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HUNDLOE, TOR, and GEOFF McDONALD. "Ecologically Sustainable Development and the Better Cities Program." Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 4, no. 2 (January 1997): 88–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14486563.1997.10648375.
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Kievskiy, Leonid V. "Economic Criteria for Cities’ Readiness for the Renovation Program." Revista Gestão Inovação e Tecnologias 11, no. 2 (June 5, 2021): 1269–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.47059/revistageintec.v11i2.1755.
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There are a number of issues that are relevant and high priority for many large cities around the world. Among them are the following: renovation of the housing stock and ensuring the development of residential areas, creating favorable living conditions for citizens and increasing housing supply to better serve unmet demand (housing per capita). The program of housing stock renovation in large cities should be developed based on individual scenarios. To ensure the effective implementation of such a program for each region (city), in each case there need to be developed a model that takes into account such major factors as features of the regional economy, the structure of the existing housing system, and other specifics of the current situation in a local market. In this article, the authors define the main indicators that reflect the economic readiness of the city for a renovation program.
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Fairbanks, Robert B. "Federal Urban Renewal in Three Small Texas Cities: A Mixed Legacy." Journal of Planning History 19, no. 3 (March 13, 2020): 187–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513220908958.
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When it comes to the federal urban renewal program, Texas has often been dismissed as a conservative state since large cities like Dallas and Houston refused to participate. But a closer look at Texas shows that smaller cities such as Lubbock, Waco, and Grand Prairie did indeed embrace the program. Unlike northern cities which employed urban renewal to retard decline, these Texas cities embraced it to promote growth and to improve race relations. Because of segregation, blacks had few standard neighborhoods to reside in and civic leaders saw new opportunities to better black living conditions offered by urban renewal.
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Turner, Jeff, Jeremy Jostad, Brent J. Bell, Kellie Gerbers, Will Hobbs, Elizabeth Andre, and K. C. Collins. "Overview of the Current Landscape of Outdoor Programs in Higher Education." Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership 14, no. 4 (October 21, 2022): 86–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.18666/jorel-2022-11595.
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Recent recognition of the growth and significance outdoor recreation industry indicates a need for outdoor-focused academic programs in higher education, yet broader trends affecting higher education may especially impact these programs. Our census methodology identified 128 undergraduate outdoor academic programs; more than previously identified in the literature. The most common higher education institutions to have an outdoor academic program are public, doctoral granting, and located in cities and in the southeast. However, those most likely to have an outdoor academic program are public and doctoral-granting, but are located in rural areas and the Rocky Mountain region. This research provides the foundation for future work which seeks to better understand the unique characteristics of these programs as well as to identify trends in program introduction and elimination.
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Schmieder, Lisa, Dirk Scheer, and Chiara Iurato. "Streams Analysis for Better Air Quality: The German Lead City Program Assessed by the Policy Package Approach and the Multiple Streams Framework." Energies 14, no. 3 (January 25, 2021): 596. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14030596.
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Air pollution caused by traffic and other sources remains a challenge in big cities and urbanized areas in Germany and abroad. Nitrogen dioxide emissions, particulate matter, noise emissions, and ozone are still problematic issues with negative impacts on both the environment and human health. In 2018, the German Federal Government launched the “Lead City Program,” a €130-million fund to support five selected so-called Lead Cities in developing and implementing air quality policies. This article comparatively analyzes the policy-making process and policy content for better air quality in the three (out of five) Lead Cities—Essen, Herrenberg, and Reutlingen. Conceptually, we rely on two theoretical frameworks—the policy package approach (PPA) and the multiple streams framework (MSF). The objective, thus, is an ex-post analysis of policy development by means of two policy science-based concepts. Based on document-based desk research and qualitative interviews with policymakers and stakeholders in each of the three cities, we identified a number of key variables that created a window of opportunity and paved the way for the selection of the policy packages. The resulting five key variables are direct interaction between the different governance levels, long-standing non-compliance with the European Union (EU) NO2 limit values in many German cities, the resulting European and national infringement proceedings, the diesel scandal, and the Lead City Program as overall multiple stream-coupling facilitators. The results are then discussed regarding the explanatory power of MSF and PPA and the mutual potential linkages these concepts offer for future research.
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Deluca, Stefanie, and Peter Rosenblatt. "Does Moving to Better Neighborhoods Lead to Better Schooling Opportunities? Parental School Choice in an Experimental Housing Voucher Program." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 112, no. 5 (May 2010): 1443–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146811011200504.
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Background Previous research has demonstrated that children growing up in poor communities have limited access to high-performing schools, while more affluent neighborhoods tend to have higher-ranking schools and more opportunities for after-school programs and activities. Therefore, many researchers and policy makers expected not only that the families moving to low-poverty neighborhoods with the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) program would gain access to zone schools with more resources but also that mothers would be more likely to meet middle-class parents who could provide information about academic programs and teachers, leading them to choose some of these new higher-quality-zone schools. However, research evaluating the effects of the MTO program on child outcomes 4-7 years after program moves found that while the schools attended by the MTO children were less poor and had higher average test scores than their original neighborhood schools, the differences were small: Before moving with the program, MTO children attended schools ranked at the 15th percentile statewide on average; 4-7 years after the move, they were attending schools that ranked at the 24th percentile on average. Purpose The fact that the residential changes brought about by the MTO experiment did not translate into much larger gains in school academic quality provides the impetus for our study. In other words, we explore why the experiment did not lead to the school changes that researchers and policy makers expected. With survey, census, and school-level data, we examine where families moved with the MTO program and how these moves related to changes in school characteristics, and how parents considered schooling options. Setting Although the MTO experiment took place in five cities (New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Baltimore), we use data from the Baltimore site only. Population The sample in our study includes the low-income mothers and children who participated in the Baltimore site of the MTO housing voucher experiment. Ninety-seven percent of the families were headed by single black women. The median number of children was two, and average household income was extremely low, at $6,750. Over 60% received Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) as their primary source of income (at program entry in 1994), over 77% of household heads were unemployed, and 40% of the women had no high school degree or GED. Program The Moving to Opportunity program gave public housing residents in extremely poor neighborhoods in Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston a chance to apply for the program and move between 1994 and 1998. Families were randomly assigned into one of three groups: an experimental group that received housing counseling and a special voucher that could only be used in census tracts with 1990 poverty rates of less than 10%; a second treatment group, the Section 8 group, that received a regular voucher with no geographic restrictions on where they could move; and a control group that received no voucher through MTO, although they could continue to reside in their public housing units or apply for other housing subsidies (usually a regular Section 8 voucher). The program did not provide assistance with transportation costs, job searches, or local school information after the family relocated. Research Design We use survey data, census data, school-level data, and interviews from the Baltimore site of a randomized field trial of a housing voucher program. We present a mixed-methods case study of one site of the experiment to understand why the children of families who participated in the Baltimore MTO program did not experience larger gains in schooling opportunity. Conclusions Our article demonstrates that in order to discover whether social programs will be effective, we need to understand how the conditions of life for poor families facilitate or constrain their ability to engage new structural opportunities. The described case examples demonstrate why we need to integrate policies and interventions that target schooling in conjunction with housing, mental health services, and employment assistance. Future programs should train mobility counselors to inform parents about the new schooling choices in the area, help them weigh the pros and cons of changing their children's schools, and explain some of the important elements of academic programs and how they could help their children's educational achievement. Counselors could also assuage parents’ fears about transferring their children to new schools by making sure that receiving schools have information about the children and that little instruction time is lost in the transition between schools.
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Pandya, Samta. "Yoga Education Program for Reducing Drug Dependency and Promoting Better Asthma Control for Chronic Asthmatic Children: A Multicity Experiment." Global Pediatric Health 6 (January 2019): 2333794X1983745. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333794x19837455.
