to identify the characteristics of completed suicide by burning in tehran. a retrospective analysis of data obtained from tehran's legal medicine organization and judiciary system over 5-years (from 2002 to 2006). during the 5 years, 374 decedents (64.2% female and 35.8% male) were diagnosed as suicide by self-burning, and the annual incidence rate was 0.9 per 100,000 general population-years. ...

INTRODUCTION Aedes albopictus is a very invasive and aggressive insect vector that causes outbreaks of dengue fever, chikungunya disease, and yellow fever in many countries. Vector ecology and disease epidemiology are strongly affected by environmental changes. Urbanization is a worldwide trend and is one of the most ecologically modifying phenomena. The purpose of this study is to determine ho...

-In urban and suburban areas of the United States (away from major airports), the outdoor noise environment usually depends strongly on local vehicular traffic. By relating traffic flow to population density, a model of outdoor noise exposure has been developed for estimating the cumulative 24-hour noise exposure based upon the population density of the area. This noise model has been used to p...

This paper deals with road extraction of high resolution aerial images of suburban scenes based on segmentation using the Normalized Cuts algorithm. The aim of our project is the extraction of roads for the assessment of a road database, however, this paper is restricted to road extraction. The segmentation as our basic step is designed to yield a good division between road areas and the surrou...

Seasonal variation in container productivity and infestation levels by Aedes aegypti were evaluated in two areas with distinct levels of urbanization degrees in Rio de Janeiro, a slum and a suburban neighborhood. The four most productive containers can generate up to 90% of total pupae. Large and open-mouthed containers, such as water tanks and metal drums, located outdoors were the most produc...

This study aims to investigate the concentration levels, pollution characteristics and the associated potential ecological risks of the heavy metals found in dust in the metropolitan area of Beijing, China during the winter. Dust samples were collected at 49 different spatial locations of Beijing's metropolitan area from November 2013 to January 2014, in which the concentration levels of Cd, Cr...

Infrastructure development is the bane of any economy and it is an important factor for the improvement of wellbeing and quality of life. Many nations are struggling with meeting the increasing demands for infrastructure while devising different approaches to meeting supply. However, the focus of the Nigerian government is more towards the development of the urban and rural areas while the subu...

Among renewable energy resources, wind energy became more attractive in the last decade. Wind farm installations dramatically increased in areas where climatic conditions, topography, and environment have allowed their development. The installation of wind turbines, usually carried out in remote areas, recently began to cover areas identified by a complex terrain such as urban and suburban zone...

The vas t majority of crimes commit ted against city, suburban, and rural residents in 1983 occurred in the general a r e a where the victims lived. Xowever, suburban dwellers were more likely t o be victims of cr imes of violence within the ci ty limits of the cen t ra l c i t ies of their metropolitan areas (12%) than were ci ty dwellers t o become victims in the suburban a reas surrounding t...