Can you imagine a city that feels, understands, and cares about your wellbeing? Future cities will reshape human behavior in countless ways. New strategies and models are required for future urban spaces to properly respond to human activity, environmental conditions, and market dynamics. Persuasive urban systems will play an important role in making cities more livable and resource-efficient b...

BACKGROUND The 1986 Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion coincided with a preponderance of research, worldwide, on the social determinants of health and health inequities. Despite the establishment of a 'health inequities knowledge base', the precise roles for municipal governments in reducing health inequities at the local level remain poorly defined. The objective of this study was to monitor ...

The annual effective dose to Chinese population from natural radiation exposure is about 3.1 mSv/y, of which 1.56 mSv/y or 50% is due to the exposure from radon and its daughters [1]. The enhanced natural radiation level results mainly from indoor radon concentrations rising by 70%, compared to the previous data in 1990s [1, 2]. Based on the research, the increase in indoor radon concentrations...

Cities around the world are facing an ever-increasing variety of challenges that seem to make more sustainable urban futures elusive. Many of these challenges are being driven by, and exacerbated by, increases in urban populations and climate change. Novel solutions are needed today if our cities are to have any hope of more sustainable and resilient futures. Because most of the environmental i...

t. ikawa obtained an ordinary differential equation for the circular helix. recently, the helix havebeen investigated by many differential geometers such as t. ikawa, h. balgetir, m. bektas, m. ergut, n.ekmekci and h. h. hacısalihoglu. in this paper, making use of this author’s methods, we obtainedcharacterizations of helix for a curve with respect to the frenet frame in 3-dimensional galilean ...

regarding the necessity of regional integrated development, analyzing the dependency of human habitats in region-level, is the main duty in every planning. therefore, deprivation and inequality reduction is an important matter, due to its economic and social consequences and needs proper attention. in fact, to achieve comprehensive development and progress in the future; requires the recognitio...

Social representations of gender (SR), namely, beliefs, values, attitudes, and symbolic content about affect people’s behavior relations to others in social life. Gender help explain violence among the adolescent population. A qualitative study was conducted explore SR teachers students from two cities Colombia: Bogotá Ibagué. Multimethod data collection performed using a word-association task ...

This study examines personal support networks in Beijing and Hong Kong, based on survey data collected in 2000. It was found that these two Chinese cities, which share a common Confucian cultural heritage, are similar in many aspects of social support. The supportive roles of spouse or partner are prominent and diffuse. Other close relatives are more involved in instrumental than emotional supp...