scholarly journals Block Level Social Contacts in Low-Cost Flats

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 13-22
Author(s):  
Azhan Abdul Aziz ◽  
Abdullah Sani Ahmad ◽  
Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Local Network ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Spatial Properties ◽  
Block Level ◽  
Home Space ◽  
Network Mapping

This study evaluates the spatial properties of flats block, where daily social interactions often take place, in order to identify socially encouraging layouts. It attempts to establish any significant relationship between spatial properties of flats layouts and the local network of social relations among the residents. It employed network mapping to measure social contact sizes and utilized syntactical software to compare visibility and integration levels of various flats configurations. Findings showed possible relationship between flats spatial properties and the size of social contacts. Keywords: Flats configuration; Local Social Contact; Outdoor Near Home Space; Visibility; Integration. eISSN 2514-751X © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. https://doi.org/10.21834/aje-bs.v3i8.275   

scholarly journals Relationships of Spatial Properties in Low-Cost Flats Configurations and Residents’ Local Social Contacts

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 ◽  
pp. 590-600 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azhan Abdul Aziz ◽  
Abdullah Sani Ahmad ◽  
Sharifah Salwa Syed Mahdzar
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Spatial Properties

scholarly journals Flats Outdoor Space as a Vital Social Place

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 39-51
Author(s):  
Azhan Abdul Aziz ◽  
Abdullah Sani Ahmad ◽  
Tajul Edrus Nordin
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Building Layout ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Outdoor Space ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Home Space ◽  
Open Access Article

Minimum dwelling space of low-cost walk-up flats forces life to spill outdoors involving daily mundane activities affecting neighbourhood social vitality. In design, this affordance of such ‘marginal’ outdoor space has been neglected. Using data derived from systematic observations in various low-cost walk-up flats, this paper explores the use of these outdoor near home spaces and found that they support various domestic, social and retreat activities generating liveliness in the otherwise barren low-cost environment. Potentials for social encounters and casual surveillance were partially affected by flats configurations. Keywords: building layout, near home space, social interaction eISSN 2514-751X © 2017 The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

Real-time and near real-time ZTD from a local network of low-cost dual-frequency GNSS receivers.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Hadas ◽  
Grzegorz Marut ◽  
Jan Kapłon ◽  
Witold Rohm
Keyword(s):  
Water Vapor ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Weather Prediction ◽  
Local Network ◽  
System Component ◽  
Dual Frequency ◽  
Lower Accuracy ◽  
Gnss Receivers ◽  
The Impact

<p>The dynamics of water vapor distribution in the troposphere, measured with Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), is a subject of weather research and climate studies. With GNSS, remote sensing of the troposphere in Europe is performed continuously and operationally under the E-GVAP (http://egvap.dmi.dk/) program with more than 2000 permanent stations. These data are one of the assimilation system component of mesoscale weather prediction models (10 km scale) for many nations across Europe. However, advancing precise local forecasts for severe weather requires high resolution models and observing system.   Further densification of the tracking network, e.g. in urban or mountain areas, will be costly when considering geodetic-grade equipment. However, the rapid development of GNSS-based applications results in a dynamic release of mass-market GNSS receivers. It has been demonstrated that post-processing of GPS-data from a dual-frequency low-cost receiver allows retrieving ZTD with high accuracy. Although low-cost receivers are a promising solution to the problem of densifying GNSS networks for water vapor monitoring, there are still some technological limitations and they require further development and calibration.</p><p>We have developed a low-cost GNSS station, dedicated to real-time GNSS meteorology, which provides GPS, GLONASS and Galileo dual-frequency observations either in RINEX v3.04 format or via RTCM v3.3 stream, with either Ethernet or GSM data transmission. The first two units are deployed in a close vicinity of permanent station WROC, which belongs to the International GNSS Service (IGS) network. Therefore, we compare results from real-time and near real-time processing of GNSS observations from a low-cost unit with IGS Final products. We also investigate the impact of replacing a standard patch antenna with an inexpensive survey-grade antenna. Finally, we deploy a local network of low-cost receivers in and around the city of Wroclaw, Poland, in order to analyze the dynamics of troposphere delay at a very high spatial resolution.</p><p>As a measure of accuracy, we use the standard deviation of ZTD differences between estimated ZTD and IGS Final product. For the near real-time mode, that accuracy is 5 mm and 6 mm, for single- (L1) and dual-frequency (L1/L5,E5b) solution, respectively. Lower accuracy of the dual-frequency relative solution we justify by the missing antenna phase center correction model for L5 and E5b frequencies. With the real-time Precise Point Positioning technique, we estimate ZTD with the accuracy of 7.5 – 8.6 mm. After antenna replacement, the accuracy is improved almost by a factor of 2 (to 4.1 mm), which is close to the 3.1 mm accuracy which we obtain in real-time using data from the WROC station.</p>

