Vector-borne diseases commonly emerge in urban landscapes, and Gaussian field models can be used to create risk maps of vector presence across a large environment. However, these models do not account for the possibility ...

In this view of an oil field in San Fernando Trinidad there is a long shed with a red thatched roof near the foreground, an oil derrick encircled by buildings at mid-ground and forest in the background.

The discussion about urban-rural relationship and its dialectical pair is not recent. Many studies have tried to define both, country and city and the relationships among them, using different conceptions and theories. In ...

Este estudo pretende identificar quais foram os temas mais e menos estudados no que diz respeito ao contexto das Cidades Inteligentes (Smart Cities). Busca, também, apresentar uma possível agenda de pesquisa que contribua ...

With increasing urbanization vector-borne diseases are quickly developing in cities, and urban control strategies are needed. If streets are shown to be barriers to disease vectors, city blocks could be used as a convenient ...

This book is a study of the focus on Canada’s urban environments that has emerged in Canadian narrative cinema over the past decades. It draws its inspiration in part from another recent trend, that toward interdisciplinary ...

Due to increasing search for shelter in cities by the population, several problems arise in areas like health, safety, environment, resources and infrastructure. In the face of these problems, cities’ governments have been ...

This presentation is aimed at sharing a didactic strategy developed as part of an English as a Foreign language class from the Pacific Regional Center of Universidad de Costa Rica. This strategy involves the use of didactic ...

This presentation is aimed at sharing a didactic strategy developed as part of an English as a Foreign language class from the Pacific Regional Center of Universidad de Costa Rica. This strategy involves the use of didactic ...