In the United States, 69 percent of the population lived in what the government statisticians call metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) in 1970, 75 percent in 1980 and 77 percent in 1990. But while a greater proportion of the population is living in urban areas broadly defined, a smaller proportion is living and working in the central cities. In the 1950s, 57 percent of MSA residents and 70 pe...

in the new societies, the women’s gender identity affected by the external atmosphere, communal relationships, as well as life experiences is constantly changing.  in terms of sociology, the type of the division of atmosphere is the reflection of the social relationship dominant on the society and it is considered as an index towards the mode of the organization of society as well as a foundati...

INTRODUCTION Emergency medicine (EM) workforce studies show low rates of board-certified/residency-trained emergency physicians practising in rural emergency departments (EDs) in the USA. Rural ED rotations for EM residents may lead to increased numbers of residency-trained EM providers in rural areas. There is concern that residents trained in rural environments will not get sufficient procedu...

Americans have always gravitated toward cities, and for most of this century, urban growth has continued at a fast pace. During the 1970s, however, nonmetropolitan area grew at the expense of many large metropolitan areas, especially those in the industrial Northeast and Midwest. New patterns of population distribution appeared to be emerging. This Bulletin analyzes the trends of the 1970s, ...

Despite their importance as investment vehicles and as housing, very little analysis of multifamily markets has been undertaken to date. The literature that has been produced has, with few exceptions discussed below, focused on the aggregate national market, or occasionally on the regional market. But housing markets are well known to be local and diverse. The purpose of this paper is to examin...

This work proposes the development and application of specific security metrics for metropolitan broadband access networks that aim to measure the efficiency of security programs and support action planning against detected problems. The approach presented in this work show metrics developed for these networks and parameters for metrics definition. This paper also presents results achieved from...

Keiko Nagahara1, 2*, Yuki Harada3*, Tohru Futami3, Masaki Takagi1, 4, Gen Nishimura5, and Yukihiro Hasegawa1 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Pediatrics, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Shiga Medical Center for Children, Shiga, Japan 4Department of Pediatric...

Mike Thelwall, Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group, University of Wolverhampton. Olga Goriunova, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. Farida Vis, Information School, University of Sheffield. Simon Faulkner, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Anne Burns, Information School, University of Sheffield. Jim Aulich, Manchester School of Art,...