Sentences with phrase «for urban studies»

I have worked for the urban studies and public administration office at Old Dominion University which has gave me experience in office work, desk receptionist, student assistant, Microsoft office.

After completing her studies in media theory and social sciences at the University of Bologna and Santiago de Compostela, she has been involved in multiple research projects focusing on irregular migration via the Mediterranean Sea, and on mapping informal urban practices in Egypt, which she worked on in collaboration with the American University in Cairo and the Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research respectively.

The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

Dr. Henry L. Taylor, a professor at the University at Buffalo's Center for Urban Studies, said by lowering the goal the state was playing a «game that attempts to make you think progress is occurring when it's not, and people who play that game ought to be ashamed of themselves.»

A Systemic Approach to Evaluate the Flood Vulnerability for an Urban Study Case in Southern Italy

Not exact matches

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

«In this masterful study of urban warfare, DiMarco explains what it takes to seize and hold a city literally block by block and provides lessons for today's tacticians that they neglect at their own peril.»

The Urban Institute's study calculated hospitals» overall national costs for firearm - related injuries while examining the underlying trends in six states.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

That summer, Father Pell was heading for doctoral studies in history at Oxford after ordination in Rome from the Pontifical Urban University (horsemeat was a staple on the menu in his day).

One particular boat which is really quite solid if one takes the time to study and understand what it really teaches, not what hearsay or urban legends say it teaches, is the boat of the Catholic Church... a boat that has weathered stormy seas already for almost two thousand years.

For example, the field education program, the study of current liberation theologies, and the struggle to keep the school's budget in balance all pose questions of Christian faith and ethics in their relation to urban - institutional structures.

My decision to apply for a Churchill Fellowship followed on from case study research I was involved in with Griffith University (see the Burton pdf attached) in 2012, exploring the scale and nature of urban agriculture in Melbourne.

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.

Their acronym for the study was SCUM (Sub Culture Urban Marketing), and were calling gay men scum.

A study of low - income, urban US fathers, which controlled for age, ethnicity, education, cohabitation and quality of relationship with the child's mother, found that the hours fathers spent «hustling» for work were correlated with low involvement with their children (Cina, 2005).

Williams conducted a prospective study of adult survivors who had been treated for sexual assault in an emergency room of a large urban hospital during the 1970's.

In a study in Bangladesh, breastfeeding was a protective factor for night blindness among preschool - aged children in both rural and urban areas.

The study evaluated depression symptoms during the four - to six - week postpartum period for 727 women from an urban women's hospital in Pittsburgh, Penn..

At 9 a.m., NYU's School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate's Urban Lab hosts the When Real Estate Meets Innovation panel presentation, New York University Kimmel Center for University Life, 60 Washington Square S., Manhattan.

That spot went instead to Vicki Been, formerly the head of New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy — which has also been somewhat critical of mandatory inclusionary zoning in its studies of programs in the San Francisco, Boston and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas.

Research for the Centre for Policy Studies by Conservative MP Philip Dunne has revealed how Gordon Brown has used his control of the nation's purse strings to tilt the growth of funding towards urban Britain - much of it Labour's heartlands.

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

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 «-RRB-.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

«Our other research study into London's air quality, published this week in Atmospheric Environment, investigated the underlining factors responsible for the air pollution exposure in urban environments.

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.

The URECA study investigates risk factors for asthma among children living in urban areas, where the disease is more prevalent and severe.

Gronke studied Oregon's motor - voter law, which enables people to register to vote when they apply for or update their driver's license, and found it increased participation by voters from both parties, in both rural and urban areas.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

The study evaluated depression symptoms during the four - to six - week postpartum period for 727 women from an urban women's hospital in Pittsburgh, Penn..

For that reason, says Travis Longcore, an urban ecologist at the University of Southern California Dornsife who was not involved in the study, the new atlas only provides a minimal baseline for what are likely much larger levels of light pollutiFor that reason, says Travis Longcore, an urban ecologist at the University of Southern California Dornsife who was not involved in the study, the new atlas only provides a minimal baseline for what are likely much larger levels of light pollutifor what are likely much larger levels of light pollution.

The study's senior author, Charles C. Branas, PhD, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Urban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residUrban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residents.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

«Some people know that the conditions on the ground are so harsh that their families are not going to be able to stay,» said Edwin Meléndez, a professor of urban affairs and planning at Hunter College in New York City and director of the school's Center for Puerto Rican Studies.

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.

At the same time, a few cities — notably Boston, San Francisco, San Diego and Chicago — have managed to build in clear, measurable indicators for achieving social - equity goals, says Prof. Manaugh, who co-authored the study with professors Madhav Badami and Ahmed El - Geneidy of McGill's School of Urban Planning.

«HPV vaccines could dramatically reduce the incidence of HPV - associated cancers, but uptake of these vaccines is far lower than for other routine childhood and teen immunizations,» said Kevin A. Henry, PhD, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia and member of Fox Chase Cancer Center's Cancer Prevention and Control program.

The study, published this month in the journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, draws on Seattle's current land use, light availability and national nutritional guidelines to determine the city's carrying capacity for feeding its population.

The Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, is completing a study for the Environmental Protection Agency on what a three - foot sea level rise would do to Miami.Miami is particularly vulnerable.

For this study, sixth grade students were selected to participate, broken into four categories: low - income rural, low - income urban, high - income rural, and high - income urban.

Urban society can be studied through housing types over a long time period, for example, but here they only appear to any extent in the medieval chapter, reflecting the preoccupation of architectural historians with this period.

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.

A University of Georgia study using a new method for calculating urban heat island intensities clarifies the conflict on whether urban density or sprawl amplify these effects more.

«The overall goal of our study was to clarify which urban form — sprawl or more - dense development — is most appropriate for UHI mitigation,» said the study's lead author Neil Debbage, doctoral student in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences» department of geography.

A parallel project in an urban area conducted by the Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi's Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections (its French acronym is GHESKIO) was similarly successful: it reached 75 percent of its targeted population, and 90 percent returned for the second dose.

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.»

«Our study reveals an explanation how nicotine contributes to induction of inflammation and in doing so shows new possibilities for future therapies to treat tobacco - related diseases which each year lead to premature deaths of several million people worldwide,» said Constantin Urban, a researcher involved in the work from the Umeå Centre for Microbial Research in Sweden.

For the first time, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health studied the effects of gestational weight gain on childhood obesity risk among a multi-ethnic urban population.

Scholars have studied the city's Bronze Age remains for more than a century, but more recent research has focused on the urban development of the city after it entered the Iron Age — in the 11th century BC — following the Bronze Age collapse of the Aegean palaces.