During 2013-2015, the percentage of children and teens aged 4-17 years who had ever received a diagnosis of ADHD was significantly higher among boys than among girls within all urbanization levels. Among boys, those living in small metro and nonmetro micropolitan areas were more likely to have received a diagnosis of ADHD (17.4% and 16.4%, respectively) than were those living in large central (...

OBJECTIVE To describe the reasons for encounter (RFE) at the casualty department of a small rural hospital and to highlight the value of the hospital to the community, and to health care workers, medical educators, and policy makers. SETTING A small South Australian rural town with a population of about 4500 served by a 50-bed hospital that provides a 24 hour casualty service manned by the lo...

Wilderness Central School District is a public district serving approximately 3,500 students in grades Pre K-12. The district was created in 1948 when five smaller districts were consolidated in the interest of centralizing and sharing resources. The district is located in an area classified as “rural fringe” by the U.S. Department of Education Institute of Education Sciences in the northeast r...

Since the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires in which 173 lives were lost, two-thirds of whom died their homes, question what a home prepared for bushfire looks like has been repeatedly raised. The 2019/2020 fires saw us not much further advanced. This paper seeks to consolidate is known about behavior, its influence upon structures, and, through this data, infer improved standards practice retrofit...

Min Ma National University of Defense Technology Department of Astronautical Technology Changsha, 410073, China Abstract. A single fringe phase shifting technique is presented for extracting the whole-field displacement distribution from single fringe patterns. By making a small modification in the traditional Fourier transform (FFT) method for fringe processing, the proposed method is capable ...

Land use conflicts can present major obstacles to sustainable land management. An accurate understanding of their actor constellations and conflict lines is therefore crucial in developing tools for successful landscape governance. In this context, actors from cities rural areas are often seen as typical opponents. Hence, the objective paper analyze extent which empirical indeed run between urb...

Food production on the urban–rural fringe is under pressure due to competing land uses. We discuss the potential to improve resilience for urban–rural regions by enhancing food production as part of multifunctional land use. Through studies of peri-urban land in the regions of Gothenburg (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark) and Gent (Belgium), recent developments are analysed. Arable farming has been...