The fundamental organizing elements of the New Urbanism are the neighborhood, the district and the corridor. Neighborhoods are urbanized areas with a balanced mix of human activity; districts are areas dominated by a single activity; corridors are connectors and separators of neighborhoods and districts. A single neighborhood standing free in the landscape is a village. Cities and towns are mad...

When one of the major parties in the United States wins a substantially larger share of the seats than its vote share would seem to warrant, the conventional explanation lies in overt partisan or racial gerrymandering. Yet this paper uses a unique data set from Florida to demonstrate a common mechanism through which substantial partisan bias can emerge purely from residential patterns. When par...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with dental caries among adults and children in seven districts of Uganda. METHODS Participants aged 11-13 (n=1230) and 35-44 years (n=648) were randomly selected from urban and rural areas of Gulu, Soroti, Jinja, Masaka, Kabale, Kabarole and Hoima districts. They were examined by 4 trained and calibrated dentists for de...

OBJECTIVE Recent school shootings and terrorist events have demonstrated the need for well-coordinated planning for school-based mass-casualty events. The objective of this study was to document the preparedness of public schools in the United States for the prevention of and the response to a mass-casualty event. METHODS A survey was mailed to 3670 school superintendents of public school dis...

problems statement: new millennium started while more than half of world population lives in cities. this issue requires attendance of the citizens in affairs managemanet along with necessity of equipment, demands and needs. the important point is barriers and prohibiting factors which prevent participation. this article intends to answer these questions by reliance on research findings in 2009...