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This article reports a 1-year long yoga education program (YEP) experiment aimed at reducing drug dependency and promoting better asthma control for chronic asthmatic children. Participants were 450 chronic asthmatic children across 4 cities. Two measures were used: Pediatric Asthma Diary (PAD) and Childhood Asthma Control Test (C-ACT). Results indicated that intervention group children had better asthma control in terms of lower average PAD scores and higher C-ACT scores and reduced drug intake vis-à-vis the control group. Within the intervention cohort, asthma symptoms persistence was lower and control was higher for children from Asian cities, boys, Hindus, middle-class children, those whose mothers were their primary caregivers, who lived in standard family setups, who also attended the optional YEP rounds, and regularly self-practiced. The strongest predictor of lower posttest PAD scores and higher C-ACT scores was self-practice. The YEP can be used as an effective complementary treatment for chronic asthmatic children.
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Bonilla, Jorge A. "The More Stringent, the Better? Rationing Car Use in Bogotá with Moderate and Drastic Restrictions." World Bank Economic Review 33, no. 2 (June 1, 2019): 516–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhw053.
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Abstract Rationing car use based on license plate number has become a popular policy in several cities around the world to address traffic congestion and air pollution. This paper studies the effects of the moderate and drastic driving restrictions imposed as part of the Pico y Placa program on car use and air pollution in Bogotá. Using data on ambient carbon monoxide, gasoline consumption, and vehicle sales and registrations, no evidence of an improvement in air quality or a reduction in car use is found in either phase of the program. On the contrary, there is some indication that, relative to the moderate phase, gasoline consumption, vehicle ownership, and carbon monoxide in the morning peak tended to increase slightly when drastic restrictions were implemented.
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Capra, Carlo Francesco. "The Smart City and its Citizens." International Journal of E-Planning Research 5, no. 1 (January 2016): 20–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijepr.2016010102.
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Smart cities are associated almost exclusively with modern technology and infrastructure. However, smart cities have the possibility to enhance the involvement and contribution of citizens to urban development. This work explores the role of governance as one of the factors influencing the participation of citizens in smart cities projects. Governance characteristics play a major role in explaining different typologies of citizen participation. Through a focus on Amsterdam Smart City program as a specific case study, this research examines the characteristics of governance that are present in the overall program and within a selected sample of projects, and how they relate to different typologies of citizen participation. The analysis and comprehension of governance characteristics plays a crucial role both for a better understanding and management of citizen participation, especially in complex settings where multiple actors are interacting.
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Dwevedi, Rajneesh, Vinoy Krishna, and Aniket Kumar. "Environment and Big Data: Role in Smart Cities of India." Resources 7, no. 4 (October 9, 2018): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources7040064.
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The intention of India’s Smart City Mission program is to achieve better living conditions in a sustainable environment with smart solutions. This program identifies the key challenges of urbanization and the environment. The mitigation of these challenges depends on the monitoring and assessment of multiple factors, including demography, education, health, and the environment; however, the inclusion of environmental factors are limited. The monitoring and assessment of environmental factors will continuously generate big data and hence would require scientific and technological innovation for a sustainable management plan. This study identifies six environmental factors, which should be integrated in the development of smart cities. These environmental factors include indicators of landscape and geography, climate, atmospheric pollution, water resources, energy resources, and urban green space as a major component of the environment. This paper also discusses the importance of these environmental components and the maintenance of big data in the management of smart cities.
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Konijnendijk, Cecil, Lorien Nesbitt, and Zach Wirtz. "Urban Forest Governance in the Face of Pulse Disturbances—Canadian Experiences." Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 47, no. 6 (November 1, 2021): 267–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2021.023.
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"The sustainable provision of urban forest benefits can be threatened by the occurrence of sudden, major disturbance events, such as forest fires, insect outbreaks, and extreme weather events, which are considered to be “pulse” disturbance events from a socio-ecological systems perspective. Sound urban forestry programs are needed to prepare for these disturbances and reduce their negative impacts. To investigate the role of governance in building more resilient urban forest socio-ecological systems, the relation between pulse disturbances and urban forest governance was studied in 4 Canadian cities. Our study of local urban forestry included expert interviews with local urban forest governance actors, document analysis, and site visits. The Policy Arrangement Approach was applied to structure and analyse urban forest governance. Findings show that all cities had seen a development of their urban forestry programs and governance over time, such as development of staff and formal plans, as well as alliances with key partners. Pulse disturbances seem to have played an important role in the development and sometimes reorientation of urban forestry programs. Although disturbances often had devastating impacts, having a strong urban forestry program in place, including strong alliances with, e.g., industry partners or NGOs, was considered important for handling the aftermath of these events. Efforts had also been made to be better prepared for future disturbances through further professionalization, development of plans, guidelines, and best practices, capacity building through partnerships, and setting up better real-life information systems in support of decision making. Results can inform urban forest governance and urban forestry programs in Canadian cities and elsewhere."
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Kirsch, Erika, and Ann Marie VanDerZanden. "Demographics and Volunteer Experiences of Oregon Master Gardeners." HortTechnology 12, no. 3 (January 2002): 505–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.12.3.505.
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The last statewide survey of the Oregon Master Gardener (MG) Program was completed in 1992. Since that time, the program has expanded from 20 to 27 counties and increased by over 600 new volunteers. Compared to other MG programs around the United States, Oregon is the tenth largest in number of volunteers and seventh in hours volunteered. Considering the size of the Oregon MG program and changes seen in annually compiled statistics, a better understanding of who the Oregon MGs are and what they think about their personal volunteer experience became critical. We developed a survey tool to understand the Oregon MG demographic composition and personal volunteer experience. Compared to the 1992 baseline survey, the general trends found in the 2001 survey suggest that Oregon MGs are younger, joining the program with more college education, live further from cities and towns, and are more often employed. Still, the commitment level to volunteering is similar to, or has exceeded 1992 levels.
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Hosford, Kate, and Meghan Winters. "Who Are Public Bicycle Share Programs Serving? An Evaluation of the Equity of Spatial Access to Bicycle Share Service Areas in Canadian Cities." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2672, no. 36 (July 15, 2018): 42–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0361198118783107.
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Public bicycle share users are predominantly Caucasian, employed, and have higher incomes and education levels, as compared to the general population. This has prompted bicycle share operators and researchers to increasingly consider equity in bicycle share program access and uptake. The location of bicycle share docking stations has been cited as a major barrier to uptake among lower socioeconomic groups. This study aimed to assess spatial access to bicycle share programs in Canadian cities by comparing the socioeconomic characteristics of dissemination areas inside and outside the bicycle share service areas. We obtained locations of bicycle share stations for the five existing programs in Canada: Vancouver, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, and Montréal. We used the material component of the Pampalon Deprivation Index (2011) as a measure of socioeconomic status for each dissemination area, calculating city-specific quintiles. We compared the distribution of deprivation for dissemination areas inside the bicycle share service area, compared with outside the service area. We found that advantaged areas have better access to bicycle share infrastructure in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa-Gatineau, and Montréal, and conversely, that disadvantaged areas have better access in Hamilton. This analysis indicates that in most cities, substantial effort is needed to expand service areas to disadvantaged areas in order to increase spatial access for lower socioeconomic populations.
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Shiah, Guan Chyun. "The Green Roof Promotion Strategies for the Municipalities." Applied Mechanics and Materials 71-78 (July 2011): 3892–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.71-78.3892.
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This study developed municipal green roof promotion strategies by reviewing successful green roof initiatives of the international municipalities. This paper consists of three major parts: the first introduced some green roof initiative policies in some cities. The second part of this paper employs the key findings of some municipal governments have set green roof policies and program to assist the government policy makers can better determine which policies suit their needs. The third part of this paper is to propose some green roof promotion strategies for the municipalities to pursue the goals of energy-saving carbon reduction and ecological-compensation for the cities.
