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Veronica Matthews, Jo Longman, James Bennett-Levy, Maddy Braddon, Megan Passey, Ross S. Bailie and Helen L. Berry
In 2017, marginalised groups were disproportionately impacted by extensive flooding in a rural community in Northern New South Wales, Australia, with greater risk of home inundation, displacement and poor mental health. While social capital has been link...
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Zeenat Kotval-K, Annabelle Wilkinson, Andy Brush and Eva Kassens-Noor
Residents in small urban and rural areas frequently depend on unreliable personal transportation to maintain their lifestyle and get to essential destinations within their society. Especially, vulnerable populations, such as seniors and low-income reside...
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Richard W.Seidel, Kimberlee A. Pardo, Paul A.Estabrooks, WenYou, Sarah S. Wall, Brenda M.Davy and Fabio A.Almeida
Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify patient preferences for different components of a local diabetes prevention program that would improve reach.A secondary purpose was to determine if patient characteristics were related to program pref...
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Armin Jeddi Yeganeh, Ralph Hall, Annie Pearce, Steve Hankey
Access to quality public transportation is critical for employment, especially for low-income and minority populations. This study contributes to previous work on equity analyses of the U.S. public transportation system by including the 45 largest Metrop...
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As urban populations grow worldwide, it becomes increasingly important to critically analyse accessibility—the ease with which residents can reach key places or opportunities. The combination of ‘big data’ and advances in computational ...
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Jerome R. Mayaud, Sam Anderson, Martino Tran and Valentina Radic
As urban populations grow worldwide, it becomes increasingly important to critically analyse accessibility?the ease with which residents can reach key places or opportunities. The combination of ?big data? and advances in computational techniques such as...
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Ping Lu, Nan-Ping Yang, Nien-Tzu Chang, K. Robert Lai, Kai-Biao Lin and Chien-Lung Chan
Numerous studies have investigated the applicable populations for percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC) procedures, but the outcomes of PC in low-income populations (LIPs) have been insufficiently studied. Data for 11,184 patients who underwent PC were colle...
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Sayaka Ushimaru, Rintaro Iwata, Eka Rastiyanto Amrullah, Arini W. Utami and Akira Ishida
In many developing countries, ensuring a stable and affordable supply of safe and nutritious food for urban dwellers, especially impoverished households, has become an urgent policy issue due to growing urban populations. Since urban and peri-urban agric...
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Noreen McDonald, Louis A. Merlin, Haoting Hu, Joshu Shih, Deborah Cohen, Kelly Evenson, Thomas McKenzie, Daniel Rodriguez
The proportion of teens and young adults with driver?s licenses has declined sharply in many industrialized countries including the United States. Explanations for this decline have ranged from the introduction of graduated driver licensing programs to t...
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Nimmi Rangaswamy,Edward Cutrell
Pág. pp. 51 - 63 pgs.
In this article, we present results from an anthropological study of everyday mobile Internet adoption among teenagers in a low-income urban setting. We use this study to explore how information about everyday ICT use may be relevant for development rese...
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Indrani Medhi,Raghu S. Menon,Edward Cutrell,Kentaro Toyama
Pág. pp. 51 - 65 pgs.
One of the greatest challenges in designing applications for developing communities is that potential users may have little or no education. We investigate how limited education correlates with cognitive skills for conceptual abstraction, as required for...
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Gregory Macfarlane, Carole Turley Voulgaris, Teresa Tapia
Pág. 587 - 612
During the spring and summer of 2020, cities across the world responded to the global COVID-19 pandemic by converting roadway facilities into open pedestrian spaces. These conversions improved access to public open space, but measuring the variation in t...
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James DeWeese, Manuel Santana Palacios, Anastasia Belikow, Ahmed El-Geneidy
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Express buses?characterized by limited stops and sometimes higher frequencies or priority traffic measures?offer a cost-effective and efficient way to boost service convenience and reliability for riders. This paper assesses how the accessibility benefit...
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Kalthum Hassan,Zalinah Ahmad,Rozita Arshad
Pág. 620 - 625
The Malaysian government has implemented various economic development programmes since after the independence. The main goal is to increase the overall populations? socio-economic levels which should lead to improved standard of living, well-beings and q...
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Kaitlyn E. Brodar, Marissa G. Hall, Eboneé N. Butler, Humberto Parada, Al Stein-Seroussi, Sean Hanley and Noel T. Brewer
To help tobacco control research better include vulnerable populations, we sought to identify effective ways to recruit diverse smokers. In 2014?2015, we recruited 2149 adult cigarette smokers in California and North Carolina, United States, to participa...
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Jason Knight, Mohammad Gharipour
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How can urban redevelopment benefit existing low-income communities? The history of urban redevelopment is one of disruption of poor communities. Renewal historically offered benefits to the place while pushing out the people. In some cases, displacement...
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Jalonne L. White-Newsome, Sabrina McCormick, Natalie Sampson, Miatta A. Buxton, Marie S. O'Neill, Carina J. Gronlund, Linda Catalano, Kathryn C. Conlon and Edith A. Parker
Extreme heat events (EHEs) are becoming more intense, more frequent and longer lasting in the 21st century. These events can disproportionately impact the health of low-income, minority, and urban populations. To better understand heat-related interventi...
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Rodrigo Scoczynski Ribeiro, Marc Arnela, Manuel Teixeira Braz-César, Rúbia Mara Bosse, Laura Silvestro, Gustavo de Miranda Saleme Gidrão, Mariane Kempka, Dyorgge Alves Silva and Marcela Maier Farias Czap
In Brazil, there is a shortage of approximately 5.80 million residences, a challenge that intensified during the pandemic. Since 2013, there has been a mandate to implement specific performance criteria in residential constructions. However, many constru...
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