Testing Weights and Measures in New York City

Diabetes in New York City.

Old and Poor in New York City

T h ree important global trends will affect older persons living in cities. Fi r s t , the world’s population is increasingly concentrated in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that over 60% of the world’s population will live in cities by 2025. Second, poverty is becoming more concentrated in urban areas around the world. Third, for the most part people are living longer, and this has c...

Disparities in urban neighborhood conditions: evidence from GIS measures and field observation in New York City.

Although many low-income urban areas are highly walkable by conventional measures such as population density or land use mix, chronic diseases related to lack of physical activity are more common among residents of these areas. Disparities in neighborhood conditions may make poor areas less attractive environments for walking, offsetting the advantages of density and land use mix. This study co...

Characterizing Taxi Flows in New York City

We present an analysis of taxi flows in Manhattan (NYC) using a variety of data mining approaches. The methods presented here can aid in development of representative and accurate models of large-scale traffic flows with applications to many areas, including outlier detection and characterization.

Neuropsychology in New York City (1930-1960).

In this paper a description is provided of the history of what was to become the specialty of clinical neuropsychology as it occurred in New York City over a period extending from about 1930 to 1960. An effort will be made to demonstrate that the field of clinical neuropsychology was essentially founded in New York because of a number of historical forces that will be discussed. Beginning with ...