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Katz, T., and D. Grimaldi. "CONDITIONS THAT INFLUENCE USERS TO SHARE MEDICAL INFORMATION VIA CONSUMER APPLICATIONS. AN EVIDENCE FROM ISRAEL HEALTHCARE SECTOR." International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLVIII-4/W5-2022 (October 14, 2022): 61–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlviii-4-w5-2022-61-2022.
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Abstract. Data-driven technologies are being greatly adopted in healthcare in order to create a better ecosystem of health for citizens in the development of smart cities. As we develop smart devices and services, there are growing concerns in the population's perception around privacy concerns in using these devices and services, and the necessity to share their medical sensitive information is often perceived as a holdback. The following study goal is to develop a model to better understand the conditions affecting privacy concerns in medical devices and services. Using primary research to test the suggested model using secondary research methods, and data analysis tools using python program with pandas library and ANOVA statistics. The solution proposed can offer a methodology for building health services in smarter and more connected cities.
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Novia Millenia Nur Fitriana, Ba'adilla Nesya Nur Hakiki, and Cahyo Wisnu Rubiyanto. "The Impact of Sister City Surabaya-Kitakyushu Cooperation on Environmental Development in Surabaya." Journal of Paradiplomacy and City Networks 1, no. 1 (June 20, 2022): 27–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.18196/jpcn.v1i1.15.
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Surabaya is one of the largest cities in East Java and the Mayor of Surabaya has played an active role in improving infrastructure in recent years to realize a green city or better known as eco-city. This active role is motivated by the status of Surabaya which is classified as the region with the highest environmental pollution in East Java. The purpose of this study is to find out the environmental impact of the Surabaya Green City Plan implemented by the Surabaya City Government and Kitakyushu Shuangcheng. According to the authors of this study, it is interesting because participation in the sister city program between Surabaya and Kitakyushu has had a positive impact on Surabaya's environment. This research uses qualitative methods and gathers reliable sources as research references. To answer the research question, researchers usedgreen polyt ik theory and the concept of twin cities. The results of the study show that surabaya's city governance is now much better with green open space along its path, which makes Surabaya known as one of the best cities for waste management in Indonesia.
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Guo, Yuhui, Zhiwei Tang, and Jie Guo. "Could a Smart City Ameliorate Urban Traffic Congestion? A Quasi-Natural Experiment Based on a Smart City Pilot Program in China." Sustainability 12, no. 6 (March 15, 2020): 2291. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12062291.
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More countries and regions are joining the bandwagon of smart city construction, which is an important strategy and innovative urban governance concept to solve the problem of rapid urbanization. This paper examines whether smart city innovation is able to ameliorate the traffic congestion faced by a large number of cities. Using panel data for 187 prefecture-level cities in China from 2008 to 2017, this paper tests the effect of implementation of a smart city on urban traffic congestion with the difference-in-difference method. The results show that, firstly, the construction of smart cities have significantly reduced the degree of urban traffic congestion and improved the quality and capacity of public transport. Secondly, information technology and urban innovation are the main mechanisms for smart city implementation to improve urban traffic problems. Thirdly, the improvement effect of smart city implementation on traffic management shows an increasing marginal effect over time. By overcoming the estimation bias in previous studies, this study accurately analyzes the positive role and dynamic effect of smart city construction on traffic improvement. It augments the literature of program evaluation and assessment of smart city implementation. By examining how to improve traffic congestion, it offers some insights that could inspire governments to build smarter cities with better traffic.
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Pérez, Luis H., and Mario A. Gandini. "Sustainability in motion at UAO: integrated waste management." E3S Web of Conferences 48 (2018): 04006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/20184804006.
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The Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (UAO), located in Cali (Colombia), launched the Sustainable Campus Program in 2015, in order to implement sustainability actions and strategies within the University campus with the purpose of contributing both to a better environmental performance of the campus operations and to generate knowledge and experience than can be used in the context of cities and regions in their search for reaching sustainable conditions. Integrated waste management is one of the components of the UAO Sustainable Campus Program. Based on the categories and indicators presented in the GreenMetric 2017, the integrated waste management includes the program to reduce the use of paper and plastic in campus, recycling program for university waste, toxic waste handled, organic waste treatment and inorganic waste treatment.
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Khong, Tien Dung, and Xuan Thi Dan Huynh. "Households participation in waste management program in Mekong River Delta Vietnam: Parametric and non-parametric approaches." Journal of Social, Humanity, and Education 2, no. 2 (February 23, 2022): 101–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.35912/jshe.v2i2.809.
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Abstract Purpose: This study aims to estimate households' willingness to pay (WTP) in the Mekong River Delta for the improvement of solid waste (SW) management and identify factors influencing willingness to pay for the improvement program. Then, based on the results, this research proposed some policy implications for better SW management. Research methodology: The research employed both Contingent Valuation Methodology - CVM employed parametric and non-parametric approaches to estimate WTP and Logit model to identify the determinants of WTP. Results: The results from a random survey of 400 observations from 3 main cities in the Mekong River Delta (MRD) indicate that households’ willingness to pay level is from 86,000 Vietnamese Dong (VND) to 110,000 VND/month/household for the non-parametric and parametric approach, respectively (US$1 was equal to 22,890 VND on June 30th, 2021). The results also determine the factors influencing the decision to pay for the program, including bid level, households who have already classified waste, households who intend to support the program, and households’ income. Limitations: In future research, survey areas should be expanded to other developing countries in order to compare and provide a base for proposing better waste management programs in developing countries. Contribution: Future studies should apply both approaches to check the consistency of willingness to pay value elicited. Besides, in order to encourage households to participate in the waste classification program, the authorities need to raise awareness and encourage higher-income households to participate in advance.
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DJEKRIF, Fatma Zohra, Linda BOUYAYA, and Rachid CHAIB. "TOWARDS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE REASONS FOR THE EXTENSIVE USE OF PRIVATE CARS: A CASE STUDY IN SKIKDA, ALGERIA." Transport Problems 17, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 103–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.20858/tp.2022.17.4.09.
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With the continuous urban expansion of cities around the world, cities have become more crowded as the numbers of all kinds of vehicles have increased, especially due to the inclination of individuals to use personal cars. In this study, we want to identify the different reasons that motivate the populations of the state of Skikda, Algeria, to prefer using cars through a questionnaire. In order to be clearer, we processed and analyzed the survey data using the SPSS analytical program. This article aims to identify the main reasons that motivate individuals to prefer using a personal car when traveling and propose possible solutions, or even identify actions to be taken now and in the future in order to establish a more sustainable exclusive transport. By analyzing the results, it became clear to us that road users prefer cars only for psychological and technical reasons and do not consider the preservation of the environment or the security of people. Although they are aware of the problems arising from their extensive use, they continue to do so because they have no other alternative. Improvements in public transportation means would change the situation.
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May, Adolf D., Alexander Skabardonis, and Lannon Leiman. "User Assessment of Intersection Chapter Procedures in Highway Capacity Manual 1997 Update." Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 1710, no. 1 (January 2000): 189–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3141/1710-22.
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Participants from California cities and counties participated in a 1-year local technical assistance program for learning, applying, and evaluating the procedures in the 1997 update to the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) for the analysis of signalized and unsignalized intersections. Training and technical assistance were provided to the participants on the practical application of the 1997 HCM procedures. Field studies and HCM applications were undertaken at 28 signalized and unsignalized intersections by 25 first-time HCM users in 22 cities and counties. The findings from the project evaluation indicate that the project was highly successful and that similar educational and application experiences should be undertaken for new users of the HCM 2000 in other states. The assessment of the analysis techniques and software will aid the Committee on Highway Capacity and Quality of Service in better understanding the needs and desires of users for future editions of the HCM as well as software developers in better meeting the needs of users.
