Academic Articles & Research Papers

Schistosomiasis as an urban disease: 13 years of studies in the neighborhoods of Salvador, BA, Brazil.

Comparison of Neighborhood-Scale, Residential Property Flood-Loss Assessment Methodologies

Leading flood loss estimation models include Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) Hazus, FEMA’s Flood Assessment Structure Tool (FAST), and (U.S.) Hydrologic Engineering Center’s Flood Impact Analysis (HEC-FIA), with each requirin...

To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy

Two seemingly contradictory tendencies are evident in current thinking about public policy in America. First, there is a continuing desire for the services provided by the modern welfare state. Partisan rhetoric aside, few people seriously ...

Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective

The debate about behavioral economics–the incorporation of insights from psychology into economics–is often framed as a question about the foundational assumptions of economic models. This paper presents a more pragmatic perspective on beha...

A Web-Based Tool for Quantification of Potential Gains in Life Expectancy by Preventing Cause-Specific Mortality

Introduction: Local health departments are currently limited in their ability to use life expectancy (LE) as a benchmark for improving community health. In collaboration with the Baltimore City Health Department, our aim was to develop a we...

Geographic Profiling

As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll their favorite corners, and burglars hit their favorite...

The Impacts of the Multiscale Built Environment on Commuting Mode Choice: Spatial Heterogeneity, Moderating Effects, and Implications for Demand Estimation

Promoting the usage of sustainable commuting modes requires in-depth understanding about residents’ commuting mode choice behavior. This study presents an empirical study to investigate the relationship between the built environment and com...

Using the investment projects management in developing residential in Baghdad

There are many heritage residential neighborhoods in Baghdad some of them belong more than thousand years because this city is taken the important cultural and social place for hundreds years. In last decades, the issue of preserving, rehab...

Weirs in the Waterworks of the Tsarev Settlement

The location and design of weirs as part of water supply system on the Tsarev settlement and its neighborhood are considered in the article. The descriptions of the 19th – early 20th cc. and archaeological data made it possible to establish...

Analyzing the Influence of Place Attachment on Citizens' Environmental Protection Behaviors: A Case Study of Rasht City

Nowadays, a significant aspect of citizens' environmental conduct is intertwined with their connection and emotional bond to the city. This attachment to the urban environment is regarded as a critical element in fostering environmentally c...

A Dél-Dunántúli kisvárosok a fejlesztési tervek tükrében (The South-Transdanubien Small Towns in the Light of the Development Plans)

The South Transdanubien region is among the 20 most disadvantaged region of the European Union, that shows a significant decrease compared to previous years. I think any professional research can we rationale, that to change this situation,...

A hash-neighborhood-search-network-coding based opportunistic relay retransmission approach

In wireless multicast networks，it is rarely concerned that there may be certain receiving nodes which have better quality links both to the source node and to the other receiving nodes. A novel hash-neighborhoodsearch-network-coding based o...

INFLUENCE OF ACTIVE MODIFICATION PARAMETERS ON BEARING CHARACTERISTICS OF OPPOSITE GEAR PAIRS (MT)

Active gear design is a method that can pre-control gear meshing performance directly. In order to study the influence of active gear design on the bearing characteristics of tooth surface, the relationship between active modification param...

Asymptotic Behavior of Solutions of Integral Equations with Homogeneous Kernels

The multidimensional integral equation of second kind with a homogeneous of degree (−n) kernel is considered. The special class of continuous functions with a given asymptotic behavior in the neighborhood of zero is defined. It is proved th...

Risk Profiles for Falls among Older Adults: New Directions for Prevention

ObjectiveTo address whether neighborhood factors, together with older adults’ levels of health and functioning, suggest new combinations of risk factors for falls and new directions for prevention. To explore the utility of Grade-of-Members...

Hackathons as Stepping Stones in Health Care Innovation: Case Study With Systematic Recommendations

BackgroundUntil recently, developing health technologies was time-consuming and expensive, and often involved patients, doctors, and other health care professionals only as passive recipients of the end product. So far, users have been mini...

Adaptation of the Stakeholders’ Walkability/Wheelability Audit in Neighborhoods (SWAN) Tool for Individuals With Diverse Disabilities: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study

BackgroundThe prevalence of sensory, cognitive, and mobility disabilities in Canada underscores the need to address environmental barriers. This study adapts and validates the Stakeholders’ Walkability/Wheelability Audit in Neighborhoods (S...

Analysis of the Status Quo and Influencing Factors of Community Residents’ Awareness of Basic Life Support and Willingness to Attempt Rescue

Yu-Fei Qian,1 Gui-Ling Geng,1 Yu-Qin Ren,2 Xin-Tong Zhang,2 Wen-Jun Sun,2 Qing Li2 1Department of School of Nursing, Nantong University Medical School, Nantong, 226001, People’s Republic of China; 2Department of Emergency, Nantong First Peo...

Planificarea urbană între coerența unității și gestionarea diferențelor

City plans are grounded in analysis of local condition and contain a vision of an urban future that the citizens, local elected officials, planning staff and consultants consider desirable. Urban plans vary greatly in approach, content, sop...

The Level-of-Analysis Problem in International Relations

In any area of scholarly inquiry, there are always several ways in which the phenomena under study may be sorted and arranged for purposes of systemic analysis. Whether in the physical or social sciences, the observer may choose to focus up...