A Network Approach to Revealing Dynamic Succession Processes of Urban Land Use and User Experience

One significant challenge to understanding the mechanisms of urban retail areas’ transition is limited data to trace a dynamic perspective of influential actors’ experience in an extended urban area. We overcome this gap by employing text mining to collect big text data from online blogs and propose a methodology to explore the dynamic spatial transformations and interactions across multiple adjacent retail areas. We study five retail areas that currently function as a major commercial hub in Seoul—the Hongdae area and its neighboring districts. We create co-occurrence networks of the text data to capture representative place images and user experiences. Our blog-word networks systematically capture the “invasion-succession” process in land-use transition during the commercialization of Hongdae’s neighboring districts. The process mirrors the history of spatial change in the areas, which once formed a small-scale, bohemian hip neighborhood that incubated indie culture and has now fully commercialized as a global tourist attraction. The commercial transition triggered by Hongdae’s cultural capital peaked with consumer experiences of “food and eating” dominating the whole area. Finally, the text networks signal gentrification in each commercial district near Hongdae, contributing to the current discourse on commercial gentrification by adding consumers’ perspectives.

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The Archaeology of Medieval Nubian Kingdoms

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Nubia ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190496272.013.39 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 828-846

Author(s):

Artur Obłuski

Keyword(s):

Church Architecture ◽

Archaeological Research ◽

Limited Data ◽

Historical Sources ◽

Settlement Systems ◽

Dynamic Perspective ◽

History Of ◽

Medieval Nubia ◽

Regional Perspective

The following chapter approaches the archaeology of medieval Nubia from a regional perspective. First, it presents the nomenclature used for chronology, then the history of archaeological research in Nubia determined by construction of dams on the Nile. The focus of the paper are the settlement systems of two medieval Nubian kingdoms: Nobadia and Makuria. Alwa is treated lightly due to the limited data. They are discussed in a static (settlement hierarchy) and dynamic perspective (integration of settlement systems in time). Church architecture as an indicator of regionalism is also debated. Some topics integrally associated with archaeology of Nubia like historical sources (Ruffini, this volume), languages (Łajtar and Ochała, this volume), capitals of the states (Żurawski, this volume), art and pottery (Zielińska, this volume) are generally absent here but are tackled by other authors in the same volume.

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Custodianship of Shahidganj in colonial Lahore: Land, land use and the formation of religious community, 1850–1936

The Indian Economic & Social History Review ◽

10.1177/0019464617695678 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 183-220 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sana Haroon

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Religious Community ◽

North India ◽

Colonial India ◽

Administrative Practice ◽

History Of Development ◽

History Of ◽

A Site ◽

Detailed Record

This article presents the history of the administration and management of the Lahore Shahidganj, a site that was disputed between Muslims and Sikhs, from 1850 to 1936. Drawing on a rare and detailed record of land bequest, management of the Shahidganj site by its ‘unreformed’ Sikh mahants from 1850 to 1928, and representations by Anjuman-i Islamia and Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC), this article accounts for almost 100 years of history of development, use of and ambitions for this site. This highly textured account of personal and familial interests, urban land use and Sikh and Muslim shrine worship and orthodoxy at the Shahidganj is one of very few long-ranging studies of religious endowments in colonial India. The dispute over Shahidganj has largely been understood through the lenses of symbolic association and communal politics; this study complicates the understanding of formation of community at this place of worship in colonial north India by focusing on the nature and significance of custodial control over the site under colonial law and administrative practice. It demonstrates public participation and use of this religious site to be contingent on the rights and practices of custodians, both real and prospective. This article complicates the view that places of worship in colonial India were inherently accessible and supported the formation of religious publics, instead demonstrating how religious uses of the Shahidganj site were managed and deeply contested.

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Introduction: The Dynamic Perspective in Urban Land Use Policy

The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics ◽

10.1007/s11146-005-3287-z ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 31 (4) ◽

pp. 351-355 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Geoffrey K. Turnbull

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Urban Land ◽

Land Use Policy ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Dynamic Perspective

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Harbor and Intra-City Drivers of Air Pollution: Findings from a Land Use Regression Model, Durban, South Africa

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17155406 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (15) ◽

pp. 5406 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hasheel Tularam ◽

Lisa F. Ramsay ◽

Sheena Muttoo ◽

Rajen N. Naidoo ◽

Bert Brunekreef ◽

...