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St-Arnaud, Emmanuelle. "Low-Cost High-Efficiency Joint Training Program." Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 34, s1 (May 2019): s147. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1049023x19003273.
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Introduction:As the second largest metropolitan area in Canada, Montréal has its share of risks for disasters and major incidents. In such events, the interoperability of emergency services is critical to effective interventions. As the emergency medical service (EMS) for the cities of Montréal and Laval, the Urgences-santé Corporation (USC) has close ties with several emergency partners on the territory, including police and fire departments. These different organizations have joined forces to develop a tabletop exercise program (TEP) to train operational managers to initiate a better-coordinated response on joint interventions.Aim:The TEP was designed to enhance interoperability in the field by improving communication and the understanding of the roles, responsibilities, methods of coordination and decision-making in each of the organizations involved. The aim is for all of USC’s operational managers to participate in at least one exercise of the TEP within the first year of the program.Methods:Selection criteria were established to gather, for each exercise, managers that are likely to work with one another on a real intervention. The TEP was also designed in such a way that its implementation would require few resources and yield minimal impact on regular operations.Results:After four pilot exercises to fine-tune the approach, the program was launched on October 5, 2018. We have now run eight exercises, each involving one or more USC supervisor. The response has been very favorable from the participants as well as their directors.Discussion:In the short term, the TEP helps managers understand their counterparts’ key issues, and has already yielded improvements in our joint interventions. In the longer term, the program will help identify specific training needs to better equip responders.
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Xin, Chunlin, Lingjie Wang, Bin Liu, Yu-Hsi Yuan, and Sang-Bing Tsai. "An Empirical Study for Green Transportation Scheme of Municipal Solid Waste Based on Complex Data Model Analysis." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2021 (April 8, 2021): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6614312.
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Solid waste management and air pollution are two pressing issues in the functioning of large cities. This paper studies the optimization problem of the green transportation route of municipal solid waste and establishes a mathematical planning model based on real-time traffic conditions of the city and consideration of a time window and multiple transfer stations with the goal of minimizing energy consumption. In the optimal green transportation process in this paper, comprehensive consideration of vehicle speed, vehicle load, road gradient, and driving distance in different road sections based on real-time traffic conditions is incorporated, which has a better fuel-saving potential than the shortest path. A green transportation program can alleviate the air pollution problem in big cities and promote energy conservation and emission reduction in solid waste transportation.
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Kuhns, Michael. "Urban/Community Forestry in the Intermountain West." Arboriculture & Urban Forestry 24, no. 5 (September 1, 1998): 280–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.48044/jauf.1998.034.
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This paper summarizes the people/population factors, site factors, and program factors influencing urban and community forestry (U&CF) in the Intermountain West, including information gathered through a limited survey of U&CF experts in the region. The major factors that emerged include a relatively low population living in cities and towns scattered over a large area, major population growth now and in the future, lack of native trees in the valleys where most people live, harsh conditions for growing trees, poorly funded and staffed U&CF programs, and lack of community and citizen awareness and knowledge, particularly regarding tree selection and landscape design and care. An improving future is predicted for U&CF in the region, based on population growth and demographic change, increasing citizen interest and awareness, enhanced funding and staffing of U&CF programs, and the availability of better-trained arborists.
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Dobbels, Lies, Joris Voets, Mathieu Marlier, Els De Waegeneer, and Annick Willem. "Why network structure and coordination matter: A social network analysis of sport for disadvantaged people." International Review for the Sociology of Sport 53, no. 5 (September 6, 2016): 572–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690216666273.
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Although local governments attempt to promote sports among all layers of society, people with a lower socio-economic status are still under-represented in grassroots sports. Previous studies indicate that inter-sectoral networks and joint efforts can contribute to an increase in sport participation among these groups, but a systematic analysis of the structure, coordination and interactions in the networks is still missing. Insight into networks to promote sport for disadvantaged people may help in designing effective networks. Therefore, we conducted a social network analysis to explore the network structure and characteristics of networks that promote sport participation among disadvantaged people in three Flemish cities. Our results show that the networks needed to be coordinated by a sport administrator, in the initial stage. Once the network is up and running, coordination can be shared so that the sport administration can rely on the experiences of other sectors. More sport initiatives and a better network structure were found in the cities with a community sport development program, through which the sport-for-all policy is implemented and coordinated, compared to a city without such a program.
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Agung, Chandra, and Natalia Christine. "PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR SOLVING TRAVELING SALESMAN PROBLEM." Innovative Technologies and Scientific Solutions for Industries, no. 1 (15) (March 31, 2021): 69–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.30837/itssi.2021.15.069.
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The subject of this research is distance and time of several city tour problems which known as traveling salesman problem (tsp). The goal is to find out the gaps of distance and time between two types of optimization methods in traveling salesman problem: exact and approximate. Exact method yields optimal solution but spends more time when the number of cities is increasing and approximate method yields near optimal solution even optimal but spends less time than exact methods. The task in this study is to identify and formulate each algorithm for each method, then to run each algorithm with the same input and to get the research output: total distance, and the last to compare both methods: advantage and limitation. Methods used are Brute Force (BF) and Branch and Bound (B&B) algorithms which are categorized as exact methods are compared with Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Tabu Search (TS) and Simulated Annealing (SA) algorithms which are categorized as approximate methods or known as a heuristics method. These three approximate methods are chosen because they are effective algorithms, easy to implement and provide good solutions for combinatorial optimization problems. Exact and approximate algorithms are tested in several sizes of city tour problems: 6, 9, 10, 16, 17, 25, 42, and 58 cities. 17, 42 and 58 cities are derived from tsplib: a library of sample instances for tsp; and others are taken from big cities in Java (West, Central, East) island. All of the algorithms are run by MATLAB program. The results show that exact method is better in time performance for problem size less than 25 cities and both exact and approximate methods yield optimal solution. For problem sizes that have more than 25 cities, approximate method – Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) yields better time which is approximately 37% less than exact and deviates 0.0197% for distance from exact method. The conclusion is to apply exact method for problem size that is less than 25 cities and approximate method for problem size that is more than 25 cities. The gap of time will be increasing between two methods when sample size becomes larger.
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Sabarinah. "Use of Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Services in Indonesia: Findings of the 2014 National Narcotic Survey." Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health 31, no. 6 (September 2019): 548–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1010539519872343.
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This study was conducted to identify factors associated with the utilization of treatment and rehabilitation services by drug abusers. Around 14.7% of drug abusers self-reported as having used treatment and rehabilitation services at any point in their lifetime (90.8% male and 9.2% female). The dependent variable of having “ever used” the services was positively associated with receiving support of family and friends, knowing of an existing treatment and rehabilitation program, having ever been involved in an outreach program activity, experiencing self-treatment, and having a positive perception of the efficacy of the program. Among the 10 cities examined, the findings showed unequal utilization of treatment and rehabilitation services, implying the need to better monitor the use of the services and to develop a community-based treatment that both enables drug abusers to confront barriers to the utilization of treatment and rehabilitation services and also reintegrates drug abusers to the community.
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Randjelovic, Masa. "Program activities for sustainable rural development: Case study, village Berbatovo, Nis." Facta universitatis - series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, no. 00 (2022): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/fuace220918010r.
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This paper deals with the analysis, proposals, and development of program actions and measures aiming at a sustainable development of the village of Berbatovo. Development problems and potentials are defined in addition to collecting general data about the village and its development characteristics. The main shortcomings of the analyzed village are the decline in the number of its inhabitants due to their migration to cities, low education level of those who choose to stay in the village. There is not enough adequate space for public gatherings, there are no institutions necessary for functioning of the locals, such as outpatient clinic, post office, kindergarten, roads are in bad condition. Apart from producing for their own needs only, the local population shows insufficient activity and interest in starting their own business, which would create the conditions for a better quality of life in the village. In this paper, after defining development problems and observed potentials, appropriate strategic directions of sustainable development, general and specific goals and program actions and measures that would contribute to the adequate development of the village were selected.
