This study is a contribution to the discussion on the ethnic segregation cycle, through the examination of individuals’ activity spaces—including residence and workplace—and from the perspective of social networks.
Siiri Silm+5 more
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Identifying Urban Residents’ Activity Space at Multiple Geographic Scales Using Mobile Phone Data
Residents’ activity space reflects multiple aspects of human life related to space, time, and type of activity. How to measure the activity space at multiple geographic scales remains a problem to be solved.
Lunsheng Gong+4 more
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Measuring environmental exposures in people's activity space: The need to account for travel modes and exposure decay. [PDF]
Background Accurately quantifying people’s out-of-home environmental exposure is important for identifying disease risk factors. Several activity space-based exposure assessments exist, possibly leading to different exposure estimates, and have neither ...
Wei L, Kwan MP, Vermeulen R, Helbich M.
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Spatial Characteristics and Activity Space Pattern Analysis of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
Although a handful of studies have begun to integrate activity space within travel behavior analysis in the European and United States (U.S.) contexts, few studies have measured the size, structure, and implications of human activity spaces in the ...
Naila Sharmeen, Douglas Houston
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Relationship between Children's Independent Activities and the Built Environment of Outdoor Activity Space in Residential Neighborhoods: A Case Study of Nanjing. [PDF]
Children are a vulnerable population that is frequently overlooked in urban planning. The spatial demands of children are garnering broader consideration in the development of public spaces in cities as efforts to promote child-friendly cities.
Zhou Y, Wang M, Lin S, Qian C.
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Integrating new memories into the hippocampal network activity space. [PDF]
By investigating the topology of neuronal co-activity, we found that mnemonic information spans multiple operational axes in the mouse hippocampus network. High-activity principal cells form the core of each memory along a first axis, segregating spatial
Gava GP+7 more
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Effects of Children's Outdoor Physical Activity in the Urban Neighborhood Activity Space Environment. [PDF]
The rapid development of cities results in many public health and built-up environmental problems, which have vital impacts on children's growth environment, the development of children, and city contradictions.
Bao Y, Gao M, Luo D, Zhou X.
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Community transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is associated with activity space overlap in Lima, Peru. [PDF]
Background Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) requires spatial proximity between infectious cases and susceptible persons. We assess activity space overlap among MDRTB cases and community controls to identify potential areas of ...
Bui DP+6 more
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Creating a Healthy Environment for Elderly People in Urban Public Activity Space. [PDF]
According to statistics, the global, population aging problem is severe and growing rapidly. The aging problem is most obvious in some European countries, and most of them are developed countries, such as Japan, Italy, Germany, France, etc.
Shan W, Xiu C, Ji R.
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Youth daily exposure to tobacco outlets and cigarette smoking behaviors: does exposure within activity space matter? [PDF]
AIMS To examine whether daily exposure to tobacco outlets within activity spaces is associated with cigarette smoking and with the number of cigarettes smoked by youth that day.
Lipperman-Kreda S+6 more
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