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Neighborhood Care and Neighborhood Bonds: An Unequal Relationship [PDF]
Environment and Behavior, 2020 Research in environmental psychology has found a positive relationship between place bonds and behaviors related to care and maintenance of place. Although this relationship has been analyzed in natural environments, it has been less frequently studied in urban environments and has yielded contradictory results.
Hernández Ruiz, Bernardo +6 more
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Measuring ‘neighborhood’: Constructing network neighborhoods [PDF]
Social Networks, 2012 This study attempts to measure neighborhood boundaries in a novel way by creating network neighborhoods based on the density of social ties among adolescents. We create valued matrices based on social ties and physical distance between adolescents in the county.
Hipp, John R +2 more
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Neighborhood Choice and Neighborhood Change [PDF]
American Journal of Sociology, 2006 This article examines the relationships between the residential choices of individuals and aggregate segregation patterns. Analyses based on computational models show that high levels of segregation occur only when individuals’ preferences follow a threshold function.
Elizabeth E. Bruch, Robert D. Mare
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Walkable school neighborhoods are not playable neighborhoods
Health & Place, 2015 The objectives were to determine whether: (1) playability features differed across walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods, and (2) physical activity differed in children living in walkable and non-walkable school neighborhoods. A total of 3912 grade 6-8 students from 132 school neighborhoods were studied.
Janssen, Ian, King, Nathan
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Developmental Cell, 2016 Bacteria use type 6 secretion systems in antagonistic behavior to compete for resources with other bacteria. In a recent issue of Cell, Vettiger and Basler (2016) show that bacteria can also use these systems to arm neighboring cells and force them to pass on a signal in the bacterial population.
Sanna Koskiniemi, Johan Elf
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CoRR, 2021 In the standard planar $k$-center clustering problem, one is given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, and the goal is to select $k$ center points, so as to minimize the maximum distance over points in $P$ to their nearest center. Here we initiate the systematic study of the clustering with neighborhoods problem, which generalizes the $k$-center ...
Huang, Hongyao +2 more
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Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives, 2013 The first case of poliomyelitis was reported in Korea in 1939. The inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) and the oral polio vaccine (OPV) were introduced in 1958 and 1962, respectively. The National Immunization Program (NIP) was established in 1966 and poliomyelitis was designated as a second-class communicable disease [1].
Cho, Hae-Wol, Chu, Chaeshin
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Immigration and the Neighborhood [PDF]
Working paper (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), 2006 Within metropolitan areas, neighborhoods of growing immigrant settlement are becoming relatively less desirable to natives. We deploy a geographic diffusion model to instrument for the growth of immigrant density in a neighborhood. Our approach deals explicitly with potential unobservable shocks that may be correlated with proximity to immigrant ...
Saiz, Albert, Wachter, Susan M
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundTo address significant health inequities experienced by residents of public housing in East and Central Harlem compared to other New Yorkers, NYC Department of Health and Mental Health (DOHMH) collaborated with community and academic ...
Nancy VanDevanter +14 more
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