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Land Use ◽

Air Pollution ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Motor Vehicles ◽

Small Scale ◽

Land Use Regression ◽

Pollution Effects ◽

Pm10 And Pm2.5 ◽

Pollution Concentrations

Multiple land use regression models (LUR) were developed for different air pollutants to characterize exposure, in the Durban metropolitan area, South Africa. Based on the European Study of Cohorts for Air Pollution Effects (ESCAPE) methodology, concentrations of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), sulphur dioxide (SO2), and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were measured over a 1-year period, at 41 sites, with Ogawa Badges and 21 sites with PM Monitors. Sampling was undertaken in two regions of the city of Durban, South Africa, one with high levels of heavy industry as well as a harbor, and the other small-scale business activity. Air pollution concentrations showed a clear seasonal trend with higher concentrations being measured during winter (25.8, 4.2, 50.4, and 20.9 µg/m3 for NO2, SO2, PM10, and PM2.5, respectively) as compared to summer (10.5, 2.8, 20.5, and 8.5 µg/m3 for NO2, SO2, PM10, and PM2.5, respectively). Furthermore, higher levels of NO2 and SO2 were measured in south Durban as compared to north Durban as these are industrial related pollutants, while higher levels of PM were measured in north Durban as compared to south Durban and can be attributed to either traffic or domestic fuel burning. The LUR NO2 models for annual, summer, and winter explained 56%, 41%, and 63% of the variance with elevation, traffic, population, and Harbor being identified as important predictors. The SO2 models were less robust with lower R2 annual (37%), summer (46%), and winter (46%) with industrial and traffic variables being important predictors. The R2 for PM10 models ranged from 52% to 80% while for PM2.5 models this range was 61–76% with traffic, elevation, population, and urban land use type emerging as predictor variables. While these results demonstrate the influence of industrial and traffic emissions on air pollution concentrations, our study highlighted the importance of a Harbor variable, which may serve as a proxy for NO2 concentrations suggesting the presence of not only ship emissions, but also other sources such as heavy duty motor vehicles associated with the port activities.

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QUESTÃO URBANA E AMBIENTAL EM TEMPOS DE CRISE DO CAPITAL: configurações e particularidades no Brasil contemporâneo

Revista Políticas Públicas ◽

10.18764/2178-2865.v18nep257-267 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 ◽

pp. 257

Author(s):

Eliana Costa Guerra

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

Class Struggle ◽

Environmental Issues ◽

Urban Land ◽

Environmental Issue ◽

Urban Land Use ◽

Small Scale

Este trabalho tem por objetivo discutir os nexos entre crise do capital, questão urbana e ambiental, problematizando a inserção subordinada do Brasil no processo de mundialização com predomínio das finanças, as contradições que marcam estes processos e, em particular, suas repercussões nas cidades na contemporaneidade. Acirra-se a luta declasses, expressa nas diversas formas de apropriação e uso do solo urbano. Neste cenário de disputas, as formas de luta e oposição à acumulação desenfreada do capital podem ser consideradas ainda pontuais e de pequena escala, mas revelam formas de resistências que podem vir a gerar movimentos emancipatórios.Palavras-chave: Crise do Capital, acumulação, questão urbana, EstadoURBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN TIMES OF CAPITAL CRISIS: setups and particularities in the contemporaneous BrazilAbstract: This paper aims to discuss the nexus between capital crisis, urban and environmental issue, questioning the subordinate position of Brazil in the process of globalization with dominance of finance, the contradictions that characterize these processes and, in particular, its impact on the contemporary cities. Stirs up the class struggle, expressed in various forms of ownership and urban land use. In this scenario disputes, the forms of struggle and opposition to the unbridled accumulation of capital can be still considered punctual and small scale, but show resistance forms, that may generate emancipatory movements.Keywords: Capital Crisis, accumulation, urban issue, State

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A Numerically Coded File of Operative Procedures Derived from a Free Text Data Collection System : A Measure of the Accuracy

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1635717 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 15 (01) ◽

pp. 21-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Carmen A. Scudiero ◽

Ruth L. Wong

Keyword(s):

