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Urban informality and climate change pose significant challenges for urban planning in rapidly growing cities in the Global South. This study conducts a qualitative content analysis of 45 spatial planning instruments add...

Abstract Background Shigella species are a significant global public health threat with the highest burden of Shigella-associated diarrhoea in children under five years of age, particularly in low- and middle-income coun...

Abstract The progressive settlement of subway tunnels induced by repetitive subway loading represents a fundamental challenge to both structural safety and passenger serviceability. Conventional prediction studies on lon...

Over the past few decades, the pharmaceutical sector has witnessed the occurrence of a particular type of agreement used to settle patent disputes between originator and generic drug manufacturers: so-called reverse paym...

The settlement of inheritance disputes in Indonesia is a complex issue involving various legal systems, including Islamic family law and customary law. This study aims to conduct a comparative analysis between these two ...

Defining wealth broadly to include wealth in people, relational connections, and material possessions, we examine the prehistory of wealth inequality at the level of the residential units using the consistent proxy of Gi...

Abstract Background Uganda has one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the world. While barriers to contraceptive uptake are well documented, little is known about the incidence of abortion and unintended pregnancy...

Open account and letter of credit are the most often used forms of payment in international trade. The first one is simple and cost efficient, but without payment assurance for the seller, the second one is secured, but ...

Background. Individuals infected with SARS-CoV-2 who develop COVID-19 are susceptible to persistent symptoms and sequelae, referred to as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC). The prevalence of PASC is estimated to r...

The arrival and dispersal of human populations in the Americas remains a very controversial issue especially regarding the number of migration waves. Craniofacial variation between ancient and recent Amerindians has been...

The effectiveness, fairness and legitimacy of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanism is the hallmark of a trust-based and justice-oriented legal framework for international investments. The jurisprudentia...

El objetivo del trabajo es realizar un diagnóstico socio-territorial de dos asentamientos espontáneos de la ciudad de Puerto Madryn (Chubut, Argentina): La Lomita y Alta Tensión, a partir de la aplicación del Método...

Urbanisation, land use changes and tourism in disaster-prone high mountain areas or riskscapes have emerged as important research topics and major planning challenges at a global scale with the Himalayan region as a hots...

Abstract Energy insecurity is a persistent yet insufficiently examined barrier to sustainable informal entrepreneurship in African cities. In Namibia, informal women entrepreneurs in low-income settlements face limited e...

The following text is based on the outcomes of a long-term field research carried out in eastern Slovakia, and it focuses on the character and specifics of religiosity of the Romany settlements inhabitants. One of the ch...

The purpose of the article is to highlight of the role of the transport system as a determinant of spatial development in a region (the case of Kharkiv region). Basic material. The interaction of settlements is essent...

Resumo A segregação é um fenômeno estrutural da formação da cidade brasileira que depende de razões históricas e dinâmicas econômicas globais. A gestão dos assentamentos informais das metrópoles representa um...

In a recent study we found that crania from South Amerindian populations on each side of the Andes differ significantly in terms of craniofacial shape. Western populations formed one morphological group, distributed cont...

Materias / palabras clave: Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Human ecology. Anthropogeography: Settlements: Cities. Urban geography; Social Sciences: Communities. Classes. Races: Human settlements. Communities

Abstract The 1998 Brasilia Peace Agreement ended a territorial dispute between Ecuador and Peru that, due to the size and location of the contested area, had remained a source of regional instability and continental ten...

The Eastern Question posed by the decaying Ottoman Empire re-emerged after the Sultan defeated Russia with the aid of his Western allies, along with the notion that a buffer state between Austria, Russia and Turkey could...

Zgierz, a town located in the central part of the Łódź Province, has a unique urban complex in the form of a craftsmen’s town built from scratch in the first half of the 19th century. This was a result of a settleme...