scholarly journals Análisis de las edades, trayectos y minutos de uso en la utilización de un sistema de bicicletas compartidas: el caso del VaiBike en Vilagarcía de Arousa (España) (Analysis of ages, routes, and minutes of use in a shared bicycle system: the case of VaiBi

Retos ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 314-319
Author(s):  
Alberto Sanmiguel-Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Obesity And Overweight ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Shared Bicycle ◽  
Bicycle Sharing System ◽  
The City

La creciente contaminación en las ciudades y el incremento de la obesidad y sobrepeso aconsejan medios de transporte activos. Uno de los sistemas que está en auge en los últimos años es el de bicicletas compartidas de uso público. En la actualidad, en España, apenas existen estudios que aporten información sobre las características de los usuarios y los hábitos de utilización del servicio, por lo que con este estudio se pretende categorizar las edades de los usuarios del sistema de bicicletas compartidas, así como la frecuencia de uso, características de los itinerarios y media de minutos de uso de las bicicletas.                 La edad media de los usuarios, durante la primera etapa del 2009 al 2012, fue de 46 años (hombres 49; mujeres 38.7), siendo las diferencias significativas t=83,06; p <0,001. La mayor frecuencia de uso se inicia y finaliza en el centro de la ciudad (15.947 usos; 18.9%). Los hombres entre 50 y 69 años y las mujeres entre 30 y 49 años son los que más utilizan las bicicletas. Los itinerarios por la costa son los preferidos por las mujeres. La media de minutos de uso de los viajes de las bicicletas públicas fue de 36,1 (hombres 38,1; mujeres 31,4), siendo las diferencias estadísticamente significativas t84181=26,30; p <0,001. Abstract. The growing pollution in cities and the increase in obesity and overweight suggest the use of active means of transport. One of these means is the bicycle sharing system, which has become extremely popular in recent years. Currently, hardly any study provides information about the users’ characteristics and the usage habits of the mentioned service in Spain. Therefore, this study is intended to categorize the ages of users of this system, as well as their frequency of use, the route characteristics, and average minutes of use of bicycles. Users’ average age was 46 years during the first period, from 2009 to 2012 (men 49; women 38.7), the difference between men and women being significant (t=83.06; p<0.001). The highest frequency of use begins and ends in the city centre (15,947 uses; 18.9%). Men between 50 and 69 years old and women between 30 and 49 years old are those who use bicycles the most. Coastal routes are the most popular in women. The average minutes of use in public bicycle trips were 36,1 (men 38,1; women 31,4), with statistically significant differences between genders (t84181=26,30; p<0,001).

Trust in government during the pandemic: gender aspect

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-44
Author(s):  
Alexandra O. Lazukina
Keyword(s):  
Social Trust ◽  
Current System ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The City ◽  
Harsh Conditions ◽  
Gender Aspect

The article examines the differences in the choice of behavioral patterns based on social trust and distrust of men and women. The essence of the problem under consideration is that so far few researchers have studied mistrust as a phenomenon characteristic of Russians, and practically no one has considered the difference in the character of trust / distrust for men and women and the influence of these indicators on the level of socio-psychological well-being of the population and, as a consequence, on social tension in society, if we consider this problem in terms of trust and distrust to the authorities. Here are the studies that were conducted in December 2020 in the city of St. Petersburg, regarding these issues. A study of changes in trust showed that in the northern capital от Russia, the level of mistrust for the federal government among women increased much more than among men, and a small excursion into history and analogies with revolutionary situations of the past make one think about the stability of the current system and the need for the authorities to make serious efforts to resolve an explosive situation. This situation is especially evident in St. Petersburg, because the unpopular actions of local authorities during the pandemic created the prerequisites for the fact that it was on the shoulders of women that the main burden fell, when it was necessary to actually independently educate children, continue to work in new conditions and practically fully support the life of the whole family in harsh conditions of isolation and psychological and informational pressure. Analyzing the research data and the situation in general, this article concludes that in the current difficult conditions the authorities should pay more attention to the position of women and increase targeted support measures to improve the socio-psychological well-being of the population.

scholarly journals Assessment of urban aerosol pollution over the Moscow megacity by the MAIAC aerosol product

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 877-891
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Y. Zhdanova ◽  
Natalia Y. Chubarova ◽  
Alexei I. Lyapustin
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Construction Sites ◽  
Aerosol Pollution ◽  
Aerosol Sources ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City

