scholarly journals An Evaluation of the Living Wage: Identifying Pathways Out of In-Work Poverty

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jo Swaffield ◽  
Carolyn Snell ◽  
Becky Tunstall ◽  
Jonathan Bradshaw
Keyword(s):  
Important Determinant ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Living Wage ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

This article reports the results of a case study on the introduction of the living wage. Three employers in the City of York became living wage employers. Using data derived from a sample survey of their employees and qualitative interviews, this article explores what impact the receipt of the living wage had on poverty and deprivation. It found that not all living wage employees were income poor or deprived, although those on living wage rates were more likely to be poor and deprived than those on even higher wages. The more important determinant of the employees’ living standards was the household they lived in, and there were a high proportion of living wage employees living in multi-unit households. Also important were the number of earners in the household and the hours worked by the living wage employee. Lone parent families and single people appeared to be most vulnerable to poverty and deprivation. In addition, whether the employee took up their entitlement to in-work benefits was critical and, using benefit checks by welfare rights experts, it was found that some were not.

Legalizing Street Vending in Los Angeles: Reframing a Movement during the Fourth Wave of Feminism

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097678
Author(s):  
Sara Bruene ◽  
Moshoula Capous-Desyllas
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Street Vendor ◽  
Street Vending ◽  
Frame Alignment ◽  
Fourth Wave ◽  
The City

Street vending was criminalized in the city of Los Angeles since the 1930s. The Los Angeles Street Vendor Campaign (LASVC) utilized several framing tactics over the last several years in order to mobilize participants to decriminalize and legalize the profession of street vending. This article applies frame alignment theory to illustrate how the LASVC reached its goals. This case study utilizes qualitative interviews of key players in the LASVC movement and a content analysis of LASVC’S Facebook page to document their push toward decriminalization over the course of 1 year. The LASVC transformed their narrative from issues of immigration and labor rights and reframed street vending as a women’s justice issue. By doing so, the LASVC extended the boundaries of their frames to incorporate the voices of women of color whose online and on-the-ground efforts to mobilize a larger population manifested during an era of the fourth wave feminism.

scholarly journals Analysis of Green Spaces by Utilizing Big Data to Support Smart Cities and Environment: A Case Study About the City Center of Shanghai

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qi Liu ◽  
Hidayat Ullah ◽  
Wanggen Wan ◽  
Zhangyou Peng ◽  
Li Hou ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Relative Difference ◽  
Green Spaces ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Patterns ◽  
City Center ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Spatiotemporal Behavior ◽  
Public Behavior ◽  
The City

Green areas or parks are the best way to encourage people to take part in physical exercise. Traditional techniques of researching the attractiveness of green parks, such as surveys and questionnaires, are naturally time consuming and expensive, with less transferable outcomes and only site-specific findings. This research provides a factfinding study by means of location-based social network (LBSN) data to gather spatial and temporal patterns of green park visits in the city center of Shanghai, China. During the period from July 2014 to June 2017, we examined the spatiotemporal behavior of visitors in 71 green parks in Shanghai. We conducted an empirical investigation through kernel density estimation (KDE) and relative difference methods on the effects of green spaces on public behavior in Shanghai, and our main categories of findings are as follows: (i) check-in distribution of visitors in different green spaces, (ii) users’ transition based on the hours of a day, (iii) famous parks in the study area based upon the number of check-ins, and (iv) gender difference among green park visitors. Furthermore, the purpose of obtaining these outcomes can be utilized in urban planning of a smart city for green environment according to the preferences of visitors.

scholarly journals Digital Community Social Capital (Case Study on Increasing the Popularity of Millennial Youtubers in Makassar City)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Andry Wijaya ◽  
Suparman Abdullah ◽  
Rahmad Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Digital Community ◽  
Internet Media ◽  
The Social ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The City

One of the global developments that is fast and has quite an impact on the pattern of people's lives is developments in the field of technology and information, namely through the internet. YouTube has become an internet media that is in demand by various audiences around the world. Disbursing youtube adsense is fairly complicated, but the work as a youtuber is currently in great demand by Millennials. Youtuber is a new job that is synonymous with Millennials in this 4.0 industrial era. This study aims to determine the use of social capital trust by youtubers in increasing popularity, as well as to determine the use of social capital linking youtubers in increasing popularity. This study uses a qualitative approach, with informants namely millennial youtubers who live in the city of Makassar. Data collection techniques through observation, interviews and documentation, with data analysis techniques using: data reduction, data presentation and drawing conclusions and verification. The results of the study show that trust social capital is widely used by youtubers to increase their popularity, in this case increasing the number of subscribers and viewers on their youtube channel. Many YouTubers use social capital linking or networks to increase the number of subscribers and viewers. The social capital of the network used is by utilizing the friendship and community of YouTubers in the process of designing content, taking videos, editing to uploading videos and socializing YouTube channels in order to minimize the cost of managing YouTube channels for YouTubers

scholarly journals Implementasi Penilaian Autentik Kurikulum 2013 pada Rapor Online di SMK Negeri 6 Malang

