This paper sought to investigate the outcomes on Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) mechanism for Sustainable development in Sedibeng District Municipality (SDM), which were recommended by investigator year 2014. The reorganisation of indigenous ascendency South Africa necessitate municipalities assist societies surrounded their regions authority. That has conveyed capability encounters most m...

To examine the association between socioeconomic status (SES) and adolescent alcoholic beverage preferences and the associated drinking patterns in China. The study used cross-sectional data collected from 136 junior or senior high schools, using a self-administered questionnaire. A total number of 7,075 subjects of drinking students were selected from three metropolises (Beijing, Shanghai, and...

Sustainable development decisions are seen by the Oriental WSR approach as participation processes conditioned and shaped by a dynamic web of wuli (relation with the world), shili (relation with the mind) and renli (relation with others). On the one hand, lis are interwoven with each other; the study of one cannot be isolated from that of the other. On the other hand, lis are rich, diverse and ...

The scope of this article is to present and analyze data from Brazilian foster care services for children / adolescents from the perspective of family reintegration. It also seeks to support the implementation of public policies in order to provide effective reintegration in accordance with the differing local contexts. It uses data from 1,157 municipalities that have foster care services. The ...

1 The congestion problem of urban transportation is becoming increasingly critical for many 2 metropolises. The Urban Rail Transit (URT) system has attracted substantial attention due to its 3 safety, high speed, high capacity and sustainability. With a focus on providing a holistic 4 modelling framework for train scheduling problems, this paper proposes a novel optimization 5 methodology that ...

Objective. We aimed to examine the independent contributions of physical health and cognitive function to disability among Chinese older adults living in two Asian metropolises and explore the potential influences of environment. Design and Participants. Cross-sectional analysis based on data from two population-based studies: the Shanghai Survey of Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia (n = 4639) a...

The prediction of ground level ozone for air quality monitoring and assessment is simulated through an integrated system of gridded models (meteorological, photochemical), where the atmosphere is represented with a three-dimensional grid that may include thousands of grid cells. The continuity equation solved by the Photochemical Air Quality Model (PAQM) reproduces the atmospheric processes (dy...

Istanbul, as the greatest metropolis of Turkey and one of the great cities of the world, has been rapidly transforming in recent years. This paper analyzes various aspects of this transformation to lead to an understanding of an appropriate strategy for metropolitan governance. Recent politicial developments indicate an apparent fragmentation of Istanbul citizens into segments with different ex...

The current resurgence of interest in Istanbul's Ottoman past, and its transformation into a key site of political struggles, cannot be divorced from transnational trends. In the world of late capitalism that we experience today, large metropolises figure prominently as core settings for the display and promotion of 'cultural heritage' as a marketable commodity. The symbolic and economic comodi...