Data Collection ◽

Pap Smear ◽

Operative Procedures ◽

Free Text ◽

Collection System ◽

Process Data ◽

Text Data ◽

Data Collection System ◽

History Of ◽

Correlation System

A free text data collection system has been developed at the University of Illinois utilizing single word, syntax free dictionary lookup to process data for retrieval. The source document for the system is the Surgical Pathology Request and Report form. To date 12,653 documents have been entered into the system.The free text data was used to create an IRS (Information Retrieval System) database. A program to interrogate this database has been developed to numerically coded operative procedures. A total of 16,519 procedures records were generated. One and nine tenths percent of the procedures could not be fitted into any procedures category; 6.1% could not be specifically coded, while 92% were coded into specific categories. A system of PL/1 programs has been developed to facilitate manual editing of these records, which can be performed in a reasonable length of time (1 week). This manual check reveals that these 92% were coded with precision = 0.931 and recall = 0.924. Correction of the readily correctable errors could improve these figures to precision = 0.977 and recall = 0.987. Syntax errors were relatively unimportant in the overall coding process, but did introduce significant error in some categories, such as when right-left-bilateral distinction was attempted.The coded file that has been constructed will be used as an input file to a gynecological disease/PAP smear correlation system. The outputs of this system will include retrospective information on the natural history of selected diseases and a patient log providing information to the clinician on patient follow-up.Thus a free text data collection system can be utilized to produce numerically coded files of reasonable accuracy. Further, these files can be used as a source of useful information both for the clinician and for the medical researcher.

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Craft Beer's Unlikely Alchemist

Gastronomica The Journal of Food and Culture ◽

10.1525/gfc.2019.19.4.78 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (4) ◽

pp. 78-90

Author(s):

Theresa McCulla

Keyword(s):

San Francisco ◽

Assembly Line ◽

The United States ◽

Risk Tolerance ◽

Small Scale ◽

Intellectual Curiosity ◽

Brewing Industry ◽

Washing Machine ◽

Craft Beer ◽

History Of

In 1965, Frederick (Fritz) Maytag III began a decades-long revitalization of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. This was an unexpected venture from an unlikely brewer; for generations, Maytag's family had run the Maytag Washing Machine Company in Iowa and he had no training in brewing. Yet Maytag's career at Anchor initiated a phenomenal wave of growth in the American brewing industry that came to be known as the microbrewing—now “craft beer”—revolution. To understand Maytag's path, this article draws on original oral histories and artifacts that Maytag donated to the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History via the American Brewing History Initiative, a project to document the history of brewing in the United States. The objects and reflections that Maytag shared with the museum revealed a surprising link between the birth of microbrewing and the strategies and culture of mass manufacturing. Even if the hallmarks of microbrewing—a small-scale, artisan approach to making beer—began as a backlash against the mass-produced system of large breweries, they relied on Maytag's early, intimate connections to the assembly-line world of the Maytag Company and the alchemy of intellectual curiosity, socioeconomic privilege, and risk tolerance with which his history equipped him.

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Study of Diabetic Mellitus and Knowledge of Lotion Foot Care on the Community

International Journal of Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance ◽

10.25258/ijpqa.v9i3.13659 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

Author(s):

Hariyadi DM ◽

Athiyah U ◽

Hendradi E ◽

Rosita N ◽

Erawati T ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Blood Glucose ◽

T Test ◽

Small Scale ◽

Scale Production ◽

Foot Care ◽

Diabetic Mellitus ◽

Glucose Levels ◽

Blood Glucose Levels ◽

Before And After ◽

History Of

The prevention of Diabetic Mellitus (DM) and its complications is the main aim of this study, in addition to the training of lotion foot care application and the development of small scale industry. The research team delivered knowledge in the form of training on Diabetic Mellitus, healthy food, treatment and prevention of complications, and small-scale production of cosmetic products. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between training on diabetic and lotion foot care application as preventive measures against diabetic complications on the patient's blood glucose levels in the community of residents in Banyuurip Jaya, Surabaya. It was expected from this training that the knowledge of the residents increases and people living with diabetic undergo lifestyle changes and therefore blood sugar levels can be controlled. The parameters measured in this research were blood glucose levels, the anti diabetic drug types consumed, and compliance on diabetics. This study used the data taken from 60 patients with DM over a period of one month. Questionnaires and log books was used to retrieve data and changes in blood glucose levels in diabetic patients. The results showed the demographic data of patients with type 2 diabetic of 85% female and 15% male, with the range of patients aged of 61-70 years of 46.67% and had history of diabetic (90%). The history of drugs consumed by respondents was anti diabetic drugs such as metformin (40%), glimepiride (33.37%) and insulin (6.67%). In addition, the increased knowledge of DM patients after being given the training compared to before training was shown in several questions in the questionnaire. A statistical analysis using t-test analyzed a correlation between training provided in order to enhance understanding of the patient, as well as correlation with blood glucose levels. A paired T-test showed that there was a relationship between the knowledge of trainees before and after training (p less than 0.05). An interesting result was that there was no relationship between blood glucose levels before and after training provided (p> 0.05).

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