On each sampling day, at the same time interval, we collected samples at an urban background location that was situated near the start and end point of the route, 250 m from main roads, using the same types of samplers.
It's the respective strength of these two founders — one with the technical muscle; the other who is very close to thinking about what's needed in the urban ecosystem, not to mention a strong finance background — that has led Urban Compass to thrive.
Here two scrawled figures confront each other against a cragged, gray background that, suggesting an urban wall, recasts them as giant graffiti.
Applying this finding to the writing of urban background students suggests that their lack of detail expressed in their writing may arise from relying on less intimate knowledge to form their perception of rural practice.
I came from a background that was pretty tough, living in an urban area all my life.
"They created a piece that superbly integrates sounds, noises, urban and animal backgrounds, that could have only been composed by them," he said.
All considered sites can be classified as urban background sites, except for Monopoli that is a urban site and San Nicola that is a suburban site skirting by high vehicular traffic street and whit high vehicular traffic spots during sport events.
Bland and reflective, the cladding seems to make the towers vanish entirely; they melt into the urban background, you can forget that they or the people inside even exist.
Although this could be the case, in an earlier study we showed that urban background female students, who would otherwise be expected to work urban at high rates, instead were working rurally at high rates after graduation from RCSWA [ 7].
We collected air pollution data from a fixed monitoring site that represented urban background concentrations according to standard procedures already employed in several European studies of air pollution (Aalto et al. 2005; Katsouyanni et al. 1996).
