Children show stronger cooperative behavior in experimental settings as they get older, but little is known about how the environment of a child shapes this development. In adults, prosocial behavior toward strangers is markedly decreased in low socio-economic status (SES) neighborhoods, suggesting that environmental harshness has a negative impact on some prosocial behaviors. Similar results h...

Ahmedabad, India’s sixth largest city, saw widespread religious violence in 2002. Using detailed neighborhood level data we show that riot incidence is positively predicted by a neighborhood’s proximity to the, by now largely derelict, textile mills. Mill neighborhoods also exhibit higher levels of religious integration, a fact we trace to the historical religious heterogeneity in the mill work...

Location-based social networks (LBSN) are capturing large amount of data related to whereabouts of their users. This has become a social phenomenon, that is changing the normal communication means and it opens new research perspectives on how to compute descriptive models out of this collection of geo-spatial data. In this paper, we propose a methodology for clustering location-based informatio...

Neighborhoods within the hierarchy of urban structure are one of the smallest socio-physical building blocks of cities. Traditional neighborhoods of Iranian historic cities benefited from strong social relations which were flourished over the years and were manifested in the neighborhoods centers. In the modern era, the new master plans and the complementary local plans have disintegrated th...

The neighborhood has had a long history in Iranian urbanization. Since urban plans wereintroduced by the authorities to shape urban development in Iran half a century ago, the concept of Iranian traditional neighborhood has been neglected gradually. The concept of neighborhood has not found the appropriate status in urban design and planning yet. One of the main reasons is that academics, profe...

Information on the occurrence, diversity and economic losses due to Eimeria infection on cattle farms is lacking in Western Iran. The principal aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and diversity of Eimeria species in cattle in Hamedan province, Western Iran. In a cross-sectional study performed from June 2010 to April 2013, 400 faecal samples were collected randomly from animals wi...