Across most Western societies, trends towards increased ethnic intermarriage have been observed across the second half of twentieth century. Whether such hold multi-ethnic soc...

Practices and research on measuring traditionally urban sustainability abound, therefore the challenge now is related to how carbon issues are included into current methods, thus there a need develop methods for low-carbon sustainability. In this paper, simple method, which based index, developed. The overall index weighted sum of 11 single indices, each defined as indicator assessing developme...

Abstract In recent years, climate change has been widely recognized as a potential problem. The building industry is taking variety of actions towards sustainable development and mitigation, such retrofitting buildings. More than it important to account for adaptation investigate the probable risks limits mitigation strategies. For example, one major challenge may become achieving low energy de...

This paper examines the spatial structures of commercial real estate buildings (Offices, Retails) in four Chinese cities: Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. In contrast to previous studies, this paper focused on the changes of the spatial pattern by involving the time variables to categorize the buildings into 3 time periods (Before 1995, 1996-2005, and 2006-2015). The research questio...

This paper examines reports on how care is administered by Family Health Teams (FHT) doctors and nurses in four state capitals. It identifies issues relating to priority actions, routine activities and the association between the professional profile and how selected activities are performed, in an attempt to ascertain how far these approximate to the comprehensive approach to primary health ca...