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Triyono, Budi, Yuli Prasetyo, Hanifah Nur Kumala Ningrum, Raden Jasa Kusumo Haryo, Basuki Winarno, and Aldanur I. R. "Penerapan Automatic Disinfection Chamber Untuk Pencegahan Covid19 di Pondok Pesantren Al Mujaddadiyah." JATI EMAS (Jurnal Aplikasi Teknik dan Pengabdian Masyarakat) 4, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.36339/je.v4i2.310.
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Indonesia is currently included in the covid19 virus pandemic category. Many cities have been hit by the Covid19 virus. The city of Madiun has also been confirmed positive for the Covid19 virus. Therefore, to prevent the transmission of the Covid19 virus, prevention efforts are needed. Islamic boarding schools are a gathering place for students from various cities in Indonesia. If there are no prevention efforts at the Islamic boarding school, there will be a new covid19 virus cluster. Community service activities through the partnership program for the Al Mujaddadiyah Islamic Boarding School are focused on developing technology to overcome the prevention of the Covid19 virus in the Islamic boarding school environment. The hope is that with this training, boarding school caregivers and students can better understand the health protocols applied to technology to prevent the spread of the Covid19 virus in the cottage environment.
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Watson, Joseph M. "The Suburbanity of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City." Journal of Urban History 45, no. 5 (November 9, 2018): 1006–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0096144218797923.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City seems anomalous in twentieth century urban history. First presented in 1930 as a critique of existing American cities, the project developed into a program for territorial decentralization over the ensuing decade. Although Wright’s often elliptical rhetoric can seem disengaged from urban discourse, this article argues that Broadacre City was based on prevailing suburban trends that it attempted to intensify. In doing so, the article makes two significant claims about Wright’s work. The first is that Broadacre City was not a utopian master plan but rather a hermeneutical framework for managing socio-spatial change. The second is that the project was as critically attentive to changes in and around American cities as it was uncritically informed by existing forms of privilege and prejudice. If Broadacre City appears to be better grounded in urban history as a result, then its historiographic status needs to be revisited.
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Herlina, Herlina, and Rudi Susilana. "Online Training: An Alternative Solution of the Empowerment for Parents of Children with Autism." Journal of Education Technology 5, no. 2 (June 20, 2021): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.23887/jet.v5i2.34313.
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Parents need to understand how important it is to provide proper treatment in dealing with children with autism. The effort is with an intervention approach technique, but some parents often experience difficulties in making intervention efforts. One solution to the problem that can be done is by establishing the Independent Intervention Program Online Training (PIM). This study aims to prove that the Independent Intervention Program Online Training or PIM is an effective way to empower parents in dealing with children with autism. The research was conducted through field trials involving 11 parents of children with autism from a number of cities in Indonesia. Subjects were provided PIM Online Training by platforms such as Zoom, Website, and WhatsApp. Training effectiveness data is seen from the results of the subject's self-evaluation before and after training. The results showed that after participating in the PIM Online Training, parents saw themselves better in understanding the concept of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), social skills, intervention, and individual intervention programs, as well as skills in designing intervention programs for children with disabilities. autism, compared to pre-training conditions. Based on these results, PIM Online Training is expected to be the right solution to empower parents in designing social skills intervention programs for children with autism, without limitation of time, place and cost.
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Gonçalves, Hélida Ventura Barbosa, Diogo Thimoteo da Cunha, Elke Stedefeldt, and Veridiana Vera de Rosso. "Family farming products on menus in school feeding: a partnership for promoting healthy eating." Ciência Rural 45, no. 12 (September 1, 2015): 2267–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-8478cr20150214.
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The aim of this study was to characterize the process of buying Family Farming (FF) food for the Brazilian School Feeding Program (BSFP) and compare the quality of menus served to the schoolchildren before and after the implementation of Law n. 11,947/09. This is an observational cross-sectional study developed with application of semi-structured questionnaire and evaluating menus. Eighty-two cities from São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Brazil participated of the study. Of these cities reported, 74.1% performed the purchase of products of FF for BSFP. The lack of interest of farmers and the deficient hygienic and sanitary conditions were the main difficulties reported. The quality of the menus offered to the schoolchildren improved significantly after the implementation of FF purchases. The partnership between FF and BSFP can contribute greatly to the development of healthy eating habits, not only by offering better nutritional quality menus, but also by implementing of nutritional education activities guided by the sustainable production and consumption of food.
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Mulyasari, Effy, Mohammad Ali, and Dadang Sukirman. "Building Student’s Character in Primary School Through Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of School Program." Indonesian Scholars Scientific Summit Taiwan Proceeding 3 (July 13, 2021): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.52162/3.2021109.
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Primary school as a place of learning is expected to be able to provide initial experience to introduce how to create solutions to problems and find new paths to a better and more sustainable future. We as individuals and community members in schools together with the government are responsible for creating a prosperous life. This research is to find out what activities have been carried out in schools that support the Sustainable Development Goals Program (SDGs). From these school activities, what characters can be built? What activities can be added to shaping the character of students in elementary schools? The research method is qualitative, with the type of document and content analysis, and interviews. The data of this study came from 54 primary schools consisting of 27 public and 27 private primary schools, representing 8 provinces in 18 districts/cities with accreditation A 87%, accreditation B 9%, and other 4% have not yet released the accreditation. The implementation of school programs referred to 17 SDGs programs. The results obtained by activities carried out by primary schools helped develop programs of Quality Education 55%, Life on Land 33%, Zero Hunger, and Good Health & Well Being 6%. Five main character values can be formed, namely, religion, nationalism, independence, cooperation, and integrity. Other activities that can be added to the school program include; donate items that are no longer used; don't waste food & support local farmers; avoid wasting water; use energy-efficient tools; bike, walk or use public transportation; bring your shopping bag; turn off lights; take a quick shower.
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Zhang, Hua, Chen Liang, and Yuxuan Pan. "Spatial Expansion of Built-Up Areas in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Urban Agglomeration Based on Nighttime Light Data: 1992–2020." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 7 (March 22, 2022): 3760. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19073760.
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Built-up areas are one of the most intuitive and important indicators used to assess urbanization, the spatial expansion of which is of great significance in depicting the evolution of urban spatial structures. Based on the harmonized Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) nighttime light dataset, this paper extracts the spatial distribution of built-up areas and explores the spatial expansion patterns and spatiotemporal evolution regularity of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration from 1992 to 2020. The results show that the spatial comparison method, comparing the extracted area with the government’s statistical area, can accurately determine the optimal threshold of nighttime light and extract urban built-up areas. According to the spatial comparison method, the built-up areas of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration are expanding rapidly from 1992 to 2020, and both expansion speed and expansion intensity have experienced an inverted “U-shaped” growth process. As the core cities of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration, Beijing and Tianjin have been in the later stage of spatial expansion with slower expansion speed but better quality. In contrast, prefecture-level cities and other node cities have rapid expansion speed. The urban space structure of the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei urban agglomeration has changed from a “monocentric model” to a “polycentric model” to a “metropolitan model”. High-tech industry parks around node cities have become important strongholds of urban space development, leading cities to evolve from monocentric structures to polycentric structures of downtown and industrial parks. The radiation range of core cities expands and spreads to surrounding districts and counties, which inevitably lead to the formation of metropolitan areas.
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Empson, L. Abrahamyan. "Conceiving and evaluating novel therapeutic strategies with patients and peer practitioners: The case of urban remediation program." European Psychiatry 64, S1 (April 2021): S510. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.1365.
