Approaches to Assessing the Vulnerability of Large City Population to Natural and Man-Made Hazards Using Mobile Operators Data (Case Study of Moscow, Russia)

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-186
Author(s):  
S. Badina ◽  
R. Babkin ◽  
A. Mikhaylov
Keyword(s):  
Large City ◽  
City Population

Beyond College Access: An Exploration of the Short-Term Impact of a Dual Enrollment Program

2021 ◽  
pp. 152102512110563
Author(s):  
Jennifer M. Johnson ◽  
Joseph H. Paris ◽  
Juliet D. Curci ◽  
Samantha Horchos
Keyword(s):  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Dual Enrollment ◽  
Large City ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Dual Enrollment Programs

The purpose of this qualitative case study is to gain insights into the activities and outcomes associated with participation in the Temple Education Scholars (TES) dual enrollment program, an initiative for seniors attending high school in a large city in the Northeast region of the United States. The objectives of this study are twofold: (1) to inform the design and implementation of dual enrollment programs as a model for facilitating students’ transition from secondary to postsecondary education and supporting their future success in college; and (2) to describe the short-term impact of participation in a dual enrollment program on participants’ choices about postsecondary education. Our analysis revealed the ways that participating in this dual enrollment program shaped students’ attitudes, motivations, and perceptions about college knowledge, college readiness, and college opportunities. Implications for policy and practice are discussed.

scholarly journals Urban anomalies in response to rainstorms based on smartphone location data: a case study of eight cities in China

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiawei Yi ◽  
Yunyan Du ◽  
Fuyuan Liang ◽  
Tao Pei ◽  
Ting Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Rainfall Intensity ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Food Delivery ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Location Data ◽  
City Population ◽  
The City ◽  
Method Analysis

Abstract. This study explored city residents’ collective geo-tagged behaviors in response to rainstorms using the number of location request (NLR) data generated by smartphone users. We examined the rainstorms, flooding, NLR anomalies, as well as the associations among them in eight selected cities across the mainland China. The time series NLR clearly reflects cities’ general diurnal rhythm and the total NLR is moderately correlated with the total city population. Anomalies of NLR were identified at both the city and grid scale using the S-H-ESD method. Analysis results manifested that the NLR anomalies at the city and grid levels are well associated with rainstorms, indicating city residents request more location-based services (e.g. map navigation, car hailing, food delivery, etc.) when there is a rainstorm. However, sensitivity of the city residents’ collective geo-tagged behaviors in response to rainstorms varies in different cities as shown by different peak rainfall intensity thresholds. Significant high peak rainfall intensity tends to trigger city flooding, which lead to increased location-based requests as shown by positive anomalies on the time series NLR.

Sterben in der modernen Stadt

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 197-210
Author(s):  
Ulrich H.J. Körtner
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Large City ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
European Level ◽  
On Demand ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
Death On Demand

Abstract The nationwide supply with the afferings of Palliative Care is a generally acknowledged aim. But it is disputed whether it is a sufficient alternative to death on demand or assisted suicide. This is being discussed on a European level. But what the current discussion is Jacking of, are empirical studies regarding the culture of dying. The case study at hand Iooks into the basic social and cultural conditions in a large city. It also discusses the consequences of religious change and the inter-religious situation on the palliativemovement and their relation to the churches

Performance Mangement in City Government: A Case Study

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodney Nordstrom ◽  
Greg Rucker ◽  
R. Vance Hall
Keyword(s):  
Employee Performance ◽  
Large City ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Management Training ◽  
City Government ◽  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Productivity Improvement ◽  
Improvement Programs ◽  
Nonmonetary Rewards

Productivity improvement programs in the public sector have recently become a popular topic of concern among both academics and practitioners. Many methods of productivity enhancement programs have been discussed ranging from the privatization of services to improved management training. This article describes how a behaviorally-based management training program was used to increase employee productivity in a large city department. The results show that nonmonetary rewards can substantially increase employee performance. Group earned time off, individual employee time off, and goal setting and feedback were all effective for improving employee performance. These cost effective techniques saved the city over $80,000 the first year of implementation. The case study is described by the manager who conducted the project.

