Ten years of work of the East Harlem Health Center in New York are recorded and evaluated in an interesting and enlightening manner. This health center demonstration in coordinated health and welfare work in a defined city area, initiated by the New York chapter of the American Red Cross, was undertaken by the Department of Health and 21 cooperating voluntary agencies of the city. This health c...

Main methods, algorithms and applications of the Variable Neighborhood Search metaheuristic are surveyed, in view of a chapter of the Encyclopedia of Optimization.

Ten years of work of the East Harlem Health Center in New York are recorded and evaluated in an interesting and enlightening manner. This health center demonstration in coordinated health and welfare work in a defined city area, initiated by the New York chapter of the American Red Cross, was undertaken by the Department of Health and 21 cooperating voluntary agencies of the city. This health c...

This paper was delivered at a National Poverty Center conference. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the National Poverty Center or any sponsoring agency. Abstract A large percentage of poor, minority families in the U.S. reside in high-poverty, urban neighborhoods characterized...

BACKGROUND Most studies of the association between neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation and individual lifestyles leading to cardiovascular disease focused on a single cardiovascular risk factor. The concomitant assessment of more than one risk factor may provide clues to specific mechanisms linking neighborhood disadvantage to individual lifestyles. We investigated the association of neighbo...

-The phenotypic forking GA (p-fGA) which divides the whole search space into sub-spaces using the information of the convergence status of the population and the solutions obtained so far had already been developed. In that work, a neighborhood hypercube was defined around the best individual at the time of forking in the phenotypic feature space with the best solution as the center of that hyp...

In this paper, we propose a new neighborhood semantics for contingency logic, by introducing a simple property in standard neighborhood models. This simplifies the neighborhood semantics given in Fan and van Ditmarsch [4], but does not change the set of valid formulas. Under this perspective, among various notions of bisimulation and respective Hennessy-Milner Theorems, we show that c-bisimulat...

Following the idea of $L$-fuzzy neighborhood system as introduced byFu-Gui Shi, and its generalization to $(L,M)$-fuzzy neighborhood system, the relationship between  $(L,M)$-fuzzy topology and $(L,M)$-fuzzy neighborhood system will be further studied. As an application of the obtained results, we will describe the initial structures of $(L,M)$-fuzzy neighborhood subspaces and $(L,M)$-fuzzy top...

BACKGROUND Evidence supports the role of physical and social environments in active living, including perception of environment. However, measurement of perceived environments in rural settings is lacking. This study describes the development of the Rural Active Living Perceived Environmental Support Scale (RALPESS). METHODS Premised on social ecological and cognitive perspectives, 85 initial...