Adolescent Problem Video Gaming in Urban and Non-urban Regions

Fire detection using video sequences in urban out-door environment

Nowadays automated early warning systems are essential in human life. One of these systems is fire detection which plays an important role in surveillance and security systems because the fire can spread quickly and cause great damage to an area. Traditional fire detection methods usually are based on smoke and temperature detectors (sensors). These methods cannot work properly in large space a...

Planning for Creative Urban Regions

Progress toward better understanding of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their contribution to knowledge-based urban development is evident. The move has been made from Mitchell's (1995) visions of electronic ago-ras and windowless and peopleless libraries, and discussions of expected policy challenges and implications toward academic and applied attention to the ICT-relate...

Using Video Gaming Technology to Achieve Low - cost Speed up of Emergency Response Urban Dispersion Simulations

As a result of the demand for high performance graphics capabilities driven by the computer video game industry, the processing performance of video cards is rapidly evolving. Recent trends in computing have shifted toward multi-core processors and programmable graphics processors equipped with highly parallel data paths for processing geometry and pixels. Multi-core machines are now readily av...

Advancing Adolescent Literacy in Urban Schools

Urban community characteristics and adolescent assault victims.

PURPOSE To examine the relationship between neighborhood factors and adolescent victimization for low- and high-risk areas of Milwaukee, Wis. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, we compared neighborhood characteristics based on the US Census Database by rates of adolescent victim rates as measured through victim client enrollment in an adolescent violence intervention program. Multiple reg...