Cinematic city of cultural coexistence? Perspectives on intercultural encounters in New York

Diabetes in New York City.

Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Explanatory Coexistence

Natural and supernatural explanations are used to interpret the same events in a number of predictable and universal ways. Yet little is known about how variation in diverse cultural ecologies influences how people integrate natural and supernatural explanations. Here, we examine explanatory coexistence in three existentially arousing domains of human thought: illness, death, and human origins ...

GPs' strategies in intercultural clinical encounters.

BACKGROUND In North America and Europe, patients and physicians are increasingly likely to come from non-Western cultural backgrounds. The expectations of these patients may not match those of physicians. OBJECTIVE To identify strategies used by GPs with patients from cultures other than their own. METHODS We conducted a qualitative inductive study based on 25 semi-structured interviews wit...

Implementing a Farmers’ Market Incentive Program: Perspectives on the New York City Health Bucks Program

INTRODUCTION One strategy for lowering the prevalence of obesity is to increase access to and affordability of fruits and vegetables through farmers' markets. However, little has been documented in the literature on the implementation of such efforts. To address this gap, the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity (DNPAO) sponsored an evaluation of the New York City Health Bucks ...

Characterizing Taxi Flows in New York City

We present an analysis of taxi flows in Manhattan (NYC) using a variety of data mining approaches. The methods presented here can aid in development of representative and accurate models of large-scale traffic flows with applications to many areas, including outlier detection and characterization.