Human-induced dryland and irrigation salinity are major forms of land degradation in rural areas, particularly in southern Australia. Salinity is also impacting significantly on the historic environment that identifies Australia’s country towns from the suburbia of larger cities. Historic buildings, formal private gardens and street plantings are affected and are at risk. Many plants, especiall...

Peak-hour week-day traffic congestion is a common challenge in urban mobility. Promotion of commuter cycling can help in alleviating this problem in many cities. This paper takes a data analytics approach to propose policies for promoting commuter cycling in Singapore. It uses farecard data to assess the commuter cycling potential and develops a data-driven approach to policy making. A spatio-t...

On March 11, 2011 an unusually strong earthquake, now called the Tohoku earthquake, occurred off the north-eastern coast of Japan's main island, Honshu. While the earthquake caused some destruction, the ensuing tsunami about three quarters of an hour later largely destroyed numbers of towns and devasted cities such as Sendai. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/poster/2011/2011031...

I. LOWER CANADA IN 1832 IN 1832 Quebec and Montreal were the major cities of Lower Canadawithpopulations of twenty thousand and thirty thousand respectively. The rest of the population lived in smaller towns and villages scattered along the shores of the St. Lawrence. When the ice melted in spring, much of the travel in the province was done by boat along the river systems, and the St. Lawrence...

OBJECTIVE Type 1 diabetes has been associated with factors related to welfare and social class. During the past decade, Lithuania has experienced a transition period, leading to dramatic changes in the socioeconomic structure of the society. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Incidence in the group aged 0-39 years by urban-rural setting (cities >100000 inhabitants, towns, and rural areas), period (1...

Municipalities in New England are facing long-term structural fiscal imbalances. Various reports have documented that cities and towns have had a hard time raising sufficient local revenue to meet increasing demands for spending, and some communities are experiencing greater distress than others. To address such issues, states often use local aid—a mechanism by which funds are collected statewi...

This study aims to explore the differing online banking adoption in Spanish cities and towns through Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). paper is first unveil such differences between towns. Data was collected from Centre for Sociological Research analyzed with PLS-SEM SmartPLS. The model comprised perceived ease of use (PEOU), usefulness (PU), behaviour (UB) as variables directly associated. Pe...