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Chapter 1 Urban Agriculture in the 21st Century -- chapter 2 Urban Soil Mapping through the United States National Cooperative Soil Survey -- chapter 3 Changes in Soil Organic Carbon Stocks by Urbanization -- chapter 4 Drivers of Urban Soil Carbon Dynamics -- chapter 5 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling and Ecosystem Service in Cities -- chapter 6 Urban Soil Carbon Storage -- chapter 7 Sealing Effects on Properties of Urban Soils -- chapter 8 Contaminants in Urban Soils: Bioavailability and Transfer -- chapter 9 Optimizing the Hydrologic Properties of Urban Soils -- chapter 10 Making Soils from Urban Wastes -- chapter 11 Properties of Soils Affected by Highways -- chapter 12 An Applied Hydropedological Perspective on the Rendering of Ecosystem Services from Urban Soils -- chapter 13 Biogeochemistry of Rooftop Farm Soils -- chapter 14 Managing Urban Soils for Food Production -- chapter 15 Vertical Farming Using Hydroponics and Aeroponics -- chapter 16 Soils and Waste Management in Urban India -- chapter 17 Enhancing Awareness about the Importance of Urban Soils -- chapter 18 Feeding Megacities by Urban Agriculture.

Introduction : food security and soil quality / R. Lal and B.A. Stewart -- Managing soils to address global issues of the twenty-first century / R. Lal -- Farming systems and food security in Sub-Saharan Africa / W.A. Payne -- Assessment of land degradation, its possible causes and threat to food security in Sub-Saharan Africa / P.L.G. Vlek, Q.B. Le, and L. Tamene -- Crop productivity, fertilizer use, and soil quality in China / M. Fan ... [et al.] -- The role of fertilizers in food production / A. Roy -- Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems? / N. Verhulst ... [et al.] -- Soil quality management in Brazil / C.E. Cerri ... [et al.] -- Organic matter knowledge and management in soils of the tropics related to ecosystem services / C. Feller ... [et al.] -- Temporal changes in productivity of agricultural systems in Punjab, India and Ohio, USA / A. Dubey and R. Lal -- Soil quality and ethics : the human dimension / R. Lal -- Comprehensive management of nutrients in dryland soils of China for sustainable agriculture / S.-X. Li and Z.-H. Wang

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Many investments have been made to help address the rising prevalenceand associated costs of diabetes, but there has been minimal evaluation to assess their value. A comprehensive literature review and five expert committee meetings were conducted to iteratively conceptualize and develop a Diabetes Evaluation Framework (DEFINE). Building on existing frameworks, DEFINE provides an evidence-based approach for evaluating diabetes. The framework is focused on guiding evaluation, building robust evidence, and fostering knowledge translation. DEFINE promotes comprehensive evaluation of initiatives targeting diabetes prevention and management, and will facilitate policy innovations to reduce the burden of diabetes.Plusieurs investissements ont été déployés pour lutter contre la prévalence croissante du diabète et ses coûts aff érents, mais peu d'efforts pour évaluer leurs bénéfi ces. Une recension exhaustive de la littérature et cinq réunions d'un comité d'experts ont eu lieu pour concevoir et développer de façon itérative un cadre d'évaluation du diabète. Baptisé DEFINE, ce cadre basé sur des modèles existants s'avère une méthode fondée sur des données probantes pour évaluer le diabète. Le cadre vise à orienter l'évaluation, établir des données probantes, et faciliter le transfert de connaissances. DEFINE vise la promotion de l'évaluation compréhensive des initiatives ciblant la prévention et la gestion du diabète et facilite les innovations politiques aidant à réduire le fardeau du diabète.

ABSTRACTThe toponyms of Hopitutskwa ("Hopi land") explicate Hopi history and culture. Place‐names mark sacred locations, landforms associated with deities and historical events, springs, trails, and "footprints" of ancestral villages, petroglyphs, and other archaeological sites. The National Science Foundation funded a collaborative project to document the Hopi language by recording toponyms and associated narratives. Interviews with 15 Hopi individuals produced linguistic and ethnocartographic records of 282 place‐names. Audio and video recordings preserve the vocalization of place‐names pronounced in Hopi as well as their use in a larger Hopi language contextualization. The variety and distribution of toponyms discussed during interviews demonstrates how Hopis remember, interact with, and honor their land.