Sentences with phrase «as urban studies»

The Library continues to expand its holdings on non-Western architecture, as well as urban studies, sustainable and green architecture and landscape architecture.

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Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

San Francisco provides an interesting case study as it has a relatively compact CBD that sits within a broad urban conurbation — the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alan Weil of the Urban Institute, which has studied welfare reform extensively, notes that the system has been slow to acknowledge the evolution of responsibility from helping the nonworking to supporting those who have advanced in the work world, as Myrna's case illustrates.

In four years he earned his degree in economics and urban studies, the Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award as the nation's best sub-6-foot player and a brief span of respectability for the Lions.

As another study found, «Communities that have invested in infrastructure to promote walking or biking have shown increased property values, improved air quality, reduced urban heat injury (see # 3, below), and greater social cohesion.»

One study of kids living in highly - stressed urban settings found that parents who identified themselves as practitioners of positive discipline were more likely to have children who were stress - resilient (Wyman et al 1991).

A new national study lists Interstate - 81 in Syracuse as one of America's ten worst urban highways that should be removed.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

Starting in the 1990s, studies from Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden began making the case for urban life as a distinct risk factor.

In particular, devotees of genetics might want to cede a little ground to their colleagues in epidemiology, who over the past decade have amassed a provocative, interlocking set of studies implicating urban birthplace and migrant status as persistent risk factors.

As far as peak car is concerned, Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto, Canada, suggests that smartphones, social media and internet shopping are substituting for travel, and so owning your own wheels has lost its social cachet for the young (see «Peak planet: Car usage «-RRBAs far as peak car is concerned, Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto, Canada, suggests that smartphones, social media and internet shopping are substituting for travel, and so owning your own wheels has lost its social cachet for the young (see «Peak planet: Car usage «-RRBas peak car is concerned, Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto, Canada, suggests that smartphones, social media and internet shopping are substituting for travel, and so owning your own wheels has lost its social cachet for the young (see «Peak planet: Car usage «-RRB-.

«Several studies have measured parasite infection in urban animals, but surprisingly we are the first to measure whether wild birds living in a city were more or less infected by a parasite and a pathogen, as well as how these infections are linked to their physiological stress,» said Mathieu Giraudeau, a post-doctoral associate who previously worked with Kevin McGraw, ASU associate professor with the School of Life Sciences.

The study also highlighted that green infrastructure has both positive and negative impacts on air quality at street levels, depending on the urban location it is in as well as its vegetation characteristics.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

They are also resistant to Dutch Elm disease and thrive in the urban and suburban Southeastern climate, as noted in the study.

While water utilities across the country spend more than $ 50 billion a year to treat drinking water, the nation spends $ 207 million a year to protect source waters and prevent pollution from sources such as urban runoff, the study says.

Environmental challenges, climate change, water and food security and urban air pollution, they are all interlinked, yet each is studied as such, separately.

In sharp contrast, a previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.

A new study, led by researchers from Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, has now provided evidence that a major Himalayan river did not flow at the same time as the development of Indus Civilisation urban settlements.

In a study published in October 2009 in the Journal of Mammalogy, Gehrt watched the movement of 181 radio - collared coyotes and noted their preference for natural lands within urban and suburban spaces, such as city parks and residential yards.

This study aids in the broader understanding of the complex mechanisms that influence harmful algal bloom progression in bodies of water rich in organic nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen, and points to the direct need to reduce nutrient pollution in the face of both urban and agricultural development.

Dr Bill Bateman, Senior Lecturer at Curtin's Department of Environment & Agriculture, led the study that proved eastern grey squirrels were able to modify their behaviour in urban environments and prevent unnecessary responses when humans acted in a predictable manner, such as staying on the footpath.

But a detailed study of students» performance on TIMSS as well as on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), another widely reported international comparison test, by B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., suggests otherstudy of students» performance on TIMSS as well as on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), another widely reported international comparison test, by B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., suggests otherStudy of International Migration and Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., suggests otherwise.

The cohort used in the study was compiled with data that would reflect a true - to - life 10,000 person population among urban, non-monogomous men who have sex with men, who were defined by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) as «high - risk.»

