Women and Crime in the Rural-Urban Fringe

Modeling the Effects of Greenbelts at the Urban-Rural Fringe

We present and evaluate an agent based model (ABM) of land use change at the rural-urban fringe, comparing its performance to a mathematical model of the same process. Our simplified model was developed in Swarm using agents with heterogeneous preferences and a landscape with heterogeneous properties. The context of this work is a larger project that includes surveys of the preferences of resid...

The impact of crime on urban women.

Walking across Rural-Urban Fringe: The Hindering Effect of Intersections

The study investigates the influence of road intersections on pedestrian accessibility in urban-rural fringe areas. An evaluation method to support planners and decision makers in the classification of crossing areas according to their effect on walking and in the prioritization of improvement interventions is proposed. In these peripheral parts of towns, pedestrians are almost ignored and peop...

Urban-rural differences in Spanish menopausal women.

INTRODUCTION Most women spend one-third to half of their lifespan in the postmenopausal phase. As menopause involves biological and psychosocial changes that may significantly impair quality of life, the objectives of this study were to: (1) evaluate the prevalence of risk factors for osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease and the prevalence and severity of the appearance of menopausal symptom...

Does fringe banking exacerbate neighborhood crime rates

P ayday lenders have become the banker of choice for many residents of distressed urban communities in the United States. By offering cash advances on postdated checks, these businesses provide a growing number of financially strapped families the money they need to get by at least in the short run. As just one piece of a growing fringe banking industry (consisting of check cashers, pawn shops,...