Tourism is playing an important role in the economic development of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). To better develop tourism this region, spatial heterogeneity influencing factors on needs to be studied. Using distribution potential from social media data, paper analyzes QTP perspective heterogeneity. We extract microblogs related travel topics connected 2017 Sina Weibo capture potential. Then, c...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how diet-related and activity-related amenities relate to residential location behaviour. Understanding these relationships is essential for addressing residential self-selection bias. METHODS Using 25 years (6 examinations) of data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study (n=11 013 observations) and linked neighbourhood-level d...

We are concerned with the minimization of multimodular functions. We show that for these functions local search gives the global optimum for a well-deened nite neighborhood. We apply this to a problem arising from manpower scheduling in call centers which has a multimodular objective function.

ESSAYS ON REGIONAL AMENITIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES By ELENA YEVGENYEVNA ANDREYEVA AUGUST, 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Major Department: Economics This dissertation investigates how alterations in government policies affect the level of, and access to, public amenities, and how outcomes vary across space. The first essay sheds light on whether the recentralization of political...

BACKGROUND Recent work in a number of countries has identified growing geographical inequalities in health between deprived and non-deprived neighbourhoods. The health gaps observed cannot be entirely explained by differences in the characteristics of individuals living in those neighbourhoods, which has led to a concerted international public health research effort to determine what contextual...

Globalization and subsequent opening up of Indian markets has given impetus to the urbanization process in most urban pockets in India leading to large scale irreversible land cover changes. Tier II cities in Karnataka with spurt in urban activities are trying to be infrastructural competitive. However this approach has marginalized the planned interventions through the understanding and visual...

The socio economic condition of the slum dwellers is generally poor because of the lack of basic social amenities; functional skills, proper education, source of the income, hygiene and health resources. However, slum dwellers directly or indirectly play an important role in nation building. With this point of view the study of slum dwellers becomes important. This paper attempts to demonstrate...

Indonesia went through a process of fiscal decentralization in 2001 involving the devolution of several policymaking and service delivery functions to the subnational tiers of government (provinces and districts). This process is likely to have affected regional patterns of urbanization, because the new prerogatives granted to the local governments have altered the distribution of urban ameniti...