City marketing tries to position cities in the mind of the public, although the process of creating and communicating city brands is still at an early stage of its development. One of the main tools for the communication of these brands is now the World Wide Web. This chapter describes the results of two combined studies (qualitative and quantitative) that analyzes a sample of official city Web...

Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research (GESTAR), Universities Space Research Association, Columbia, Maryland, USA 2 Global Change Data Center, Code 610.2, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Influenza Program, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Regional Office for Central America Region, Guatemala City, Guatemala Influenza Unit, Center for Health Stu...

introduction: vitamin deficiency and iron deficiency anemia are common nutritional problems, at least in children under 5. these materials shortage, especially in the first two years of life, impair physical and brain growth, reduces the child's learning ability, reduces body resistance against infections, behavioral changes, apathy and finally social and economic adverse consequences woul...

Task-based language learning has been proved to be effective on improving learners’ skills, especially speaking skills; however, studies of this approach English as a foreign (EFL) students at centers in Can Tho city, Vietnam, are still limited. lessons developed several course books used by those centers, but students’ skills observed far from satisfactory. This research was carried out so inv...

1340. Mumps Outbreak among a Highly Vaccinated University Community-New York City, NY, January-April 2014 Leena N. Patel, MD; Robert Arciuolo, MPH, CPH; Tamara Brantley, MPH, CPH; Francesca R. Giancotti, PhD; Jie Fu, PhD; Jane R. Zucker, MD, MSc; Anthony Muyombwe, PhD; Jennifer B. Rosen, MD; Public Health/Preventive Medicine Residency Program, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygie...

Progressive urban density affects city centers especially and results in growing congestion, lack of parking spaces, increasing environmental costs transportation, causing increased air pollutant emissions noise. These phenomena reduce the attractiveness result a degradation quality life for its residents. In light these phenomena, there is clear need intelligent management space using new tech...

the emergency medical centers are very helpful since they reduce the number of death and injuries by getting to the scenes of accidents and dealing with the case immediately. as saving one's life is the prime goal in these centers, any findings and techniques which will improve the services and ease achieving the goal will be highly welcomed. the first and the major factor in giving this kind o...

one of the most important problem and issues in metropolises is natural hazards and the earthquake is the most important of them in developing countries. according to this theme, comprehensive disaster management especially earthquake is an important factor to safe people life and evaluate risks by complete and update information bank, exact and modern hardware and gis and karmania hazard softw...

introduction: air pollution due to particulate matter is a major environmental and health issue in all regions of the world. the aim of this study was to investigate the health impacts of pm10 (particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter ≤10μm) in khorramabad city, iran in 2014. materials and methods: in this study, pm10 sampling was conducted by a high-volume sampler at flow rate of 1.1-1....