Sentences with phrase «said urban studies»
Christians are called to stand with their Muslim neighbors during the calm and storm, said urban studies professor Noah Toly.
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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.
Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.
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.
Theres a old football saying that if you have the three best QBs in the entire country, you do nt really have 1 and if Urban Meyer is going to control his programs he better spend a summer studying Charlie Weisses playbook on how to manage large Eggos.
That study, conducted by the Washington - based Urban Institute, reported that 55 percent of teen boys said they were sexually active in 1995, down from 60 percent in 1988.
In any case, nothing in what you said refutes the original study that I linked to, or my own experience working in the Texas Legislature, where it was a demonstrable FACT that taxes from urban areas subsidized more - conservative rural areas — a fact that we dealt with every day on an appropriations subcommittee my boss served on.
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.»
«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.
By comparison, the U.S. may see online addiction rates in urban youth around 5 to 10 percent, say neuroscientists and study co-authors Kai Yuan and Wei Qin of Xidian University in China.
«We would see some vibrant urban trees covered in scale insects, but we'd also see other clearly stressed and struggling urban trees covered in scale insects,» says Emily Meineke, a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard and first author of a paper on the study.
«Much like the spread of human disease in populated areas, urban centers can foster increases in multiple disease types in wild animals,» said McGraw, senior author of the study.
That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.
«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.
«I think that we have proof that we've entered a new age, a heat age,» says Mark Urban, an ecologist at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, who was not involved 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.
«Our study shows that direct changes to vacant urban spaces may hold great promise in breaking the cycle of abandonment, violence, and fear in our cities and do so in a cost - effective way that has broad, citywide scalability,» said Branas.
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 pollution.
«Of course, nobody should ever be forced to share a vehicle,» says Carlo Ratti, professor of the practice in MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and one of the paper's coauthors.
«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.
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.
«One theory that resonated with a lot of the things we found points to the importance of busy streets in promoting outdoor activity, interaction and cohesion in communities, which could potentially deter street violence,» said Branas, who has led several previous studies suggesting that urban parks and greening vacant lots encourage people to become invested in maintaining their neighborhoods and may reduce violent crime.
«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 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.
«Zika is just another example of how populations that reside in these urban slum communities are ignored, neglected and invisible,» said study author Lee Riley, a professor in the Berkeley School of Public Health, who has spent nearly 25 years studying urban slums in Brazil.
«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.
«This is the first study to look at the link between water and heat mitigation strategies in urban areas,» Vahmani said.
«Earlier studies have shown that urban warming increases pest abundance in street trees,» says Emily Meineke, lead author of a paper describing the work.
«This study is part of a larger effort to improve our ability to model microclimates in urban areas and other climate phenomena at decision - relevant scales,» Jones said.
«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.
Lead author of the study Professor Annemarie Schneider, from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, said: «Our results have shown that East - Southeast Asia is undergoing unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion.
«Dr. Boudreaux's groundbreaking study provides critical new information that has important implications for federal and state Medicaid policy,» says Genevieve Kenney, co-director of the Urban Institute's Health Policy Center.
«Jordan's ability to satisfy future urban and agricultural water demands will be stressed by cascading effects on its freshwater supply,» said study co-author Steven Gorelick, the Cyrus Fisher Tolman Professor in Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.
«If there are no further interventions by these governments, expect to see strong increases in urban car travel and urban energy and carbon dioxide emissions in China and India and elsewhere around the world,» said Lew Fulton, a co-author and co-director of the NextSTEPS Program at the Institute of Transportation Studies at UC Davis.
«We know few things about how cities grow naturally,» says Emanuele Strano, a doctoral candidate studying urban geography at Switzerland's École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne who authored the study.
«One of the factors driving the low per capita rating for California city trees could be the fact that 20 of the nation's 100 most densely populated cities are in California, meaning there's a higher volume of people in a confined space for trees,» said Natalie van Doorn, study co-author and research urban ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station.
«Historically, a lot of these analyses have been done using not such a substantial quantitative basis,» says Stephen Marshall, an urban theorist at University College London (U.C.L.) who was not part of the study.
«Urbanization affects not just surface albedo,» says urban environment researcher Karen Seto of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, who was not involved in any of the research.
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.
«This nationwide study of flood zones, human populations and urban development provides a tool that could be used globally,» Skog said.
Previous studies show that in many low - income urban areas, mouse allergens — proteins found primarily in the animals» urine that trigger allergic symptoms — are present in the homes of nearly all children who have asthma, says Matsui.
«We're interested in how urban warming affects the ecology of insects and what implications that might have for understanding how global warming might impact insects outside of the city, «said Elsa Youngsteadt, an entomology research associate at NCSU and co-lead author of the study.
So says Diana Reckien, of Columbia University in the US, in a study published in Springer's journal Climatic Change that analysed the relevant strategic policies and planning documents of 200 urban areas in eleven European countries.
Frank said the study focused on urban areas because the infrastructure in cities causes them to be a few degrees hotter than surrounding rural areas.
«This study presents the first evidence that urban areas birth or initiate thunderstorms more often than the surrounding rural areas on a climatological time scale,» Ashley says.
Together with other recent studies on the same mouse populations, the new research provides one of the first known examples of a mammal adapting to urban habitats, said Harris.
The growing urban populations resulted in overcrowding, unemployment and crime, but the worsening situation was neglected by the Syrian government, the study says.
«We know that Colorado has urban areas and frontier areas and rural areas, and we wanted to know if access would be different in different parts of the state,» says study co-author Carol Stamm, MD, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Colorado Anchutz.
«The issues I study seem to constantly be a work in progress, so I don't feel like I resolved anything or that we as an educational community have resolved the problems that are rampant in urban schools for adolescents,» she says.