The primary residence is perhaps the greatest single investment made by an individual and the mantra ‘‘location, location, location’’ is an ever-present concern of a prospective buyer. Before purchasing a home, a savvy buyer will frequently research the community and the school system, as well as the crime statistics. When homeowners are made aware of an application for a special use permit for...

BACKGROUND The availability of healthy foods in a neighborhood remains a key determinant of diet and diet-related disease in disadvantaged communities. Innovative solutions to the 'food desert' problem include the deployment of mobile markets and healthy corner store initiatives. Such initiatives, however, do not always capitalize on the principles guiding retail development and the possibiliti...

16. Abstract In many poor urban areas, retail and service establishments are not abundant and those retail centers that do exist often offer lower quality products at higher prices. To compound the problem, poor households lack the personal resources that might compensate for inadequate local access. They often don't have the option of traveling to stores or other destinations beyond their neig...

Many clustering algorithms have been proposed in recent years. Most methods operate in an iterative manner and aim to optimize a specific energy function. We pres~nt an algorithm that directly find., a set of C1l1Ster centers based on an analysis of the distribution of patterns in the local neighborhood of each potential duster center through the use of so-called Neighborgrams. In addition this...

Since K-means is widely used for general clustering, its performance is a critical point. This performance depends highly on initial cluster centers since it may converge to numerous local minima. In this paper a proposed initialization method to select initial cluster centers for K-means clustering is proposed. This algorithm is based on reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) search and coupling degre...

today, the women from the half of the civil society population and from the perspective of security in the urban society, they are vulnerable social groups that their security is threatened in different ways. this study seeks to examine the factors affecting social security of women living in two neighborhoods in vanak and sarasiab. research theoretical model is composed (inspired by the views ...

attachment to the neighborhood represents a positive mental feeling toward the residential place that links associated with residential location and causing the residents’ commitment to habitat and their desire to maintain a relationship with it over the time and at different stages of life. present research examines neighborhood attachment and the effect of personal networks and modern communi...