نتایج جستجو برای: urban dwellers

تعداد نتایج: 172642  

2004
Kathleen L. Wolf

Urban parks, forests and open space systems provide many amenities for city dwellers. Yet perceptions of public value may not incorporate all of the scientifically confirmed public goods and services of urban green space. Theory and methods of economic valuation have been used to derive green space values – including direct use, environmental services, hedonic pricing and human health estimatio...

Journal: :Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 2023

A Digital payment, sometimes called an electronic payment is the transfer of value from one account to another using a digital medium. has provided opportunity for India empower its people and make them use it overcome outdated banking system. payments have changed people’s financial behaviour. Now days online becomes daily part our lives, mainly because so convenient. It offers satisfaction, c...

Journal: :Natural disaster science and mitigation engineering: DPRI reports 2021

Abstract Flash floods are unexpected, localized flood events that occur when an exceptional amount of rain falls happens over a short period time. In South Asia, it is mostly disastrous, for example, in 2017 flash killed approximately 1200 people from India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. However, also common Dhaka megacity, Bangladesh due to its geographic location, monsoon climatic condition surround...

2000
R. Sietchiping

Cities in developing countries are expanding at a tremendous rate and informal settlements (where 40 to 80% of city dwellers live) occur in unplanned urban areas. In planned cities in developed countries, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and cellular automata (CA) are favourable tools for modelling urban dynamics. This paper discusses the growth of informal settlements, describes the tools ...

2008
Andrea Vaccari Mauro Martino Francisca Rojas Carlo Ratti

How does a city perform during a special event? How can we inform local authorities and urban dwellers of public happenings? Until today it has been difficult to monitor urban dynamics in real time. Traditional methods, like head counts, surveys, and aerial inspection, are costly and limited. In this paper we present our twofold approach to the processing and visualization of real time informat...

2014
Leonard Ogbonna Ajah Chukwuemeka Anthony Iyoke Peter Onubiwe Nkwo Boniface Nwakoby Paul Ezeonu

BACKGROUND The perception and prevalence of domestic violence (DV) in rural areas is poorly understood; the result is that most efforts at eradicating this harmful practice are concentrated in urban areas. The objective of the study was to compare the burden and perception of DV among women living in rural and urban Igbo communities of southeast Nigeria. METHODS This was a comparative, cross-...

2009
John M. Quigley

In 2007 the United Nations Population Fund released a report forecasting rapidly rising levels of urbanization over the next two decades, especially in the developing world. It noted that for the fi rst time in history, more than half the world’s population resides in urban areas. The same year UNHABITAT issued a report highlighting the slums and deplorable living conditions in cities in develo...

2017
Aung Soe Htet Marte Karoline Kjøllesdal Wai Phyo Aung Aye Nyein Moe Myint Win Thuzar Aye Myint Myint Wai Than Than Nu Ei Mon Hla Pyone Pyone Soe Nan Wut Yi Tun Naw Angela Mya Mya Khaing Aung Kyaw Htoo Soe Tun Pai Thitsar Theeoo Lwin San San Wai Thi Thi Aung Khin Aye Thant Wai Wai Aung Po Seng Taung Gauzam Tun Tun Naing Thet Min Tun Khin San Myint Kyi Kyi Oo Nang Kee Myu Mang Soe Moe Naing Ko Ko Zaw Marius Bergsmark Bjertness Lhamo Yangchen Sherpa Win Myint Oo Hein Stigum Espen Bjertness

OBJECTIVE The first is to estimate the prevalence of dyslipidaemia (hypercholesterolaemia, hypertriglyceridaemia, high low-density lipoprotein (LDL) level and low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) level), as well as the mean levels of total cholesterol, triglyceride, LDL and HDL, in the urban and rural Yangon Region, Myanmar. The second is to investigate the association between urban-rural locatio...

2015
Oyinlola Oyebode Utz J. Pape Anthony A. Laverty John T. Lee Nandita Bhan Christopher Millett

BACKGROUND Understanding how urbanisation and rural-urban migration influence risk-factors for non-communicable disease (NCD) is crucial for developing effective preventative strategies globally. This study compares NCD risk-factor prevalence in urban, rural and migrant populations in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Russia and South Africa. METHODS Study participants were 39,436 adults within th...

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