Within the framework of CLEVER Cities Horizon 2020, London, Milan, and Hamburg are putting in place nine Urban Living Labs order to implement Nature-based Solutions that address urban challenges socially disadvantaged neighborhoods. In this article, means by which co-creation processes pathways may lead innovation governance structures considered. Through a comparative case study analysis, rese...

Shrinking cities are widespread throughout the world despite the rapidly increasing global urban population. These cities are attempting to transition to sustainable trajectories to improve the health and well-being of urban residents, to build their capacity to adapt to changing conditions and to cope with major events. The dynamics of shrinking cities are different than the dynamics of growin...

over half of the world’s population lives in cities and united nations (un) demographers project an increase of 2.5 billion more urban dwellers by 2050. yet there is too little systematic comparative research on the practice of urban health policy and management (hpam), particularly in the megacities of middle-income and developing nations. we make a case for creating a global database on citie...

this paper presents fuzzy and conventional performance of model reference adaptive control(mrac) to control a dc drive. the aims of this work are achieving better match of motor speed with reference speed, decrease of noises under load changes and disturbances, and increase of system stability. the operation of nonadaptive control and the model reference of fuzzy and conventional adaptive contr...

BACKGROUND Creating healthy cities promotes socio-economic development, thus, the creation of such cities has been receiving more attention from the Chinese government and the Chinese people. In the current study, the intention was to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the creation of healthy cities in Henan province in central China. METHODS We randomly selected 18 cities (7 healthy citie...

Interest in adaptive traffic signals in the USA is increasing and the use of adaptive signals is strongly supported by FHWA. There are several systems (notably SCOOT and SCATS) that are widely used throughout the world and several new adaptive products have recently been released. This paper compares and contrasts the systems that have been successfully installed in the USA and discusses their ...

BACKGROUND Driving a taxicab remains one of the most dangerous occupations in the United States, with leading homicide rates. Although safety equipment designed to reduce robberies exists, it is not clear what effect it has on reducing taxicab driver homicides. FINDINGS Taxicab driver homicide crime reports for 1996 through 2010 were collected from 20 of the largest cities (>200,000) in the U...

background: regarding high prevalence and injurious consequences of postpartum depression, the aim of the present work is the study of the effect rate of interpersonal psychotherapy on marriage adaptive and postpartum in women. method: the present study is semi‑empiric, and included control group and pre‑ and post‑test groups. thirty‑two women suffering from postpartum depression were selected ...