in recent decades, the city development and city settlement have been tremendous. this has caused unequal physical and spatial expansion. the 21st century is the century of the city and living in city and almost half of the world population live as citizen. a glance at forecasting the data and statistics in 1400 shows an estimation of 130 millions of population and the calculation of present ci...

1Cardiosurgical Intensive Care Unit, City Hospital No. 1, Suvorov Street 1, Arkhangelsk 163001, Russia 2Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Northern State Medical University, Troitsky Avenue 51, Arkhangelsk 163000, Russia 3Department of Anesthesiology, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsø, Norway 4Department of Clinical Medicine (Anesthesiology), Faculty of Medicine...

the New York–New Jersey region plunged 51 percent— a drop that far exceeded the 8.4 percent decline in manufacturing jobs nationwide. Some areas within the region were especially hard hit by the employment losses: New York City shed more than two-thirds of its manufacturing jobs, while neighboring northern New Jersey lost 55 percent. Inflation-adjusted, or real, income from manufacturing also f...

Since 1954, when proton beam radiation therapy was first introduced for human treatment, about 55,000 patients have been treated in the United States and around the world. The United States currently has five full-scale operating proton facilities. Future proton centers now in the development stage include: Hampton University in the Tidewater VA area, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, ...

ICCBR 2007, the Seventh International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning, was held in the joyful city of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. Our host in Belfast was David Patterson from the University of Ulster. The 2007 program attempted to open the field’s frontiers by inviting speakers from neighboring areas and insiders who could expand the vision of the attending case-based reasoning (CBR) rese...

this study was conducted with the aim of determining surface water contamination with cysts of entamoeba histolytica using pcr in rasht city, northern iran.in this cross-sectional study, 49 water samples including 18 rivers and 6 wetlands were collected from different regions near the city of rasht in autumn of 2012. after filtration using 0.22 μm nitrate cellulose membrane filters, the samples...

Satoshi Awata, Dik Heg, Hiroyuki Munehara, and Masanori Kohda Laboratory of Animal Sociology, Department of Biology and Geosciences, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3-3-138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi, Osaka 558-8585, Japan, Department of Behavioural Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Bern, Wohlenstrasse 50a, CH-3032 Hinterkappelen, Switzerland, and Usujiri Fisheries Statio...

Urban public health is an important global issue and receives public concern. The urban ecosystem health (UEH) indicator system was constructed with 27 assessment indicators selected from vigor, organization, resilience, service function, and population health, then the matter element analysis (MEA) and analytic hierarchy process (AHP) weighting method were used to assess the UEH of each city i...

This study describes a new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) due to Leishmania tropica, in the Galilee region of northern Israel. Thirty-three cases from 4 villages (northern part) and from the city of Tiberias (southern part) have been clinically diagnosed since 1996. Parasites from 13 patients and from 6 sand flies were characterized by isoenzyme electrophoresis, 2 immunological methods, ...