Abstract. We estimated the distribution of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) with a spatial resolution of 1 km over the Moscow megacity using the MAIAC aerosol product based on MODIS satellite data (Lyapustin et al., 2018) for the warm period of the year (May–September, 2001–2017). AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network)-based validation of satellite estimates near the city centre at Moscow_MSU_MO and over the Moscow suburbs at Zvenigorod revealed that MAIAC AOT at 0.47 µm is in agreement with AERONET AOT though underestimated by 0.05–0.1 for AOT<1 and overestimated for smoke conditions with AOT>1. The MAIAC AOT biases were almost the same for the Moscow_MSU_MO and Zvenigorod AERONET sites, which indicated that the MAIAC algorithm effectively removed the effect of the bright urban surface in the city centre. For the ground-based measurements, the difference between annual median AOT at Moscow_MO_MSU and Zvenigorod (ΔAOT) varied within −0.002 to +0.03, with statistically significant positive bias for most years, and an average ΔAOT was about 0.02. According to the MAIAC dataset, the ΔAOT varied within ±0.01 and was not statistically significant. The ΔAOT started decreasing recently due to intensive urban development of the territory around Zvenigorod and the decrease in pollutant emissions in Moscow, which is mainly caused by the environmental regulations. According to the MAIAC dataset, the most pronounced spatial AOT differences over the territory of Moscow were observed at the 5 % quantile level, where they reached 0.05–0.06 over several locations and could be attributed to the stationary sources of aerosol pollution, for example, large areas of construction sites, aerosol pollution from roads and highways, or agriculture activities. The differences between the maximum and the mean AOT for different quantiles, except the 95 % quantile, within the Moscow region, were about 0.02–0.04, which could be attributed to the local aerosol sources. The application of the MAIAC algorithm over the whole Moscow region has revealed a decreasing AOT trend over the centre of Moscow and an increasing trend over the “New” Moscow territory which experienced an intensive build-up and agricultural development.

scholarly journals Condiciones de vida y estrategias de afrontamiento de las mujeres con cáncer de mama en Córdoba, Colombia

2019 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-55
Author(s):  
Sixta Carolina Ruiz Doria ◽  
Nydia Nina Valencia Jimenez ◽  
Jorge Eliecer Ortega Montes
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Psychological Health ◽  
Cáncer De Mama ◽  
Stressful Event ◽  
Coping Capacity ◽  
Brief Cope ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Catholic Religion ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
The City

El cáncer de mama es una realidad que ha significado la muerte para miles de mujeres, constituyendo un evento estresor que afecta la salud emocional y psicológica de la paciente. Este estudio pretende determinar los tipos de estrategias de afrontamiento desarrolladas por las mujeres diagnosticadas con cáncer de mama de la ciudad de Montería, Colombia en el periodo 2013-2017. Se determinó una muestra de 131 pacientes y se estimó una probabilidad de éxito y fracaso de 50%, un error no mayor al 5% y una confianza de Zα = al 95%. La encuesta sociodemográfica arrojó que las participantes son de escasos recursos económicos, bajo nivel educativo, sin empleo, con pareja sentimental y profesan la religión católica;  los datos arrojados por el Inventario Brief-COPE-28 refieren la preferencia por el tipo y estrategia de afrontamiento activo en 67.3% y 83.78% respectivamente, en la frecuencia de uso de las estrategias de afrontamiento se obtuvo el planeamiento (55%), afrontamiento activo (56%) y la religión (64%); y el nivel de afrontamiento regular prevaleció en todas las categorías. Pese a las condiciones de vida precarias, las participantes emplean estrategias activas para sobrevivir, lo que implica que se debe implementar procesos de acompañamiento integral que potencien la capacidad de afrontamiento de los sujetos. Breast cancer is a reality that has meant death for thousands of women, constituting a stressful event that affects the emotional and psychological health of the patient. This study aims to determine the types of coping strategies developed by women diagnosed with breast cancer in the city of Monteria, Colombia in the period 2013-2017. A sample of 131 patients was determined and a probability of success and failure of 50% was estimated, an error no greater than 5% and a confidence of Zα = 95%. The sociodemographic survey showed that the participants are of limited economic resources, low educational level, unemployed, with sentimental partner and profess the catholic religion; the data provided by the Inventory Brief-COPE-28 refer to the preference for the type and strategy of active coping in 67.3% and 83.78% respectively, in the frequency of use of the strategy was obtained the planning (55%), active (56 %) and religion (64%); and the level of regular coping prevailed in all categories. Despite the precarious living conditions, the participants use active strategies to survive, which implies that integral accompaniment processes must be implemented that enhance the coping capacity of the subjects.

