The world is entering a new era, where Internet-of-Things (IoT), smart homes, and smart cities will play an important role in meeting the so-called big challenges. In the near future, it is foreseen that the majority of the world's population will live their lives in smart homes and in smart cities. To deal with these challenges, to support a sustainable urban development, and to improve the qu...

Entertainment media have a long history of using health issues in storylines. Soap operas, television dramas, movies, and even comedies integrate health issues in a variety of ways with varying impact on viewer responses to information about the health-related topics. This study is an audience analysis of discussion about Sex and the City’s breast cancer storyline on HBO’s online message board....

Using data from a survey of rural-urban migrants in X City, China, this paper investigates the relationships between migrant-resident ties and migrant integration. Migrant integration is assessed with respect to three dimensions: acculturation, socioeconomic integration, and psychological integration. We divide migrant networks into three categories: kin resident ties, non-kin resident ties, an...

This paper generalizes properties of mixtilinear incircles. Let (S) be any circle in the plane of triangle ABC. Suppose there are circles (Sa), (Sb), and (Sc) each tangent internally to (S); and (Sa) is inscribed in angle BAC (similarly for (Sb) and (Sc)). Let the points of tangency of (Sa), (Sb), and (Sc) with (S) be X, Y , and Z, respectively. Then it is shown that the lines AX, BY , and CZ m...

This study conducts a content analysis with the use of NVivo software of the local news outlet, Idaho Statesman, and its articles from 1999-2012. This research focuses on two specific sexual orientation policy debates: hate crime prevention and the Boise city ordinance. These issues highlight examples of framing. The findings from this analysis highlight how a media can play a supporting role f...

In the modern world, cities need to keep up with the demand for mobility, efficient infrastructure and environmental sustainability. The future smart cities use intelligent information and communication technologies to raise the quality of life. This includes computer vision as one of the main technologies. It can observe and analyse human activities from a distance in a noninvasive manner. Tra...

Th ree contemporary leadership challenges face local governments today. Th e fi rst encourages department heads to more actively work the intersection between political and administrative arenas. Th e second promotes collaborative work, synchronizing city and county boundaries with problems that have no jurisdictional homes. Th e third argues that citizen engagement is no longer optional—it is ...

Wireless access is increasingly ubiquitous while mobile devices that use them are resource rich. These trends allow wireless users to collaborate with each other. We investigate various group communication paradigms that underly collaboration applications. We synthesize durations when members collaborate using wireless device availability traces. Wireless users operate from a variety of locatio...

The communities living on the dangerous hillslopes in Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) in Bangladesh recurrently experience landslide hazards during the monsoon season. The frequency and intensity of landslides are increasing over time because of heavy rainfall occurring over a few days. Furthermore, rapid urbanization through hill-cutting is another factor, which is believed to have a signifi...

From 1940 to 1990, a 10% increase in a metropolitan area’s concentration of college-educated residents was associated with a 0.8% increase in subsequent employment growth. Instrumental variables estimates support a causal relationship between college graduates and employment growth, but show no evidence of an effect of high school graduates. Using data on growth in wages, rents, and house value...