Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, Cape Town, South Africa Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK Peterborough Child Development Centre, City Care Centre, Thorpe ...

* Catherine Ward is with the Department of Psychology and the Safety and Violence Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Chandré Gould is a senior research fellow in the Governance, Crime and Justice Programme at the Institute for Security Studies. Jane Kelly is a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town. Katya Mauff was a consultant in the Department ...

Imagine you are the person responsible for the application portfolio of a large insurance company. For their business the company runs one monolithic system for most of its product divisions1. This system is 25 years old, written in Assembler and sits on an IMS/DB database. This is the old town. It’s at the end of it’s potential growth and people want to move out of it to the other side of the ...

Background: A road traffic accident is an incident on a way or street open to public traffic, resulting in one or more persons being killed or injured, and involving at least one moving vehicle. The purpose of this study was to present the prevalence and factors associated with road traffic accident in Chuko town , Southern Ethiopia Materials and Method: Community based cross sectional study w...

A townscape has been a main factor in urban-development problems in Japan. In the townscape, keeping harmony with environment is a common goal. But useful and meaningful goals are expressing individuality and impression of the town in the townscape. In this paper, we propose the colour planning support system to improve the townscape. The system finds propositional colour combinations based on ...

Background: Existing literature on the built environment and physical activity in rural areas is very limited. Studies have shown that residents in rural areas are less likely to meet physical activity requirements than their counterparts living in urban and suburban areas. They are also less likely to have access to amenities and programs that promote physical activity. This study seeks to fil...

in this research, amount of evaporation and transpiration and water requirement of wheat plant for marvdasht town (representation station: zaraghan) during 17-years statistical duration from 1989-2005 and properties of plant and soil are calculated using cropwat software. at the first, trends of dry and wet periods for mentioned station were determined using long-term average of climatic data (...