As the first non-Western nation in contemporary history to become a major industrialized economic power, Japan is central to the debate on cultural relativism in psychiatric nosologies, and the study of eating disorders in Japan contributes to the complex discussion of the impact of culture and history on the experience, diagnosis and treatment of such disorders (R. Gordon 2001; Palmer 2001). W...

Abstract Analyzing 118 countries between 1960 and 2016, we find that higher temperatures correlate with urbanization rates in the long run, where this relationship is much more pronounced than any short-term linkage. The long-run global warming also conditional upon country-specific conditions. This association especially relevant poorer agriculture-dependent an urban bias as well initially non...

Abstract Urbanization is treated in the literature as a process that occurs along with economic development. We consider an overlapping generations model two regions, designated ‘urban’ and ‘rural’. Concentration of population to urban areas involves inflows from rural areas, thereby exacerbating congestion. Inverse agglomeration economies exert negative effects on income, consequently increasi...

OBJECTIVES To explore the association between the place of death and the level of urbanization within the communities where the elderly were residing at the time of their death. METHODS A retrospective, population-based, cross-sectional study set in Taiwan, involving a total of 697,814 eligible deaths occurred between 1995 and 2004, among elderly people (aged 65 years or above). RESULTS Aft...

the state which in principle must be the guardian of the ownership of persons in society, in some cases takes private property for the purpose of executing general policies, challenges the ownership of persons in the name of superior interest, and acts to take the persons' property. now days, due to expansion of urbanization, this act has since become ever so expanding, and involves import...

River systems are valuable to human beings; meanwhile, they are intensively influenced by human activities, especially urbanization. In this study, based on the data derived from topographic maps and remote sensing images, the temporal and spatial change of river system geomorphology in the Taihu Region over the past 50 years was investigated in conjunction with urbanization. Results demonstrat...

Global urbanization is a vital process shaping terrestrial ecosystems but its effects on forest soil carbon (C) dynamics are still not well defined. To clarify the effects of urbanization on soil organic carbon (SOC) variation, 306 soil samples were collected and analyzed under two urban–rural gradients, defined according to human disturbance time and ring road development in Changchun, northea...

Valenti, J.L.; Grothues, T.M., and Able, K.W., 2017. Estuarine fish communities along a spatial urbanization gradient. In: Buchanan, G.A.; Belton, T.J., and Paudel, B. (eds.), A Comprehensive Assessment of Barnegat Bay–Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 78, pp. 254–268. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. The human population surrounding Barnegat ...