabhu, Loredana Ivan

“…From a community perspective, individuals living in rural areas and small towns reported significantly lower loneliness scores and higher well-being scores than those living in metros and cities. …”
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Centra, zázemí a periferie hospodářského života raně novověké společnosti v zemích České koruny. O smyslu hospodářských dějin raného novověku by Václav Ledvinka

“…The second probe shows the possibilities and benefits of analysing data from contemporary tax records and lists of serfdom duties and corvées for understanding the function and status of cities and towns in the South Bohemian domain of the lords of Hradec. …”
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Heterogeneity in ‘High Fertility’ Societies. Insights From Compositional Demography by Hilde Bras

“…The 'Traditional 2' subpopulation had on average 7.2 children per woman, more often lived in towns, married significantly later, and had more equal gender relations. …”
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THE IMPLICATIONS OF TERRORISM ON FOOD PRICES IN NIGERIA by LILIAN NNENNE AKHANOLU, HEZEKIAH AMAMIZO OGUNNUBI

“… Nigeria as a nation has been overshadowed by terrorism since 2009 in Borno state where it started as a fight against western education until it aggravated to the destruction of lives and properties in several towns and cities of the country. Farmers are not left out in this mayhem as some were killed and injured on their farms, thus creating a scenario where people are afraid to go to their farms for fear of being maimed and killed. …”
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By Canoe and Speedboat: The Recent Expansion of the Ìlàjẹ Fishing Trade by Kayọde Joseph Onipede

“…Between 2009 and 2013, new trading routes emerged along the road from Igbokoda to Araromi via Atijere on the western side to Ògun and Lagos state, passing through towns like Ipárè, Oko-Ńlá, Obinehin, Etíkàn, Erékè, and Àbòtó. …”
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Effect of Fireworks, Chinese New Year and the COVID-19 Lockdown on Air Pollution and Public Attitudes by Peter Brimblecombe, Yonghang Lai

“…Firework smoke is now most evident in smaller outlying cities and towns. The holiday effect, a reduction in pollutant concentrations when normal work activities are curtailed, is only apparent for NO2 in the holiday week in Wuhan (2015−2020), but not Beijing. …”
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Rag-Pickers as Benefactors and Beneficiaries of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Brief Literature Review by G Venkatesh

“… Ragpickers have long led a marginalised, subliminal and deprived existence, and have silently gone about contributing to ‘informal waste recycling’, diverting in many cities and towns, over half of the recyclable wastes from dumpsites to the technosphere. …”
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Dynamics of urban green spaces in a megacity under the green economy framework and their influencing factors: a case study of Chongqing urban area by Jing Ge, Yinghong Shi

“…The primary patterns of this reduction include edge erosion in the inner suburbs, inward contraction in central urban areas, and minor perforation in new towns.DiscussionThe analysis indicates that economic drivers, such as industrial development and economic growth, are the dominant factors contributing to the reduction of urban green spaces. …”
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Evaluating Urban Community Sustainability by Integrating Housing, Ecosystem Services, and Landscape Configuration by Liang Zhou, Haowei Mu, Bao Wang, Bo Yuan, Xuewei Dang

“…The communities of high sustainability level are mainly located in both sides of the Pearl River and emerging urban areas, while those of medium sustainability level are distributed sporadically in the study area and those of low sustainability level are concentrated in old towns. (3) Community transformation cannot be accomplished at one step. …”
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Civic Activity in Non-Governmental Organizations for Ensuring Security of Local Communities by Kamila Jakubczak-Krawczyńska, Joanna Majchrzyk-Mikuła

“…In local communities, especially small towns and villages, there is also an increased demand for support from non-state entities to meet the security needs of residents. …”
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