Neighbourhood in many Nigerian cities had been designed without proper consideration of design principles, which invariably affect the residents’ quality of life. This s‌tudy assessed the experts' and residents’ perception of design correlates of neighbourhood quality in the urban area of Ibadan. Data were obtained from both primary and secondary sources. A ques‌tionnaire survey and direct obse...

A review of published observational studies of neighbourhoods and depression/depressive symptoms was conducted to inform future directions for the field. Forty-five English-language cross-sectional and longitudinal studies that analysed the effect of at least one neighbourhood-level variable on either depression or depressive symptoms were analysed. Of the 45 studies, 37 reported associations o...

background: this study explored the relationship between socio-economic characteristics at the individual and neighbourhood levels, and wellbeing and lifestyle behaviours of young iranian women. methods: cluster convenience sampling was used to select 391 iranian women participated in this cross-sectional survey in shiraz, iran in 2013. a scale adapted from the british general household social ...

the neighbourhood polynomial g , is generating function for the number of faces of each cardinality in the neighbourhood complex of a graph. in other word $n(g,x)=sum_{uin n(g)} x^{|u|}$, where n(g) is neighbourhood complex of a graph, whose vertices are the vertices of the graph and faces are subsets of vertices that have a common neighbour. in this paper we compute this polynomial for some na...

Interviewer observations made during the process of data collection are currently used to inform responsive design decisions, to expand the set of covariates for nonresponse adjustments, to explain participation in surveys, and to assess nonresponse bias. However, little effort has been made to assess the quality of such interviewer observations. Using data from the Los Angeles Family and Neigh...

BACKGROUND There is increasing evidence that individual health is at least partly determined by neighbourhood and regional factors. Mechanisms, however, remain poorly understood, and evidence from Germany is scant. This study explores whether regional as well as neighbourhood deprivation are associated with physical health and to what extent this association can be explained by specific neighbo...

Radioscopy is the accepted way for controlling the quality of aluminium die cast pieces through computer-aided analysis of X-ray images. Two classes of regions are possible in a digital X-ray image of a casting: regions belonging to regular structures of the specimen, and those relating to defects. Since the contrast between a flaw and a defectfree neighbourhood is distinctive, the detection is...

We describe the design and evaluation of a probabilistic interface for music exploration and casual playlist generation. Predicted subjective features, such as mood and genre, inferred from low-level audio features create a 34dimensional feature space. We use a nonlinear dimensionality reduction algorithm to create 2D music maps of tracks, and augment these with visualisations of probabilistic ...