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- noun   The 
quality or fact of (an area) beingurban . - noun   The 
degree to which a givengeographical area isurban . 
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Examples
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The heritability of an alcohol-related phenotype depends upon the social environment within which it is measured, such as urbanicity, marital status, or religiosity.
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"urbanicity" variable in most countries that could be considered comparable, so thus far in the WMHS papers we have not studied urbanicity in cross-national work.
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"urbanicity" of respondents between suburban, urban, and rural areas.
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To assess any effect of where the volunteers grew up, the researchers assigned each an "urbanicity" score based on how many years they'd spent by age 15 in a city, town or rural area.
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The latest measurement, a "Broadband Composite Index", made up of five categories, including household penetration, speed, affordability, value for money, and urbanicity, rank the U.S. 23d out of 57 ranked countries.
Art Brodsky: Congressional Shark Jumpers Help Big Telecom Empires 2010
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The latest measurement, a "Broadband Composite Index", made up of five categories, including household penetration, speed, affordability, value for money, and urbanicity, rank the U.S. 23d out of 57 ranked countries.
Art Brodsky: Congressional Shark Jumpers Help Big Telecom Empires 2010
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"An association between urbanicity and nonaffective psychosis was explained by higher-level characteristics, primarily school-level social fragmentation."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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To examine whether individual, school or area characteristics are associated with psychosis and can explain the association with urbanicity (the quality of being urban), Stanley Zammit,
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"An association between urbanicity and nonaffective psychosis was explained by higher-level characteristics, primarily school-level social fragmentation."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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To examine whether individual, school or area characteristics are associated with psychosis and can explain the association with urbanicity (the quality of being urban), Stanley Zammit,
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
 
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