Condomini di montagna. Una riflessione sugli insediamenti e sull’abitare nei contesti periurbani di una città alpina by Cristina Mattiucci

“…By examining the settlement typology and the relationship between the people and the landscape where they have chosen to dwell, this paper investigates the territorial transformation processes in Roncegno Terme, a small town in the Italian province of Trento, which can be considered a paradigmatic context for metropolitan-mountain development. Starting from the model of housing that the town has been generating, we ask whether these processes manifest the features of a monofunctional residential transformation and examine the effects it may have on the transformation of the inhabited mountain and the genesis of spatial homogeneity and possible spatial inequalities.This reflection is based on a critical reading of field work carried out during an urban planning experience, and the case study is presented with the phenomenal and empirical data collected during a study about landscape perception, conceived as a structural survey to propose socially shared planning processes and territorial transformations.One of the main issues that this article tackles is the possible correlation between the shape of the newer buildings that have been erected in some areas of town and the transformation of a peri-urban mountain reality that tends to gradually take on the features of a dormitory town. …”
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Social context affects sequence modification learning in birdsong by Lioba Fortkord, Lena Veit

“…This form of adult plasticity does not require conspecifics as a model for imitation or to provide social feedback on song performance. …”
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The Effect of Rural Guide Plan on Objective Quality of Life among Rural Communities in Fariman County by Aliakbar Anabestani, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Fahime Jafari

“…The aim of this study is to emphasize the characteristics rural guide plans, which include: Improve the quality of housing, street network, land use and access to services, environmental rural its effects on the objective quality of life of the villagers tested. …”
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Did Bank Capital Regulation Exacerbate the Subprime Mortgage Crisis? by M. A. Petersen, M. C. Senosi, J. Mukuddem-Petersen, M. P. Mulaudzi, I. M. Schoeman

“…This contribution is the second in a series of papers on discrete-time modeling of bank capital regulation and its connection with the subprime mortgage crisis (SMC). …”
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Livelihood Vulnerability Index of Resettled Peasants Displaced by Land Acquisition of An Airport by Embun Sari, Joyo Winoto, Endriatmo Soetarto, Zaenal Asikin, Sri Fajar Ayu, Meutia Nauly

“…The study results show that the economic and sociological approaches allow the LVI model to reveal the economic, social, and cultural impacts of relocated farmers after 10 years of land acquisition. …”
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Leveraging Fog Computing for Scalable IoT Datacenter Using Spine-Leaf Network Topology by K. C. Okafor, Ifeyinwa E. Achumba, Gloria A. Chukwudebe, Gordon C. Ononiwu

“…This paper proposes an extended cloud IoT model that optimizes bandwidth while allowing edge devices (Internet-connected objects/devices) to smartly process data without relying on a cloud network. …”
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Seasonal Variations in the Structure and Function of the Gut Flora in Adult Male Rhesus Macaques Reared in Outdoor Colonies by Longbao Lv, Feiyan Zhang, Haimei Zhou, Wenxian Xiao, Yingzhou Hu, Wenchao Wang, Zhu Zhu, Fangming Zhu, Dongdong Qin, Xintian Hu

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Pattern of Decision-Making Evaluation in Urban Regeneration by jalal haghighi, saideh Zahra sadat zarabadi, mostafa behzadfar, mojtaba rafiyan

“…General Transportation and Access to Urban Management Safety and Health, Housing and Infrastructure.…”
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Transcending the urban–rural dichotomy: inequality in urban green space availability among urban neighbourhoods, urban villages and rural villages in Guangzhou, China by Fubin Luo, Yunzheng Zhang, Luyang Zhang

“…Neighbourhoods with high population density and sufficient job opportunities in UN and UV, as well as those with low housing prices, low-salary and low-educated jobs in UN and RV, are suffering from UGS inequality. …”
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Assessing urban quality of life using remote sensing and GIS (Case study: Urmia Urban Region) by ali khedmatzadeh, Bakhtaran Feizizadeh

“…Weights obtained for social dimensions, access to public, natural and physical services derived from network analysis model  are respectively 0.506, 0.323, 0.116 and 0.055. …”
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Antihyperglycemic Potential of Dried Powder Combination of Hygrophila auriculata and Cordia macleodii: In Vivo Study in Sprague Dawley Rats by Farooq M. Almutairi