scholarly journals Assessing the scaling of a blockchain-based social contact tracking system

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Ilya Shmelev
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Hybrid Architecture ◽  
Unresolved Issue ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Contact Tracking ◽  
The Common

During a pandemic, one of the most important tasks is to track social contacts with those who are sick. This article categorizes projects that track these contacts. Projects are classified by architecture and the common components of such systems are highlighted. It is concluded that the hybrid architecture of such a solution based on an exclusive blockchain will have several advantages, and a conceptual model of such a system is described. However, an analysis of existing blockchain projects showed that their main problem is the unresolved issue of scaling such kinds of systems, which is becoming a key issue in the context of creating a global digital infrastructure of society. Further, the scaling of the system's conceptual model is assessed based on open-source information about the Moscow metro, and the main conclusions about the selected architectural solutions are confirmed.

scholarly journals The Use of “the Big Five” in Assessing Levels of Adaptation in Dental Students at Various Stages of Their Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 08025
Author(s):  
Larisa Litvinova ◽  
Lyubov’ Gubareva ◽  
Atsamaz Kaloyev ◽  
Yelena Grishilova
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Dental Students ◽  
Theoretical Knowledge ◽  
Human Adaptation ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Actual Behaviour ◽  
Individual Character ◽  
Academic Workload

Current approaches in psychology look at human adaptation reserves as part of individual character. “the Big Five” evaluates subjects’ actual behaviour and levels of reserves of adaptation on each of the five scales. The results show reliably identifiable changes between the first and third years of study. Students acquire traits associated with introversion and reduce their social contacts (р≤0.01). A reduction to average is also visible in “Attachment – Detachment” (р≤0.05) and “Playfulness – Practicality” (р≤0.01). It can be seen that there is a reduction in the adaptation abilities of dental students between the first and third years in terms of social contact and the application of practical knowledge. Mastering the disciplines under study becomes harder, while the amount of theoretical knowledge and practical ability required increases, necessitating higher levels of concentration. Taking into account the increase in academic workload during this period, some of the above can be put down to stress.

scholarly journals Non-compulsory measures sufficiently reduced human mobility in Tokyo during the COVID-19 epidemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Takahiro Yabe ◽  
Kota Tsubouchi ◽  
Naoya Fujiwara ◽  
Takayuki Wada ◽  
Yoshihide Sekimoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Mobility Data ◽  
Contact Rates ◽  
Mobility Behavior

Abstract While large scale mobility data has become a popular tool to monitor the mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic, the impacts of non-compulsory measures in Tokyo, Japan on human mobility patterns has been under-studied. Here, we analyze the temporal changes in human mobility behavior, social contact rates, and their correlations with the transmissibility of COVID-19, using mobility data collected from more than 200K anonymized mobile phone users in Tokyo. The analysis concludes that by April 15th (1 week into state of emergency), human mobility behavior decreased by around 50%, resulting in a 70% reduction of social contacts in Tokyo, showing the strong relationships with non-compulsory measures. Furthermore, the reduction in data-driven human mobility metrics showed correlation with the decrease in estimated effective reproduction number of COVID-19 in Tokyo. Such empirical insights could inform policy makers on deciding sufficient levels of mobility reduction to contain the disease.

