Please elaborate the Background section of the abstract to place the study in the context of the current knowledge in the field. Please also remember to update the abstract details on the submission page. The background section of the abstract has been changed into: Background: Neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage and social capital have been associated with adolescent well-being, but the m...

BACKGROUND This study explored the relationship between socio-economic characteristics at the individual and neighbourhood levels, and wellbeing and lifestyle behaviours of young Iranian women. METHODS Cluster convenience sampling was used to select 391 Iranian women participated in this cross-sectional survey in Shiraz, Iran in 2013. A scale adapted from the British General Household Social ...

The concept of sense of place has received considerable attention by social scientists in recent years. Research has indicated that a person's sense of place is influenced by a number of factors including the built environment, socio-economic status (SES), well-being and health. Relatively few studies have examined sense of place at the neighbourhood level, particularly among communities exhibi...

This work considers the optimisation of component placement sequencing to improve the efficiency of theoretical multi-head surface mount device placement machines in printed circuit board assembly. We develop a Variable Neighbourhood Monte Carlo Search (VNMS), which employs a variable neighbourhood search technique with an Exponential Monte Carlo acceptance criterion. VNMS is a descent-ascent h...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC) and biomarkers of diet (urinary sodium and potassium excretion). DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING The data reported were from the 2010 Heart Follow-up Study, a population-based representative survey of 1645 adults. PARTICIPANTS Community-dwellin...

This paper reports on a project which was undertaken with a network of Neighbourhood Houses (community-based organisations) in the Western Region of Melbourne, Australia. The region is an area of high social-economic need, and at the same time, contains a major growth corridor. A decline in investments in communitylevel ICT systems is producing technical and informational gaps impacting the wor...

This case-control study evaluated the factors influencing volunteering in the Islamic Republic of Iran's Women's Health Volunteer (WHV) programme, which is implemented in 150 centres in Khorasan-e-Razavi Province. We recruited 145 cases (volunteers) and 146 controls (non-volunteers) from the centres. Data were collected by questionnaire. Sociodemographic variables included were: length of resid...

This study aimed to identify predictors of residential mobility in 55+ Canadians, to characterise neighbourhood changes following mobility, to assess whether such changes differ according to income, and to evaluate for cross-sectional estimations of place-health relationships the extent of bias associated with residential mobility. Using longitudinal data from the Canadian National Population H...

The two-player game of Nim on graphs is played on a regular graph with positively weighted edges by moving alternately from a fixed starting vertex to an adjacent vertex, decreasing the weight of the incident edge to a strictly smaller non-negative integer. The game ends when a player is unable to move since all edges incident with the vertex from which the player is to move have weight zero. I...

In the perpetual gossiping problem, introduced by Liestman and Richards, information may be generated at any time and at any vertex of a graph G; adjacent vertices can communicate by telephone calls. We define Wk(G) to be the minimum w such that, placing at most k calls each time unit, we can ensure that every piece of information is known to every vertex within w time units of its generation. ...