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Urban Heat Island Monitoring and Impacts on Citizen's General Health Status in Isfahan Metropolis: A Remote Sensing and Field Survey Approach.

2020

Urban heat islands (UHIs) are one of the urban management challenges, especially in metropolises, which can affect citizens’ health and well-being. This study used a combination of remote sensing techniques with field survey to investigate systematically the effects of UHI on citizens’ health in Isfahan metropolis, Iran. For this purpose, the land surface temperature (LST) over a three-year period was monitored by Landsat-8 satellite imagery based on the split window algorithm. Then, the areas where UHI and urban cold island (UCI) phenomena occurred were identified and a general health questionnaire-28 (GHQ-28) was applied to evaluate the health status of 800 citizens in terms o…

split window algorithm010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciencesLand surface temperatureScienceQgeneral health questionnaire-28land surface temperatureurban heat island010501 environmental sciencesField survey01 natural sciencesGeography13. Climate actionRemote sensing (archaeology)Social function11. SustainabilityGeneral Earth and Planetary Sciencesurban heat island; land surface temperature; split window algorithm; general health questionnaire-28; Isfahan metropolisGeneral healthUrban heat islandIsfahan metropolisUrban management0105 earth and related environmental sciencesSocial functioningRemote sensingRemote sensing
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Confronto tra dati di temperatura rilevati in aree urbane e in aree agricole limitrofe

2008

The Urban Heat Island phenomenon (UHI) was investigated in Sicilian region. On the basis of a temperature data pairs detected in a sample of urban and corresponding countryside, analysis was developed. The first results show the present of UHI effect.

temperature urban heat island
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Filipinas en el marco del imperio español en el siglo XIX

2019

[EN] En este artículo se analiza la evolución de Filipinas en las últimas décadas del siglo XVIII y en el transcurso del siglo XIX a través de diferentes epígrafes: la obligada transformación del secular modelo colonial volcado hacia el tráfico del Galeón y las relaciones transpacíficas; la renovada inclinación hacia Asia, el océano Índico y el mar de China; el desarrollo de un sistema económico basado en la exportación de productos filipinos y en la apertura de las islas al exterior; la evolución de la vida política; el camino hacia la modernización; el peso de las órdenes religiosas, la importancia de la población china y la colaboración con élites indígenas como rasgos singulares de Fili…

the evolution of the political lifeUNESCO::HISTORIAthe Indian Ocean and the China Seasiglos XvIII y XIXthe importance of the Chinese population and the collaboration with indigenous elites as singular features of the Philippinesthe increase of conflicts and the path to revolution0210-9093 553 Estudis: Revista de historia moderna 529735 2019 45 7107713 Filipinas en el marco del imperio español en el siglo XIX Elizalde Pérez-Gruesothe renewed turn towards AsiaMaría Dolores This paper analyzes the evolution of the Philippines in the last decades of the eighteenth century and in the course of the nineteenth century through different epigraphs: the forced transformation of the secular colonial model addressed to the traffic of the Manila Galleon and transpacific relationsThe Philippine IslandsFilipinasthe road to modernizationand the US intervention that ended the Spanish sovereignty in the islands. Filipinas18th and 19th CenturiesRevista de historia moderna 529735 2019 45 7107713 Filipinas en el marco del imperio español en el siglo XIX Elizalde Pérez-Grueso [0210-9093 553 Estudis]the forced transformation of the secular colonial model addressed to the traffic of the Manila Galleon and transpacific relations [María Dolores This paper analyzes the evolution of the Philippines in the last decades of the eighteenth century and in the course of the nineteenth century through different epigraphs]imperio españolSpanish Empire:HISTORIA [UNESCO]Asia-PacíficoAsia and the PacificAsia and the Pacific. 93 116the development of an economic system based on the export of Filipino products and the opening of the islandsthe weight of religious orders
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Tourism in Mediterranean Islands: a comparative analysis.

