There is a substantial literature on the explanation of neighbourhood change. Most of this literature concentrates on identifying factors and developments behind processes of decline. This paper reviews the literature, focusing on the identification of patterns of neighbourhood change, and argues that the concept of neighbourhood governance is a missing link in attempts to explain these pattern...

This study aimed to explore whether individual cognitions and neighbourhood social capital strengthen each other in their relation with engaging in sports at least three times per week. Cross-sectional analyses on data from the last wave of the YouRAction trial (2009-2010, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; baseline response: 98%) were conducted. In total 1129 had data on the last wave questionnaire (...

BACKGROUND Health and conditions for health are unevenly distributed across neighbourhoods. Within a salutogenic perspective, neighbourhood-resources can be internalised, and become generalised resistance resources. This paper aims to examine whether the neighbourhood could be a supportive arena for health-promotion, and for whom. DESIGN AND METHODS A cross-sectional study, based on register ...

OBJECTIVES Few studies have explored the impact of neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) on health behaviours in youths in Germany. Our aim was to investigate the association of individual and neighbourhood SES with physical activity (PA) and screen time (ST) in students aged 12-13 years in Berlin. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Secondary schools (high schools and integrated secon...

In this paper, a facial emotion recognition technique is proposed. The proposed technique employs modified-LBP, which conduct horizontal and vertical neighbourhood pixel comparison, to generate a discriminative initial facial representation. Then, a modified-PSO, is proposed to perform feature optimization.[2] The Facial emotion recognition system consists of three steps: 1) Feature Extraction;...

Concerns about the sustainability of urban property development are increasing amid broader concerns of sustainable development and contemporary financial crisis. Central to the sustainability agenda are the physical, economic, social, and cultural features of the built environment, together with various institutional parameters therein. This is a review article on property development and neig...

Given a positive integer n we find a graph G = (V,E) on |V | = n vertices with a minimum number of edges such that for any pair of non adjacent vertices x, y the graph G − x − y contains a (almost) perfect matching M . Intuitively the non edge xy and M form a (almost) perfect matching of G. Similarly we determine a graph G = (V,E) with a minimum number of edges such that for any matching M̄ of t...