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On Neighborhood Tree Search [PDF]

Proceedings of the 14th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 2012
We consider the neighborhood tree induced by alternating the use of different neighborhood structures within a local search descent. We investigate the issue of designing a search strategy operating at the neighborhood tree level by exploring different ...
Derbel, Bilel, Derbel, Houda
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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, Hidalgo, M. Carmen, Moreno-Jiménez, Pilar, Muiños, Gabriel, Hidalgo, M. Carmen, Moreno-Jiménez, Pilar, Muiños, Gabriel   +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, Faris, Robert W, Boessen, Adam   +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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Community-Engaged Use of Low-Cost Sensors to Assess the Spatial Distribution of PM_2.5 Concentrations across Disadvantaged Communities: Results from a Pilot Study in Santa Ana, CA

Atmosphere, 2022
PM2.5 is an air pollutant that is widely associated with adverse health effects, and which tends to be disproportionately located near low-income communities and communities of color.
Shahir Masri, Kathryn Cox, Leonel Flores, Jose Rea, Jun Wu   +4 more
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Density of outdoor advertising of consumable products in NYC by neighborhood poverty level

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background To determine if outdoor advertising density for non-alcoholic drinks, food, tobacco products, and alcohol, is associated with neighborhood poverty or other Census-level characteristics in New York City (NYC).
Tamar Adjoian, Rachel Dannefer, Shannon M. Farley   +2 more
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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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Implementation Facilitators and Challenges of a Place-Based Intervention to Reduce Health Disparities in Harlem Through Community Activation and Mobilization

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, Lynna Zhong, Rachel Dannefer, Noel Manyindo, Sterling Walker, Victor Otero, Kimberly Smith, Rose Keita, Lorna Thorpe, Elizabeth Drackett, Lois Seidl, La'Shawn Brown-Dudley, Katherine Earle, Nadia Islam, Nadia Islam   +14 more
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Assessing the psychometric and ecometric properties of neighborhood scales using adolescent survey data from urban and rural Scotland [PDF]

, 2017
This work was supported by NHS Health Scotland and the University of St Andrews.Background:  Despite the well-established need for specific measurement instruments to examine the relationship between neighborhood conditions and adolescent well-being ...
A Fields, A Oliva, A Ruijsbroek, AA Fagan, AAL Friche, AB Rosay, B Clercq De, C Currie, C Currie, C Åslund, Candace Currie, DB Flora, FF Chen, FF Chen, Gerry Humphris, Gina Martin, GW Cheung, H Finch, I Kawachi, I Kawachi, J Mackenbach, JA Jones, Joanna Inchley, K Aminzadeh, KA Levin, KL Gilbert, KL Tucker, KT Gundy Van, LJ Cronbach, M Drukker, M Nichol, MJ Karcher, MS Mujahid, N Jackson, NJ Schaefer-McDaniel, PR Vowell, R Schoot Van de, RJ Sampson, RS Piccolo, S Moore, SJ Finney, SW Raudenbush, V Morrow, V Morrow, W Poortinga, Y Choi   +45 more
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