Kyiv metro and urban imageability: a student youth vision

Vision and the achievement gap among urban minority youth.

OBJECTIVES To outline the prevalence and disparities of vision problems among school-aged urban minority youth, causal pathways through which vision problems adversely affects academic achievement, and proven or promising approaches for schools to address these problems. METHODS Literature review. RESULTS More than 20% of school-aged youth have some kind of vision problem. In a nationally r...

Vyacheslav Boyko Kyiv 2002

Boyko Kyiv 2000

An urban metabolism and ecological footprint assessment of Metro Vancouver.

As the world urbanizes, the role of cities in determining sustainability outcomes grows in importance. Cities are the dominant form of human habitat, and most of the world's resources are either directly or indirectly consumed in cities. Sustainable city analysis and management requires understanding the demands a city places on a wider geographical area and its ecological resource base. We pre...

Imageability and Category-specificity

vs. Concrete Words The vulnerability of abstract words to brain damage has long been noted in the neuropsychological literature. Abstract words, such as charity, belief, hope, are those whose referents cannot be perceived through thesenses—unlike concrete words, such as skip, finger, shoe. Many patients have been reported who have 294 TYLER ANDMOSS