2011

This chapter analyses the main dimensions of 24 Mediterranean islands representing seven European countries. It highlights some of the economic barriers to sustainability. Islands are classified by area into large, medium, small and micro, and also by population density- from high to low. The Mediterranean islands represent a wide variety of situations and common problems, and every economic decision has had an immediate impact on the sustainability of the economies of each island.

tourism Mediterranean islands sustainabilitySettore SECS-P/06 - Economia Applicata
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Policies against tsunami risk. An Italian case study

2021

The poster intends to describe the main contents of the National Emergency Plan for volcanic events of national importance on the island of Stromboli (ME) prepared in 2015 by the Department for the Civil Protection (DPC). The volcanic island of Stromboli is in fact largely exposed to the risk associated with the activities of the volcano of the same name, especially that of the tsunami. The effusive activity of the Stromboli in fact causes a marked instability of the slope known as Sciara del Fuoco which can induce, as happened at the end of 2002, a tsunami. The contribution, starting from a descriptive interest, therefore aims to present, problematizing them, the intervention policies and …

tsunami risk geography island Italy planSettore M-GGR/01 - Geografia
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Nonlinear black-box models for short-term forecasting of air temperature in the town of Palermo

2011

Weather data are crucial to correctly design buildings and their heating and cooling systems and to assess their energy performances. In the intensely urbanized towns the effect of climatic parameters is further emphasized by the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon, known as the increase in the air temperature of urban areas, compared to the one measured in the extra-urban areas. The analysis of the heat island needs detailed local climate data which can be collected only by a dedicated weather monitoring system. The Department of Energy and Environmental Researches of the University of Palermo (Italy) has built up a weather monitoring system that works 24 hours per day and makes data availa…

urban heat island.Settore ING-IND/11 - Fisica Tecnica AmbientaleMeteorologyartificial neural networks nonlinear black-box models MLP temperature short-term forecastingTerm (time)Weather stationNonlinear systemBlack boxAir temperatureClimatologyWeather dataEnvironmental scienceUrban heat islandIntensity (heat transfer)
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Morphological and structural analysis of the Ustica Island offshore (southern Tyrrhenian Sea) for the definition of the marine geological hazard

2008

ustica island multibeam echosounder volcanism southern tyrrhenian sea submarine geomorphology
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Index Balearicum (III). Catàleg comentat de les plantes vasculars descrites de les Illes Balears. Addicions (2008-2016) i correccions

2017

Aquesta compilació inclou actualitzacions nomenclaturals i taxonòmiques per al catàleg de plantes vasculars descrites de les Illes Balears. Aquesta actualització inclou plantes descrites entre 2008 i 2016 a més de correccions per a altres tractades en treballs anteriors.

vascular plants; nomenclature; taxonomy; Balearic IslandsBalearic islandsGeographygovernmentgovernment.political_districtForestryplantes vasculars; nomenclatura; taxonomia; Illes Balearsplantas vasculares; nomenclatura; taxonomía; Islas BalearesCheck ListOrsis
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Geogenic and atmospheric sources for volatile organic compounds in fumarolic emissions from Mt. Etna and Vulcano Island (Sicily, Italy)

2012

In this paper, fluid source(s) and processes controlling the chemical composition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in gas discharges from Mt. Etna and Vulcano Island(Sicily, Italy) were investigated. The main composition of the Etnean and Volcano gas emissions is produced by mixing, to various degrees, of magmatic and hydrothermal components. VOCs are dominated by alkanes, alkenes and aromatics, with minor, though significant, concentrations of O-, S- and Cl(F)-substituted compounds. The main mechanism for the production of alkanes is likely related to pyrolysis of organic-matterbearing sediments that interact with the ascending magmatic fluids. Alkanes are then converted to alkene and …

volatile organic compoundfumarolic emissionVulcano Islandvolatile organic compounds; fumarolic emissions; Etna; Vulcano IslandEtna
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New Techniques for real-time volcanic gas measurements: the UV camera

2012

In this study, I take advantage of a novel technique - the UV camera - to image SO2 emissions from the Italian volcanoes with improved high temporal resolution. Here, this technique has been updated to a new configuration (dual-camera system), which combines higher temporal resolution (0.5-1.2 Hz) and improved accuracy relative to the single-camera setup. The methodology has been extensively tested and improved, whilst developing a user-friendly control software (Vulcamera) and a calibration technique (in tandem DOAS-SO2 quartz cells calibration), which simplify instrument deployment, acquisition and data analysis. A first application was focused on SO2 gas flux measurements at individual fuma…

volcanic degassing UV camera Vulcano island Stromboli island mount Etna sulphur dioxide gas fluxSettore GEO/08 - Geochimica E Vulcanologia
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