Older people’s emotional connections with their physical urban environment

Aerospace Operations and the Urban Physical Environment

In the preceding chapters, we have placed urban military operations in a broader strategic, political, and legal context. With those issues framing our analysis, in the next three chapters we turn to the operational , tactical, and technical challenges facing airmen in the urban physical environment.

Racial Differences in Neighborhood Perceptions and their Influences on Physical Activity among Urban Older Women

BACKGROUND Proper levels of physical activity (PA) are important to healthy aging. Little is known about racial differences in influences of neighborhood perceptions (NP) on PA and use of neighborhood resources among community-dwelling older women. MATERIALS AND METHODS In 2014 and 2015, 49 white and 44 black women of age 65 and older living in Washington, DC were queried about their PA, NP, ...

Physical properties of sticky spirals and their connections: sliding connections in orb webs

Modeling Agents and their Environment: The Physical Environment

Without an environment, an agent is effectively useless. Cut off from the rest of its world, the agent can neither sense nor act. An environment provides the conditions under which an entity (agent or object) can exist. It defines the properties of the world in which an agent will function. Designing effective agents requires careful consideration of both the physical and communicational aspect...

Physical Activity of Urban Community-Dwelling Older Latino Adults.

BACKGROUND To date, little is known about the physical activity (PA) levels and commonly reported modes of PA of older Latinos, and this information is critical to developing interventions for this population. The purpose of the current study was to examine PA assessed by self-report and accelerometer and to assess the influence of acculturation, gender, and age on the PA of urban community-dwe...