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IntroductionWhile extensive recent data details risk factors for psychoses in urban milieu, insights regarding recovery processes in cities are scarce. This hampers the translation of promising epidemiological and neuroimagery findings into effective therapeutic strategies. Given the twofold higher incidence of psychoses in cities and the fact that 68% of world population will be urban by 2050, it becomes an urgent matter of psychiatric care.ObjectivesThis presentation details specific targets for therapeutic interventions in city context to further discuss a pioneering participatory project with the aim to conceive a novel city specific recovery-oriented program.MethodsBased on most recent research data, some of which our own, a comprehensive survey of urbanicity studies and an overview of main avenues for developments will be presented.ResultsUrban milieu is a complex dwelling space made of protective and disruptive features. During each life course they may form unique combinations hampering or enhancing psychological well-being. Urban living is not only correlated with higher prevalence of psychoses, but also with better access to health care and lower rates of treatment resistant schizophrenia, pointing to some beneficial aspects of city living on recovery processes. The interplay between personal characteristics, urban resources and supportive social environments seems pivotal to recovery calling for multilevel interventions (CBT interventions, peer-support, go-alongs, resocialization) and integration of different stakeholders (patients, peer-practitioners, community actors).ConclusionsParticipatory approach (design thinking, urban lab etc.) represents an important means of innovation and ensures the best match between patients needs and therapeutic propositions.
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Iqbal, Hena, Sujni Paul, and Khaliquzzaman Khan. "Sustainable governance in smart cities and use of supervised learning based opinion mining." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 489. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i1.pp489-497.
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Evaluation is an analytical and organized process to figure out the present positive influences, favourable future prospects, existing shortcomings and ulterior complexities of any plan, program, practice or a policy. Evaluation of policy is an essential and vital process required to measure the performance or progression of the scheme. The main purpose of policy evaluation is to empower various stakeholders and enhance their socio-economic environment. A large number of policies or schemes in different areas are launched by government in view of citizen welfare. Although, the governmental policies intend to better shape up the life quality of people but may also impact their every day’s life. A latest governmental scheme Saubhagya launched by Indian government in 2017 has been selected for evaluation by applying opinion mining techniques. The data set of public opinion associated with this scheme has been captured by Twitter. The primary intent is to offer opinion mining as a smart city technology that harness the user-generated big data and analyse it to offer a sustainable governance model.
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Iqbal, Hena, Sujni Paul, and Khaliquzzaman Khan. "Sustainable governance in smart cities and use of supervised learning based opinion mining." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 11, no. 1 (February 1, 2021): 498. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v11i1.pp498-497.
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Evaluation is an analytical and organized process to figure out the present positive influences, favourable future prospects, existing shortcomings and ulterior complexities of any plan, program, practice or a policy. Evaluation of policy is an essential and vital process required to measure the performance or progression of the scheme. The main purpose of policy evaluation is to empower various stakeholders and enhance their socio-economic environment. A large number of policies or schemes in different areas are launched by government in view of citizen welfare. Although, the governmental policies intend to better shape up the life quality of people but may also impact their every day’s life. A latest governmental scheme Saubhagya launched by Indian government in 2017 has been selected for evaluation by applying opinion mining techniques. The data set of public opinion associated with this scheme has been captured by Twitter. The primary intent is to offer opinion mining as a smart city technology that harness the user-generated big data and analyse it to offer a sustainable governance model.
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Suhenda, Dadang, Roro Nurfauziah, and Tatik Kusyanti. "PARTICIPATION OF FAMILY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FOR FAMILY IN CHILDREN'S CARE AND GROWTH IN WEST JAVA." Jurnal Riset Kesehatan Poltekkes Depkes Bandung 12, no. 1 (May 30, 2020): 80–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.34011/juriskesbdg.v12i1.817.
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Since the launch of the BKB Program (1984), its implementation has not had a significant impact on changing childcare patterns and supporting family resilience programs. The study aims to determine families' participation in the care and development of children aged 0-6 years in members who have been exposed to the BKB program. The data used are secondary quantitative data and obtained from the results of the 2018 Accountability Program Performance Survey (SKAP). The survey was conducted in 27 Regencies / Cities in West Java Province. Data were analyzed univariate, bivariate, and multivariate. Respondents used were families with children aged 0-6 years, with a total of 10,731 respondents. Based on the results of the study showed that the number of families who had heard about BKB was less than families who had never been exposed to BKB information. The family participation rate in the care and development of children aged 0-6 years. Research variables are from all aspects (aspects of physical growth, issues of mental development, and points of social development) in families exposed to BKB information better than families who have never been exposed to BKB information. Variable Physical growth is the most dominant among other aspects (mental and social) towards family participation in care and development of children aged 0-6 years. A balanced promotion effort is needed between the three elements of parenting and child development so that the output can create and support family resilience programs.
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Moreira, Rafael da Silveira, Herika de Arruda Mauricio, Lidia Moraes Ribeiro Jordão, and Maria do Carmo Matias Freire. "Implementation of the School Health Program: relationship with aspects of students’ oral health." Saúde em Debate 46, spe3 (November 2022): 166–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0103-11042022e312i.
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ABSTRACT This study aimed to investigate the association between the School Health Program (PSE) implementation and aspects related to the oral health of adolescent students attending public schools in Brazil. An exploratory cross-sectional study was conducted using data from the 2015 National School Health Survey (PeNSE) in a sample of 81,154 students aged 13 to 15 in the capitals, Federal District, and inland cities. Data were retrieved from questionnaires answered by students and those responsible for the schools. We performed a bivariate analysis of the association between the variable ‘implementation of PSE actions by the school’ (Yes/No) and aspects related to the students’ oral health. Compared to schools without PSE implementation, those that had implemented the Program had better behavioral indicators (consumption of sugar-added foods, cigarettes, and alcohol); selling healthy or sugar-added foods; availability of a health group/committee, and actions of the More Education Program and with Primary Health Care Units (p<0.05). We concluded that there was an association between the implementation of the PSE and more favorable aspects related to oral health regarding the students’ diet, tobacco use, and alcohol consumption, and school health and education actions.
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de Graauw, Els, and Irene Bloemraad. "Working Together: Building Successful Policy and Program Partnerships for Immigrant Integration." Journal on Migration and Human Security 5, no. 1 (March 2017): 105–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/233150241700500106.
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Supporting and investing in the integration of immigrants and their children is critically important to US society. Successful integration contributes to the nation's economic vitality, its civic and political health, and its cultural diversity. But although the United States has a good track record on immigrant integration, outcomes could be better. A national, coherent immigrant integration policy infrastructure is needed. This infrastructure can build on long-standing partnerships between civil society and US public institutions. Such partnerships, advanced under Republican- and Democratic-led administrations, were initially established to facilitate European immigrants' integration in large American cities, and later extended to help refugees fleeing religious persecution and war. In the twenty-first century, we must expand this foundation by drawing on the growing activism by cities and states, new civil society initiatives, and public-private partnerships that span the country. A robust national integration policy infrastructure must be vertically integrated to include different levels of government and horizontally applied across public and private sector actors and different types of immigrant destinations. The resultant policy should leverage public-private partnerships, drawing on the energy, ideas, and work of community-based nonprofit organizations as well as the leadership and support of philanthropy, business, education, faith-based, and other institutions. A new coordinating office to facilitate interagency cooperation is needed in the executive branch; the mandate and programs of the Office of Refugee Resettlement need to be secured and where possible expanded; the outreach and coordinating role of the Office of Citizenship needs to be extended, including through a more robust grant program to community-based organizations; and Congress needs to develop legislation and appropriate funding for a comprehensive integration policy addressed to all, and not just humanitarian immigrants. The federal investments in immigrant and refugee integration we propose are a big ask for any administration; they seem especially unlikely under the Trump administration, whose efforts focus on enforcement and border control, targeting undocumented and legal immigrants alike. Yet immigrant integration is not and should not be a partisan issue. Federal politicians across the political spectrum need to realize, as many local officials and a large segment of the public already do, that successful immigrant integration is a win-win for everybody. When immigrants have more opportunities to learn English, to improve their schooling and professional training, to start businesses, and to access citizenship, we all benefit. A majority of the American public supports immigrant integration, from proposals for learning English to a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Local and state governments are setting up initiatives to promote integration. If the federal government will not act, cities, states, and civil society organizations must continue to work together to build an integration infrastructure from the bottom up.
