Baylisascaris procyonis, a common roundworm of raccoons, causes severe or fatal human infections, often in suburban areas. To evaluate the effectiveness of a baiting strategy requiring minimal labor, we distributed medicated baits near raccoon latrines in suburban Chicago, Illinois, USA. This strategy lowered B. procyonis prevalence in raccoons, possibly reducing risk to humans.

Reflectance characteristics of human settlements influence energy fluxes in the physical environment as well as our ability to monitor urban growth with satellite-based sensors. Spectral heterogeneity at the scales of 10 to 30 meters complicate the traditional land cover classifications derived from moderate resolution satellite imagery in urban and suburban areas. In this study we consider pop...

Sulfate-containing aerosol (SCA) dry deposition at the highway intersection, coastal location, and suburban area in Taiwan were analyzed and compared. Sampling was accomplished with a surrogate surface technique. Samples particles were coated with barium chloride (BaCl(2)) in a vacuum evaporator and then exposed to a relative humidity of 85% for 2 h to form distinctive products of SCAs. Treated...

II. MEASUREMENT SYSTEM SETUP AND CAMPAIGNS Abstract—The power delay profiles (PDPs), tap Ricean factors, and tap Doppler spectra due to channel small scale effects are derived and studied in this paper based on the wideband measurements performed in rural and suburban with 100 MHz bandwidth at 5.25 GHz and 2.45 GHz for beyond 3G (B3G) link and system level simulations. The measurements analyzed...

How does the location of new jobs in a metropolitan area affect the suburban housing market? Economists expect job growth to increase the demand for housing, and furthermore , they expect the increase in demand to be greater in communities near the new jobs than in more distant ones. Moreover, growth in jobs with higher wages should increase the demand for housing more than growth in jobs with ...

OBJECTIVE The obesity epidemic disproportionately affects minority and poor children. Negative perceptions of neighborhood safety in poor communities may affect overweight by inhibiting children's physical activity. This study investigates the degree to which parents in a poor inner city vs. a middle-class suburban community limit their children's outdoor activity because of neighborhood safety...

Urbanisation has created an environment with a broad spectrum of habitats of differing quality for birds. Understanding habitat characteristics is necessary for effective conservation of species in urban environments. We investigated the vegetation requirements of a small, shrub-nesting, Australian bird, the Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus), and the relative quality of urban habitats in the ...

Urbanisation currently threatens over one-third of the world’s known amphibian species. The main threats of urbanisation to amphibian populations are habitat loss, habitat fragmentation and isolation, and degradation of habitat quality. A complex array of interacting biotic and abiotic factors impact amphibians in urban and urbanising landscapes. These can lead to a decrease in species richness...

This study investigated the dietary habits and food preferences of elementary school students. The survey was conducted by means of a questionnaire distributed to 4th and 5th grade elementary school students (400 boys and 400 girls) in urban and suburban areas of Daejeon. The results of this study were as follows: male students in urban areas ate breakfast, unbalanced diets, and dairy products ...

This bulletin is based on an Investigative Panel project conducted by Professor Peter Newton, Professor Shane Murray, Professor Ron Wakefield, Ms Catherine Murphy, Ms Lee-Anne Khor and Mr Tom Morgan at the AHURI Swinburne-Monash and RMIT Research Centres. The research articulates a new development model for the regeneration of middle suburban residential precincts. How do we regenerate middle s...