In today's world the amazing development of IT caused more attention of governments and businesses to take advantage of it. In the meantime Cities have action to create electronic city, using IT and according to the needs of city managers to new ideas for managing the City and maximum participation of citizens in municipal affairs. For the success of e-city In addition to providing the necessar...

This paper presents a pilot project using an educational robotics curriculum that was developed to enhance teaching of standard physics and math topics to middle and early high school students in inner-city schools in New York City. The lessons are centered around the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit and the RoboLab graphical programming environment. The pilot project, testing the curriculum in two...

Comparison of measurements of peroxyacyl nitrates and primary carbonaceous aerosol concentrations in Mexico City determined in 1997 and 2003 N. A. Marley, J. S. Gaffney, R. Ramos-Villegas, and B. Cárdenas González University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S.A. Secretariat of the Environment, Government of the Federal District, Mexico City, D.F., Mexico El Centro National d...

STUDY POPULATION. Four hundred students with physiciandiagnosed asthma attending inner-city elementary schools are currently being recruited from screening surveys collected during the spring and phenotypically characterized at baseline in the summer in an ongoing longitudinal study (SICAS [School Inner-City Asthma Study]). The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the role of indoor alle...

Transforming a city into a Smart City is a complex and multidimensional process which changes over time since all the involved stakeholders work to achieve more and better results. “To be smart” affects many aspects of a city including economics, government, people, living, mobility, environment, energy and services. This paper aims at critically analysing the main features related to smart cit...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To assess the relations between characteristics of the neighbourhood internal and external built environment and past six month and lifetime depression. DESIGN AND SETTING Depression and sociodemographic information were assessed in a cross sectional survey of residents of New York City (NYC). All respondents were geocoded to neighbourhood of residence. Data on the quality of ...

Asthma is now the leading cause of emergency room visits, hospitalizations, and missed school days in New York City's poorest neighbourhoods. While most research focuses on the influence of the indoor environment on asthma, this study examines the neighbourhood effects on childhood asthma, such as housing and ambient environmental hazards. Using Geographic Information Science (GI Science) we id...

Travel route analysis and prediction are essential for the success of many applications in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs). It is challenging to make accurate route prediction for general vehicles in city settings due to several practical issues such as very complicated traffic networks, the highly dynamic real-time traffic conditions and their interaction with driver’s route selections. The...

This paper aims to describe Digital City Shanghai (DCSH), which was designed to be an integrated information & service environment for everyday life. Section 1 provides a background of Shanghai. Section 2 discusses the motivation and guidelines of DCSH: service-oriented, intelligent, participant-encouraged, and government-guided & commercialized. Section 3 gives a rough skeleton of DCSH, which ...