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Rusydiyah, Evi Fatimatur, Hernik Farisia, and Muhammad Syahru Ahmad. "Innovation on Literacy Habit Program for Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya." Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam (Journal of Islamic Education Studies) 9, no. 1 (July 31, 2021): 59–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.15642/jpai.2021.9.1.58-81.
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The improvement of reading competence in Indonesia has not yet reached its maximum point. Indonesia’s achievements in a number of surveys also show poor results. Nevertheless, several cities in East Java have started to initiate the development of the literacy through various programs as an act of reflection on the findings of the previous surveys. In Surabaya, some programs have been initiated by goverment to cultivate literacy such as reading corner book review, book discussion, reading community, and others. These programs are aimed to increase reading interest (reading habit) of children in Surabaya. By using the Community Based Research (CBR) method, this research observed innovation as new programs about reading habit in the 27 Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya. The author found that there are five stages of innovation (knowledge, persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation) were conducted by Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya. The result indicates that all the stages have been done well by the library manager in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah in Surabaya. This can be seen from several aspects such as of the knowledge of the importance of literacy for their students, awareness to change for better future, and a decision to implement some new programs in the development of reading habit
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Schneider, Daniela Ribeiro, Ana Paula Dias Pereira, Joselaine Ida Cruz, Milene Strelow, Gail Chan, Anja Kurki, and Zila M. Sanchez. "Evaluation of the Implementation of a Preventive Program for Children in Brazilian Schools." Psicologia: Ciência e Profissão 36, no. 3 (September 2016): 508–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1982-3703000592016.
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Abstract The article discusses the pilot implementation of the evidence-based preventive program Good Behavior Game (GBG) in public schools in four Brazilian cities. GBG is a method for classroom behavior management by teachers, which aims at developing sociability among elementary school students between 6 and 10 years old. The objective of this study was to evaluate the program implementation process, focusing on the acceptability and perceived results by the professionals involved. Mixed methods were used, and data analysis was conducted using triangulation, including questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with 28 teachers, 9 school administrators, and 6 coaches. Data analysis was performed through descriptive and inferential statistics and content analysis, according to the nature of data. GBG had a high acceptance among teachers and school administrators. Professionals highlighted the importance of stimulating teamwork, the systematic use of rewards, and the objectivity of classroom rules. Acceptability was attributed, in large part, to the effectiveness of the strategy for classroom management. Nevertheless, this study highlighted the need of adaptations to better reflect the Brazilian societal and economic context.
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Li, Yue, Chengmeng Zhang, Yan Tong, Yalu Zhang, and Gong Chen. "Prediction of the Old-Age Dependency Ratio in Chinese Cities Using DMSP/OLS Nighttime Light Data." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 12 (June 11, 2022): 7179. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19127179.
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The old-age dependency ratio (ODR) is an important indicator reflecting the degree of a regional population’s aging. In the context of aging, this study provides a timely and effective method for predicting the ODR in Chinese cities. Using the provincial ODR from the Seventh National Population Census and Defense Meteorological Satellite Program/Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) nighttime light data, this study aims to predict and analyze the spatial correlation of the municipal ODR in Chinese cities. First, the prediction model of the ODR was established with curve regression. Second, the spatial structure of the municipal ODR was investigated using the Moran’s I method. The experimental results show the following: (1) the correlation between the sum of the nighttime light and ODR is greater than the mean of nighttime light in the study areas; (2) the Sigmoid model fits better than other regression models using the provincial ODR in the past ten years; and (3) there exists an obvious spatial agglomeration and dependence on the municipal ODR. The findings indicate that it is reasonable to use nighttime light data to predict the municipal ODR in large and medium-sized cities. Our approach can provide support for future regional censuses and spatial simulations.
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Hamdan, Hasan A. M., Luitzen de Boer, and Daniela Baer. "When Green Procurement Meets Complexity: The Case of Sustainable Neighborhood Projects." Sustainability 13, no. 4 (February 16, 2021): 2116. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13042116.
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In a rapidly urbanizing world, cities form the key context for a sustainable transition. The neighborhood scale is suggested as a successful scale to realize cross-sector, inter-organizational collaborations. The multifaceted goals and resulting interdependencies in sustainable neighborhood (SN) developments seem to render them complex. Neighborhood scale can be understood as a program of related projects encompassing a wide range of actors interacting in a non-simple way. The added complexity comprised at the neighborhood scale challenges the promise of sustainable transition, creating a gap between what is promised as SN and what is delivered. While filling this gap is deemed pivotal to boost the performance and success of SNs, this study focuses on the practice of procurement. Green procurement has a prominent role in fostering the sustainable transition and alleviate the projects’ poor performance in energy consumption and carbon emissions. However, green procurement is complicated and often hampered by the complex nature of the programs and projects required to realize SNs. Using an in-depth case study of an ongoing SN development in Norway, we seek to explore green procurement in SN programs. The present study has several contributions. First, we provide a fresh look at SNs using the notion of program management and the principles of nearly decomposable systems. Second, the study demonstrates that green procurement can support coordination in programs, and propose several implications for purchasers to consider when devising a green procurement strategy for SN programs, laying the groundwork for new procurement research focusing on structural complexity. Furthermore, our study encourages purchasers to think like architects to grasp the various levels and make better decisions in complex projects and programs.
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Coman, Claudiu, Maria Cristina Bularca, and Adrian Otovescu. "The role of events in developing the cultural side of a city: Assessing events organized by European Capitals of Culture." Journal of Digital Art & Humanities 2, no. 1 (June 26, 2021): 3–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.33847/2712-8148.2.1_1.
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People today are continuously searching for new experiences, and thus the events organized by a city can play an important role in influencing peoples’ decision to visit a certain city. In this regard, the title of European Capital of Culture can offer a city competitive advantage and it can help it improve its cultural as well as its social side. Hence, through the events organized while holding the title of European Capital of Culture, cities can better promote themselves as cultural cities, but they can also offer citizens and tourists diverse and interesting experiences and entertainment opportunities. Thus, we focused our research on the city of Aarhus. The purpose of our research was to assess the way Aarhus promoted itself through its events while having the title of European Capital of Culture in 2017, in order to extract some guidelines that could be further used as frame of reference by other cities in their development and promotion strategies. After analyzing one of the events organized by Aarhus- GrowOP - the only opera festival in Denmark designed for children, our findings revealed that the city used cultural events as a way to develop itself and attract tourists. The event was well organized, it was in line with the concept of the entire program of the city and through it, Aarhus aimed at integrating new and young audiences into its cultural life.
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Metwally, Walaa, and Vitta Ibrahim. "The Green Areas in the city and sustainable Approach: Analytical Study of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s tree-planting Program." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 1026, no. 1 (May 1, 2022): 012045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/1026/1/012045.
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Abstract Sustainable planning has become a major topic for designers, which includes open areas and green spaces’ designs. These green designs have evolved from traditional approaches to green architecture theory and practice vision that people want to use and respect. Since 1990, the percentage of Saudi Arabia's land area covered by plantations has stayed constant at around 0.5 percent. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants to change the country's economy and society by planting 10 billion trees through a tree-planting programme, in order to boost environmental awareness, assist Saudi society reconnect with nature, and create jobs in rural areas. This project will rise the area covered by existing trees by a factor of twelve and reduce carbon emissions by more than half (4 percent). This paper aims to Improve the natural and built environment by Focusing on the sustainable approach that can use to upgrade the environmental quality of the city and using successful green areas designs that make more attractive cities and providing more environmental services, in addition to ensure that the green spaces are created to reflect the values and pattern of people’s life that will use them. To achieve these goals, the research depends on analytical application methodology. The study reveals the green areas in the cities and their benefits, and suggest sustainable approach for successful green spaces towards better quality of life which can be a guide for designers involved the process of sustainable growth, the research adopts Saudi Arabia case study interests in reducing its carbon footprint and placing the country against global warming.
