Nutritional habits between urban and rural population differ as much as life style and socioeconomic standards of these populations. In Croatia, rural populations are mostly live stock producers. Their nutrition frequently depends on their own production, which includes high quantity of cured meat products, eggs and dairy products. Data were obtained from longitudinal the Croatian Adult health ...

Since the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development State Administration Cultural Heritage convened protection national historical cultural cities Chinese towns villages, many places in China began to develop historic villages reconstruction projects. However, some projects were carried out without relevant expertise, resulting destruction buildings. This paper will illustrate propose sol...

Over the next thirty years, the world’s population is expected to grow by nearly one-third, but this growth will be highly concentrated in the urban areas of poor, developing countries (United Nations, 2002). Of the anticipated 2 billion persons to be added to the world’s total by the year 2030, fully 1.9 billion are expected to reside in the cities and towns of Africa, Asia, and Latin America ...

BACKGROUND In 2010, a 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) replaced a 7-valent vaccine (PCV7) that contained all PCV7 serotypes plus 6 additional serotypes (PCV6+). We conducted annual surveys from 2008 to 2012 to determine the effect of PCV13 on colonization by pneumococcal serotypes. METHODS We obtained nasopharyngeal swabs for pneumococcal identification and serotyping from res...

Urban planning and change in the last century has been guided by concepts of Modernity rooted in the Age of Enlightenment that placed the needs of "rational man" at the core of human endeavors of all kinds. Yet, rather than leading to aesthetically beautiful cities characterized by sustainable resource utilization processes, the anthropocentric approach to urban and economic development has cre...

The global management of complex urban environments require flexible Information Systems able of adapting to different needs of private and institutional agents related to preservation and sustainability of Cultural Heritage. Heterogeneity of formats and sources makes difficult the transfer of digital information, which is increased by nontextual support. 3D models provide a support enabling re...

Populations of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus), the vector of dengue and urban yellow fever (YF), have reinfested some urban areas of Bolivia (I-3). While both dengue and YF outbreaks can occur in Ae. aegypri-infested cities and villages, the probability of a YF outbreak is perhaps greater, because that virus is present in a forest cycle throughout much of Bolivia (I, 4). while dengue is not known to ...

Beside the enormous grow of Chinas mega-cities, also small cities and big villages show up an urban sprawl that makes a monitoring essential. Especially in the eastern part of the country, forced by the economic growth, the sprawl of urban fabric is extreme. This causes a need for a frequently and rapid monitoring in order to take pace in mapping and documentation. The typical turn rate of coun...

The livelihoods of Chinese rural households are undergoing a transformation amid urbanization. While participation in the urban economy has improved rural living standards, rural income has consistently lagged behind urban income, and a broader prosperity gap persists between urban and rural areas. How to increase rural income and reduce the rural-urban gap remains a major challenge for the Chi...

The large amount of money spent and the great number of travelers depicts the importance of tourism. Tourists travel to and from all areas around both hemispheres searching for a variety of experiences. Tourism industry has developed positively and has increased in different ways, regarding its type or scale. Therefore, tourists and tourism industry develop accordingly and frequently very fast,...