scholarly journals Building Transformation in Bandung City Centre: Expansion of Land Lot at Pasar Baru Area

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurtati - Soewarno ◽  
Taufan Hidjaz ◽  
Eka Virdianti
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
City Center ◽  
Conservation Area ◽  
The Road ◽  
Commercial Area ◽  
Space Expansion ◽  
The Difference ◽  
On The Road ◽  
Motivating Factor ◽  
The City

City as a man creation is always experiencing transformation from time to time. The city center area, originating from a residence area has turned into a commercial area for trading. This transformation is recognized by the physical building change. This paper will describe building transformation in the Pasar Baru area, which is a conservation area in the city center of Bandung city, Indonesia. Colonialism left dualism of the land status in this area, formal and informal. Formal land is located on the road side shaped as row shop houses whilst the informal land lies behind the shop houses in form of urban kampong. The improvement of business and trading, demands a larger working area so space expansion is needed. The difference of land status and location makes it possible for shop house owners to expand their lot toward the kampong behind. Nowadays old shop houses as conservation buildings are hard to recognize because they have been transformed into new shop house forms. By observing the shape it’s expected that the lot expansion was the motivating factor. How did the transformation occur? Can transformation on one land lot give contribution to transformation on the city? It’s expected that the occurring transformation should not eliminate the conservation, building and area in the city center and the residential function could still be maintained.

The Ołowianka Bascule Footbridge in Gdansk – A Bridge That Makes the Difference

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rok Mlakar ◽  
Viktor Markelj
Keyword(s):  
City Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Bridge Spans ◽  
Historic City ◽  
The City ◽  
Further Development

<p>In the city of Gdansk in Poland, in the very centre of the Baltic capital, on 17 June 2017, a new draw footbridge was ceremoniously opened to the public. The Ołowianka footbridge represents the long-time much-needed link between the highly tourist-visited historical old town and Ołowianka Island, where further cultural, tourist and recreation facilities are located. The bridge spans a very busy navigable channel of the Motława River, leading inward towards other city channels, a harbour for many tourist ships and the Gdansk Marina. Being the main navigable entrance to the city centre, the Motława is constantly under nautical traffic, so the Ołowianka footbridge operates 24/7, according to a 30-minute schedule. The Ołowianka footbridge is an extraordinary acquisition for the city of Gdansk, which immediately became a new landmark and much more in the already very picturesque historic city centre. Not just its design, but also its carefully chosen location and its realisation at the right moment, has made this bridge indispensable to the inhabitants, visitors and the administration of the city of Gdansk, decisively contributing to further development in the Ołowianka Island area and its surroundings.</p>

scholarly journals Methodological proposal for the implementation of shared bicycle applied to the Brazilian context

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
JUAN PABLO ESPANA ◽  
PHILIPPE BARBOSA
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Application Process ◽  
Successful Operation ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Shared Bicycle ◽  
Bicycle Sharing System ◽  
The City

The main objective of this study is to analyze the bicycle rental system in the Federal District "Bike Brasilia". It aims to identify guidelines that supported the application process and consensus, disagreements and guidelines established by the Institute for Policies and Development in Transportation - ITDP and relate those listed by Zhang regarding rented bikes systems. This is an exploratory study based on the strategy of document analysis and its secondary sources: institutional documents, basic design, procurement and other official documents made exclusively for this study. To support the discussion, a systematic literature review of the rules describing specially: sustainability, transport, urban mobility, bicycle rental and environment. The results reveal that while some of the parameters and indicators of efficiency are met on time, the bicycle sharing system of the city of Brasilia, has weaknesses that can lead to inefficiency and impracticality of maintaining and expanding such services. On the other hand, Bike Brasilia partially fulfills the principles enumerated by Zhang and lacks improvement in the steps for the successful operation of the systemDOI http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3404

scholarly journals The Culture of Rape is Debated: The Discord of Feelings between Journalism and Diário Gaúcho Readers

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-271
Author(s):  
Pâmela Caroline Stocker ◽  
Silvana Copetti Dalmaso
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Theoretical Support ◽  
Cultural Maps ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Cultural Constructions ◽  
The City