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Parhani, Imadduddin. "PERAN ULAMA DALAM PENDAMPINGAN PEREMPUAN YANG POSITIF HIV DAN AIDS." Al-Banjari : Jurnal Ilmiah Ilmu-Ilmu Keislaman 17, no. 1 (October 1, 2018): 81. http://dx.doi.org/10.18592/al-banjari.v17i1.1439.
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HIV and AIDS have spread to all provinces in Indonesia. No more districts/cities are free from the spread of HIV and AIDS. Many efforts are made by the government to reduce the spread of HIV and AIDS. However, these efforts are only conducted at the medical level, not touched on community empowerment, especially Ulama involvement in planning, implementing and evaluating HIV and AIDS prevention programs. Ulama should be postulated as part of a government-developed system of HIV and AIDS prevention and control. Ulama should be given a role in identifying, formulating, implementing and monitoring program activities with the focus of exploring social problems that occur in the environment. If clerics are directly involved since the commencement of an activity program, they will be able to understand better of what they should do for a program. Involvement and empowerment are the principles of HIV and AIDS prevention. Involvement and empowerment in AIDS prevention aims to achieve better health outcomes with the active participation of civil society in planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating services. The activities which are in conflict with prevention, treatment, care and support for PLWHA and oriented to an anti-gender partnership discrimination, as well as stigma, can put women in anti-socio-cultural, and physiological conditions. It is also equally important that scholars openly opposed to gender-based violence.Saat ini, HIV dan AIDS telah menyebar ke semua provinsi di Indonesia. Tidak ada lagi kabupaten / kota yang bebas dari penyebaran HIV dan AIDS. Banyak upaya dilakukan oleh pemerintah untuk mengurangi penyebaran HIV dan AIDS. Namun, upaya ini hanya dilakukan di tingkat medis saja, tidak menyentuh pemberdayaan masyarakat, terutama keterlibatan ulama dalam perencanaan, penerapan dan evaluasi program pencegahan HIV dan AIDS. Ulama harus dipostulasikan sebagai bagian dari sistem pencegahan dan pengendalian HIV dan AIDS yang dikembangkan oleh pemerintah. Ulama diberi peran dalam mengidentifikasi, merumuskan, melaksanakan dan memantau kegiatan program dengan fokus mengeksplorasi masalah sosial yang terjadi di lingkungan. Jika para ulama terlibat langsung sejak dimulainya suatu program kegiatan, mereka akan lebih mampu memahami apa yang harus mereka lakukan untuk sebuah program. Keterlibatan dan pemberdayaan adalah salah satu prinsip pencegahan HIV dan AIDS. Keterlibatan dan pemberdayaan dalam pencegahan AIDS bertujuan untuk mencapai hasil kesehatan yang lebih baik dengan partisipasi aktif masyarakat sipil dalam perencanaan, pelaksanaan, pemantauan dan evaluasi layanan dan kegiatan yang bertentangan dengan pencegahan, pengobatan, perawatan dan dukungan untuk ODHA yang berorientasi pada diskriminasi kemitraan anti-gender, stigma, menempatkan perempuan dalam kondisi yang anti-sosio-budaya, dan fisiologis, dan sama pentingnya adalah para ahli secara terbuka menentang kekerasan berbasis gender.
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Adisurya, Susy Irma. "RUMAH SUSUN , SOLUSI KEBUTUHAN PERUMAHAN DAN PERBAIKAN LINGKUNGAN DI KOTA JAKARTA." Jurnal Dimensi Seni Rupa dan Desain 7, no. 2 (February 1, 2010): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.25105/dim.v7i2.996.
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AbstractLiving in a flat becomes a new phenomenon that interest urban people nowdays. The Flat Development Program is intending to create the better environment, including solving the people density problems, housing fulfilment for urban communities , and expanding urban green space in big cities, especially in Jakarta.This reseach is using qualitative method . It shows that the development of vertical housing such as flats are carrying some goodness to the city nevironment, including (1) the effecienci and optimalization of space that produce green environment and (2) the centered density is a certain space Abstrak Tinggal di rumh susun sudah menjadi suatu fenomena baru yang diminati oleh masyarakat perkotaan. Program Pembangunan Rumah Susun (Rusun) yang diharpkan akan membawa perbaikan lingkungan, di anataranya menyelesaikan masalah kepadatan penduduk, pemenuhan perumahan rakyat di kota besar dan pengembangan ruang hijai khususnya Jakarta.Penelitian ii menggunakan metode kulaitatif. Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa pembangunan vertical housing berupa rumah Sususn ini membawa beberapa manfaat pada lingkungan kota seperti (1)Efisiensi dan optimalisasi lahan, hingga tercipta suasanan ramah lingkungan ( 2) Pemusatan kepadatan pada suu kawasan
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Adi, Tutri Laksono, Syarif Hidayatullah, and Harianto Respati. "Analysis of the Utilization of Information and Communication Technology in the Communication and Information Services of Batu City in Supporting the Realization of Batu City as a “Smart City”." International Journal of Scientific Research and Management 10, no. 02 (February 27, 2022): 3129–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsrm/v10i2.em12.
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With the use of information and communication technology brings ease of information for the community. Through an application system, various information about the city can be accessed quickly by the community and the local government through a program called Smart City. Smart City has been implemented in various cities in the world and has been proven to be able to solve various problems quickly as well. This information can also be used by local governments to create comfort, security and order and a better life. The purpose of writing this article is to obtain an overview of the use of information and communication technology at the Department of Communication and Information Technology of Batu City to realize Batu City as a Smart City. For that, it is necessary to do several things that support the use of information and communication technology so that it can realize Batu City as a smart city. However, of course there are several things that must be implemented so that the smart city program can run smoothly in Batu City.
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Urbinatti, Alberto Matenhauer, Simone Ley Omori-Honda, Carolina Monteiro de de Carvalho, Klaus Frey, Pedro Roberto Jacobi, and Leandro Luiz Giatti. "‘Nexus’ Narratives in Urban Vulnerable Places: Pathways to Sustainability via Municipal Health Programs in Brazil." World 4, no. 1 (January 11, 2023): 21–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/world4010002.
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In recent years, the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus approach has been widely used as a framework in the context of urban Sustainability. However, some elements of the approach are normative, leading to a technical view of resources and technocratic policy implementation. To avoid such tendencies, this study uses the framework of ‘nexus of humility’. We used insights from the Science and Technology Studies to better assess the interactions between water, energy, and food, and consider the social construction aspects of the nexus itself. The approach of Pathways to Sustainability is combined with this framework to analyze two government programs in the cities of São Paulo and Guarulhos, Brazil; namely, the Green and Healthy Environments Program and the Environmental Health Program, respectively. We interviewed 20 individuals linked to these policies and analyzed narratives inductively and deductively. The results showed six groups of narratives, namely: environmental and social determinants of health, health prevention and promotion, intersectorality, politics and economy, territory, learning, and participation. Moreover, we concluded that narratives related to the WEF nexus, even if not explicitly part of the government guidelines, are present within the existing axes of action. Public health was understood as an important support pillar for the development of synergies related to Sustainability in urban areas. Finally, we sought to contribute to the literature by showing how this new framework can ‘open up’ avenues for sustainability within the contexts of high urban vulnerability and social inequality.