Abstract After roughly 20 years since the emergence of urban scholarship in same-sex sexualities South Africa, it is worthwhile considering how some concerns that originally animated have evolved and also such are today reflected differently away from primary cities (where much earlier research was conducted). In this commentary, I explore unique history Stellenbosch, a university town/secondar...

in today's cities, especially metropolises, the issue of identity and its transformation has become one of the most important issues among urban authorities and designers. mean while, mashhad as the second religious metropolises in the world has an identity- causing and effective role among islamic cities of iran in recent decades, the amount of urban construction, especially in central pa...

This article explores city intersections as intelligence nodes using high-bandwidth, low-latency services for providing privacy-preserving smart applications. COSMOS testbed experiments edge-computing-based artificial-intelligence techniques are reported, monitoring of pedestrians, cloud-connected vehicles, and traffic management.

Bioavailable Sr and detrital Nd isotopes are important tools for archaeological provenance. To apply provenance, regional isotope databases baselines generally needed. For the vast Silk Road regions of Mesopotamia, Iran, Central Asia, detailed isotopic distribution patterns essential determining provenance may not become available in short term due to severe deficiency data. In present work, we...

The lead trade associations of the bio-pharma and semiconductor industries have differed systematically in their roles facilitating development innovation networks between Shanghai Shenzhen, two prominent high-tech metropolises China. Divergent associational stem from variations regional state policy regime that has exerted differential shaping influence on structure social cleavages strength r...

The scope of this study was to correlate suicide mortality with health indicators and work in six Brazilian metropolises: Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It was an ecological study, the outcome of which is the death rate from suicide in the historical series from 2002 to 2010, and the independent variables are the indicators of occupational activity...