scholarly journals An overview of mobile assisted language learning: From content delivery to supported collaboration and interaction

ReCALL ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Kukulska-Hulme ◽  
Lesley Shield
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Rapid Evolution ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
Learning Needs ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Mobile Assisted Language Learning

AbstractMobile learning is undergoing rapid evolution. While early generations of mobile learning tended to propose activities that were carefully crafted by educators and technologists, learners are increasingly motivated by their personal learning needs, including those arising from greater mobility and frequent travel. At the same time, it is often argued that mobile devices are particularly suited to supporting social contacts and collaborative learning - claims that have obvious relevance for language learning. A review of publications reporting mobile-assisted language learning (MALL) was undertaken to discover how far mobile devices are being used to support social contact and collaborative learning. In particular, we were interested in speaking and listening practice and in the possibilities for both synchronous and asynchronous interaction in the context of online and distance learning. We reflect on how mobile language learning has developed to date and suggest directions for the future.

Un análisis contrastivo de los vocativos en español y en alemán

2017 ◽  
Vol 133 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathrin Siebold ◽  
Juan Pablo Larreta Zulategui
Keyword(s):  
Social Contact ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Communicative Functions ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Tertium Comparationis

AbstractVocatives play an important role for establishing and maintaining social contacts in human communication. Given the functional and formal diversity in their culture-specific realisation, this study, based on two spoken corpora of everyday conversations in Spanish and German, compares the use of different types of vocatives in these two languages, especially from a pragmatic and sociolinguistic point of view. Firstly, we present a brief review on the communicative functions of vocatives and describe the tertium comparationis, the methodology and the corpora used for this study. Then, we compare the frequency of Spanish and German vocatives in different conversational settings. What emerges is greater tendency to use vocatives in the Spanish data, especially for reinforcing social contact within the conversations. As far as the variation of vocative-forms is concerned, this contrastive analysis reveals different pragmatic and sociolinguistic functions of last-name-vocatives, endearment-terms and the use of the pronouns

scholarly journals Procurement of Maintenance Management for Public High Rise Residential Buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
AbdulLateef Olanrewaju ◽  
Anis Rosniza Nizam Akbar ◽  
Nurul Afiqah Azmi ◽  
Tan Rui Hong
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
Quality Level ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Defect Management ◽  
High Rise ◽  
International Publishing ◽  
Open Access Article

In response to the Malaysian housing shortage, various interventions introduced. However, while the housing gap is widening, problems relating to the performance and condition of the buildings on account of defects and poor maintenance is increasing unabated. This study investigated the selection criteria of maintenance procurement methods for public high-rise residential buildings through a survey involving eight (8) maintenance managers of PRIMA housings. The five (5) main selection criteria are working relationship intuition and experience, quality level, condition of the existing building, and clarity of scope. The research prompts a need for strategic defect management for public housing. Keywords: PR1MA housing, low-cost housing, AHP, outsourcing eISSN: 2398-4287© 2021. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians/Africans/Arabians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. DOI:

scholarly journals The association of cultural and contextual factors with social contact avoidance during the COVID-19 pandemic

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261858
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Messner
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
International Business ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Power Distance ◽  
Social Contact ◽  
First Line ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
High Social Support ◽  
High Power Distance ◽  
Pathogen Exposure

As a first line of defense to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, people reduced social contacts to avoid pathogen exposure. Using a panel of countries, this research suggests that this was amplified in societies characterized by high social support and future orientation. People reacted more strongly in dense environments; government orders had more effect in high power distance societies. Conversely, a focus on accomplishments was associated with lower changes. Understanding people’s actual behaviors in response to health threats across societies is of great importance for epidemiology, public health, international business, and for the functioning of humanity as a whole.

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