The study, published in the journal Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, identifies Salt Lake City, Miami and Louisville as the top three urban heat island cities in theUrban Systems, identifies Salt Lake City, Miami and Louisville as the top three urban heat island cities in theurban heat island cities in the U.S.

The study also confirmed a finding that has been emerging: that water conservation measures that directly reduce irrigation, such as drought - tolerant landscaping, can have the unintended consequence of increasing temperatures in urban areas.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

Tobacco shops, also known as smoke shops, may represent potential «nuisance properties» in urban communities of color, a study led by a researcher at the University of California, Riverside has found.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.

Such data has previously been used for the study of personal mobility, urban planning, infectious - disease spread, health detection, extreme situation monitoring and country development as well as crime detection and privacy issues.

In their study, the researchers randomized 22 urban elementary schools serving low - income families to either the INSIGHTS intervention or a supplemental reading program, which served as a control condition.

The surrounding bath of urban sound has mental as well as physical effects, according to environmental psychologist Arline Bronzaft, who has spent more than 30 years studying how people perceive and respond to noise.

The ten - year - olds in the study came from both a rural school and an urban school, but all had Norwegian as their first language.

In a separate study conducted by Zhang Zhaobin of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University, exposure to TPT reduced the ability of the Japanese Medaka fish (Oryzias latipes) to produce viable offspring by as much as 75 % in a controlled facility.

It's a simple model — for instance, it does not account for zoning restrictions or for the fact that some cities, such as London, emerged as polycentric entities hundreds of years ago when several smaller villages consolidated — but it is still a useful model for exploring polycentricity, says Michael Batty, an urban planner at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

(Some planners — such as Space Syntax in London and the University of Strathclyde's Urban Design Studies Unit, of which Strano is a member — are already measuring connectivity to optimize urban desiUrban Design Studies Unit, of which Strano is a member — are already measuring connectivity to optimize urban desiurban designs.)

The phenomenon is known as the «urban heat island» effect, and a recent N.C. State University study shows that many of North Carolina's native bee species keep away from hot, urban areas.

The study found that natural gas end use sources — like gas meters, furnaces, boilers and hot water heaters — as well as landfills, are responsible for a large portion of urban methane emissions.

The Mobilities & Urban Studies programme enables graduates to examine, integrate and design new solutions related to technological, environmental and urban planning challenges, as well as economic, organizational, political, and social strategies - all related to the field of mobiliUrban Studies programme enables graduates to examine, integrate and design new solutions related to technological, environmental and urban planning challenges, as well as economic, organizational, political, and social strategies - all related to the field of mobiliurban planning challenges, as well as economic, organizational, political, and social strategies - all related to the field of mobilities.

Mobilities & Urban Studies at Aalborg University approaches mobilities as more than simply movement and it offers a new innovative and cross-disciplinary mobility - profession based on the new mobilities turn.

That's the cautionary tale from a new study in the journal Parasites & Vectors, which found that ticks in urban parks in Delaware dominated by an invasive rose bush were nearly twice as likely to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease, as compared to ticks from uninvaded forest fragments.

To his credit, Nathan Urban flagged the land - ocean mismatch as one of the caveats in the study indicating all is not right.

And in a 2010 study, people who spent time in nature — walking in the forest as opposed to in an urban environment — saw greater reductions in their blood pressure, pulse rate, and stress hormones.

Upon finishing her studies, Natalie moved to the West Coast where she worked in both rural and urban hospitals, as well as a private clinic specializing in orthopedic injuries and disease.

For example, as part of the ongoing, international Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, researchers used a dynamometer to measure grip strength in almost 140,000 adults in 17 countries, and they followed their health for an average of four years.

As part of the international Prospective Urban and Rural Epidemiological (PURE) study, researchers measured grip strength in nearly 140,000 adults in 17 countries and followed their health for an average of four years.

With respect to the San Blas Islands dwelling Kuna, who don't develop hypertension as their urban dwelling relatives do, the one study assessing their overall diet found it to be high in magnesium, potassium, and relatively low in fat (which should help), but also high in cholesterol and sodium (which shouldn't), which lead to the interest in cocoa and how they drink it.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

As one recent study demonstrates, this «ghetto tax» means that the urban poor pay considerably more for goods and services ranging from food to auto insurance.