“…This study examined the antihyperglycemic effect of metformin in a rat model of diabetes caused by the alloxan method for dried flower powder of H. auriculata and C. macleodii, both alone and in combination. …”
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Failure of colonization following gut microbiota transfer exacerbates DSS-induced colitis by Kevin L. Gustafson, Trevor R. Rodriguez, Zachary L. McAdams, Lyndon M. Coghill, Aaron C. Ericsson, Craig L. Franklin

“…To study the impact of differing specific pathogen-free gut microbiomes (GMs) on a murine model of inflammatory bowel disease, selected GMs were transferred using embryo transfer (ET), cross-fostering (CF), and co-housing (CH). …”
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The Regenerative Potential of Facial Nerve Motoneurons following Chronic Axotomy in Rats by Yusu Ni, Diyan Chen, Yi Jiang, Danhong Qiu, Wen Li, Huawei Li

“…Adult male Wistar rats were used to model either (i) facial nerve injury (axotomy) or (ii) reinjury (chronic axotomy followed by a second axotomy within 5 months). …”
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The importance of transportation networks and urban services in assessing the functional balance of human settlements: The case of the Makkah region in Saudi Arabia by Amani Derbali, Salma Dwidar, Amal Abdelsattar, Donia Abdelgawad, Abdallah Farhi

“…Our investigation highlights the limitations of the region’s urban structure and suggests solutions for addressing their root causes by comparing the current state of the region’s population, which houses 132 urban centers, and an alternative model based on a gravitational urban law utilizing Reilly’s law of retail gravitation (1931), which manipulates data relevant to population and transportation networks. …”
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The Ambivalent Identity of Eighteenth-Century London Clubs as a Prelude to Victorian Clublife by Valérie Capdeville

“…Some of the first political factions that started to meet in London taverns and coffee-houses during the restoration period fostered a spirit of dissent. …”
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How do predatory medical journals try to seduce and fool potential authors?: Analysis of an 18-months monitoring survey by van Loon Olaf R., van Loon Tom A.J.

“…They do so because authors have to pay them article processing charges and these are commonly their exclusive business model. Authors become ever more reluctant to publish in predatory journals because such journals are not considered as scientifically reliable and the articles in such journals are commonly not or hardly read (and even more rarely cited). …”
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Experimental Study and Numerical Simulation Analysis on Reinforcement of Mortise-Tenon Joints with Flat Steel Strips by Shurong Gan, Wen Pan, Hexian Su, Yucheng Jin, Chuanwei Zhu, Shibin Yu

“…By carrying out pseudo-static tests on the joints and building ABAQUS numerical model; the position where the mortise-tenon joints were to be reinforced by the steel plates was optimized for a comparative analysis into the test results on reinforced and unreinforced mortise-tenon joints and the numerically simulated bending moment-turning angle hysteresis curve, skeleton curve, energy-dissipating capacity, and rigidity degeneration curves. …”
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Application of Comprehensive Geophysical Prospecting Method in the Exploration of Coal Mined-Out Areas by Xiao Luo, Shuang Gong, Zhonggang Huo, Hongyan Li, Xinpin Ding

“…If the distribution law and influence scope of mined-out areas cannot be accurately explored and controlled, it will bring great potential safety hazards to subsequent coal mining and cause serious harm to adjacent houses, roads, bridges, railways, and so on. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) aerial survey is used to accurately acquire the three-dimensional model of the slope in the key area of Yuanbaoshan open-pit coal mine, which provides basic information for the real-time visualization of the open-pit mine and the establishment of the engineering geological research profile. …”
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Mechanical Performance Analysis of Steel Beam-Column Joints in Fabricated Multirise Steel Structures after Fire by Fang Liu, Xiuli Wang, Bin Cai, Xuguang Li, Liqi Yang

“…The local frame calculation model is established through the finite element software Abaqus. …”
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Editorial by Ann-Kristin Kölln, Antony Mason, Maria Lenk, Jörg Tremmel, Markus Rutsche

“…Rather surprisingly, their various statistical models show no noteworthy effect of any of the party characteristics on the representation of young MPs in the European Parliament, 1979-2019. …”
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