A Case Study of a 15-Minute City Concept in Singapore’s 2040 Land Transport Master Plan: 20-Minute Towns and a 45-Minute City

The 15-Minute city concept emerged as a response to the hyper-motorized city. First popularized by the Mayor of Paris in 2020, 15-Minute City is an evolving concept that derived from its predecessors such as neighborhood-unit planning and walkable city. This paper explores the implementation of the 15-Minute City concept in city planning by using Singapore as the case study. In 2018, Singapore released its Land Transport Master Plan 2040 and which includes an ambitious concept of 20-Minute Towns and a 45-Minute City (2MT45MC) and has similar ideas to the 15-Minute City concept. Through various journal articles and media coverage, Singapore’s policy and regulation regarding its transport planning were thoroughly reviewed to find Singapore’s strategy and challenges in realizing the objective of its 2MT45MC concept. Normalizing active mobility and enhancing connectivity nationwide are the main strategies to overcome the biggest challenges faced: lack of legal backing in personal mobility devices and the country’s rigid zoning. Even though it is too early to say whether 2MT45MC is achievable or not, projects such as the North-South Corridor show that for a long-term plan, it seems feasible.

Home Medical Equipment is Highly Being Adopted in U.S. – Explore Why?

The modern technological advancements and facilities have made people welcome medical equipment to home. Most common home medical equipment include glucometer, automated external defibrillators, blood glucose monitors, blood pressure monitors, halter monitors, mobility devices, weighing scale and so on. These equipment can provide safe, convenient, cost-effective, and suitable treatments to patients at home.

All Together Now

A common problem for people with disabilities, particularly those who rely on mobility devices, is learning to navigate a new environment. This is especially troublesome for students who are attending a new university and need to figure out how to get from one place to another. All Together Now is a mobile multi-player cooperative game developed for two purposes. First, the game, developed by two computer scientists and a disability studies scholar, is intended to give disabled students a fun way to learn their way around campus, learn how to report accessibility issues on that campus, and make friends with people who have similar disabilities. Second, the game can be used as a way of fostering awareness and advocacy among students without disabilities, by having them work in teams where one member is someone with a disability that causes them to rely on mobility devices. This article describes the implementation of the game within a disability studies course and the results of two pilot tests, with both disabled and non-disabled participants.

Setting Aside Settings: On the Contradictory Dynamics of “Flat Earth,” “Ordinalization,” and “Cold Spot” Education Governing Projects

Place matters, and for schools located in the neighborhoods of towns and cities, place not only holds meaning for individuals, but shapes their experiences of school and education trajectories. This is not simply a question of meaning and identity. Rather, it is that education settings and their opportunity structures shape and are shaped by structural inequalities, in turn reproducing differences. In this paper, I make the case that the state plays an important role in producing inequality by the ways in which it governs, and that contemporary forms of governing on the global level exacerbate these differences whilst erasing the differences that matter. I explore these dynamics by focusing on socio-economic differences between schools in England, UK. I argue that a particular politics of state spatial power is at play, and that the national state and shadow sovereigns manage questions of authority and legitimacy through the use of ideologies (e.g., school effectiveness, social mobility), devices (such as rankings and league tables), and explanations of cause (such as aspiration gaps), with which one can re-express the problem of difference, not as structurally caused, but as a failure of individual effort, expectations, and aspirations.

Relationships between Cognitive Functioning and Powered Mobility Device Use: A Scoping Review

Background. Powered mobility devices (PMD) promote independence, social participation, and quality of life for individuals with mobility limitations. However, some individuals would benefit from PMD, but may be precluded access. This is particularly true for those with cognitive impairments who may be perceived as unsafe and unable to use a PMD. This study explored the relationships between cognitive functioning and PMD use. The objectives were to identify cognitive functions necessary to use a PMD and describe available PMD training approaches. Methods. A scoping review was undertaken. Results. Seventeen studies were included. Four examined the predictive or correlational relationships between cognitive functioning and PMD use outcomes with intellectual functions, visual and visuospatial perception, attention, abstraction, judgement, organization and planning, problem solving, and memory identified as having a relation with PMD use outcome in at least one study. Thirteen others studied the influence of PMD provision or training on users’ PMD capacity and cognitive outcomes and reported significative improvements of PMD capacities after PMD training. Six studies found improved cognitive scores after PMD training. Conclusions. Cognitive functioning is required to use a PMD. Individuals with heterogeneous cognitive impairment can improve their PMD capacities. Results contribute to advancing knowledge for PMD provision.

Smartphone-Based Ecological Momentary Assessment as the New Standard Measure for Post-Stroke Functioning (Preprint)

BACKGROUND Functional disability is common after stroke. To inform new treatments, better measures are needed to advance our understanding of post-stroke functioning. Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) provides a putatively valid measure of everyday functioning by assessing patients during their lived experiences. OBJECTIVE This study aims to validate the smartphone-based EMA to characterize post-stroke everyday functioning and symptoms. METHODS Participants (N=212) with mild to moderate stroke were assessed five times daily for 14 days with EMA surveys to appraise mental, somatic, and cognitive symptoms, and what, with whom, and where participants were doing activities. Participants also completed standardized assessments during lab visits. RESULTS Most participants (median age = 60 years) were ischemic stroke (90%) and neurologically mild (median NIHSS = 2). Total 14,140 EMA surveys were analyzed. Participants were home 78% of the time and primarily participated in passive, unproductive activities, especially watching television and resting. EMA was sensitive to indicators of post-stroke disability; unemployed participants reported fewer vocational activities (W =12183.5, P < .001) but more activities of daily living (ADL) (W =6995, P < .001) and passive activities (W =7499.5, P =.003) than employed counterparts. Users of mobility devices and participants with cognitive problems spent significantly less time on vocational activities (W =2717, P< .0001 for mobility devices; W =7278, P= .03 for cognitive problems) and more on ADL (W =4807.5, P= .010 for mobility devices; W =9516.5, P< .001 for cognitive problems) than non-users and those without cognitive problems. Our data supported the validity of EMA methods in stroke, with small-to-moderate correlations of EMA with in-lab measures of daily functioning and very large correlations between EMA and in-lab measures of symptoms, especially those measuring the same constructs. CONCLUSIONS Our findings reveal that EMA tracked post-stroke functioning precisely. EMA may be beneficial in examining post-stroke functional recovery, monitoring patients for home-based interventions, and for longitudinal research. CLINICALTRIAL NA

RANCANG BANGUN KURSI RODA ELEKTRIK BERBASIS INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT)

Wheelchairs are mobility devices that are often used by people who have difficulty walking on their feet, due to illness, injury, or disability. Most of the wheelchairs that exist today are still using the manual system. Ideally, a wheelchair is needed so that users feel free and comfortable in adjusting the wheelchair movement according to their wishes. This study aims to make an innovation in the form of designing an electric wheelchair based on the internet of things (IoT). In this tool, there are several integrated electronic components such as NodeMCU, voltage sensor that is connected to the android smartphone application. Delphi XE8 software functions to create control applications that can be controlled via a smartphone. The control system on a smartphone uses an internet connection to process the wheelchair control system. This tool is very dependent on the connection and stability of the internet network. Design of electric wheelchair based IoT, has the performance that a wheelchair can carry a maximum load of 30kg at a speed of 0.79m / second, plus an accumulator / battery load and a 6.4kg DC motor, so that the total load can be under of 36.4kg.