From the understanding of  journalism as a discursive gender (Benetti, 2008) which contributes towards maintaining consensual values in society (Hall et al, 1993), this article analyzes the discourse of readers on news stories from the Diário Gaúcho newspaper, published on the internet in June, 2016, addressing assaults on women in the city. Using post-structuralist feminist studies and the Discourse Analysis (DA) as theoretical support, 201 comments were examined, identifying four nuclei meanings: blaming the victim, naturalizing assault/instinct, relativizing assault and disqualifying journalism. These meanings were evidence of the discourse from these readers going towards crystallizing historical-cultural constructions on gender and social roles of men and women, justifying and emphasizing the importance of journalistic approaches that break from traditional cultural maps of meaning. A partir do entendimento do jornalismo como gênero discursivo (Benetti, 2008) que contribui para manter os valores consensuais da sociedade (Hall et al., 1993), este artigo analisa o discurso dos leitores sobre a reportagem do jornal Diário Gaúcho, publicada na internet em junho de 2016, que aborda o assédio urbano a mulheres. Com aporte teórico dos estudos feministas pós-estruturalistas e por meio da Análise de Discurso (AD), foram examinados 201 comentários e identificados quatro núcleos de sentido: culpabilização da vítima, naturalização do assédio/ instinto, relativização do assédio e desqualificação do jornalismo. Tais sentidos mostraram que o discurso desses leitores opera para a cristalização das construções histórico-culturais sobre gênero e papeis sociais reservados ao feminino e ao masculino, o que justifica e ressalta a importância de abordagens jornalísticas que rompam com os tradicionais mapas culturais de significado.A partir de la compresión del periodismo como género discursivo (Benetti, 2008) que contribuye a mantener los valores consensuados de la sociedad (Hall et al., 1993), este artículo analiza el discurso de los lectores sobre el reportaje del periódico Diário Gaúcho, publicado en internet en Junio de 2016, que aborda el acoso urbano a las mujeres. Con aporte teórico de los estudios feministas post-estructuralistas y por medio del Análisis de Discurso (AD), se examinaron 201 comentarios y cuatro núcleos de sentido se identificaron: culpabilización de la víctima, naturalización del acoso / instinto, relativización del acoso y descalificación del periodismo. Tales sentidos mostraron que el discurso de estos lectores opera para la cristalización de las construcciones histórico-culturales sobre género y papeles sociales reservados al femenino y al masculino, lo que justifica y resalta la importancia de enfoques periodísticos que rompan con los tradicionales mapas culturales de significado.

scholarly journals Assessment of urban aerosol pollution over Moscow megacity by MAIAC aerosol product

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Y. Zhdanova ◽  
Natalia Y. Chubarova ◽  
Alexei I. Lyapustin
Keyword(s):  
Power Plants ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Moscow Region ◽  
Pollutant Emissions ◽  
City Centre ◽  
The North ◽  
Aerosol Pollution ◽  
Aerosol Sources ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City

Abstract. We estimated the distribution of aerosol optical thickness (AOT) with a spatial resolution of 1 km over Moscow megacity using MAIAC aerosol product based on MODIS satellite data (Lyapustin et al., 2018) for the warm period of year (May–September). AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network)-based validation near the city centre at Moscow_MSU_MO and over Moscow suburbs at Zvenigorod revealed that MAIAC AOT at 470 nm is in agreement with AERONET AOT though underestimated by 0.05–0.1 for AOT  1. The MAIAC AOT biases were almost the same for the Moscow_MSU_MO and Zvenigorod AERONET sites, which indicated that MAIAC effectively removed the effect of the bright urban surface in the city centre. For the ground-based measurements, the annual median AOT difference between Moscow_MO_MSU and Zvenigorod (ΔAOT) varied within −0.002±0.03 with statistically significant positive bias for most years and an average ΔAOT of ~ 0.02. According to MAIAC dataset, ΔAOT varied within ±0.01 and was not statistically significant. The ΔAOT started decreasing recently due to intensive urban development of the territory around Zvenigorod and the decrease of pollutant emissions in Moscow, which is mainly caused by the environmental regulations. According to the MAIAC dataset, the most pronounced spatial AOT difference over the territory of Moscow was observed at 5 % quantile level, where it reached 0.05–0.06 over several locations and could be attributed to the stationary sources of aerosol pollution, for example, power plants, or aerosol pollution from roads. The difference between the maximum and the mean AOT for different quantiles, except the 95 % quantile, within the Moscow region, was about 0.02–0.04 which could be attributed to the local aerosol sources. The application of the MAIAC algorithm over the whole Moscow region has revealed a decreasing AOT trend over the centre of Moscow and an increasing trend over the New Moscow territory which experienced an intensive build-up and agricultural development in the north and the south parts of this district, respectively.

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