abstract quality of life is a many-sided and complex concept and includes not only physical aspects of life. measuring and discovering this concept depends on many factors such as cultural, social, economical and even environmental. in this research, the connection between women’s quality of life and their access to public utilities and municipal services, health level and safety level of neigh...

The acute care setting plays an important role in the proper diagnosis and management of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children and adolescents. Increasingly, urgent care centers have become the frontline location for most routine injuries in the evolving medical neighborhood. Urgent care centers have progressively become the sites for initial evaluation of mTBI with a need for consiste...

BACKGROUND Prior research has suggested that patients who travel out of their neighborhood for elective care from specialized medical centers may have better outcomes than local patients with the same illnesses who are treated at the same centers. We hypothesized that this phenomenon, often called "referral bias" or "distance bias," may also be evident in curative-intent cancer trials at specia...

, Vol. 53, Issue 2, pp. 274–292, ISSN 0037-7791, electronic ISSN 1533-8533. © 2006 by Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. All rights reserved. Please direct all requests for permission to photocopy or reproduce article content through the University of California Press’s Rights and Permissions website, at http://www. ucpress.edu/journals/rights.htm. Neighborhood Institutions as Resou...

Abstract A center for a differential system $$\dot{\textbf{x}}=f(\textbf{x})$$ x ˙ = f ( ) in $${\mathbb {R}}^2$$ R 2 is...

the neighborhood has had a long history in iranian urbanization. since urban plans wereintroduced by the authorities to shape urban development in iran half a century ago, the concept of iranian traditional neighborhood has been neglected gradually. the concept of neighborhood has not found the appropriate status in urban design and planning yet. one of the main reasons is that academics, profe...

in this paper, new definitions of $l$-fuzzy closure operator, $l$-fuzzy interior operator, $l$-fuzzy remote neighborhood system, $l$-fuzzy neighborhood system and $l$-fuzzy quasi-coincident neighborhood system are proposed. it is proved that the category of $l$-fuzzy closure spaces, the category of $l$-fuzzy interior spaces, the category of $l$-fuzzy remote neighborhood spaces, the category of ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To explore the experience of older adults in their neighborhood in relation to perceived fall risk, fear of falling (FOF), and resources/strategies for fall prevention. DESIGN AND METHODS Fourteen older adults, 65 years of age and older from 3 urban senior centers, participated in this qualitative study. The semistructured interview guidelines and background questionnaire...

Chamfer distances are discrete distances based on the propagation of local distances, or weights, defined in a mask. The medial axis, i.e. the centers of maximal balls (balls which are not contained in any other ball), is a powerful tool for shape representation and analysis. The extraction of maximal disks is performed in the general case by testing the inclusion of a ball in a local neighborh...