The dermatophytes, keratinophilic fungi, represent important microorganisms of the soil microbiota, where there are cosmopolitan species and others with restricted geographic distribution. The aim of this study was to broaden the knowledge about the presence of dermatophytes in soils of urban (empty lots, schools, slums, squares, beaches and homes) and rural areas and about the evolution of the...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has been declared as a global pandemic the World Health Organization (WHO). As is highly infectious, Global South countries are in vulnerable situation with high urban population density and lack of Water, Sanitation, Hygiene (WASH) services. The for slum dwellers low-income group cluste...

OBJECTIVES To compare Polish version of the The Saint Louis University Mental Status Examination test (SLUMS) to generally used psychometric screening tools for detecting mild cognitive impairment and dementia. METHODS The total number of 58 nursing home residents were divided into 3 groups: 1) people showing no symptoms of dementia, 2) people with mild cognitive impairment and 3) people with...

Slums are examples of localized communities within third world urban systems representing a range of vulnerabilities and adaptive capacities. This study examines vulnerability in relation to flooding, environmental degradation, social-status, demographics, and health in the slums of Accra, Ghana by utilizing a place-based approach informed by fieldwork, remote sensing, census data, and geograph...

Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) has been successfully used to map slums. In general, 12 the occurrence of uncertainties in producing geographic data is inevitable. However, most studies 13 concentrated solely on assessing the classification accuracy and neglecting the inherent 14 uncertainties. Our research analyses the impact of uncertainties in measuring the accuracy of OBIA15 based slum d...

BACKGROUND The United Nations has predicted that the population of slum dwellers will have grown from one billion people worldwide to 2 billion by 2030. This trend is also predictable in Iran. In the Iranian metropolis of Shiraz, more than 10% of the residents live in slum areas. There are several problems regarding the delivery of social services in these areas. The aim of this study was to ev...

Slums provide shelter for nearly one third of the world’s urban population, most of them in the developing world. Slumulation represents an agent-based model which explores questions such as i) how slums come into existence, expand or disappear ii) where and when they emerge in a city and iii) which processes may improve housing conditions for urban poor. The model has three types of agents tha...

One largely unstudied benefit of relocating families from slums to public housing is the potential improvement in indoor air quality (IAQ). We compared families that moved from slums to public housing with those that remained living in slums in Santiago, Chile in terms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) as main indicator of change. A cross-sectional study of 98 relocated families and 71 still l...

Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) has been successfully used to map slums. In general, 12 the occurrence of uncertainties in producing geographic data is inevitable. However, most studies 13 concentrated solely on assessing the classification accuracy and neglecting the inherent 14 uncertainties. Our research analyses the impact of uncertainties in measuring the accuracy of OBIA15 based slum d...