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Galih Sudiyanto ◽  
Eddy Sutadji ◽  
Eddy Rudiyanto
Keyword(s):  
Authentic Assessment ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City

One factor that is considered difficult to implement by teacher in the 2013 Curriculum is authentic assessment. However, this can be overcome with an online report that was initiated by Dispendik for all schools in the city of Surabaya. The study aims to see the implementation of authentic assessment in the 2013 Curriculum at a school that have implemented online report in Malang, namely SMK Negeri 6 Malang. The method used was a case study using questionnaires, interviews and documentation. The validity of research findings was examined using data triangulation technique. The respondents were productive teachers who teach automotive skills in the same class so that there is a correlation between the data obtained from the teachers and the students. The result shows that the implementation of authentic assessment in the 2013 Curriculum at SMK Negeri 6 Malang is in good category and teachers were greatly assisted by the online report.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Salah satu faktor yang sulit untuk dilaksanakan oleh guru dalam Kurikulum 2013 adalah penilaian autentik. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk melihat penerapan penilaian autentik Kurikulum 2013 pada sekolah yang sudah menerapkan rapor online di Kota Malang. Rancangan penelitian ini menggunakan deskriptif kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus yang dilaksanakan di SMK Negeri 6 Malang. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan instrumen angket, wawancara dan dokumentasi. Pengecekan keabsahan temuan penelitian menggunakan teknik trianggulasi data. Responden adalah guru produktif keahlian Otomotif yang mengajar pada kelas yang sama sehingga ada korelasi antara data yang didapat dari guru dan siswa. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa: (1) Pemahaman guru SMK Negeri 6 Malang terhadap penilaian autentik Kurikulum 2013 sangat baik sebesar 90%, (2) Pelaksanaan penilaian autentik Kurikulum 2013 oleh guru SMK Negeri 6 Malang sudah baik sebesar 70, (3) Manajemen rapor online oleh  Tim  IT  sudah  baik  dalam  memudahkan  pelaksanakan penilaian autentik Kurikulum 2013 di SMK Negeri 6 Malang sebesar 80%.

Using Machine Learning to support health system planning during the Covid-19 pandemic: a case study using data from São José dos Campos (Brazil)

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila Abuabara ◽  
Maria Gabriela Valeriano ◽  
Carlos Roberto Veiga Kiffer ◽  
Horácio Hideki Yanasse ◽  
Ana Carolina Lorena
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Population Characteristics ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Health System Planning ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Support Decision Making

Many efforts were made by the scientific community during the Covid-19 pandemic to understand the disease and better manage health systems' resources. Believing that city and population characteristics influence how the disease spreads and develops, we used Machine Learning techniques to provide insights to support decision-making in the city of São José dos Campos (SP), Brazil. Using a database with information from people who undergo the Covid-19 test in this city, we generate and evaluate predictive models related to severity, need for hospitalization and period of hospitalization. Additionally, we used the SHAP value for models' interpretation of the most decisive attributes influencing the predictions. We can conclude that patient age linked to symptoms such as saturation and respiratory distress and comorbidities such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes are the most important factors to consider when one wants to predict severity and need for hospitalization in this city. We also stress the need of a greater attention to the proper collection of this information from citizens who undergo the Covid-19 diagnosis test.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence-Empowered Mobilization of Assessments in COVID-19-like Pandemics: A Case Study for Early Flattening of the Curve

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Simsek ◽  
Burak Kantarci
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Worst Case Analysis ◽  
Assessment Centers ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Mobile Crowdsensing ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Effective Assessment ◽  
The City

The global outbreak of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has uncovered the fragility of healthcare and public health preparedness and planning against epidemics/pandemics. In addition to the medical practice for treatment and immunization, it is vital to have a thorough understanding of community spread phenomena as related research reports 17.9–30.8% confirmed cases to remain asymptomatic. Therefore, an effective assessment strategy is vital to maximize tested population in a short amount of time. This article proposes an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven mobilization strategy for mobile assessment agents for epidemics/pandemics. To this end, a self-organizing feature map (SOFM) is trained by using data acquired from past mobile crowdsensing (MCS) campaigns to model mobility patterns of individuals in multiple districts of a city so to maximize the assessed population with minimum agents in the shortest possible time. Through simulation results for a real street map on a mobile crowdsensing simulator and considering the worst case analysis, it is shown that on the 15th day following the first confirmed case in the city under the risk of community spread, AI-enabled mobilization of assessment centers can reduce the unassessed population size down to one fourth of the unassessed population under the case when assessment agents are randomly deployed over the entire city.