scholarly journals Participation in Public Space Renewal. Case Study of Poznan - Large City in Poland - A Report

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107
Author(s):  
Bartosz Kazmierczak ◽  
Dominika Pazder
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Renewal Process ◽  
Social Interest ◽  
Large City ◽  
Important Task ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Crucial Aspect

In the paper there are presented questions of public space renewal, especially within a city centre. The authors present a case study of a city of Poznan in which a number of actions are taken in a field of spatial revival There is accentuated that the most important task is to provide spatial alterations long with social interest and involvement. It is the participation of city inhabitants the most crucial aspect of public space renewal process.

scholarly journals Estudo de operações city logistics para aumento da competitividade em uma empresa de aparelhos auditivos na cidade de Campinas-SP

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
David Costa Monteiro ◽  
Fábio Ytoshi Shibao ◽  
Noel Ferreira de Souza
Keyword(s):  
Hearing Aids ◽  
Large City ◽  
City Logistics ◽  
Concrete Problem ◽  
The Subject ◽  
A Company

Discuss this article logistics operation possibilities made possible from the needs and ideas sponsored by a company that sells hearing aids in a large city paulista inside: Campinas. It turns out that, to address the serious logistical problems of distribution of hearing aids in this city, the organization needed to innovate in the field of distribution of its products. Contextualizes that logistics is often intuitive, which, in practice, usually leads the manager to the study of the subject, always deserving of ratification and permanent study. The objective was to review central logistics issues, specifically aiming to expose how the discipline actually helped a particular organization to solve the concrete problem of distribution of its products. The methodological course is reviewed by literature and case study, justifying the research for its high practical value. The results obtained indicate the validity of the solution adopted by a certain company, this constant to go as far as the customer was through specialized vendors, presenting the measure the recovery and a significant increase in the clientele of the company studied.

scholarly journals Idræt og byplanlægning - med København som case

2004 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaus Eskelund
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Large City ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Central Section ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
City Life ◽  
New Thinking ◽  
The City

Sport and urban planning – with Copenhagen as case study This article deals with the field of sport and urban planning in large cities, with special focus on the municipality of Copenhagen from 1988-2003. In the first place a situation marked by decline is shown to have existed in the field of sport in Copenhagen over recent years (especially in the central section of the city). This provides the opportunity to pose the question of primary concern: How can sport, city life and urban planning be conceived in relation to future guidelines on the politics of sport and on urban planning in a large city such as Copenhagen? The task here is to recommend a way out of decline through an analysis of the area of “sport and urban planning”. Looked at more specifically, in an attempt to break with possibly restrictive thinking patterns, questions have to asked as to the reasoning behind existing politics on this area. What forms of authoritative and legitimate rationalization (and what conditions of power) have been dominating the politics of sport in Copenhagen from 1988- 2003? And how should future guidelines be formulated in order to make sport a more integral part of the city? On this matter a hypothesis is put forward here that sport in a municipal context is subject to a dominant planning norm, which is devoted to an idea of “obligational fellowship”, and that this norm can be restrictive in regard to new thinking on how to make sport a more integral part of the city.

scholarly journals Changes of the urban population mobility at the development of infrastructure for public transport, cyclists and pedestrians

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 187-193
Author(s):  
D. A. Zakharov ◽  
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A. A. Fadyushin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Transport Model ◽  
Large City ◽  
Population Mobility ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
City Population ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Transportation Routes ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parking Facilities

The article examines the mobility of the large city population with 800 thousand inhabitants where there is no off-street transport. As a result of simulation modeling with a macroscopic transport model of the city, there was established the influence of the chargeable parking facilities` cost, the length of lanes for public transport and bike paths on the share of movements by private and public transport, cycling, pedestrian movements. An estimation of changes in passenger turnover at bus stops and passenger traffic was performed. The impact of the new pedestrian bridge across the river Tura is demonstrated in relation to the resident transportation routes change.

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