“…Listening again to his music allows us to hear the shifting dynamics of American families, changing notions of masculinity, gay migration to urban areas, the sexual politics of Gay Liberation, and HIV/AIDS activism. …”

“…These archaeological investigations covered a surface area of 3 000 m2, and were correlated with other documentary sources to provide new information on the origins of the town and the development of a quarter located at the heart of the urban space,...…”

“…PETLab projects include disaster preparedness games and sports with the Red Cross, the urban activist game Re:Activism and the physical/fiscal sport Budgetball. …”

“…The incidence of some cancer types in Chinese urban areas, such as colorectal, prostate, kidney and bladder cancers, is similar to that in developed countries or regions where the incidence of cancer is highly associated with obesity and westernised lifestyles. …”

“…This book gets its specific flavour from the telling of small incidents and of everyday practices — rural in Ğabal ‘Āmil, urban in Nağaf and Damascus — that Amīn experienced himself. …”

“…Nor can we ignore the socio-political dimensions entailed therein and the persisting inequalities in the provision of clean water and sanitation across the globe in urban as well as rural areas. Thereby, water may both be the target and the source of conflict. …”

“…Chapters report findings and examine policy implications of research on such topics as users' perceptions of the benefits of Internet caf ̌use in Jordan; ICT job training in Rwanda; understanding user motivations and risk factors for overuse and Internet addiction in China; the effect of technology use on social inclusion among low-income urban youth in Argentina; productive uses of technologies by grassroots organizations in Peru; use of technology by migrant ethnic minority Burmese women in Thailand to maintain ties with their culture and their family and friends; and women's limited access to the most ubiquitous type of venue, cybercafš, in practically all countries studied -- and quite severely in some places, e.g. …”

“…An OverView is presented here of the studies conducted at this prestigious site, where as a rural, then an urban space developed. the traces left by humankind from prehistoric times to the 19th century have accumulated. …”

“…They also explore the relations between Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors, the role of the Soviet state in shaping how Jews understood and responded to their changing life conditions, and the ways in which different social groups within the Soviet Jewish population—residents of the newly-annexed territories, the urban elite, small-town Jews, older generations with pre-Soviet memories, and younger people brought up entirely under Soviet rule—behaved. …”

“…We judged the quality of the evidence to be very low for campaigns in the media, for campaigns to promote walking and cycling to work, and for community-scale and street-scale urban design and land use policies, meaning that we cannot draw conclusions about effects of these interventions. 3. …”

“…Flyvbjerg takes us behind the scenes to uncover the real politics--and real_rationality--of policy-making, administration, and planning in an internationally_acclaimed project for environmental improvement, auto traffic reduction, land use, and urban renewal. The action takes place in the Danish city of Aalborg, but it could be anywhere. …”
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“…Es va concloure que els residents en municipis urbans presentaven major quantitat de creences pseudocientífiques que els residents en zones rurals. …”
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“…From 1854 to 2007, the SRI evolved in parallel with urban changes and population transformation. This longevity is unique amongst real estate companies of the 19th Century. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…10.11.7 Advanced Concepts 518 -- Further Readings 519 -- Glossary 521 -- 11 Remote Sensing Satellites 524 -- 11.1 Remote Sensing -- An Overview 524 -- 11.1.1 Aerial Remote Sensing 525 -- 11.1.2 Satellite Remote Sensing 525 -- 11.2 Classification of Satellite Remote Sensing Systems 526 -- 11.2.1 Optical Remote Sensing Systems 526 -- 11.2.2 Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing Systems 528 -- 11.2.3 Microwave Remote Sensing Systems 529 -- 11.3 Remote Sensing Satellite Orbits 531 -- 11.4 Remote Sensing Satellite Payloads 531 -- 11.4.1 Classification of Sensors 531 -- 11.4.2 Sensor Parameters 534 -- 11.5 Passive Sensors 535 -- 11.5.1 Passive Scanning Sensors 536 -- 11.5.2 Passive Non-scanning Sensors 539 -- 11.6 Active Sensors 540 -- 11.6.1 Active Non-scanning Sensors 540 -- 11.6.2 Active Scanning Sensors 540 -- 11.7 Types of Images 542 -- 11.7.1 Primary Images 542 -- 11.7.2 Secondary Images 542 -- 11.8 Image Classification 545 -- 11.9 Image Interpretation 546 -- 11.9.1 Interpreting Optical and Thermal Remote Sensing Images 546 -- 11.9.2 Interpreting Microwave Remote Sensing Images 547 -- 11.9.3 GIS in Remote Sensing 547 -- 11.10 Applications of Remote Sensing Satellites 548 -- 11.10.1 Land Cover Classification 548 -- 11.10.2 Land Cover Change Detection 549 -- 11.10.3 Water Quality Monitoring and Management 550 -- 11.10.4 Flood Monitoring 551 -- 11.10.5 Urban Monitoring and Development 552 -- 11.10.6 Measurement of Sea Surface Temperature 552 -- 11.10.7 Deforestation 553 -- 11.10.8 Global Monitoring 553 -- 11.10.9 Predicting Disasters 555 -- 11.10.10 Other Applications 558 -- 11.11 Major Remote Sensing Missions 558 -- 11.11.1 Landsat Satellite System 558 -- 11.11.2 SPOT Satellite System 561 -- 11.11.3 Radarsat Satellite System 564 -- 11.11.4 Indian Remote Sensing Satellite System 565 -- 11.12 Future Trends 573 -- Further Readings 574 -- Glossary 575 -- 12 Weather Satellites 577 -- 12.1 Weather Forecasting -- An Overview 577 -- 12.2 Weather Forecasting Satellite Fundamentals 580.…”

“…The book takes a special interest in studying the academic and disciplinary implications of this debate: what does it mean for humanities, cultural studies, urban studies, and, particularly for Iberian studies to take seriously the ecological crisis and the threat that the growth paradigm means? …”

“…Vertebrates can also transmit serious zoonoses, highlighting the role of some carnivorous animals in rabies dissemination or the spread of rodent borne diseases in several rural and urban areas. Moreover, the significance of other food borne zoonoses such as taeniasis, trichinellosis or toxoplasmosis may not been underestimated.According to WHO, FAO and OIE guidelines an emerging zoonotic disease can be defined asa zoonosis that is newly recognized or newly evolved, or that has occurred previously but shows an increase of incidence or expansion in geographical, host or vector range. …”

“…Additionally, and more specifically related to Tirana, artists and citizens of all sorts have, over the years, been involved in various types of revolt, expressing their disagreements with the ongoing destruction of public property in the name of "modernization and development": a movement led by local political powers through financially and strategically motivated processes of architectural cannibalism - not only at the expense of erasing Albanian cultural heritage or long-term residents' habitats, but also at the expense of taking human lives under the pretext of "urbanization". The most obvious instance of this economy of destruction was the complex of buildings linked to the National Theater of Albania in downtown Tirana that has served as a symbolic and material place of citizens' resistance: for more than two years, together with local artists, they have been opposing the government's plans to demolish the old complex in order to build a new one - until this finally happened in Spring 2020, in the midst of the ongoing COVID19 pandemic. …”

“…Diversos estudis ho confirmen fent referència a l'increment de la població que s'ha estat presenciant en els darrers anys, de manera que es preveu que al 2050 el 66% de la població mundial habitarà els centres urbans (United Nations, 2014). Això genera importants desafiaments per a les ciutats, com per exemple, l’impacte mediambiental, el desproveïment dels serveis, la inseguretat o la pèrdua de confiança per part dels ciutadans. …”
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