scholarly journals PAYING RESPECTS, STREAMING AFFECT: ELECTION DAY 2016 AT SUSAN B. ANTHONY'S GRAVESITE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chelsea Paige Butkowski
Keyword(s):  
Political Action ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Illustrative Case Study ◽  
And Control ◽  
The City ◽  
Media Event

On U.S. Election Day 2016, thousands of people gathered at Susan B. Anthony’s grave in Rochester, NY. They were there to commemorate Anthony’s women’s suffrage activism over a century prior and to celebrate the presidential candidacy of Hilary Clinton, the first woman nominated by a major U.S. American political party. A thirteen-hour livestream of the gravesite by a local journalist captured the unprecedented crowd at the cemetery and drew a much larger crowd online. In the hours before election results were announced, the livestream gained millions of viewers and thousands of comments. While existing research has begun to examine the complex relationship between personal and collective memory, memorialization, and social media, less attention has been devoted to the ways that history and politics become tools for users and professionals to represent themselves. I examine the gravesite livestream as an illustrative case study of the ways that actors with different levels of access and control over a media event use commemoration as a vehicle for political self-representation. I conducted a textual analysis of the entire livestream, including the video and comment feeds. Through the analysis, I traced how four actors built upon a shared collective vision of U.S. American women’s history and future to contribute to the livestream and find themselves within it, including the city mayor’s office, gravesite visitors, the journalist who captured the stream, and commenters. Ultimately, I suggest that in commemorating women’s historical political action, these self-representational narratives present livestream creators, viewers, and subjects as political actors.

scholarly journals Suburbanisation processes within and outside the city: The development of intra-urban suburbs in Wrocław, Poland

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Robert Szmytkie
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Road Traffic ◽  
Tax Revenue ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
Construction Activity ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The City ◽  
Road Traffic Congestion

Abstract The scale and the specificity of intra-urban suburbanisation is subject to evaluation in this article, based on a case study of Wrocław city (SW Poland), using data on population changes at an intra-urban scale and on the level of construction activity in the city. Intra-urban suburbanisation is characterised by intensive construction activity and population growth in the peripheral districts of the city, while depopulation takes place in the central part of the city and in large panel block estates from the socialist period. The main factors for the development of intra-urban suburbanisation are a reaction to the unfavourable (from the perspective of the city) suburbanisation processes (outflow of residents and tax revenue, road traffic congestion and the necessity to service populations residing de facto outside the city). The existence of extensive non-urbanised areas within the larger cities of Central and Eastern Europe (identified as potential areas for investment) results from the specific nature of their territorial development in the 20th century, including incorporation processes connected with planned urbanisation.

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LIVEABILITY AND PRICE OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSES – A CASE STUDY OF SHENZHEN

2020 ◽  
Vol XLII-3/W10 ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
L. Liu
Keyword(s):  
Housing Price ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Point Of Interest ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Real World Situation

Abstract. This study proposes an index for cities in China to measure the liveability of real estate. This liveability index combines indicators from four dimensions including education, transportation, living facilities and entertainment, and can be quickly obtained by using data of Point of Interest, based on popular internet maps. Then, using Shenzhen as a sample city, correlation analysis has been adopted to examine the relationship between this liveability index and housing price. The results show that, the liveability index can well reflect the real-world situation of the city. Moreover, a weak but significant relationship can be found between liveability and the housing price. The results of this study not only can be used for urban residents to search a proper housing estate, but also can assistant urban planners and policy makers to get a general map of the spatial structure of the city.

Study of Interior Materials as Passive Fire Protection in Karaoke Building (Case Study: Masterpiece Signature Family KTV Medan)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-43
Author(s):  
Saras Ayu Faradita ◽  
Vinky Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Fire Protection ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Passive Protection ◽  
Fire Incident ◽  
Fire Disaster ◽  
Passive Fire Protection ◽  
Protection Systems ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
The City

The fire incident in karaoke buildings in Indonesia which claimed many lives has occurred several times. According to the National Academy of Science US, the smoke toxins that come out of the fire disaster cause 50-80% of deaths. Refers to the data, it is necessary to check further about the building material response to fire during a fire incident. Masterpiece Signature Karaoke is a karaoke building that classified as large and magnificent in the city of Medan which has various material so that it is necessary to study the interior material as passive fire protection. The purpose is to find out how to assess the reliability of fire passive protection regard to the interior materials and recommendations or descriptions of right interior material planning using the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP). This method is efficacious to solve the problem of reliability in using interior materials as passive fire protection in Masterpiece Signature Family KTV Medan building with the results of an Adequate Level of reliability. Then, design recommendations were given for the use of interior materials in karaoke building to improve the reliability results to be better.The results are useful as information for other researchers and karaoke buildings regarding passive fire protection systems at the Masterpiece Signature Family KTV Medan.

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